and activities 50work Package 3-Assessing Strategies 52work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders 53work Package 5-Experiment
and civic innovators (developers, hackers, designers) are key stakeholders in support of innovation for social good.
iii) The sharing economy that includes crypto digital curencies like Freecoin and many sharing economy platforms such as Peerby and Goteo creating new forms of crowdfunding methods, exchanges and new economic models;(
iv) Awareness networks enabling sustainable behaviours and lifestyles such as the Smart Citizen Kit an initiative that empowers citizens to improve urban life through capturing
and economic value is understood relatively well. But, despite the founding ethos of technologies like the World wide web being aligned to social good,
and interdependent process of different stakeholders, including engaged communities. Innovation should be understood in broader terms as a new product (product innovation), a new method of production (process innovation), new organisational forms (organisational innovation), access to untapped resources,
Social, political and economic processes driven by innovation are uncertain and open ended within an economy never in equilibrium
This means enabling business model innovation in real world settings (such as Living Labs, maker spaces or so called Smart Cities) and orchestrating the process with all innovation stakeholders.
and new participative models for the economy, society and self-governance models. A primary example of Digital Social Innovation is the Web itself.
and cluster in this report-such as the sharing economy as local exchange trading systems, time banks and digital currencies, collaborative services and awareness networks that incentivise the experimentations of new models in a variety
ICT and the Internet are critical to help Europe sustain long-term economic growth and create new jobs.
We are undergoing a big transformation that will involve society and the economy, driven by the fast evolution of ICT.
and to manage creative interactions a central issue of economic policy. Harnessing collective intelligence will be a crucial determinant of success for businesses, for governments,
and the technical that create new forms of value that are limited not to economic value, but that result in large-scale social impact,
and the social domains they were affecting, such as health, economy, energy governance, education, and public services.
economics, and sociology literatures, and will be validated in the selected cases through interviews and the online survey,
Secondly, it can enhance communication between stakeholders and communities, thereby strengthening the social fabric and making a solution/service more resilient.
to mass scale behavioural and political changes that empower communities and transition to a low carbon economy.
consumption and distribution and generate further ideas and innovations (like the move to a low carbon economy or the creation of a more participatory democracy).
Some of these have encouraged deliberately a changed awareness of how economies work for example valorising labour time equally,
The Open Hardware is the backbone of the sharing economy, since it shifts the attention away from consumption and resource exploitation,
and sharing economy platforms like Peerby are creating new forms of relationships and services. Inspired by the open-source movement, individuals, self-organising groups,
Citizen Kit Fairphone Makerfaire New ways of making Participatory mechanisms Sharing economy Awareness networks Open Access 28 Who are involved the organisations in supporting
The benefits come to the local economy when companies try and test their services with citizens in a real life environment
By initiating collaborative projects the city can bring together relevant stakeholders: citizens, companies and scientific institutions.
and coordinating inclusive processes of decision-making amongst key stakeholders. Technological trends in Digital Social Innovation Although there is a huge variety in the different types of DSI and the technologies these innovations use
The European commission estimates the economic value of the PSI market at approximately €40 billion per annum. The 2013 revision of the European commission Directive on the reuse of public sector information will further enable the opening of public sector data in a harmonised and more transparent way,
whilst engaging all key stakeholders and delivering public goods, maximising returns for all citizens. For instance, citizens are gaining greater insight into how their tax payments are being spent.
and reprogramming networks with different stakeholders and based on different issues. 44 3 . Which organisations currently bridge the various communities?
and civic innovators (developers, hackers, designers) as key stakeholders in the support of innovation for social good and active citizenship in the EU. Too often in the past civil society organisations were left behind in top-down technology-push
Many of the inventions that now form the basis of the Web 2. 0 economy
or entrepreneurs starting sharing economy initiatives, and activists starting mass mobilisation initiatives and social movements for democracy and social justice.
Shifting from Closed innovation models to Decentralized Innovative Social Networksthe proposed vision is to facilitate the creation of a bottom-up Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem that can exploit the European added value in the digital economy.
The Ecosystem metaphor emphasises the need for a holistic and multi-stakeholder approach that Europe should give to Innovation,
engaging a variety of stakeholders. Different DSI activities are experimenting new ways in which the commons can be governed through negotiated rules and boundaries for building and mobilising communities, managing the social production, distribution,
there must be concerted a focus on Task 2. 3 Facilitate stakeholder engagement in the online platform.
iii) The sharing economy;(iv) Awareness networks enabling sustainable behaviours and lifestyles;(v) Open access and information Commons),
or they are rooted in the methodology used for its design. 53 Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders To support the growth
Engaging stakeholders, therefore, becomes an important part of both the work on identifying organisations, mapping initiatives and experimentation,
and as a means of ensuring the involvement of these stakeholders in the ongoing development and exploration of the DSI agenda.
national and global in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics & representation, economy, education, environment & sustainability, anti-discrimination, equality & social justice, health, human rights, international development,
'Created in 2008 in the wake of Iceland's economic collapse, Citizen Foundation founders Gunnar Grímsson and Róbert Bjarnason describe how they decided to develop the platform
because they felt the economic collapse was as much a democratic crisis as a financial one. To address this perceived loss of trust in politicians,
With governments around the world looking at open data as a kick start for their economies,
Identifying key stakeholder groups and ensure that the project reaches the widest possible targeted audience.
and economies rely on a vibrant and ever expanding public domain. The role of the public domain, whilst crucial in the past, is even more important today,
and can cooperate with local stakeholders to develop community services, including local networking, voice connections and Internet access.
distributed infrastructure to these emerging networks supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental technologies for open
supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental systems and technologies for these open and interoperable network infrastructures.
The main driver behind Everyaware is the belief that‘the current organisation of our economies
On the other hand, the augmented awareness could also act as a source of pressure on the relevant stakeholders and policy makers.
It is difficult to attract a diverse range of stakeholders for whom the Fablab is a hub and exchange.
Getting support and help from other stakeholders: Getting external support from more established organisations has also proven to be extremely helpful for Fablab projects.
Create a‘transparency economy'by opening up the supply chain for electronics Technology Trends: Open Hardware, Open Knowledge DSI activities:
they become part of a larger movement for redefining the economy. To achieve its goals Fairphone is created as an open platform using mainly social media;
The company is working with stakeholders and partners on the ground to achieve similar assurances about other materials used in the phone
Fairphone see the smart phone as a practical starting point for telling the story of how the economy functions,
New economies do not grow overnight. It takes a lot of effort and a long term vision. What helps to reach goals and overcome barriers?
Not only brokering partnerships between stakeholders, but also using existing initiatives like CFTI (Conflict-free Tin Initiative) and Solutions for hope, that source tin and tantalum from conflict-free areas.
The marginal cost of each new project is likely less than $1 per year. 121 Goteo At a glance:
In simpler terms the Open Government Vienna project has seen the city adopt an open data policy and share data related to population, economics and science.
Relevant data also comes from around the areas of statistics, geospatial, transportation and economics. This shift to transparency
approximately two thirds of Vienna's real economic growth is due to innovation. What is the role of the organisation within the DSI ecosystem?
With any innovative project like Open Vienna, there is a challenge in engaging stakeholders when, from the outset,
Better economy: Openness permits easier and more rapid reuse of material and open data and content are the key raw ingredients for the development of new innovative tools and services.
The network is built on the belief that an economy based on sharing, collaboration and openness can solve many of the complex challenges the world faces.
History and mission The overarching aim of Ouishare is to shift the focus of the economy to one that can find new ways to connect,
Ouishare calls this paradigm shift and the sum of these developments‘the collaborative economy'.'The network was born in January 2012 out of a Facebook group in Paris,
In its early stages, the Ouishare community was a Facebook group created in April 2011 to connect people who believed in the potential of the collaborative economy
They began to organise meetups every month in Paris to continue their discussions about the collaborative economy in person.
is that Ouishare becomes a crucial vehicle in facilitating the shift to a collaborative economy by growing a strong, international network of people and projects.
while proposing alternatives for value exchange in currencies and gift economies. Crowdsourced and open knowledge is opening up institutions such as governments, science, education and culture,
While Ouishare sees great‘disruptive'potential in the collaborative economy it also recognises this presents a number of challenges for the movement.
and little systemic vision about the change they will bring to society and the economy. Furthermore, few projects are actually collaborating;
Secondly, collaborative economy needs better exposure and education, which Ouishare believes could fasten the adoption of new user practices,
Sharing economy, Participation and democracy Technology Trends: Open Knowledge, Open Data DSI activities: A network, A research project, Operating a web service Key facts:
The primary activity P2p foundation undertake to achive its goal is running the P2p foundation wiki, a website with with nearly 8, 000 pages of information on the P2p economy.
the foundation organises meetups between stakeholders interested in the debate around the P2p economy. To data it has organised two annual physical meet-ups in Belgium and the UK,
Neighbourhood regeneration, Sharing economy Technology Trends: Open Data, Open Knowledge DSI activities: Operating a web service Key Facts:
It is referred also to as Person-to-person rental, P2p renting, Collaborative Consumption, the sharing economy and Product Service System.
The service is based on Internet and the principles of open knowledge and the sharing economy.
In an evaluation of the Ushahidi Project Haiti (UHP), involved stakeholders described how lives were saved as a result of the platform.
and activities 50work Package 3-Assessing Strategies 52work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders 53work Package 5-Experiment
and civic innovators (developers, hackers, designers) are key stakeholders in support of innovation for social good.
iii) The sharing economy that includes crypto digital curencies like Freecoin and many sharing economy platforms such as Peerby and Goteo creating new forms of crowdfunding methods, exchanges and new economic models;(
iv) Awareness networks enabling sustainable behaviours and lifestyles such as the Smart Citizen Kit an initiative that empowers citizens to improve urban life through capturing
and economic value is understood relatively well. But, despite the founding ethos of technologies like the World wide web being aligned to social good,
and interdependent process of different stakeholders, including engaged communities. Innovation should be understood in broader terms as a new product (product innovation), a new method of production (process innovation), new organisational forms (organisational innovation), access to untapped resources,
Social, political and economic processes driven by innovation are uncertain and open ended within an economy never in equilibrium
This means enabling business model innovation in real world settings (such as Living Labs, maker spaces or so called Smart Cities) and orchestrating the process with all innovation stakeholders.
and new participative models for the economy, society and self-governance models. A primary example of Digital Social Innovation is the Web itself.
and cluster in this report-such as the sharing economy as local exchange trading systems, time banks and digital currencies, collaborative services and awareness networks that incentivise the experimentations of new models in a variety
ICT and the Internet are critical to help Europe sustain long-term economic growth and create new jobs.
We are undergoing a big transformation that will involve society and the economy, driven by the fast evolution of ICT.
and to manage creative interactions a central issue of economic policy. Harnessing collective intelligence will be a crucial determinant of success for businesses, for governments,
and the technical that create new forms of value that are limited not to economic value, but that result in large-scale social impact,
and the social domains they were affecting, such as health, economy, energy governance, education, and public services.
economics, and sociology literatures, and will be validated in the selected cases through interviews and the online survey,
Secondly, it can enhance communication between stakeholders and communities, thereby strengthening the social fabric and making a solution/service more resilient.
to mass scale behavioural and political changes that empower communities and transition to a low carbon economy.
consumption and distribution and generate further ideas and innovations (like the move to a low carbon economy or the creation of a more participatory democracy).
Some of these have encouraged deliberately a changed awareness of how economies work for example valorising labour time equally,
The Open Hardware is the backbone of the sharing economy, since it shifts the attention away from consumption and resource exploitation,
and sharing economy platforms like Peerby are creating new forms of relationships and services. Inspired by the open-source movement, individuals, self-organising groups,
Citizen Kit Fairphone Makerfaire New ways of making Participatory mechanisms Sharing economy Awareness networks Open Access 28 Who are involved the organisations in supporting
The benefits come to the local economy when companies try and test their services with citizens in a real life environment
By initiating collaborative projects the city can bring together relevant stakeholders: citizens, companies and scientific institutions.
and coordinating inclusive processes of decision-making amongst key stakeholders. Technological trends in Digital Social Innovation Although there is a huge variety in the different types of DSI and the technologies these innovations use
The European commission estimates the economic value of the PSI market at approximately €40 billion per annum. The 2013 revision of the European commission Directive on the reuse of public sector information will further enable the opening of public sector data in a harmonised and more transparent way,
whilst engaging all key stakeholders and delivering public goods, maximising returns for all citizens. For instance, citizens are gaining greater insight into how their tax payments are being spent.
and reprogramming networks with different stakeholders and based on different issues. 44 3 . Which organisations currently bridge the various communities?
and civic innovators (developers, hackers, designers) as key stakeholders in the support of innovation for social good and active citizenship in the EU. Too often in the past civil society organisations were left behind in top-down technology-push
Many of the inventions that now form the basis of the Web 2. 0 economy
or entrepreneurs starting sharing economy initiatives, and activists starting mass mobilisation initiatives and social movements for democracy and social justice.
Shifting from Closed innovation models to Decentralized Innovative Social Networksthe proposed vision is to facilitate the creation of a bottom-up Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem that can exploit the European added value in the digital economy.
The Ecosystem metaphor emphasises the need for a holistic and multi-stakeholder approach that Europe should give to Innovation,
engaging a variety of stakeholders. Different DSI activities are experimenting new ways in which the commons can be governed through negotiated rules and boundaries for building and mobilising communities, managing the social production, distribution,
there must be concerted a focus on Task 2. 3 Facilitate stakeholder engagement in the online platform.
iii) The sharing economy;(iv) Awareness networks enabling sustainable behaviours and lifestyles;(v) Open access and information Commons),
or they are rooted in the methodology used for its design. 53 Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders To support the growth
Engaging stakeholders, therefore, becomes an important part of both the work on identifying organisations, mapping initiatives and experimentation,
and as a means of ensuring the involvement of these stakeholders in the ongoing development and exploration of the DSI agenda.
national and global in orientation and concerned with democracy, politics & representation, economy, education, environment & sustainability, anti-discrimination, equality & social justice, health, human rights, international development,
'Created in 2008 in the wake of Iceland's economic collapse, Citizen Foundation founders Gunnar Grímsson and Róbert Bjarnason describe how they decided to develop the platform
because they felt the economic collapse was as much a democratic crisis as a financial one. To address this perceived loss of trust in politicians,
With governments around the world looking at open data as a kick start for their economies,
Identifying key stakeholder groups and ensure that the project reaches the widest possible targeted audience.
and economies rely on a vibrant and ever expanding public domain. The role of the public domain, whilst crucial in the past, is even more important today,
and can cooperate with local stakeholders to develop community services, including local networking, voice connections and Internet access.
distributed infrastructure to these emerging networks supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental technologies for open
supporting any stakeholder interested in developing and testing experimental systems and technologies for these open and interoperable network infrastructures.
The main driver behind Everyaware is the belief that‘the current organisation of our economies
On the other hand, the augmented awareness could also act as a source of pressure on the relevant stakeholders and policy makers.
It is difficult to attract a diverse range of stakeholders for whom the Fablab is a hub and exchange.
Getting support and help from other stakeholders: Getting external support from more established organisations has also proven to be extremely helpful for Fablab projects.
Create a‘transparency economy'by opening up the supply chain for electronics Technology Trends: Open Hardware, Open Knowledge DSI activities:
they become part of a larger movement for redefining the economy. To achieve its goals Fairphone is created as an open platform using mainly social media;
The company is working with stakeholders and partners on the ground to achieve similar assurances about other materials used in the phone
Fairphone see the smart phone as a practical starting point for telling the story of how the economy functions,
New economies do not grow overnight. It takes a lot of effort and a long term vision. What helps to reach goals and overcome barriers?
Not only brokering partnerships between stakeholders, but also using existing initiatives like CFTI (Conflict-free Tin Initiative) and Solutions for hope, that source tin and tantalum from conflict-free areas.
The marginal cost of each new project is likely less than $1 per year. 121 Goteo At a glance:
In simpler terms the Open Government Vienna project has seen the city adopt an open data policy and share data related to population, economics and science.
Relevant data also comes from around the areas of statistics, geospatial, transportation and economics. This shift to transparency
approximately two thirds of Vienna's real economic growth is due to innovation. What is the role of the organisation within the DSI ecosystem?
With any innovative project like Open Vienna, there is a challenge in engaging stakeholders when, from the outset,
Better economy: Openness permits easier and more rapid reuse of material and open data and content are the key raw ingredients for the development of new innovative tools and services.
The network is built on the belief that an economy based on sharing, collaboration and openness can solve many of the complex challenges the world faces.
History and mission The overarching aim of Ouishare is to shift the focus of the economy to one that can find new ways to connect,
Ouishare calls this paradigm shift and the sum of these developments‘the collaborative economy'.'The network was born in January 2012 out of a Facebook group in Paris,
In its early stages, the Ouishare community was a Facebook group created in April 2011 to connect people who believed in the potential of the collaborative economy
They began to organise meetups every month in Paris to continue their discussions about the collaborative economy in person.
is that Ouishare becomes a crucial vehicle in facilitating the shift to a collaborative economy by growing a strong, international network of people and projects.
while proposing alternatives for value exchange in currencies and gift economies. Crowdsourced and open knowledge is opening up institutions such as governments, science, education and culture,
While Ouishare sees great‘disruptive'potential in the collaborative economy it also recognises this presents a number of challenges for the movement.
and little systemic vision about the change they will bring to society and the economy. Furthermore, few projects are actually collaborating;
Secondly, collaborative economy needs better exposure and education, which Ouishare believes could fasten the adoption of new user practices,
Sharing economy, Participation and democracy Technology Trends: Open Knowledge, Open Data DSI activities: A network, A research project, Operating a web service Key facts:
The primary activity P2p foundation undertake to achive its goal is running the P2p foundation wiki, a website with with nearly 8, 000 pages of information on the P2p economy.
the foundation organises meetups between stakeholders interested in the debate around the P2p economy. To data it has organised two annual physical meet-ups in Belgium and the UK,
Neighbourhood regeneration, Sharing economy Technology Trends: Open Data, Open Knowledge DSI activities: Operating a web service Key Facts:
It is referred also to as Person-to-person rental, P2p renting, Collaborative Consumption, the sharing economy and Product Service System.
The service is based on Internet and the principles of open knowledge and the sharing economy.
In an evaluation of the Ushahidi Project Haiti (UHP), involved stakeholders described how lives were saved as a result of the platform.
RECEPTION BY STAKEHOLDERS AND EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS The Communication was received well by stakeholders. They supported the Commission's intention to work towards the completion of the Digital Single Market
Following an external evaluation study in 201210, a high-level strategic debate with stakeholders, a public consultation and the launch of an impact assessment are planned for 2013.
A structured stakeholder dialogue was launched to that effect by the Commission on 4 february 2013, with the specific objective of delivering, by the end of 2013, practical industry-led solutions to a number of issues,
and is discussing a series of concrete actions to follow-up on the June ebook roundtable18 with external stakeholders.
and discussions with stakeholders more generally. Moreover, the national competition authorities inform the Commission of their case investigations
and gather evidence on its effect on the economy and on cross-border activity. They will examine the effectiveness of self-regulatory and legislative frameworks put in place to address those practices at national level
Citizens, businesses and other stakeholders were asked for their opinion on certain 23 The functioning of the market for internet access
PDF 29 http://ec. europa. eu/information society/policy/psi/revision directive/index en. htm 10 which will greatly contribute to bringing the economic value of PSI to the market.
Furthermore, the Commission services together with stakeholders took stock of practices made to improve retailers's awareness of their duties,
through dialogue with the stakeholders, develop codes of good conduct, good practice guides and guidelines giving consumers access to transparent and reliable information and allowing easier comparison of the prices, quality and durability of goods and services (2013-2014). 30
The purpose of the Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Comparison Tools (MSDCT) is to: provide a better understanding of the functioning of the various types of comparison tools;
and interaction between all the stakeholders involved in comparison websites, retailers, regulators, consumer organisations; map best practices in the comparison of products and services across different sectors and identify potential areas of improvement.
The Green Paper launched by a public stakeholder consultation which helped identifying a number of key hurdles on the path towards the market integration of card, internet and mobile payments most
Furthermore, it seeks stakeholders'views on how best to serve the interests of customers, businesses and end-consumers.
In response to the 2010 public consultation on e-commerce47, the vast majority and a wide variety of stakeholders indicated, in their contributions to the consultation,
there has been extensive consultation of stakeholders, in particular in the following forms: Questionnaires on N&a procedures.
This questionnaire asked stakeholders to provide facts and figures concerning notice-and-action procedures. It was sent to organisations that submit notices of illegal content to online intermediaries and to online intermediaries.
Stakeholders have asked for their responses to be treated confidentially. 70 responses were received. Two experts'workshops on N&a procedures.
The Commission services also met bilaterally with stakeholders. Main action 13: in 2012, propose an overall strategy on internet security in Europe aimed at better protection against cyber attacks in the EU. The establishment of the European Cybercrime Centre by 2013 will play a particularly important role in this.
and market for secure ICT and contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the EU economy;
These will help Member States achieve very fast broadband connections throughout the EU, an essential element for future economic growth.
The guidelines were drafted after an intensive dialogue with all stakeholders and have the following principles and priorities:
A stakeholder conference will be organised at the end of 2013 to take stock of progress and assess future needs. 58 Decision No 243/2012/EU of the European council
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