Richard Adler and I will be giving some talks on "social publishing" as an example of panarchy:

Oct 15, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Colloquium on New Commons
"Social Publishing"
This talk will focus on how social publishing is an example of a new kind of publishing commons where writers and readers (and potentially editors) act as depletable resources for each other.
http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/colloquia_lectures.html

Although much has already been researched on disaster management, this project aims to capitalise on the power of distributed social networks, with the idea that people can work as social objects. This seemed like something close to grassroots panarchy:

BBC News in their post 'Digital neighbourhood watch plan' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6364301.stm - discuss how a concept for a neighbourhood watch for the digital age could use the power of social networking, especially in emergency reaction and planning: