The Health of Nations … Through the Strategic Development of Networking Cooperation

Abstract

To be an information professional means, at the end of this marveling century, to be professional, tout court, because of the prominent role of information nowadays. The coexistence of different individuals, e.g. professionals and citizens or rational and emotional personalities, is a dynamic balance between organisation and chaos. The same holds true on the levels of institutions, communities, nations or even in transnational utopia. Although chaos could be set to order, with such an amount of exformation — using Gore’s expression — and with information being tenuous and inaccurate, we might think of being right appealing to the need of order, rules, perfection. But this will not take into account the powerful laws and essentials of living matter: health. The health of a living being and, metaphorically, the health of any kind of structure that matches a similar function model, a nation, for example, assumes beforehand a normal evolution, the fulfilment of internal functionalities, the beneficial interaction with environment for the individual and for the species, the preservation and promotion of life and of its vital principles.