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A network can provide a setting in which participants meet, get acquainted, learn about each other, and form their own connections. This can be valuable when certain people or organizations are isolated from one another and simply forming relationships would be a helpful part of the systemic intervention you want to advance. The potential for a network to serve this function exists when the group in question would not normally meet but could be convinced to see value in meeting one another. A network that succeeds in this work can lay the foundation for many kinds of mutual assistance, enabling it to develop additional functions. One common next step is facilitating information exchange and peer learning; another is for participants to start other organizations or networks of their own.
Related terms: This function is can be loosely considered a subset of what is described as a connectivity network.
“A good network will beget other networks. And you should not see this as a bad thing.”Karl Brown, the Rockefeller Foundation