Europe and North America Regional GCED Network

2) Network Patterns and Organizations' Characteristics
In this section, we analyze key attributes of the organizations in relation
to three networks. This allows us to investigate how actors involved in the
implementation of GCED in EUNA cooperate. We focus on each organization's
geographical location, resources devoted to GCED, and whether an
organization was interviewed, as these attributes prove to be relevant in
showing network patterns.
We study three networks (mutual collaboration, technical information, meetings),
as only by analyzing multiple dimensions of interactions is it possible to capture
the complexity of the phenomenon.
Graph 1, 2, 3 Mutual cooperation, Information exchange and Meetings Network
Making Sense of Graphs 1, 2, 3: One-mode Networks
What is included in Graphs 1, 2, 3?
Nodes
- Organizations, listed according to short names (e.g., CGCER,
Oxfam UK, NSC, etc.). Note: short names are listed for reference in
Appendix A.
Ties
- Lines in the graph represent the presence of relations among organizations
- Each graph represents a different typology of relations (tie) among
organizations : Mutual cooperation (Graph 1), Information exchange
(Graph 2) and Meetings (Graph 3)
Typology of networks
Directed: A could name B, but B could not name A. For example,
in the meeting network (Graph 3), there is a tie between A and B if
organization A declared to meet with organization B.
How to read Graph 4 : Size, space, and color
- Node colors indicate the same geographical region: European
organizations are colored dark blue, and North American are colored red.
- Node size indicates the percentage of resources allocated to
GCED. A larger node indicates that the organization devotes more
than 50% of its resources to GCED.
- Node shape indicates whether the organization was interviewed:
the squared nodes are the ones that were not interviewed.
The round nodes were interviewed.
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