participatory web platforms such as Wikigender and Wikiprogress developed by the OECD that facilitate the linking of National statistics to actual individual living conditions;
In particular grassroots communities of civic innovators, web entrepreneurs, hackers, geeks, SMES, open source and DIY makers,
and promoting the generative web-enabled survey). Key activities were conducted also as part of WP4, such as the launch of the project during the Open Knowledge Conference (OKCON) in Geneva 16th-18th september, presentations during the Smart City Fair in Barcelona on November 20th,
A primary example of Digital Social Innovation is the Web itself. As it was based on open digital technologies that could be harnessed by any actor
the Web was able to reach a critical mass of connectivity and exploit the network effect described by the Metcalfe's Law,
The Internet and the Web are the technical underpinnings that represent a densely intertwined techno-social fabric of our societies,
because the Web was built on a set of royalty-free open standards decided through an inclusive and transparent process that,
Open standards have fostered the innovation by allowing the Web to be implemented by anyone over different underlying systems
The Web is today increasingly more enmeshed with our daily lives, forming a universally distributed intelligence constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time,
participatory web platforms such as Wikigender and Wikiprogress developed by the OECD facilitate the linking of National statistics to actual individual living conditions;
Activity type Number listed Delivering a web service 73 Research project 49 Education and training 31 Network 29 Event 27 Incubators and Accelerators 26 Advisory or expert body 15 Advocating
In the case of Commons4eu partners got together to explore the development of collaborative web projects and bottom-up broadband technologies.
and advocating for Web standards, the P2p foundation that works on promoting peer to peer practices, and the Iot Council promoting an open Internet of things vision are good examples of this.
It then invited programmers and developers to make apps and web services based on the data,
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,
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.
The Internet and Web have defined intrinsic architectures by their open standards that offer themselves as a series of constraints such that‘the choice of possibilities in which invention consists is made in a particular space and particular time according to the play of these constants,
Many of the inventions that now form the basis of the Web 2. 0 economy
Below we indicate the elements that will be possible within the future stage two implementation. 51 Digital Social Innovation web platform www. digitalsocial. eu Crowdmapping DSI organizations
According to Matt Holland Avaaz's Online Director, like other high-capacity web services Avaaz's hosting platform is complex
Avaaz Community Petitions is a new web platform that gives people around the world the power to start
It is a crowd-sourced part of Avaaz, the largest-ever global web movement bringing people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere.
https://www. yrpri. org/Organisation Name Citizens Foundation (including the Your Priorities platform) Short description Your Priorities is based a web platform developed by the Icelandic Citizens Foundation.
Importantly, neither the Your Priorities nor the Better Reykjavik websites were Citizen Foundation team's first attempt at creating an‘electronic democratic'web platform.
Besti flokkurinn) early adoption of the Citizen Foundation Web tools which they used as a guide for their policy focus.
They develop collaborative web projects following the methodology of Code for America‘based on principles rather than on sectors and by opening existing code in the participating cities and leveraging the European EPSI (European Public sector Information) platform.'
Projects should be based around web/mobile applications. Applications should enable cities to connect with their constituencies in ways that reduce administrative cost
is evidenced by the host of custom-tailored web applications that have emerged to address specific,‘local'needs.
to the web applications developed by fellows for Code for Europe these smaller projects tend to be reflective of the local needs of the partner city or of the fellow's own technological preferences.
This flexible approach to technology is reflected in the wide range of technologies employed by the different fellows who will work with their own preferred web platform (using open source languages like 83 Python
and Ruby on Rails) to build their open web applications. On a larger scale, this might be indicative of how Commons 4 EU looks beyond more traditional‘big tech solutions'to offer a simpler, much looser set of solutions;
and hackerspaces, Operating a web service Key facts: Members active in Europe, America, Asia, Australia, and Africa Website:
Research project, network, operating web service providing education & training Key facts: 3-year project EU funded with € 2. 1m Website:
and information presentation to users by means of mobile and web-based devices such as smartphones, computers and sensors.
At the same time, web-interfaces allow users to easily upload their sensor readings, and equally easily tag these with subjective information.
It is a web platform for gaming and social computation. It helps researchers to devise web games/experiments,
and offers a platform for others to join in, meaning the public can both enjoy
and contribute to the scientific research. 101 The web platform is built to engage social computation, letting the different organisers of projects collaborate
The data storage system and the gaming platform are the two main components of the Everyaware web-based infrastructure,
Sensorbox, Airprobe, a dedicated Web server and Web application, together form a system that measures concentrations of pollutants in the air and localises them through a GPS.
Operating a web service Key facts: The platform has 4 million users worldwide Website: https://github. com/Organisation Name Github Short description Github, a San francisco-based company, was started in 2008 as a way for open source software writers in various locations to rapidly create new
To make it easy for developers to collaborate Git has developed a number of features such as a Web-based graphical interface, wikis and basic task management tools for every project.
Operating a web service Key facts: 14.000 registered users, launched 100 successful projects and sourced more than 700 nonfinancial contributions Website:
which allows people to follow the wrap as it is used on future presents with web geolocation,
Operating a web service Key facts: Landshare has got 55,000 members worldwide Website: http://Landshare. net Organisation Name Landshare Short description At its simplest, Landshare can be described as an open platform that allows people to share land.
Operating a web service Key facts: Used by the pirate party in Germany to source policy from members Website:
Operating a web service Key facts: The Whatdotheyknow app has helped over 130,000 Freedom of Information requests.
'Boundaries data is essential for anyone creating geographic web and mobile services that rely on locating a particular point within the correct country, district, county, city or region.
while developing‘a reputation as a software company that can solve problems that more traditional web companies can't.'mysociety Ltd.,
Operating a web service Key facts: has released 160 datasets which has lead to the development of more than 109 apps Website:
collaboration and participation has seen a whole host off web and phone apps emerge to enhance how citizens engage with the city.
Operating a web service Key facts: Five citizen driven law proposal have reached support from 50.000 people
Importantly, the Open Ministry goes further than the Ministry of Justice web platform by providing citizens with the tools
The Open Ministry website was developed using a YUI API a free, open source Javascript and CSS library for building interactive web applications.
Operating a web service Key facts: Created open data sets with more than 60 million companies registered Website:
The core business of Opencorporates is to collect data on companies through web scraping tools
Web scraping data: The main activity within Opencorporates is to collaborate with Scraperwiki, a platform for doing data science on the web,
to help get the company data. The basics that are needed in order to create a company record at Opencorporates are the company number, the jurisdiction and the company's name.
Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a computer software technique of extracting information from websites.
Operating a web service Key facts: 3 million users in 2013, which is tripled from 1 million a year before registered Website:
Seeing all these limitations, entrepreneur Micha Benoliel, Internet architect Stanislav Shalunov and developer Greg Hazel, decided to make the mobile web fit that could address this challenge.
By crowdsourcing connectivity, Open Garden enables users to connect to the mobile web more frequently and with better results.
Web and Software Development: Through developing software OKF are trying to create tools that support a global open knowledge and open data community.
discoverable and presentable on the web by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data;
A variety of technologies are being used in Open Knowledge Foundation, mostly web and software development related.
Its core activities are focusing on using the web and online technologies to better open
or develop new web services and events related to the open knowledge agenda. What are the main barriers to innovate
create and share on the web. Ouishare calls this paradigm shift and the sum of these developments‘the collaborative economy'.
A network, A research project, Operating a web service Key facts: A‘wiki'with nearly 8000 pages of information,
Operating a web service Key facts: Online community with More than 220,000 members, has 2, 000+conditions, 35+published research studies,
Operated as a web-based community where it shares open knowledge and generates an database that is being used to return the benefit to the community. 176
Operating a web service Key Facts: About 15,000 members in September 2013 Website: https://peerby. com Organisation Name Peerby Short description Peerby is a Dutch for-profit start-up that operates a peer-to-peer sharing service for products.
Thanks to the social web, people can now share anything with anyone in the world.
DSI network effect Due to Raspberry Pi's programmable and simple open source model, a variety of Pi projects have emerged on the Web.
users can develop their own apps for the web and then host them on a miniature server located directly on the Raspberry Pi.
and hackerspaces, Operating a web service Key Facts: In 2013 over 10,000, 000 individual data points collected.
The web-based online platform also enabled a sharing of data collected by citizens, to citizens, at a scale not possible before the advance of the Internet.
A network, operating a web service Key facts: More than 400 active users and more backers Website:
The web platform is developed with Open-Streetmap, Leaflet, Raphaël, jquery, Cakephp, and many more. The actual project is open source and available on the open source platform Github.
Operating a web service Key Facts: Tor has a staff of 30 paid developers, researchers,
It has developed software tools designed to stop people including government agencies and corporations learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits.
the connection between a global network of volunteers who help reroute traffic would not have been possible with technological advances in sensor networks and the development of the web itself.
The majority of people using Tor are citizens who may simply want to stop advertisers from following them around the web.
Dark web: The cloak of anonymity provided by Tor makes it an attractive and powerful for criminals.
This is the so-called dark web element, and it's not unusual to see Tor pop up in stories about a range of criminal sites.
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
CSA's projects are housed on Zooniverse the‘home of Citizen Science on the web.''Type of organisation Zooniverse is a project of the run by the Citizen Science Alliance (CSA) via its web portal.
using the web to provide a means of reaching a much larger audience willing to devote their free time to collaborative projects through crowdsourcing initiatives like Zooniverse.
Obstacles for (web) merchants who wish to benefit from the cross-border or central acquiring of card payments;
and online via web stores. More recently, with the growth and universal spread of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, a fourth and rapidly expanding channel has been added:
It developed Footprint Chronicles, an interactive web-based map that provides information on the supplier policy towards sustainability and results of Patagonia's audits in terms of social and environmental indicators. www. patagonia. com/us/footprint
The right of consumers to apply the law of their home country is different to the obligation for web merchants to apply all requirements in the national law of the country of destination.
It allows web merchants to provide customers with relevant information. To limit the negative effects of Directive 2009/136/EC (the‘Cookie Directive')on both consumers and merchants
Ecommerce Europe warns that a‘right to be forgotten'is technically not possible for web merchants.
and of Internet/web literacy. The ICT enablers index takes into account affordability of Internet access, telecoms market competition, security of the Internet infrastructure, government support for ICT development,
and firms to complete and digitally sign government forms, such as passport applications, over the web.
While the majority of the global population is projected to be connected to the web in the forthcoming decades,
questions arise over the future balance of cultures on the web (Dutton, Dutta and Law, 2011;
For political reasons the web censorship category is focused primarily on websites that express views in opposition to those of the current government.
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Social networks on the Web, Cambridge university Working Paper. As of 15 april 2012: http://www. econ. cam. ac. uk/faculty/goyal/wp11/socialnetworksweb8. pdf 45 Granovetter, Mark S,"The strength of weak ties,"American journal
and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, Participative web and user-created content: Web 2. 0 wikis and social networking:
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2007. Vodanovich, Shahper, Sundaram, David, Myers, Michael,"Research Commentary Digital Natives and Ubiquitous Information systems,"Information systems Research, Vol. 21, No. 4, 2010, pp. 711-723.
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Le Web and Pioneers are leading international conferences gathering entrepreneurs and talent, promoting entrepreneurship by providing access to broad and dynamic networks
as the value web continues to displace linear value chains of merely one-directional value and money flows.
1999), these capabilities require the complex combination of the technical infrastructure (cabling infrastructure, hardware platform, base software platform), ICT shared services (as communications services), ICT applications (as WEB
New web-based information technologies are enabling SMES to attain global marketing capabilities at very low costs.
Since SMES have difficulty finding the most appropriate public programme given the complex web of public initiatives,
Train entrepreneurs for global e-commerce through, for instance, the development of a web localisation certificate programme.
The main IT solutions offered were antivirus (to 29%of clients), business management software (to 28%)and web and email (to 19%.
and would benefit from the development of a web localization certificate program by an organisation with expertise in global e-commerce.
id=17007 Web localization certificate programmes: Training entrepreneurs for global e-commerce Although entrepreneurship programs have offered training in e-commerce for many years,
and the lack of web and IT expertise among traditional businesses. Curious about the region, online visitors could be attracted to visit websites about local culture and products.
of which do not reflect the state-of-the-art of web design and functionalities. Given its experience offering IT training,
Train entrepreneurs for global e-commerce through, for instance, the development of a web localisation certificate programme.
if composite indicators could be made available via the web, along with the data, the weights and the documentation of the methodology.
This internet site is considered the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything.
raw data are freely available on the WEB, and issues of technological development are of importance to society
which delivers the most relevant experience for consumers as they shop across web, store and mobile.
Possibilities What web merchants can do is using the information that online customers leave behind when browsing the Internet,
accessing the web through a mobile device**Average worldwide Cross-border B2c E-commerce Most popular countries:
When purchasing through the web, consumers purchase most in the Information technology category (33.0), %followed by Major Domestic Appliances (18.3%)and Consumer Electronics (16.0%).
These ranged from web--site and similar digital agencies to more technologically advanced start-ups from entrepreneurs who might otherwise have headed a few blocks south to take up the much higher remuneration on offer in the financial institutions of the City.
More recently, various online communities and hosted service webs facilitating co-operation and knowledge-sharing among innovating firms, customers,
Web 2. 0 and Mash-ups) are continuing to drive the development of new applications and business models.
Web 2. 0 and Mash-ups) are continuing to drive the development of new applications
WIT) with the objective to provide a virtual (web based)‘ one-stop-shop'to provide information
SOUTH EAST EMPLOYMENT ACTION PLAN FORFÁS Appendix 5 Contact Centre Recent Jobs Advertised jobs. ie web search 5th october 2011 The following provides insights into
www. prolandleben. de/web/pdf/Zusammenfassung. pdf 4. 2 Planning Cells/Citizens'Reports The public participation procedure of Planning Cells developed by Peter Dienel
Two cheers for Web U. Retrieved on 9 june 2013 from http://www. nytimes. com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/grading-the-mooc-university. html?
The results are publicly available through a web-based repository http://88.32.124.84/Supergreen/Login. aspx.
eve. es/web/Portada. aspx? lang=en-GB EVE publications (also English publications available) http://www. eve. es/web/Documentacion/publicaciones. aspx?
Page=0 Basic electricity legislation www. eve. es/web/Documentacion/Legislacion/Electricidad. aspx Basic legislation on renewables www. eve. es/web
/Documentacion/Legislacion/Renovables. aspx Basic legislation on energy efficiency www. eve. es/web/Documentacion/Legislacion/Eficiencia. aspx Energy Strategy of the Basque Country www
. eve. es/web/Eve/files/f5/f56d9cdd-a9cd-4b54-b7e4-ab290348872c. pdf Basque Contact Points (Technology platform) www. innobasque. com
/home. aspx? tabid=593 68 4. 3. Croatia National official documents, laws and rules The Energy Development Strategy of the Republic of Croatia has been developed under the umbrella of a much larger project of the Croatian Government
. ricercadisistema. it Information about'Ricerca di Sistema'projects (2006-present) www. rse-web it Activities
and platforms In Norway there is a web-based project archive of the RENERGI programme available.
Synopses books Available-Web-based project archive (RENERGI)( Norwegian)- Research programme organised by EBL (utilities'branch)( single English publications) Scenarios Available-Foresight
id=536186 Web-based project archive of the RENERGI programme (Norwegian) www. forskningsradet. no/servlet/Satellite?
even though the web itself was founded at CERN to further a vision of scientific knowledge sharing. While massive commercial investment and business models fuelled the web's incredible growth,
the use of platforms like Facebook to serve social good has been disputed accidental and secondary to their primary commercial purpose.
For example, despite the Internet being funded a military research project and the web a scientific project at their inceptions,
the Internet and web were based on open standards and a radically decentralised architecture that could be harnessed by any actor.
So the Web was able to reach a critical mass of connectivity so that both commercial entities (like Google) and noncommercial entities (like Wikipedia) were able to exploit the network effect.
and vendor lock in on the web. This was a hard and contested battle, which turned out to be the best way to do things, even commercially.
Delivering a web service, Network, Research project, Research project, Advocating and campaigning, Maker and hacker spaces, Investing and Funding, Event, Incubators and Accelerators, Advisory or expert body, Education And Training. 3 Technology Trends:
create and share on the web. It achieves this through two primary activities Ouishare. net and collaborative economy events.
whilst participatory web platforms such as Wikigender and Wikiprogress developed by the OECD facilitate the linking of National statistics to actual individual living conditions.
and web application that aims to track every government and corporate financial transaction across the world and to present that data in a useful and engaging form.
and implement open social web standard standards, contributing to the W3c Federated Social Web Working group. 32 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe 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 and freely share their radiation measurements in open data sets.
It then invited programmers and developers to make apps and web services based on the data,
partners got together to explore the development of collaborative web projects and bottom-up broadband technologies15.
Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe DELIVERING A WEB SERVICE RESEARCH PROJECT EDUCATION
Crowdsourcing Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Bottom up and grassroots approaches A counterpoint to the top-down strategy is the bottom-up,
Relevant bottomup initiatives are the Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS), Web entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs in the field of active and healthy ageing, digital champions,
the R&d funding at CERN led to the invention of the Web) Encourage people to think about:
the possibility to add (web) content and services themselves, access to devices and modular applications that talk to one another.
Federated Social Web Do-not-track technologies should be implemented in order to give users control over their social data and sensitive information,
Is federated the W3c Social Web Working Group58 to develop standards to make it easier to build
The federated web standards will also be implemented within the EC-funded D-CENT Project59 that is piloting federated social applications for participatory democracy.
A Magna carta for the Internet Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the Web is advocating for a sort of Magna carta for the Internet to estabilish basic rights and freedoms,
A Magna carta for all Web users could be directly crowd-sourced from the Web itself,
Does the Web Extend the Mind available online at: http://www. ibiblio. org/hhalpin/homepage/publications/websci2013-halpin-web-extend-the-mind. pdf and published as Harry Halpin.
Does the web extend the mind? Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (2013): 139-147.3 Over-the-top is a general term for service providers that develop services that are utilized over a network that is owned by traditional network operators.
Big OTT are Google, Skype, Youtube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and EBAY. 4 Sestini, Fabrizio.``Collective awareness platforms:
Engines for sustainability and ethics'.'Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE 31.4 (2012): 54-62.5 http://www. nesta. org. uk/publications/making-sense-uk-collaborative-economy Manchester
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large scale questionnaires (web-based or surveys) and personal interviews (face-to-face, telephone, or in working groups). A key feature brought in by these European union-sponsored exercises was the introduction of external experts in this analytical phase.
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to support web entrepreneur camps, good practices exchange, peer review, studies, regular mapping of infrastructure, monitoring
'Social media and other web-based services challenge these existing approaches and ask for their revision. The british‘connect'platform is the first publicly financed innovation platform on the web that creates a protected space for companies to display their competences, interest and skills,
to reach out to a large number of peers, to make them personal contacts and to engage them in initial cooperation.
and potential partners (assistance to online collaboration for innovation) So far staff in innovation agencies has hardly skills to assist their clients to establish collaborations on web platforms
The nature of the topic online collaboration suggests that the training modules are established as web-based self
Web-based attacks in the EU and around the world increased by 36%during 2011;
In parallel, recent trends such as"Web 2. 0"and social networking are discussed widely in terms of their business E-business in the transport
Low-cost access to the Web and the dissemination of e-business technologies provide firms with a tool to satisfy customer demand by using traditional services in conjunction with growing information-based services.
By communicating with Web-based services hosting the relevant information, the IM@GINE IT device offers an integrated routeguidance system
Web server and server operating systems are the top two areas, with two-thirds of firms using alternatives like Apache,
or between a manufacturer and its distribution channels, the financial return dwarfs the gains realised by setting up a disjoint web front-end.
The goal of the solution was to provide the status of the transport over a Web interface to customers.
with complete Java internal support and external web interfacing for the e-ticket sales via Internet and mobile phone.
including Web 2. 0 technologies, a content manager and external web features. The internet sales currently represent 20%of total ticket sales (final users and travel agencies),
like some final web interfaces have been outsourced, thus the company depends on the providers'response times (on average three to four months).
once a customer sends a transport order over the Web-based ordering service to CEMAT,
Future major developments that are foreseen are to open the system for the public on the Web allowing customers to make an online reservation,
like the deployment of a Web service for ticket reservation and selling, that can be connected to international travel agencies. 5. 5. 4 Lessons learned The project is considered a major success at CFR Calatori as its objectives have been achieved
and in a convenient way through a Web interface the possibility to get clear visibility on their transport status
SNCF Fret customers can now log on to a Web platform that allows them to access the four different services that carry the following functionalities.
The web platform communicates with the internal SNCF information systems for the ordering and invoicing processes.
the data is sent to the Web platform where it is available to customers. For the ordering process, the customer consults the transport catalogue on the portal
and enters the transport order directly on the Web interface. The Web platform automatically sends the data to the internal order management system.
The ordering process is composed of a couple of events like reservation of resources, departure of wagons, delivery, incident etc.
The order management platform communicates data for each transport phase to the Web platform allowing the customer to follow up on the order.
(either entered by the customer over the Web or entered into the system by the Cammack employee),
and trace solution in 2002 to allow their customers to follow up their transport activities on a Web interface.
improving customer services and customer communication through Web based and mobile information services for passengers (Travel planner, Timetables etc), ticketing systems,
It is based a web system, with a central database hosted by Nordic Port. The different users get an address
The information is available for the PTA through a Web interface. Specific information such as environmental pollution is measured as well.
They enter the information over the Web interface, an XML file is sent to the system
Värmlandstrafik (http://www. kollplatsen. com/index. html) Nordic Port (http://web. port. se/./E-business in the transport & logistics industry 185 6 Conclusions:
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