It offers examples of localities that have been working differently with their care managers to focus more fully on social capital, developing new approaches through the social work practice pilots and exploring concepts such as local area co-ordination, time-banking and support for micro-enterprise.
There is a similar need today for co-ordination, this time in fiscal policies.
Many people mentioned Boozerlyzer, an app for Android smartphones that helps people track their drinking and uses simple games to help them measure the effect of alcohol on their co-ordination, reaction times, memory and emotions.
Hoover brought modernity and co-ordination at a time of disorganisation.
Co-ordination in real-time is responsive and adaptive to changes in the distributed environment, such that the computational design analysis can be performed in an efficient manner.
"There are too many government initiatives," noted the Cabinet Office earlier this year, "not enough co-ordination, and too much time spent on negotiating the system rather than on delivery".The white paper draws heavily on the report of the Urban Task Force, chaired by Lord Rogers, an architect, which was published 18 months ago.
Today, as the commission kicked off its annual "European semester" budgetary co-ordination process, it was time to focus on the other two: structural reforms, and "fiscal responsibility" (ie austerity).During the nuclear winter of the euro-zone crisis, the commission was handed unprecedented powers to supervise the national budgets of countries that use the currency.
The institutional composition of co-ordination meetings changed in time as more agencies – such as the Ministry of Family and Social Policy and the Ministry of Education – joined while ‛temporary crisis' evolved into ‛permanent crisis'.
The final section contained a series of questions to obtain information about co-ordination of care and time spent on health related activity.
Many aid workers feel they are now spending too much time in co-ordination meetings and writing reports, and not enough time on the frontline delivering aid.
There is also another Gosplan 2.0: the one that uses all those sensors, algorithms, databases and real-time co-ordination in order to offer public services that function outside the price system itself.
