How can social network analysis help tackle West Africa’s challenges?
By Matthew Stephenson, Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SWAC/OECD) Social network analysis (SNA) is a powerful tool that helps understand interactions amongst individuals, groups or institutions (Ward, Stovel and Sacks 2011)[i]. It does so by considering the actors in a network (nodes) and the relationship between those actors (links). By looking at these relationships, SNA can be used to visualise which actors are more central … Continue reading How can social network analysis help tackle West Africa’s challenges?