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Governing Sustainable Development: Landscaping Issue Networks On Water‐energy Infrastructure PlanningStratton‐Short, Samantha R.Policy NetworksTransnational Networks, Governance, Policy Networks, Online Networks, hyperlink analysis, Issue NetworksSAT.AM2This paper summarises the initial findings of research being carried out on networks of organisations concerned with hydropower and water infrastructureprojects in nine countries around the world. It explores issues of sustainable development through the representation of interests and connection patterns oforganisations around the selected projects. These networks reveal another dimension to the stakeholder discourse exposing important dynamic relationshipsmanifested on the World Wide Web. Using a mixed method approach the foundation, hyperlink network analysis, processed information on the connectionsbetween websites of over 1100 unique organisations. By looking at a sample of countries with different levels of national governance and resource pressures,these networks are compared to find the emerging patterns and change over a sample course of time as the debates develop in order to create a basis foranalysing future networks on projects with similarly high levels of controversy around sustainable development. Surprisingly, despite the likely presence of theanti‐dam advocacy network within many of these networks, they vary significantly in both composition and focus. Within the networks, notable interactionbetween sectors and interests can be seen, with the greatest cohesiveness between environmental interests. In order to examine these networks in the widercontext of all possible stakeholder interaction some were also juxtaposed against affiliation networks based on events attended or collaborations around aproject. This confirmed the absence of some of the key large private sector advocates for the projects and highlights the different modes of influence at play indifferent medium.Harnessing Social Media For Uncovering Social Networks In The EnterpriseEhrlich, Kate; Daly, ElizabethOrganizational NetworksIntra‐organizational Networks, Social MediaSAT.AM1As work gets distributed across organizational and geographic boundaries, social network analysis can provide important clues to individuals and managers ofwhere expertise is located and how the work is structured. Organizational units with strong social ties foster trust and communication within the division. Onthe other hand, a lack of connections to outside divisions may have important implications in terms of information diffusion, cross division collaboration andknowledge sharing. However, it can be difficult to obtain data for analysis. Traditional survey methods don’t easily scale beyond small teams and can becumbersome for repeated data collection. Alternate data acquisition methods including email, phone records, or RFID tags provide wider coverage but alsointroduce privacy issues. In this talk we present the results of an exploratory study based on symmetric friending data from over 10,000 users of enterprisesocial media software. The results revealed distinctive network patterns within and across divisional units that are descriptive of the type of work in thedivision. We discuss the implications of the study for methods of obtaining network data in an enterprise and for tools that could facilitate the use of networkdata and visualizations by individuals and managers.