When the scope of inter-organizational cooperation
is wide and where there are a large number of participants,
coordination become quite important. In the management
literature, network forms regulating the cooperation
between member firms often set up central coordination
structures. In both policy and production networks
in the public sector, the role of the coordinator
(most like to be state ministries) is to coordinate activities
of both private and public participants without
imposing hierarchical orders or being overly authoritative.
More importantly, because many public policy
issues are inter-related and feed from one another, the
role of the coordinator in this web of networks is critical.
Managing and coordinating activities of various policy
and production networks requires a skillful manager of
the networked networks and is likely that the state will
play a role in resolving resource allocation and dependency
issues among various networks. This is where the
new information and communication technology (ICT)
becomes very useful as it can manage the networking of
networks more effectively