and the provision of latest-generation fixed and mobile telecommunications networks. Catalonia 2020 Strategy 21 5. 6. Green economy The Catalan economy,
and computer skills and increasing regular Internet use amongst the underprivileged. 6. 1. 10. Attracting and retaining talent
The main initiatives in this respect include projects with knock-on effects focused on ICT (linked to Barcelona Mobile World Capital) and on sustainable mobility (electric vehicles, development of new businesses and economic activities, etc..
as well as rationalising resources. 6. 7. 5. Introduction of open data In the evolution towards a network society, a new,
The Web and the social networks give products and services new functionalities, in terms both of management (saving on time
and characteristics (possibilities for marketing, simulation, accessibility, knowledge sharing, use of multimedia resources, storage, cloud computing, etc.
open public data to enable businesses and citizens to create products and generate wealth and value.
and the Public Administration 7. 4. Using ICTS to modernise the Administration 7. 5. Introduction of open data 7. 6. Modernising
Measures to this end are established in the Catalan Agenda for the Mediterranean Corridor. 6. 8. 6. Improving telecommunications
Providing latest-generation land and mobile telecommunications networks is also crucial to business competitiveness. Action taken by the Government in this area is aimed at encouraging the installation of networks
and instruments to develop production models and foster projects such as the Catalonia Neutral Internet Exchange Point (CATNIX).
as local economic motors 8. 5. Increasing the connectivity of the passenger railway system with Europe 8. 6. Improving telecommunications
29 april 2012 Regional Innovation Monitor Regional Innovation Report (Central Hungary) To the European commission Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General Directorate D Industrial Innovation and Mobility
Industries Andrea Szalavetz Technopolis associate www. technopolis-group. com PREFACE The Regional Innovation Monitor (RIM) 1 is an initiative of the European commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry,
with a view to preparing the Annual EU Regional Innovation Monitor reports. European commission official responsible for the project is Alberto Licciardello (Alberto.
This was manifest in the rapid development of the services sector (in particular of financial intermediation, telecommunication, commerce, and logistics;
and in the expansion of high-tech industries (ICT, electrical and optical equipment, pharmaceutical industry) and knowledge-based services (business services, software development, etc..
The latest data for enterprises with foreign investment are available for the end 2009: their number was 20,552,
See also the operationalisation exercise and data in Morais Camanho, 2011.5 This is the consensus opinion of Hungarian researchers publishing on metropolitan development
International comparative statistics, e g. the Eurostat Urban Audit provide data up till the mid-2000s
According to data on the distribution of national resources for innovation support purposes, CH absorbed 60%of total innovation support from the National Research and Technological Innovation Fund (KTIA) between 2004 and 2008 and a similar
CH is endowed well in Hungary's core innovation resource: human capital. The share of the population aged between 25 and 64 with a tertiary education was 28.9%in 2008,
As for the regional data as might be expected CH is above the national average: 4. 3%(150%of the national average.
Regional Development Councils and their working agencies are simple intermediary organisations, responsible for programming and strategy preparation but without any real decisionmaking power.
In the 2007-2013 programming period, as a result of the increase of financial allocation to core‘Lisbon'activities, an unprecedented amount of funding became available for RTDI efforts.
CH's stakeholders trying to receive funding for their RTDI related efforts were channelled thus effectively towards OPS.
whose responsibilities together with their agency type work organisations include the design of regional development plans (programming
which was very difficult to administer and monitor. Therefore NKTH prepared a menu of programmes
evidence is in principle available in the form of statistical data, analyses and regional innovation intermediaries'databases.
Hungarian regional innovation data as part of an international comparison is available in the Regional Innovation Scoreboard, on the PRO-INNO EUROPE website.
Statistical data on regional economic and innovation performance is compiled regularly and published by the Central Statistical Office.
and formulates a strategy about how to avoid these deficiencies in the current programming period.
These activities contributed to compiling a continuously increasing regional innovation database to be used later for policy intelligence purposes.
INNOREG's website was used for the communication of regionspecific innovation related news (an online regional innovation magazine:
RDA Statistical Database, author's calculations. Several CHOP project calls were announced in support of market-oriented R&d activity.
author's calculation from NKTH, 2010 data. National policy schemes to support innovation are diversified highly each individual policy objective is supported by a number of partly overlapping policy measures (Havas,
Both data are higher then the national average. Life expectancy indicators are better than the national average.
and it is the hub of creative, knowledge based activities in the country, such as R&d, computer activities, informatics, business services etc.
Actions include setting up an interactive company database, monitoring demand from multinationals, improving conditions of access to capital, promoting cooperation between companies (clusters and virtual companies).
Accredited clusters operate among others in the production of medical instruments, in biotechnology, in packaging techniques, in multimedia, in information technology, in ecology and in sewage technology.
Evaluation report links Information technology Innovation and Knowledge Center e-Science Regional University Knowledge Center Elektronikus Járm és Jármirányítási Tudásközpont Evidence of outcomes
many dealt with the development of telecommunications equipments and specific softwares. The measure had ten rounds
in some cases the companies which were awarded do not seem to be active (for example no website can be found
Data about the number of applications, information about the results of evaluations and the success rate of projects are missing.
or impact Evidence of outcomes based on evaluation and other evidence No data is available about the number of applications. 16 projects were selected,
Do's and Don'ts No data is available about the number of applications, thus the success can not be judged.
It is entitled also to present its innovative product, service, technology or process in the online magazin of regional innovation agencies and on the website of the Central Hungary Regional Innovation Agency.
there was a good media coverage, thus it contributed to the increase in the awareness about the impacts of innovation.
Year of publication 2006 Link to website Link: http://www. proregio. hu Policy document MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Policy Document Central Hungary Operational
Year of publication 2010 Link to website Link: http://www. nfu. hu/uj szechenyi terv Policy document MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Policy Document The Regional Information
Year of publication 2005 Link to website Link: http://www. proregio. hu/3/ristomor. zip Policy document MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Policy Document
Year of publication 2005 Link to website Link: http://www. proregio. hu Policy document MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Policy Document Regional Innovation Strategy
Actions include setting up an interactive company database, monitoring demand from multinational companies, improving conditions of access to capital and current assets, promoting cooperation between companies (clusters and virtual companies),
Year of publication 2004 Link to website Link: http://www. chic. hu/downloads/RIS%20-%20elozetes%20osszefogla...
Organisation MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Organisation Pro Regio Agency Pro Regio Közép-Magyarországi Regionális Fejlesztési
the Agency monitors the Region's economic and social development. Its regular newsletter provides information on main events.
Regional data, information on funding resources and studies are areavailable on CD. One can also visit the website of the Agency for information.
Organisation MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Organisation Innoreg (Regional Innovation Agency of Central Hungary) Innoreg (Közép-Magyarországi
Integration of these data into the countrywide information system. 2. Evaluation and registration of innovation centres, incubator houses and technology centres. 3. Information provision about funding opportunities for innovative SMES,
screens and selects marketable ideas and inventions, prepares them to enter the international market and acquires capital necessary to their growth.
life sciences, engineering and information technology. Organisation MAGYARORSZAG KOZEP-MAGYARORSZAG Region Kozep-Magyarorszag NUTS Code HU10 Organisation CHIC Central Hungarian Innovation Centre CHIC Közép-Magyarországi Innovációs
Research in connection with the modern information society Teams that operate internet based"knowledge-banks"Organisations working in the field of knowledge-management (e g.:
It also helps the SMES of the region in getting access to financial resources provided in the framework of various Hungary or EU financed programmes. 32 Appendix D Statistical data Indicator Közép--Magyarország
An Introduction i Foreword In just three decades, the internet has evolved from an experimental tool for researchers to a pervasive, omnipresent backbone for society and the economy.
which is the ability to network people, ideas and data across boundaries of any nature:
All of the most innovative ideas, from Skype to Wikipedia, from online cartography to app stores, had a very quick, viral spreading.
The objective was to explore new solutions at the confluence of social networks, knowledge networks and networks of things.
bottom-up and grassroots solutions based on new forms of collaboration enabled by the internet. I like to think that a book sprint is a very good example of how people can collaborate in innovative ways for the common good,
323988. http://booksprints-for-ict-research. eu FLOSS Manuals Foundation FLOSS Manuals creates free documentation about free software.
Previously she worked as a journalist and social media manager. Marta graduated in philosophy, studying contemporary aesthetics and politics in the urban context,
Atta is Director of the European Virtual Centre of Excellence for Ethically-guided and Privacy-respecting Video Analytics (Videosense) and Coordinator of Scicafe 2. 0-the European Observatory for Crowdsourcing.
Lara Schibelsky Godoy Piccolo is a human computer interaction researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open university.
She is a computer engineer and Phd candidate, with an MA in Computer science at UNICAMP, Brazil.
Previously, she was Senior Researcher at CPQD in Brazil coordinating R&d projects related to the digital divide. 6 Dr. Maurizio Teli has recently been appointed as Research Fellow at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer science of the University of Trento (Italy.
and disseminating the CAPS projects'core activities. Stimulating the birth of new CAPS initiatives. Based on their own interests, the reader of this publication can choose for themself a section from which to start reading,
Previously, in 2011, The 1st Dialogue on Platforms for collective awareness and action chaired by DG Connect General Director Robert Madelin took place in the framework of the Internet and societies:
'The Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) are ICT systems leveraging the emerging"network effect"by combining open online social media,
distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments("Internet of things")in order to create awareness of problems and possible solutions requesting collective efforts, enabling new forms of social innovation.
When we refer to the collaboration of human and nonhuman actors we can think of data being gathered by engaging both citizens and sensors,
as it segregates internet users into small-scale groups that share professional and leisure interests. The understanding and transparency of filtering mechanisms is probably the core element of awareness in CAPS initiatives.
Merging these two terms, the picture that emerges of collective awareness is one of the distribution of information on the activities of other participants,
Web platforms are the locus on which the CAPS projects focus on enabling the dynamics of collective awareness construction.
it is a socio-technical solution that is composed of multiple ICT tools, such as websites, forums, social networks,
collaborative platforms, deliberating tools, data visualisation, etc. The first of the societal challenges the EC is focusing on with the action of CAPS is understood sustainability,
or supported social innovation already exists on the web. Among others it is possible to mention Avaaz,
which defines itself as'A global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere';
Safecast, which after the March 2011 earthquake in Japan provided data about radiation by using a sensor network;
and Goteo, a Spanish social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, micro-tasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of creative and innovative initiatives that contribute to the common good, free knowledge,
Moreover, the project explicitly addresses, according to the model of Wikipedia, the existence of different levels of contribution.
the second level of the digital divide (not access to the internet, but rather the lack of skills to use it);
Another important area of analysis is related to data security, protection and data sharing in the use of online social networks and the value proposition and business models that surround personal and sensitive data.
Moving from citizen engagement to the data that these citizens produce on the web, intentionally or unintentionally,
a main research question is how to make that data reliable, trustworthy and meaningful? To this end CAPS projects study manners of visualising behavioural patterns and information diffusion, of supporting and improving collaborative sense-making,
and of improving the cross fertilisation between official and unofficial statistical data. In addition, CAPS projects support existing communities by intensifying the analysis
user-generated knowledge, visualisation of digital (open) data, and copyright. All such topics involve the understanding of collective forms of behaviour
in addition to looking at what is used already on the web and how it is successful, it is also necessary to dig deeper
like the one of Wikipedia, that show reward mechanisms based on credibility, recognition and respect, that are not too different from the reward mechanisms of the scientific community (Forte & Bruckman, 2005.
Participation in work-related communities such as Linkedin groups and other professional networks can trigger different motivations.
The first example of such reflections has been Free and Open source Software which has been investigated from many theoretical viewpoints,
The core component of the CAPS world is made up of research projects for Grassroots Experiments and Pilots,
promotes new collaboration models WEB-COSI: increases trust in collectively-generated statistics Moreover, the study on Digital Social Innovation in Europe (DSI) is dedicated to crowdmapping
techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production in the future Internet 22 These two are funded under the FP7 Objective 1. 7 Future Internet Research
Finally, CAPS are an important topic for internet science, a research domain dedicated to the understanding of technosocial issues.
In this field, the Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS), recently funded the FOCAL project (Foundation for Collective Awareness Platforms)
Project Acronym Project Full Title Project Website DECARBONET A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change http://www. decarbonet. eu
in commons-based peer production in the future Internet http://www. p2pvalue. eu USEMP User Empowerment for Enhanced Online Presence Management www. usemp-project. eu IA4SI
-project. eu FOCAL Foundation for Collective Awareness Platforms WEB-COSI Web Communities for Statistics for Social Innovation www. webcosi. eu CAPS2020 CAPS2020 http
Develop alternative collaborative approaches to problem solving (crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, participatory design, collective intelligence, collective decisions. Actively engage, innovate and act, individually or collectively, towards societally, environmentally, political and economically sustainable approaches and solutions to tackle societal challenges:
Social innovation organisations and networks Citizens, social movements and activists Researchers Companies NGOS, associations and charities Software developers CAPS projects Citizens Of these, citizens are the most relevant users
Wikipedia. Users of online communities interested in knowing more about their data and in defending their online rights.
Students and citizens interested in statistics and in knowing more about GDP measurement initiatives. Who Is behind CAPS?
CC RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET, POLICY AND COMMONS, AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-Barcelona, Spain IMAGINATION FOR PEOPLE-France IMINDS VZW-Brussels, Belgium INTERNATIONAL MODERN MEDIA INSTITUTE
and meta-analysis. These projects are WEB-COSI, CAPS2020, IA4SI and SCICAFE2. 0. These projects,
WEB-COSI makes a Wiki of progress statistics available and fosters the use and improvement of quality of nonofficial statistics beyond GDP statistics.
and deploys a multi-modal participative engagement platform (Ctizens'Say) integrated with crowdsourcing tools which can be used by all CAPS projects.
USEMP aims at empowering social network users with regards to the sharing of their personal data and its potential economic value.
and with WEB-COSI in terms of analytics and visualisations. CHEST shows potential synergies could emerge with IA4SI,
and also shows potential synergies with P2pvalue in terms of research activities on collaborative core technologies and with D-CENT with reference to XML-based activity streams and information integration.
Among others, the synergy between CAPS and EINS, a European network of excellence for Internet Science, deserves to be mentioned. 30 Figure 3 Synergies between CAPS Projects 31 PCLOALTLFEOCRTMIVSE Awareness Engagement Platforms
This list could be used as a useful data source to identify the type of organisations,
This overview consists of a clustering of the funded CAPS projects under 14 emerging categories.
The clustering is based on available public documents of CAPS projects and on the knowledge available among the authors,
This clustering considers the main'innovations'produced by the projects. More comprehensive outputs of each project will then comprise the ways in
'Analytics and Visualisations Web 2. 0 social computing principles motivate the importance of placing useful, usable analytic tools in the hands of users themselves,
social network analytics and visualisations (structure and dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, e g. the roles that people play in collective endeavours CATALYST project), discourse analytics
and engagement analytics and visualisations for evaluating different facets of participative engagement in social innovation initiatives (CAPS4ACCESS, CATALYST, DECARBONET, IA4SI, WEB-COSI projects).
Such evaluation can be delegated to algorithms, like in the case of Google Pagerank, where search results are ordered according to different criteria such as relative relevance, search histories, etc.
or the connection between personal data, economic value, and currencies (USEMP). Moreover, assessment of the CAPS projects themselves is key to these projects,
with the contribution of IA4SI aiding in such a collective endeavour. 35 Crowdsourcing The widespread adoption of digital technologies have made it easier to reach out to larger groups of people with a high-level of knowledge of specific topics
, e g. software development capabilities, social innovation concepts, etc. The ability to reach out to highly skilled people who can contribute freely,
2008), to specific tasks is known as the phenomenon crowdsourcing (Howe, 2006), or outsourcing to the crowd.
such as collective mapping (CAP4ACCESS), deliberation (CATALYST), crowd voting (CHEST), social currencies (D-CENT), directories of initiatives (P2pvalue), statistical data collections (WEB-COSI),
Given the widespread use of the internet and mobile devices, these tools will serve to empower members of the disabilities community to be able to more fully take part in society
and versatility of online maps and mobile devices for collectively gathering and sharing spatial information for improving accessibility for persons with limited mobility.
which to explore the potential of social media for tackling social challenges. The issue of how to engage people with social innovation as users of the collective awareness platforms must also be a target of CAPS'developments.
or new valuation practices of personal data (USEMP).(Open) Data Integration Each social network has a different affordance for users.
Twitter, Facebook and other widely-adopted social systems format the content in different ways, suggesting to users to attribute different meanings and ways of use.
Integrating user-generated data from different media, analysing the content as well as user participation, and providing insightful visualisations are some of the complex tasks related to data integration addressed by CAPS projects.
D-CENT, WIKIRATE, and WEB-COSI are focused on open data integration by providing different standards, tools and methods for data federation.
DECARBONET and D-CENT work on the modelling of social media data for mining and presenting it in an aggregated way.
CATALYST DECARBONET, and WIKIRATE are also together in that they aggregate data from different social media sources (such as Facebook, Twitter and emailing systems.
Online Deliberation From Group-Based to Large-scale Recent events have given evidence to the fact that communities can be created
and mobilised by engaging in online dialogues mediated by social media platforms, for example the Arab spring uprisings organised through Facebook,
or the use or Twitter for emergency response. Even though society seems to urge technologies to facilitate
and 37 empower widespread collective deliberation, social media platforms, as well as the more targeted platforms for e-democracy,
provide unstructured conversations where data is presented not in a way that makes it easy for other people
(or machines) to make sense of (or extract) the rich social and technical knowledge, which is embedded in the dialogue.
The Theory of Scholarly Discourse (Gilbert and Mulkay 1984), dialogue mapping (Conklin 2006) and argumentation (Walton 2009, Walton and Reed 2009) suggest that by structuring several forms of discourse, such as
for example by providing a directory of CBPP projects and initiatives, other projects, like SCICAFE2. 0, WEB-COSI,
and WIKIRATE, actually leverage some of the characteristics of this mode of production in delivering their results, from statistical data (SCICAFE2. 0) to scientific themes (SCICAFE2. 0),
and data quality discrimination (WIKIRATE and WEB-COSI). 38 Privacy-Aware Tools and Applications Privacy-aware systems have evolved over the last decade from privacy-enhancing technologies (PETS)
or layer integrated with information systems as a design afterthought, to a new paradigm of privacy-bydesign as championed by the Information and Privacy Commission of Ontario, Canada (www. privacybydesign. ca),
Personal data ecosystems (PDE) has recently been developed by the World Economic Forum and further elaborated by the Ontario Information and Privacy Commission and others.
Socio-ethical and privacy-preserving practice in both design of systems and in their governance, including internet governance,
and how governments and enterprises can operate on a global scale to influence the privacy standards of network-centric systems and the related internet governance issues worldwide.
ensuring that people are in full control of their data, maintaining privacy and trust in the technology they use.
FOCAL is motivated by privacy concerns about the data and location of the end users that contribute to CAPS.
It is concerned thus with the analysis of privacy, reputation and trust in social networks. USEMP will build upon the notion of PDE
and may in fact assume a personal data vault to provide a secure environment for effective control over relevant data.
Social networking & Social media Enhancement The confluence of network-centric systems, mobile telecommunications, semantic web and web 2. 0,
in particular the creative media industry and prosumers sharing media for entertainment, has contributed to a thriving ecosystem of online social networks (OSN) serving various business models
and economy by linking it to the Internet of things (Iot), sensor network and cloude services in order to support open online social media and distributed knowledge cocreation thus maximising the network effect,
and developers, is creating a distributed social networking platform for large-scale collaboration to solve social problems
USEMP will develop a set of tools allowing users of online social networks greater control over the personal data they share within the network
while also providing them with tools to enable the use of their data by entities outside of the OSN, for example,
or vote on documents that represent the policy of the group. 2. Assembl http://assembl. org Assembl is a web application that enables hundreds to thousands of people to work together with the goal of creating a single, tangible product.
It is available under the MIT license in 32-bit and 64-bit versions for Windows, GNU/Linux-based OSES,
and MAC OS X. 4. Book Sprint http://booksprints-for-ict-research. eu Book Sprint is a collaborative process that brings together a small group of people to develop
7. CKAN http://ckan. org CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible by providing tools to streamline publishing,
sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments, companies and organisations) wanting to make their data open and available. 8. Climate Quiz https://apps. facebook. com/climate-quiz A Facebook application in the tradition of Games with a Purpose for Measuring Environmental
Knowledge. 9. Cohere http://cohere. open. ac. uk Cohere is a visual tool to create,
connect and share ideas, and back them up with websites. By using Cohere people can support
or challenge each other's ideas and discover who literally connects with your thinking. Cohere demo movie:
Crabgrass https://we. riseup. net Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for group
decentralised social network which puts users in control of their data security and was touted by the media as a'Facebook killer'.
'41 15. Edgeryders http://edgeryders. eu/page/home-mb-ano Edgeryders is a global community and boutique consulting company.
Elgg http://elgg. org Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools,
universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. 17. Evidence Hub http://evidence-hub. net The Evidence Hub is a collaborative knowledge-building (specifically evidence-building) web platform.
It was designed in KMI by the team developing the concept of'Contested Collective Intelligence''where it is important to understand different perspectives and support quality debates. 18.
GEO Smart monitor devices http://www. greenenergyoptions. co. uk/productsand-services/products A set of In-Home Displays, smart plugs and web visualisation of energy consumption. 19.
Global network on Sustainable Lifestyles http://vision2050. net The GNSL is a global platform of practitioners
Greenapes https://www. greenapes. com/en greenapes is a gamified social media platform where you can build your sustainable profile
is a network of interconnected sites, where you can communicate, share, collaborate with others and create your web spaces easily. 25.
Libbitcoin http://libbitcoin. dyne. org Libbitcoin is a community of developers building the open-source library, tools and implementation necesary for a free, independent and vibrant Bitcoin. 42 26.
Liquid Feedback http://liquidfeedback. org Liquidfeedback is an open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making. 27.
Loomio https://www. loomio. org/?/locale=en Loomio is free and open-source software for anyone, anywhere,
to participate in decisions. 28. Mailpile https://www. mailpile. is Free and open-source web mail client with userfriendly encryption and privacy features. 29.
Media Watch for Climate Change http://www. ecoresearch. net/climate It tracks the latest news and social media coverage on climate change and related issues.
The dashboard provides interactive means to access this repository, to analyse the perceptions of various stakeholders,
Metamaps http://metamaps. c/Metamaps. cc is a free and open-source web platform for changemakers
Anybody living in Rio de janeiro can log on to the website and denounce a problem and launch a campaign to fix it.
Openahjo http://dev. hel. fi/apis/openahjo Openahjo is an API and a UI for accessing the decision-making material of the city of Helsinki. 33.
Openministry http://openministry. info The Open Ministry (Avoin ministeriö) is about crowdsourcing legislation, deliberative and participatory democracy and citizens initiatives.
and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. 35.
Pump. io http://pump. io Social server with an Activitystreams API. 43 38. Pybossa http://pybossa. com Pybossa is a free, 100%open-source framework for crowdsourcing.
It enables you to create and run projects where volunteers help you with image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. 39.
Reddit http://www. reddit. com Social networking service and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links.
and determine their position on the site's pages. Content entries are organised by areas of interest called'subreddits'.
Slashdot http://slashdot. org Slashdot is a website based on, and runs, the Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage software. 43.
Status. Net http://status. net Free and open-source social software. 44. Succeed Together http://www. succeedtogether. eu/en A company that is creating a semantic engine
which allows groups of 500 to 3000 people to answer questions qualitatively, and the engine crunches the answers in real-time
Twister http://twister. net. co Twister is decentralised a fully P2p microblogging platform leveraging from the free software implementations of Bitcoin and Bittorrent protocols. 47.
Ushahidi http://ushahidi. com Nonprofit tech company that specialises in developing free and open-source software for information collection, visualisation and interactive mapping. 48.
Utopia Docs http://getutopia. com Collaborative web annotation tool for PDF files. 50. Wagn http://wagn. org Wagn is a Wiki Platform. 51.
Wikiprogress http://www. wikiprogress. org/index php/Main page Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information
Yeswiki http://yeswiki. net/wakka. php? wiki=Accueil Yeswiki is made a software application for creating and managing your website, in a collaborative way.
Yeswiki is written Free Software in PHP language under the GPL licence, used for creating and managing an internet or intranet website. 54.
Your Priorities https://www. yrpri. org/home/world Your Priorities is an e-democracy web application designed by the nonprofit Citizens Foundation to help groups of people speak with one voice.
Your Priorities won the European e-democracy Awards in 2011 and numerous Icelandic awards for innovation
and participation. 45 46 4. Starting Out 47 Societal Challenges Societal challenges are associated with problem situations
or issues that arise from tensions in some aspect of social life or the environment that may threaten the safety and sustainability of a social group and, possibly, the wider world.
Global warming, implications of population ageing, the digital divide and security issues across the internet, are examples of problems experienced across nations, to a greater or lesser extent,
The internet-based physical and digital ensemble, including the Internet of things, today can enable us to obtain the required measurements,
to perform semantic fusion of data that can make sense of the underlying causal processes of a problem situation (i e. the models of the problem space),
and to assess the extent and scope of the impacts of a problem as it affects society.
mobile telecommunication and Web 2. 0 technologies, the collective awareness platforms will support wide spread participative engagement, consensual solution building and co-creative innovation.
IENNTGEAREGSITNG Communities of Communities of interest are at the core of CAPS developments. These groups may be geographically bound to one location
and social media boosts this process. Engagement strategies must provide an incentive to self-report achievements and changes in behaviour.
Unsuccessful experiences, for example, of exploring the potential of social media to reach a goal are not rare:
or a political one) using the web as a principal channel. Providing an adequate tool is definitely an important step,
The impact of gamification, competition, collaborative work, public and even tangible feedback are examples of strategies that have been evaluated to promote engagement
for example, can be a powerful motivator, especially for a younger, internet savvy audience. The broad range of computer games and apps that appeal to the users of internet devices are a valuable resource for understanding
what motivates a large segment of the population. Social media channels and blogs are also very powerful tools for engaging communities of interest over a longer period of time,
and will play an important role in the engagement plans of the CAPS projects. 56 BMAARNRIAEGRSE i Pnr Aotbtleemmp Stiintuga ttoio ns As societal challenges emerge
whether the community of interest being addressed is, on average, internet savvy or not. How familiar people are with technologies must be considered in designing engagement strategies and the participatory working dynamics.
Integrating quantitative data with content analysis of self-reports is a possible way to evaluate,
The results of the data and evidence collected in such a way can be used to articulate the relationships between the different kinds of effects. 65 66 6. Conclusion 67 Conclusion The aim of the CAPS projects is to promote positive social change.
a set of methods and tools for analysing information systems, and Hall's (1959) understanding of a societal culture.
The real-time visualisations of digital content provided by DECARBONET (Figure 9) exemplifies how user-generated information in different social media channels can be used by NGOS
This important achievement was made possible by engaging European citizens in a sign-in campaign centralised on the initiative web. 69 Outlook for the Future The CAPS projects introduced in this book are the first projects to be funded under the CAPS programme
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