Renaissance of the Incumbents; Network Visions from a Human Perspective

Networks are omnipresent and universal. Today, networks often are associated with telecom networks because they play an important role in our economical and social life. However, the collection of interlinked sectors contributing to the GDP of our national economies, for example, forms a network too, as does humankind, our brain and language constitute evolving networks. Today, humankind is confronted with complex, borderand sector crossing challenges. Think e.g. of demographic, climate and mobility challenges. Finding that networks are omnipresent and universal presents an eChallenge for the ICT sector and a chance for the renaissance of the incumbents! They can play a significant role in re-uniting functionally decomposed societies to overcome the multi-actor prisoner dilemma’s of today’s national and intra-sectoral, conventional solutions that come to a grinding halt. “Trans-sectoral network visions” from a human perspective are then a condition sine qua non.