Synopsis: Ict: Communication systems: Telecommunication: Computer networks: Internet: Social network:


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Guide to social_innovation_2013.pdf

and deploy social networks (not just virtual ones) 51. Finland has used the ERDF to co-finance a living lab focused on health and welfare services.


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION social_innovation_decade_of_changes.pdf

The new participation and sharing ethos of the social networks generation, as well as the renewed necessity for Europe to develop its innovation capabilities and the mounting interest in quality of life,

The rise of the collaborative economy from Airbnb (the social networking service for bed and breakfast) to car sharing

How is it to leverage the power of the large number of social networks of active citizens

this includes the need for open data distributed repositories, distributed cloud, distributed search and distributed social networking.

an online laboratory combining the informal character of social networks with the methodological rigour of foresights.

Besides the standard tools available in most social networks (e g. blogs, polls, content subscription, update notification, messaging, creation of groups), Futurium's participatory tools offer a number of special features

using all the modern means of social networks and internet and also interactivity which is at the very heart of our preparation of this Strasbourg Event'(Strasbourg,

yy demonstrating the innovative combination of network solutions (social networks, sensor networks, knowledge co-creation networks;

Against the update of structural data, the project will test these hypotheses on the qualitative impacts of the Third Sector in terms of capital building (e g. social networks,

E-participation and use of social networks should be linked to citizens'deliberations to broaden the scope of those who can become involved,


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Study on social innovation in Digital Agenda GÇô SMART 2012_0.pdf

social networks of the engaged communities are reinforced. This study will strengthen and identify (1) research and innovation activities,(2) policy and regulatory activities and (3) processes of implementation in the following ways:


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION The-Open-Book-of-Social-Innovationg.pdf

and social networking tools. The other comes from culture and values: the growing emphasis on the human dimension;

It has therefore become crucial for ventures to have access to the tools wikis, chat rooms, forums, comment boxes, and blogs.

ways of connecting each web site to others (through links and RSS feeds) as well as establishing a presence on other social networking sites like Youtube and Facebook

Viral marketing techniques can be used to tap into existing social networks and spread social ideas. Swarmtribes, an ongoing NESTA project, applies the principles of viral marketing to create a new kind of community engagement platform.

Think, for example, of micro-blogging service Twitter, personal publishing platform Wordpress, citizen reporting papers such as Ohmynews, social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut,

This includes social networking websites Facebook Orkut, and Bebo, as well as websites which aim to connect people together in real life for particular causes.

The extent to which social networks and a gift economy operate in the sphere of consumption has long been remarked on by anthropologists for example (from Christmas presents to the purchase of rounds of beer.

of alternative models for running schools in India. 455) Social uses of commercial technology such as IBM's use of translation software on its Meedan website of Arabic blogs,

or web-based social networking around specific issues (there are reportedly 18 million cancer related websites, the great majority generated by those affected by the disease.

In the last year alone, Facebook has been used to mobilise protesters against knife crime, the military Junta in Burma, and FARC.

Oscar Morales, founder of the Facebook group One million Voices against FARC (which now has over 400,000 members) used the social networking site to organise a massive protest against the rebel forces in February 2008.

Over a million people marched through the streets of Bogotá 4 208 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION carrying banners with the slogan‘no more kidnappings, no more deaths, no more FARC'.

117 Expert Patients Programme 116 Extremes 36 Fabian society 48 Facebook 75; 138; 207 Fair Trade 119;

Towns 109,120, 191,207, 219 Transmitters 95,107 Tribunis Plebis 43,152 Triggers and Inspirations 15 Triodos Bank 186,188 Turning point 182 Twitter 138 Ukeles


Digital Social Innovation_ second interim study report.pdf

we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations and argue that the causal success of DSI located in the social structure.

By studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso-level patterns that show the dynamics in which DSI organisations and their initiatives create scalable results and

and understand the DSI community through events, workshops, social media blogs and articles. Highlights of activities include 640 organisations with 695 projects mapped on www. digitalsocial. eu;

590+followers of the@Digi si twitter account; 15+events and workshop on DSI including workhops at the international Fablab Conference in Barcelona

and Participation Practitioners Forum in Warsaw and more than 25 blogs and articles written on DSI including articles in The Guardian (UK) and Empodera (annual Spanish publication on ICT and social innovation).

such as (including the need for open data distributed repositories, distributed cloud, distributed search, and distributed social networking);

continue our social network analysis to better understand the needs and opportunities to nourish and scale DSI in Europe.

knowledge co-creation platforms, wireless sensor networks, decentralised social networking, and open hardware, can potentially serve collective action and awareness. 7 However,

One way of doing that has been through guest blogs and articles-where we have placed a DSI related blog on another network's or organisation's blog:

Crowdmapping digital social innovation activities in Europe mapping the DSI community. Empodera network. They are currently translating a editing the book with an aim to publish in July 2014.

In addition to the guest blogs we have done a large number of blogs, communicating the project on the Nesta blog and digitalsocial. eu blog.

A sample of these include 1. 000+readers to date Lists have proved the best way of getting a lot of attention around the project

and www. digitalsocial. eu sites) 16 Social media+other Media outreach Twitter@Digi si. The twitter account has proven an effective channel for both engaging new organisations

As the number of followers grow the effect of this will increase accordingly. and Waag (8. 000+followers) twitter accounts.

Social media In addition to continuing our ongoing work on engaging DSI organisations via twitter we will more actively tap in to

and promote www. digitalsocial. eu in relevant Linkedin and Facebook groups working on digital social innovation. pcoming events Workshop on barriers to scale for digital social innovation

and how these can be overcome with representatives from the international network of living labs. Half day event in London,

firms Tech blogs and magazines Decentralized Cluster governance High entry barriers (technological skills) Lack of interconnection between developers Lack of visibility Innovation labs Innovation

Entrepreneurs and developers also use social networks to get in touch with one another. Some of the most popular social platforms include Entrepreneur Connect48 and Startup Nation49.

They read blogs and tech magazines as well. Some of them belong to entrepreneurs themselves like Steve Blank's50,

or join social networks to interact with other individuals or they might gather around other enablers.

Despite gathering around certain events and activities or participating in social networks, they usually are disconnected and, at any rate,

Data. gov. uk77 the open data portal of the United kingdom, has an Interact section, with blogs and forums.

One of them is Goteo85), a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructure, microtasks,

Participation in such projects is facilitated usually by specific participation platforms, wikis, social media, and blogs. Legislation is another significant tool that is used by governments.

which stakeholders and policy makers should form a bottom-up social network to co-design policies. The new approach to policy making being experimented with by digital futures supported by the Futurium online platform126 is characterised by:

and EC funded projects will remove barriers from social innovators who often rely too much on Facebook,

and standardised public digital ID for all citizens Powers of companies such as Google and Facebook have a lot of control over an individual's online identity.

Citizens engagement and feedback Democratic and distributed social network Social network based on open source code to promote the most interesting news decided by the people,

but with a new user interface more similar to actual social networks like Facebook or Twitter. I would call it Yups. com:

distributed search, decentralised social networking, public identity management, and encrypted email service. The internet ecosystem today is highly centralised The current Internet is dominated by a handful of mainly US companies that control all the layers of the tecosystem (app store, cloud, machine learning, devices),

Facebook dominating the Social networking and Identity Ecosystem, whilst Apple, Amazon and Microsoft controlling the mobile market and cloud-based services platforms).

and distributed social networking. It can also include the development of new mobile platforms alternative to Apple

we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations and argue that the causal success of DSI located in the social structure.

By studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and mesolevel patterns that show the dynamics in which DSI organisations and their initiatives create scalable results and

Social networks are defined formally as set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of relations (Wasserman and Faust, 1994).

In the case of the DSI social network collected in this study, the nodes in a graph are communities,

This social network analysis examines the structure and composition of DSI organisations ties in a given network and provide insights into its structural characteristics,

including its social media presence (500+twitter followers). In addition to the research we will work with the European commission on developing a sustainability plan for the DSI website


DigitalBusinessEcosystems-2007.pdf

ICT networks, social networks, and knowledge networks. The networked connections enabled by the Internet and the World wide web grew along the links of the preexisting

to identify ICT adoption and social networking with a process rather than an event. This required the integration of the technological approach with a social science perspective,

http://evenet. sourceforge. net) and has been adopted by SMES in pilot regions. 8 Such networks do resemble the behaviours of social networks where node formation

Access to code allows the growth of social networks able to build and transform their business/economic environment according to their shared description of the world.


Digitally_Mediated_Social_Innovation_for_revised_submission (1).pdf

2013) identify six types of online social networking platforms with the potential to enable social innovation.


dsi-report-complete-EU.pdf

The development of open data infrastructures, knowledge co-creation platforms, wireless sensor networks, decentralized social networking,

Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social networking, such as D-CENT and Diaspora, and the promotion and diffusion of knowledge systems in the Public domain, such as Communia.

The emerging cloud model,(proprietary social networks, big data providers, the Internet of things implementation), are currently following a different model that allows us convenience but at the expense of security, privacy and openness:

social networks of the engaged communities are reinforced. This research will investigate in what conditions the network effect of Internet collective platforms strengthen the social networks of offline communities

and amplify their collective intelligence. It will also address how to develop bottom-up research frameworks

open source and open hardware developments), leveraging social networks (or distributed social networking, sensor networks and the Internet of things,

and the generative survey has the potential to evolve into a dynamic DSI community mapping infrastructure and social networking tool.

Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social networking such as D-CENT and Diaspora, and the promotion and diffusion of knowledge systems in the Public domain, such as Communia.

For instance, distributed social networking projects such as Diaspora, Status. net or easy-to run servers like arkos,

Examples Open Networks innovative combinations of network solutions and infrastructures, e g. sensor networks, free interoperable network services, open Wifi, bottom-up-broadband, distributed social networks

and digital services adopted by DSI activities such as social networking, social media, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, big data, machine learning, 3d printing, online learning,

Ordinary people today use blogs, wikis, social network and hundreds of other collaborative platforms to manage their daily lives,

solve social challenges and business problem, and participate in e-campaigns, crowdfunding, crowd-mapping and crowdsourcing.

and knowledge to a social network of peers living with similar conditions. 40 Open Hardware Open source hardware consists of hardware

, a trend that includes Web 2. 0, social networks, social computing, and that promotes Internet as a fundamental channel for allowing an increasingly active role of users (individuals, groups, communities) as providers of data, content,

we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations, arguing that causation is located in the social structure.

Social networks are defined formally as a set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of relations (Wasserman and Faust, 1994).

By studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso level patterns that show the dynamics in which DSI organisations and their initiatives create particular outcomes.

In the case of the DSI social network that is emerging from the map the nodes in a graph are communities,

Social network analysis will examine the structure and composition of DSI organisation ties in a given network and provide insights into its structural characteristics,

and in fact, private institutions have near-monopolies over social networks and search engine data, giving them nearly exclusive access to the data

these companies are challenged still by new digital actors such as Facebook and Twitter. It is key to distinguish between invention and socialisation as part of the wider process of innovation in a technical system such as the Internet and the Web.

and Crowd mapping, social networking and democratic decision making tools, are technologies that allow for the quick identification (and dismissal) of issues.

in particular information generated by users (e g. through social networks) or captured from sensors (Internet of things). Interoperable, customised,

By linking differing communities and innovators via a social network, the innovators can more easily find meta-analogies between their problems

The way in which the system maps organisations and the linkages between them, has the potential to become an international social network of practice around DSI and associated activity.

Create better visualisation with the current relational data that can be exported (see here an example of the current visualisations) Better internal search system Addition of social network functionalities to the DSI mapping,

and projects Adding Twitter login option and other social plugins Improve organisational profiles (they can add pictures,

Arduino supports@Heart partners through promotion of their brand, products and content on its site and social networks with links to documentation and tutorials.

As‘democracy nerds'the Citizens Foundation team are worried that most of our social lives are being run by one company, Facebook.

Doing so has enabled them to exploit Facebook, finding that it is one of the best ways to attract people to electronic democracy both via sharing and Facebook advertisements.

User interface: There needs to be as little friction as possible for taking part. Therefore, the team have made,

and participate using their Facebook login. The user interface has been simplified in every generation of the software to enable more people to participate more easily.

blog posts, participation in consultations, drafting of policy papers, amendments and statements. COMMUNIA believes if they manage to change the law to recognize

The project makes uses of social networks to organize its activities, to make the knowledge addressing,

social networking tools, which allow effective data and opinion collection, and real-time information spreading processes. In addition, theoretical and modelling tools developed by physicists,

25,000 phones sold in less than 6 months. 50,000 followers on Facebook. Website: http://www. fairphone. com/Organisation Name Fairphone Short description Fairphone is a start-up company producing the world's first ethically sourced smart phone,

Through the online platform (50,000 followers on Facebook) every step in the research and development is communicated. Fairphone has received many research requests

basically a large group of followers on Facebook and twitter. Since this started as a very collaborative project Fairphone has depended on the community for feedback and input.

Github is also a kind of social network, providing collaborators an easy way to discuss issues in a project,

In essence this people-centred approach to programming has meant Github has become a social networking site for programmers.

http://goteo. org/Organisation Name Goteo Short description Goteo. org is an open source social network for crowdfunding as well as distributed collaboration based in Spain.

At its simplest Goteo can be described as a social network that helps facilitate both the collective funding of and distributed collaboration or crowdsourcing of projects.

000 Twitter followers and 3000 Facebook likes). Most importantly more than 100 open projects have been funded fully and supported to date via the platform,

just as social media and networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching,

by using its site as a social network where interested D. I. Y. growers can join forces to form a growing collective,

The app was developed by KEO Digital. 127 The Landshare. net website includes some built-in social networking features such as message inbox, forums,

social networks, crowdsourcing and 3d printing, and the benefit of participating in such open innovation environments for DIY product designers.

and socially share individual pages Twitter streams on the home page and a blog for news items The Pombola code has been

while the Open Government project looks to more‘conventional'digital communication channels such as Twitter, Facebook and emails, there are public life platforms where users can chat

or meet the experts of the City of Vienna, as well as an online forum. In 2012 two participation projects based around ideas of‘collaborative democracy'took place:

It would not be possible without a huge number of open source programmes, tools and resources, such as Twitter Bootstrap and Linux.

Famfamfam icons and flags, Twitter Bootstrap, and Justvector icons are used also. The Scraperwiki allows people to write scrapers in Python

'The network was born in January 2012 out of a Facebook group in Paris, Ouishare now counts 400+members from 20 countries in Europe,

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

Ouishare is an open knowledge network using social networking channels to promote collaborative consumption. Ouishare draws on the input

and organisations to create custom social networks) with a few hundred members, and a number of mailing lists,

Moreover, the P2p Foundation maintains a P2p Lab based in Ioannina (Greece), a blog and a wiki in Greek,

i e. the site of the P2p Foundation, would have a website with directories, an electronic newsletter and blog,

and the P2p blog alone reached about 35,000 unique users in 2012. In addition to this the foundations work on Choke Point was recognised with a‘The next Idea'award (previous recipients include Wikileaks) by the organisation Ars Electronica in 2011.

The main technologis applied directly by P2p foundation include Wiki, blog, the Ning social network platform and standard mailing list. 172 However,

The primary service provided by Patientslikeme is a social network for people living with a long term health condition.

The main technological feature of Patientslikeme is the creation of an online social network that specifically targets people living with a long term health condition.

Social networking and Community Power: Peer-to-peer networks are becoming the cornerstone for a new era of patient-centered health care.

Different online social networks involve different social contracts for participants and different sets of tools. Patientslikeme's tools allow people to manage their health,

Networking infrastructure and high-bandwidth penetration reaching a level allowing Social networks and Consumer-to-consumer marketplaces,

http://blog. safecast. org/Organisation Name Safecast Short description Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source community as well as a global sensor network where Safecast owners can map

The team behind Safecast initially connected on Twitter, and have described in interviews how they managed to connect with people through social networks

whenever they were trying to address a new challenge in the development of Safecast. For example, Dan Sythe, who ran International Medcom-a high quality geiger counter manufacturer,

and people at the Tokyo Hackerspace took part in the initial twitter discussion about building the device.

It was through Twitter that many of the first connections were made between the original founders and developers of Safecast.

Building on this, it is through social media channels such as Twitter that Safecast publish their findings.

It's an issue that people are just beginning to think about now especially in the context of sites like Facebook that attract advertisers with personal data that people opt to share.

including SMS, email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims to democratize access to tools for filtering


dsi-report-complete-lr.pdf

The development of open data infrastructures, knowledge co-creation platforms, wireless sensor networks, decentralized social networking,

Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social networking, such as D-CENT and Diaspora, and the promotion and diffusion of knowledge systems in the Public domain, such as Communia.

The emerging cloud model,(proprietary social networks, big data providers, the Internet of things implementation), are currently following a different model that allows us convenience but at the expense of security, privacy and openness:

social networks of the engaged communities are reinforced. This research will investigate in what conditions the network effect of Internet collective platforms strengthen the social networks of offline communities

and amplify their collective intelligence. It will also address how to develop bottom-up research frameworks

open source and open hardware developments), leveraging social networks (or distributed social networking, sensor networks and the Internet of things,

and the generative survey has the potential to evolve into a dynamic DSI community mapping infrastructure and social networking tool.

Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social networking such as D-CENT and Diaspora, and the promotion and diffusion of knowledge systems in the Public domain, such as Communia.

For instance, distributed social networking projects such as Diaspora, Status. net or easy-to run servers like arkos,

Examples Open Networks innovative combinations of network solutions and infrastructures, e g. sensor networks, free interoperable network services, open Wifi, bottom-up-broadband, distributed social networks

and digital services adopted by DSI activities such as social networking, social media, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, big data, machine learning, 3d printing, online learning,

Ordinary people today use blogs, wikis, social network and hundreds of other collaborative platforms to manage their daily lives,

solve social challenges and business problem, and participate in e-campaigns, crowdfunding, crowd-mapping and crowdsourcing.

and knowledge to a social network of peers living with similar conditions. 40 Open Hardware Open source hardware consists of hardware

, a trend that includes Web 2. 0, social networks, social computing, and that promotes Internet as a fundamental channel for allowing an increasingly active role of users (individuals, groups, communities) as providers of data, content,

we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations, arguing that causation is located in the social structure.

Social networks are defined formally as a set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of relations (Wasserman and Faust, 1994).

By studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso level patterns that show the dynamics in which DSI organisations and their initiatives create particular outcomes.

In the case of the DSI social network that is emerging from the map the nodes in a graph are communities,

Social network analysis will examine the structure and composition of DSI organisation ties in a given network and provide insights into its structural characteristics,

and in fact, private institutions have near-monopolies over social networks and search engine data, giving them nearly exclusive access to the data

these companies are challenged still by new digital actors such as Facebook and Twitter. It is key to distinguish between invention and socialisation as part of the wider process of innovation in a technical system such as the Internet and the Web.

and Crowd mapping, social networking and democratic decision making tools, are technologies that allow for the quick identification (and dismissal) of issues.

in particular information generated by users (e g. through social networks) or captured from sensors (Internet of things). Interoperable, customised,

By linking differing communities and innovators via a social network, the innovators can more easily find meta-analogies between their problems

The way in which the system maps organisations and the linkages between them, has the potential to become an international social network of practice around DSI and associated activity.

Create better visualisation with the current relational data that can be exported (see here an example of the current visualisations) Better internal search system Addition of social network functionalities to the DSI mapping,

and projects Adding Twitter login option and other social plugins Improve organisational profiles (they can add pictures,

Arduino supports@Heart partners through promotion of their brand, products and content on its site and social networks with links to documentation and tutorials.

As‘democracy nerds'the Citizens Foundation team are worried that most of our social lives are being run by one company, Facebook.

Doing so has enabled them to exploit Facebook, finding that it is one of the best ways to attract people to electronic democracy both via sharing and Facebook advertisements.

User interface: There needs to be as little friction as possible for taking part. Therefore, the team have made,

and participate using their Facebook login. The user interface has been simplified in every generation of the software to enable more people to participate more easily.

blog posts, participation in consultations, drafting of policy papers, amendments and statements. COMMUNIA believes if they manage to change the law to recognize

The project makes uses of social networks to organize its activities, to make the knowledge addressing,

social networking tools, which allow effective data and opinion collection, and real-time information spreading processes. In addition, theoretical and modelling tools developed by physicists,

25,000 phones sold in less than 6 months. 50,000 followers on Facebook. Website: http://www. fairphone. com/Organisation Name Fairphone Short description Fairphone is a start-up company producing the world's first ethically sourced smart phone,

Through the online platform (50,000 followers on Facebook) every step in the research and development is communicated. Fairphone has received many research requests

basically a large group of followers on Facebook and twitter. Since this started as a very collaborative project Fairphone has depended on the community for feedback and input.

Github is also a kind of social network, providing collaborators an easy way to discuss issues in a project,

In essence this people-centred approach to programming has meant Github has become a social networking site for programmers.

http://goteo. org/Organisation Name Goteo Short description Goteo. org is an open source social network for crowdfunding as well as distributed collaboration based in Spain.

At its simplest Goteo can be described as a social network that helps facilitate both the collective funding of and distributed collaboration or crowdsourcing of projects.

000 Twitter followers and 3000 Facebook likes). Most importantly more than 100 open projects have been funded fully and supported to date via the platform,

just as social media and networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching,

by using its site as a social network where interested D. I. Y. growers can join forces to form a growing collective,

The app was developed by KEO Digital. 127 The Landshare. net website includes some built-in social networking features such as message inbox, forums,

social networks, crowdsourcing and 3d printing, and the benefit of participating in such open innovation environments for DIY product designers.

and socially share individual pages Twitter streams on the home page and a blog for news items The Pombola code has been

while the Open Government project looks to more‘conventional'digital communication channels such as Twitter, Facebook and emails, there are public life platforms where users can chat

or meet the experts of the City of Vienna, as well as an online forum. In 2012 two participation projects based around ideas of‘collaborative democracy'took place:

It would not be possible without a huge number of open source programmes, tools and resources, such as Twitter Bootstrap and Linux.

Famfamfam icons and flags, Twitter Bootstrap, and Justvector icons are used also. The Scraperwiki allows people to write scrapers in Python

'The network was born in January 2012 out of a Facebook group in Paris, Ouishare now counts 400+members from 20 countries in Europe,

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

Ouishare is an open knowledge network using social networking channels to promote collaborative consumption. Ouishare draws on the input

and organisations to create custom social networks) with a few hundred members, and a number of mailing lists,

Moreover, the P2p Foundation maintains a P2p Lab based in Ioannina (Greece), a blog and a wiki in Greek,

i e. the site of the P2p Foundation, would have a website with directories, an electronic newsletter and blog,

and the P2p blog alone reached about 35,000 unique users in 2012. In addition to this the foundations work on Choke Point was recognised with a‘The next Idea'award (previous recipients include Wikileaks) by the organisation Ars Electronica in 2011.

The main technologis applied directly by P2p foundation include Wiki, blog, the Ning social network platform and standard mailing list. 172 However,

The primary service provided by Patientslikeme is a social network for people living with a long term health condition.

The main technological feature of Patientslikeme is the creation of an online social network that specifically targets people living with a long term health condition.

Social networking and Community Power: Peer-to-peer networks are becoming the cornerstone for a new era of patient-centered health care.

Different online social networks involve different social contracts for participants and different sets of tools. Patientslikeme's tools allow people to manage their health,

Networking infrastructure and high-bandwidth penetration reaching a level allowing Social networks and Consumer-to-consumer marketplaces,

http://blog. safecast. org/Organisation Name Safecast Short description Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source community as well as a global sensor network where Safecast owners can map

The team behind Safecast initially connected on Twitter, and have described in interviews how they managed to connect with people through social networks

whenever they were trying to address a new challenge in the development of Safecast. For example, Dan Sythe, who ran International Medcom-a high quality geiger counter manufacturer,

and people at the Tokyo Hackerspace took part in the initial twitter discussion about building the device.

It was through Twitter that many of the first connections were made between the original founders and developers of Safecast.

Building on this, it is through social media channels such as Twitter that Safecast publish their findings.

It's an issue that people are just beginning to think about now especially in the context of sites like Facebook that attract advertisers with personal data that people opt to share.

including SMS, email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims to democratize access to tools for filtering


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