Social Network Analysis
What is Social Network Analysis?
Social network analysis (SNA) is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, URLs, and other connected information/knowledge entities.
SNA provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis of human relationships.
Potential of Social Network Analysis
a. In Inteligence = Social Network Analysis, as an analytic method, has inarguable applicability to the field of intelligence and is progressively reshaping the analytic landscape in terms of how analysts understand networks. For example, analysts currently use SNA to identify key people in an organization or social network, develop a strategic agent network, identify new agents and simulate information flows through a network. Beyond this, SNA can be easily combined with other analytic practices such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS), gravity model analysis or Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) to create robust, predictive analyses.
b. Tool for monitoring and evaluation of capacity building interventions
The project exploited existing monitoring and
evaluation data to: identify elements of AWARD’s interventions, strategies and theories of change
that intentionally (and unintentionally) facilitate networking; understand which factors within and outside of the fellowship (related to geographical proximity, social interactions, etc.) facilitate
networking; examine how networking is associated with empowerment outcomes; and to discuss how AWARD should measure network mechanisms and benefits better in the future.
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