These are two network images. The first is the networking mapping of an organization that has a fully deployed communication network. The second is an image from nature, the filament network in a fungus. Both these networks are "self-organizing." This could be contrasted with the flow of information, authority and decision-making that is typical of old top down organizational models. If we mapped a robust Community Sustainability Network, the map would look something like this.
Network Map of an Fully Deployed Actual Organizational Network.
Map of a Fungal Network