in the south and east, a railway line and a busy road, in the north, a tram line and another busy road, in the west, a gasworks site.
Workplace innovation concerns not only the private sector but also large parts of the social economy such as charities and foundations as well as the the public sector. Celebrated examples include Google,
including regeneration of brownfield sites and reduction of air pollution. In thematic objective (8) promoting employment and supporting labour mobility,
https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=b9c3pppxk1w. 12 The Solution Revolution: How business, government and social enterprises are teaming up to solve society's toughest problems, William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan (Harvard Business review press, 2013.
or‘Code4share'to‘Wikipedia'is indeed a characteristic of the recent period which goes beyond just inventing new business models.
Workplace innovation concerns not only the private sector but also large parts of the social economy such as charities and foundations as well as the public sector. Celebrated examples include Google,
British Council, January 2014. http://www. britishcouncil. org/sites/britishcouncil. uk2/files/what will social enterprise look like in europe by 2020 0. pdf. P A r T I s o C i a
The 11 key actions of the Social Business Initiative119 can be monitored through the initiative's dedicated website. 120 They will be completed by the end of 2014.
The development and use of a web-based application, the Toolkit, designed to facilitate partner search
In January 2014, a new website on the European Company (Societas Europeae SE) was created. Raising awareness on the SE (and the SCE) statute was one of the initiatives announced by the action plan on company law and corporate governance.
The website is available in English, French and German170. The Your Europe portal will also provide a link to the SE website.
As a result, there are also plans to create a similar website for the SCE. 3. 1. 5. 2. Proposal for a European Foundation The February 2012 proposal for a European Foundation Statute aims to make it easier for public
benefit purpose entities to carry out their activities across the EU. These entities pursue objectives, which benefit the public at large
Moreover, the website features case studies of the most successful social innovations, profiles of leading social innovators,
Over the course of two years, the website has emerged as a valuable tool on the dissemination and visibility of social innovation initiatives in Europe,
Moreover, they exploit peer-behaviour reinforcements and citizen web platforms to target sustainability challenges. Experiments in social innovation are expected to provide collective solutions to pressing needs (including policy needs) through new uses of ICT connectivity by and for smart citizens.
defining metrics in view of a wider uptake of the social innovation initiatives at social level. yy Increasing trust in collectively-generated statistics (WEB-COSI):
Web-COSI Web Communities for Statistics for Social Innovation aims to improve the way people engage with statistics,
Under the mantra‘Statistics for Everyone',Web-COSI will be exploring innovative ways to bring the production, promotion,
Web-COSI is designed to improve people's engagement with statistics and aims to:**increase trust in collectively generated statistics*encourage the use of both official
while a live broadcast of the event can be viewed on the website. P A r T I I M A i N d E V E L O P m E N t S i N e U P O L
The conference brought together memorial sites/museums and teachers, Holocaust education and Human rights Education practitioners, and others.
citizens, and civil society actors in the innovation process by taking advantage of the network effect caused by the spread of the Internet and the Web throughout society.
In particular grassroots communities of civic innovators, web entrepreneurs, hackers, geeks, SMES, open source and DIY makers,
Your comments, thoughts and stories are welcome at the project website: www. socialinnovator. info Dr Michael Harris, NESTA Published March 2010 CONTENTS 1 CONTENTS Introduction 2 Section 1 The process of social innovation
and that its structures of accountability, governance and ownership resonate with its social mission. 1 We have launched also an accompanying website, www. socialinnovator. info,
and patterns. 1 18 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION These sites show how to run competitions for‘mash up'ideas from citizens using government data, such as Sunlight Labs and Show Us a Better Way
In the UK, the website Report Empty Homes, sponsored by the Empty Homes Agency, allows citizens to report empty properties around the UK. 10) Mapping systems such as participative mapping and sectoral analysis,
User feedback on service quality, including web-based models such as Patient Opinion and I Want Great care that hold service providers to account,
from surveys and websites to user representation on management boards and committees. 33) Campaigns which channel dissatisfaction and discontent into a search for innovations.
40) Web-based tools for co-design, such as the Australian site for people with disabilities and their carers, web2care.
PROPOSALS AND IDEAS 31 2 32 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION 41) Creative thinking methods such as Edward De Bono's‘Six Thinking Hats
The Global Ideas Bank has helped spawn a number of similar websites, including the Norwegian Ideas Bank
'edited by the site's creator David Owen). Another initiative is My Health Innovation, a website
These websites include a vast range of ideas everything from the brilliant to the downright absurd.
Youtube can be used as a virtual video booth. 58) Suggestion boxes within organizations are the most basic method for soliciting innovations.
Image courtesy of the Hope Institute. 2 website, based on the principles as laid out in President Obama's Memorandum on collaborative, participatory and transparent government.
The website enables citizens to take part in a discussion about the best way to effect the President's Memorandum in three stages‘brainstorm,
One example in the UK is the Prime minister's e-Petitions website which has had nearly 10 million petitioners.
and 2 engage as these selves in cyberspace. 73) Webinars are a fairly simple device for organising seminars over the web.
Examples include the webinars organised by the Cities of Migration network which have linked NGOS, foundations and academics involved in social action related to diversity around the world. 74) Dialogue Café uses state of the art video conferencing (Telepresence) to link up citizens from all around the world.
Examples include tracking the performance of different plug-in hybrid cars through Google, and C40 city governments.
An example of open-testing, Google's initiative hopes to educate consumers body about the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of technology that is also environmentally friendly.
This is one of Google's test cars. This fleet of hybrid plug-in vehicles is monitoring greenhouse gas emissions.
Image courtesy of Google, Inc 3 54 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Finance for emerging ideas A wide range of financial tools can be used at these early stages:
through models that create value for customers to models similar to those around the web that share knowledge and intellectual property. 106) Business strategies.
or the control of a key input such as a critical site or personnel (as in sport.
Particularly instructive for social ventures are the lessons from the business models adopted by web companies which
Its organisational structures are the site of contending pressures of goals and interests. The organisation may have a social goal of benefitting others,
We anticipate considerable web-based innovation in this field, with websites providing guidance on organisational forms, and governance.
an ultra simple web-based tool for creating new organisations, changing constitutions, and engaging members and stakeholders. 124) Consumer shareholding can be used to involve consumers more directly in the work of a venture,
or download systems (such as web designs and technologies) that are becoming freely available. One model is developed the consortia by the small Italian firms in the‘Third Italy'.
it requires a system of user relationships and feedback as part of its operational spine. 137) Web presence.
All social ventures now have to have a website. But their full potential has begun only to be explored.
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
which can act as feeders to the venture's website. Above all, a venture needs to devote resources to the constant updating
and active hosting of their sites. A good example is the site of the cooperative football team Ebbsfleet United (My Football Club
which has a team of six working on their website to involve the members, a model that could be adopted by many consumer co-ops among others. 138) Marketing and branding.
Social ventures, particularly those that are funded tax or grant-aided, have been suspicious of branding. Governments find themselves criticised for spending money on branding.
Image courtesy of Rolf Disch, Solararchitecture. 4 SUSTAINING 77 venture that initiated the zero carbon development at Bedzed) recently placed its most valuable technical information on the web for open access
Instead of raising funds through banks and other intermediary institutions, the web opens up the possibility of making new types of connections and raising finance from potential consumers.
for example via a website such as netsquared. org. People can take part as collaborators, co-producers, consumers, activists,
It works with councils in developing good practice through a network of online communities, web related resources and peer review.
thus ensuring knowledge transfer and diffusion (see also method 292). 197) Diffusion through the web. Viral marketing techniques can be used to tap into existing social networks and spread social ideas.
Complex, multidimensional needs are a key site for potential collaboration. Communities of Practice are one important type of collaboration (see method 304). 202) Small units in large systems.
web and technical support, policy work, media and PR, and internal/external evaluations. While the franchisees are responsible for fundraising,
and travel cost expenses that people incur to visit a site as a proxy for their valuation of that site.
Because travel and time costs increase with distance it's possible to construct a‘marginal willingness to pay'curve for a particular site. 5 SCALING
The web has brought also systemic innovation to retailing and news, and has the potential (albeit not yet realised) to achieve fundamental change in healthcare and education.
This involves a wide range of issues from the use of the web to the nature of technology and the design of distributed systems which provide spaces for people to contribute to projects directly,
These include the now familiar reputational devices being used on networks like ebay, and more formal legal devices (like public databases).
such as feedback sites on public services or M-PESA's platform for phone-based banking. 246) Rewiring economies, connecting sectors like the utilities and automotive industries for the development of plug-in hybrid cars,
It was created in 2000 on the site of the old Toronto General Hospital. Image courtesy of Mars Discovery District. 134 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Other examples include the Fuping Development Institute (FDI) in China and Kaiser permanente's Garfield Innovation
and developers with those involved in meeting social needs to design web-based solutions to particular social challenges.
and build a functioning website. 136 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Innovation networks Networks can serve as alternatives to formal organisational structures within the social economy‘they can leverage the assets that already exist in a system by connecting them to others'.
The team developed a website called Mypolice a tool for members of the public to give feedback
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,
or collaborative projects such as Wikipedia. It is easy to see the generative potential of platforms:
This includes websites which provide usergenerated information such as ehow and Netmums. Netmums provides information on a variety of local resources including child-friendly cafés, reliable childminders,
It has over half a million members who use the site on a regular basis uploading and contributing information. 308) Platforms for connecting.
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.
One example of this is Landshare which connects people who want to grow fruit and vegetables with those who have the land on
Lego have created a web platform Designbyme 3. 0 which enables users (mainly children) to design their own Lego sets.
and open-source software such as the Linux operating system, the Mozilla Firefox browser, and the Apache web server.
These rely on a large and highly distributed community of programmers to develop, maintain, and improve the software.
The result is not necessarily a lack of innovation in government. 1 Government at every level has been the site of almost constant change particularly in the last 30 years.
An interesting example is the Australian website, Budget Allocator, which offers citizens the chance to shape municipal budgets. 330) Sequencing in funding.
which then benefits from the increased rental value of sites after the public investment has been undertaken.
and has now been implemented in every ward in 35 KP hospitals. 393) Tithes of working time to generate collaborative public innovation an extension of the Google model where engineers are encouraged to spend 20 per cent of their time developing their own projects.
'No. 7, Winter 2008.1 SUPPORT IN THE GRANT ECONOMY 167 2 SUPPORT IN THE GRANT ECONOMY Civil society and the grant economy are the most common sites of social innovation in campaigns
In this field, the web offers new ways to cut costs and widen connections. Websites like Kiva,
which connect donors with social entrepreneurs, have already been 2 172 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION making these links.
human resources and IT consulting services. 417) Philanthropic‘ebays'.'Philanthropic platforms such as Volunteermatch which help people find volunteering opportunities in their local area. 418) Donor platforms, such as Globalgiving, Altruistiq Exchange, Network For good, Firstgiving and Guidestar.
Internet donor sites dramatically reduce the cost of fundraising (estimated at between 15 per cent and 33 per cent of funds raised in the US.
We can expect similar websites to develop features like donor forums, star ratings, Good Giving Guides and Amazon type links (those who have given to x have given also to y
Another example is Worldchanging, a series of books and a website which includes tens of thousands of stories about new tools,
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,
'The website Your Ethical Money provides advice on how to direct personal investment into green,
One example is Kiva, the world's first microlending website which enables individuals to lend small sums of money to entrepreneurs on low incomes. 462) Charitable loans such as those provided by Charity Bank, the only bank in the UK
which provides shared office space for more than 115 charities and social enterprises in sites in central London (see also method 487). 467) R&d mentored funding prior to start-up lending, such as MONDRAGON
seeking a blend of social and financial returns (see also method 361). 3 476)‘ ebays'for social investment, for example, Clearlyso,
a web-based market for people to exchange time and loans of products. The model is implemented now in east London. 489) Markets for‘bads',such as emissions or waste-disposal trading schemes,
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.
whose aim is to keep discarded items out of landfill sites by gifting them. It now has over five million members in 85 countries. 497) Co-production platforms, such as Ohmynews in South korea
which gives kite marks to organisations that produce information and moderate websites and forums. Propertising not privatising In the social economy, rather than restricting access to knowledge and information, there is value in diffusing and sharing ideas and information as widely as possible.
Ohmynews is a ground-breaking mediabased social innovation that uses web technology to give voice to citizen journalists.
meals and engage citizens in management. 516) Neighbourhood websites and other media can become hubs for exchanges
Examples include hyper-local website Boscalicious Year 1 pupils from Collaton St mary Primary school dig up organic potatoes
Constructed households as sites of innovation The longstanding practice of institutionalising those with special needs
Web based platforms for organising grass roots campaigns. In the last year alone, Facebook has been used to mobilise protesters against knife crime, the military Junta in Burma, and 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.
207 d. o. b. Foundation 80 Dolan, Paul 104 Dr Foster 89 ebay 114 Echoing Green 176 ehow 138 Elderpower
163 Good Deed Foundation 80 Good Food Guide 190 Google 53; 165 Gore, Al 26;
104 Moveon 41 Mozilla Firefox 139 M-Pesa 115; 183; 184; 202 Mutualism 65 New Mutualism 65 Informal Mutualism 206-207 My Football Club 75;
Philanthropic ebays 172 Plane Stupid 27; 28 Planning for Real 43 Platforms 40; 95; 117;
, 201, Vouchers 56,87, 157, Walking 25 Waterfire, Rhode island 17 Web, The 21,38, 45,79, 97,108, 171 Web2care 31 Wellink 205 Welsh Water
154 White house Office of Social Innovation 132 Wikipedia 138 Wikiprogress 120 Wiser Earth 178 Wordpress 138-139 Workplace as Museum 75 Work
, 133,137, 147,160, 176-177,220, 221 Young, Michael 39,190 Your Ethical Money 186 Youtube 39,75 Yumshare 198 Yunus, Muhammad 34,210 Zero Carbon
Camp, The Design Council, The Hope Institute, Plane Stupid, Americaspeaks, Dialogue Café, Helsinki Design Lab, Google Inc, Un Techo para Chile, Riversimple
Wikipedia and the Open university; holistic health care, and hospices; microcredit and consumer cooperatives; the fair trade movement;
The web-based company Innocentive, for example, offers cash rewards for innovators who have workable solutions to problems they solve,
what became Wikipedia was a failure in its first outing. In business, people talk of the chasm that innovations have to cross as they pass from being promising pilot ideas to becoming mainstream products or services.
because the economics of web-based pilots may make it as inexpensive to launch on a national or continental scale.
Perennial Library, 1970). 9. See Global Ideas Bank,<http://www. globalideasbank. org/site/home/>./>The top 500 ideas that will change the world are at http://www. globalideasbank. org/site/store/detail. php?
articleid=178. For a list of similar organizations, see Stuart C. Dodd Institute for Social Innovation,
/MIT Community Innovation Lab<http://web. mit. edu/cilab/>;/>ETSU Innovation Lab http://www. etsu. edu/innovationlab/.
and the DSI dynamic mapping shown on the www. digitalsocial. eu website, which engages, builds and maps the DSI community.
taking advantage of the network effect caused by the spread of the Internet and the Web throughout society.
A description of the latest development of the DSI open data mapping website an overview of the engagement strategies to involve the DSI community, outreach and communitcation activities.
and policies addressed to cover such gaps. 8 2. Dynamic crowdmapping of the DSI community We have redesigned the crowdmapping website
In time, the site will be an open database of relational links between DSI organisations and projects,
We then created a new visual layout for the 36 DSI case studies that are showcased in on the website and also directly on the DSI map.
as we don't have the resources to do get the developer to do a translated version of the survey on the site,
We will then create a profile on the site for The french or Spanish organisation using the survey data.
New funding and Research to support grassroots innovation (also published on Nesta and D-CENT website.
published on Nesta website) 6. 000+readers to date (published in the Guardian) 8. 000+readers to date The 1st interim study report has been received well
To date the interim study report has had more than 10,000 readers on web/Isuu (combined figures from www. waag. org
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
The DSI mapping website and the overall research was presented during a dynamic debate about policy
We demonstrated how the website worked and how organisations could be added, and went over some of the high points of the final report regarding the potential of digital social innovation in Europe.
The Chest project website (www. chest-project. eu/)has a description of the DSI project along with the project logo and a link to www. digitalsocial. eu,
Research project and website which list 100 short case studies of social innovations using digital technologies.
and the redesign of the website has been successful in helping us map 500 organisations and establish the research project and the term Digital Social Innovation within the community.
Further support, investment advice and funding for SMES and young companies is also available through the Commission's Startup Europe programme for web and tech entrepreneurs.
Web entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs in the field of active and healthy ageing, digital champions, innovation camps and so on.
described by Wikipedia as the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content.
combine or turn into web-based or mobile applications that citizens may find useful. There are other local governments around the world that are successfully developing open data portals.
and Metropolitan Rennes in France have also set up open data websites at the regional level that can be considered good practices.
Some cities participate cooperatively in initiatives led by the private sector through web-based platforms. Others are taking the initiative to license tools
The best example of them is Github44 a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, an open source version control.
Often, this authority is a natural consequence of the leader being the founder of the project, such as Linus Torvalds for Linux or Jimmy wales for Wikipedia.
The case of Wikipedia, and its internal struggle between deletionists and inclusionists, has been studied widely and analysed as an example of an open-sourced peer project characterised by having unclear governance rules and an uncoordinated structure,
Wikipedia defines it as financial capital provided to early-stage high-potential, growth start-up companies.
Another type of living lab is the fab lab. According to Wikipedia a fab lab (short for fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication.
Of particular interest are also those sites devoted to developers'interaction that are embedded in open data portals.
it describes a web-based business model that harnesses the creative solutions of a distributed network of individuals through what amounts to an open call for proposals.
the United states Geological Survey's Earthquake Program, a US multi-agency programmme, has a crowdsourcing site,
Steven Clift is one of them89 He keeps a website where he posts articles and news Chris Quegley is another one.
and the web 2. 0 social media can play an important role in this direction, and enable the application of crowdsourcing ideas in the public sector. However,
According to Wikipedia, seed funding is a form of securities offering in which an investor purchases part of a business.
These same sites can also be an interesting tool in order to share examples of using/reusing open data.
Crowdsourcing sites fall into one of two categories in terms of their compensation: pay-on-task or contest/prize.
The pay-on-task sites offer a nominal level of compensation for a completed task.
Contest/prize sites pay significantly more money or offer job contracts, product prototypes and royalties.
Also, Wikipedia refers to specific initiatives/activities such as town hall meetings, opinion polls, participatory budgeting, referenda, protests or voting.
Your Priorities is a web app that allows people to submit new ideas, debate and discuss ideas and vote up or down based on their priorities.
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.
the R&d funding at CERN led to the invention of the Web) Encourage people to think about:
an increasing concentration of power in the hands of a few data aggregators (e g. over the top players), none of which is located in Europe (Google controlling nearly 82%of the global search market and 98%of the mobile search market,
Furthermore, this visualization of the DSI network, embedded in our website, is interactive and aims at engaging the larger DSI community itself.
We still have concerns that the data-set is biased heavily towards English speakers due the lack of translation of the website into languages outside English We still believe that many more actors in countries such as Italy, France,
Howver, the website was designed not using standard internationalisation techniques and adding them is outside of the budget allocated for this project.
We would argue that future work after the end of the DSI project should allow the website
or that all smaller communities were composed simply on a single lone organisation being linked to another very heavily linked super-connector organisation (as would be the case in a graph of links to and from Wikipedia, for example.
In addition to the research we will work with the European commission on developing a sustainability plan for the DSI website
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