I very much like this categorization of the different ways of interacting and the progression that has happened over time away from command and control to collaboration and then to cooperation. The only challenge I have here is that there seems to be an implication that the ultimate goal in working together is the network and that community is but a stepping stone along the way. For me I think that each of the models, even including command and control has its place and its uses and the exciting thing is more that networks give us a new alternative that can help us address problems which other methods cannot rather than it being the ultimate solution that fits everything.

In my work at the UN one of the big challenges we have is one of "coordination" of different organizations working in a country who have overlapping but not identical goals but who also have different ways of working. Although individuals within the organizations can work together either as community or network it's challenging to think about what model can be use to ensure that institutions work well together in a way which is not command and control - but needs to be more structured than a network too.