Synopsis: Ict: Communication systems: Telecommunication: Computer networks: Internet: Web: Website:


S3 Illes Balears.pdf

53,5 Staff using internet 42,7 43,8 Companies with website 66,6 67,0 Companies using digital signature 28,0 24,4 Employees who received ICT training 13,8 17,4 Net


SEFEP-SmartGrids_EU_2012.pdf

http://ec. europa. eu/energy/gas electricity/smartgrids/doc/mission. pdf. SGTF website http://ec. europa. eu/energy/gas electricity/smartgrids/taskforce en

http://static. euractiv. com/sites/all/euractiv/files/EED. en12. doc 32 http://sedc--coalition. eu/2012/07/13/press-release--energy-efficiency

e g. controlling demand response at the 58 See also http://www. europeanenergyreview. eu/site/pagina. php?

Microgrids at Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, p. website. http://der. lbl. gov/.OECD, 2010. Cities and Climate Change.


Smart Specialisation for Economic Change The case of Spain.pdf

website for smart specialisation. Benchmarking analysis on priority setting, policy objectives and measures, monitoring and evaluation systems.


SMART SPECIALISATION STRATEGY, CASTILLA Y LEON BACKGROUND.pdf

The NRC on Human Evolution (CENIEH), linked to the Atapuerca archaeological site, and the Centre for Ultrashort Ultraintense Pulsed Lasers (CLPU) in Salamanca.


Smart specializations for regional innovation_embracing SI.pdf

brokering services and trading sites aimed at SMES (Gann and Dodgson (2007: 12). Notions such as user innovation (Von Hippel, 2005) and‘user-led innovation'highlight the source from

http://www. socientize. eu/sites/default/files/Green%20paper%20on%20citizen%20science%202013. pdf Last accessed 15.12.13 CEC (2013g) Social innovation

http://www. innovationfutures. org/sites/default/files/INFU%20final%20report%20march%202012 0. pdf Lévesque, B. 2013) Social innovation in governance and public

http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default/files/making innovative places. pdf Last accessed 3. 11.13 Smart Specialisation for Regional Innovation:

http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default/files/connect collaborate innovate. pdf Last accessed 3. 11.13 NESTA (2008:

New approaches to transforming public services http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default/files/social innovation policy brief cover. pdf Noya A. ed.)(2009) The Changing Boundaries of Social Enterprises.


SMEs inventive performance and profitability in the markets for technology.pdf

Incases wherethisinformationwasnotavailablefromcurrentcompanies'websites, orifthecompanies'websiteswerenolongeractive, the Internetarchive'swaybackmachinewasusedtovisitthepast websites (Yadavetal. 2007). ) Dataon firms'inventiveportfolios wascollectedusingpatstat.

<http://www. wipo. int/export/sites/www/freepublications/en/licen sing/903/wipo pub 903. pdf>.Wooldridge, J. M.,2002.


SMEs, Entrepreneurship and Innovation.pdf

websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given.

In order to create national coherence and synergies between the centres, a common webpage, telephone number, user evaluation system, intranet, competencies development programme,

Green Specific skills to modify products, services or operations due to climate change adjustments, requirements or regulations (e g. water purification and site remediation planning/engineering in mining, solar panels

The website of the project (www. ccss. jhu. edu/index. php? section=content&view=9&sub=10 accessed on 28 october 2009) reports that:

five-year IDA pilot project with 13 competitively selected community partner sites operating 14 programmes in a mix of urban and rural locations across the country.

After four years of building the ammado platform the site was launched in June 2008 and is currently available in 12 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, traditional and simplified Chinese) connecting individuals from 130 countries

A wave of response from Italians and others around the world wanting to send immediate relief was being thwarted by a series of difficulties on the IRC site,

from language (many 2nd 3rd generation Italians do not have command enough of the language to navigate an Italian-language site) to payment methods accepted (to date,

many Italian npo sites require a bank transfer or Italian credit card, limiting international donations. As a stopgap, The irish Red cross and American Red cross accepted donations through ammado and spread the word about their initiative.

and can sit on any website, blog or social network profile that can accept embeddable HTML.

and there without navigating away from the site/blog. In 2008, Edelman Goodpurpose released a study on Mutually beneficial marketing:


Social Inclusion as Innovation.pdf

The Pracatum website reports that the process of partnership with public and private institutions with the involvement of the population provides social change in national underserved communities


Social innovation, an answer to contemporary societal challenges- Locating the concept in theory and practice.pdf

One important site for social innovation is the workplace. Workplace innovation has been defined as: a social, participatory process which shapes work organization and working life, combining human, organizational and technological dimensions and resulting in a better quality of working life (Oeij, Klein Hesselink, and Dhondt 2012.

The development of the Internet and more particularly social networking sites opened up vast opportunities for user-led innovation that ranges from political activism (the Arab spring,

or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.


social-innovation-mega-trends-to-answer-society-challenges-whitepaper.pdf

and automotive app store based connectivity applications will become a common site on our roads of the future,

For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www. hitachi. com. Auckland Bahrain Bangkok Beijing Bengaluru Bogotá Buenos aires Cape town Chennai Colombo Delhi/NCR


SouthEastRegionalAuthority120115 rural development programme.pdf

dir@sera. ie Website: www. sera. ie Submission on the Draft Consultation Paper for the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020 February 2014 Page 2 1. Introduction As part of the ongoing process


Special Report-Eskills for growth-entrepreneurial culture.pdf

Startup Europe introduced a commission one-stop website for entrepreneurs. Other forums include the Web Investors Forum,


SPRINGER_Digital Business Models Review_2013.pdf

and financial aspects 4 No No Donath (1999) Customer understanding, marketing tactics, corporate governance and intranet/extranet capabilities 4 No No Mahadevan (2000) Value stream,


Survey on ICT and Electronic Commerce Use in Companies (SPAIN-Year 2013-First quarter 2014).pdf

Seven out of 10 of them have a website. -The percentage of companies with 10 or more employees using mobile broadband rises four points,

75.8%of companies with Internet access had a website. In those with 250 or more employees, this percentage reached 95.7%.

38.0 37.5 39.5 47.0%of companies with an Internet connection and website (1) 75.8 73.4 87.5 95.7%of companies that provide their employees with portable devices that allow a mobile connection to the Internet for business

an increase of nearly four points in the use of mobile broadband and in the possession of a website can be observed.

Internet connection and Website (1) Mobile telephone broadband connection (1) Use of the Internet to interact with the Public Administration (1) Fixed broadband connection (1)( 1) Percentage over the total number

23.7 21.0 35.8 50.6 Website availability and use The main services offered by companies with 10

or more employees via their website were company introduction (90.5%),privacy policy statement or certification related to website security (65.2%)and access to catalogues and price lists (52.8%).

%)Services available on the website Percentage over the total number of companies with 10 or more employees and an Internet connection First Quarter 2014 Company introduction 90.5 Privacy policy statement or certification

related to website security 65.2 Access to product catalogues or price lists 52.8 Links or references to the social media profiles of the company 34.7 Possibility of electronic submission of complaint forms 26.4 Posting vacancies

or receiving online job applications 21.1 Ordering or booking online 16.9 Online order tracking 11.1 Website customisation for regular users 8. 4 Possibility of customers customising or designing

The main objectives were obtaining information from the websites of the Public Administrations (80%%downloading of forms (78.2),

and 39.6%did so with websites that share multimedia content (Youtube, Flickr, Picassa, Slideshare, Instagram...

The social media least used were based Wiki tools for sharing knowledge (website whose pages may be edited by multiple volunteers via a web browser),

Internet connection, Interaction with the Public Administrations, Mobile broadband, Website, Use of Social media and Cloud computing. First quarter 2014 Internet connection Interaction with the Public Administration (1) Mobile Broadband

Connection (1) Internet connection and Website (1) Use of Social media (1) Cloud computing (1) TOTAL 98.3 91.1 78.3 75.8 36.9 15.0 Andalucía 97.6 94.4

) Percentage over the total number of companies with an Internet connection Use of ICT by Autonomous Community and Autonomous City in which the company is headquartered 6 Use of Internet, Website and Mobile broadband by Autonomous Community

Cataluña Asturias, Principado de Mobile broadband Internet and website 7 E-commerce Sales via e-commerce by companies with 10 or more employees 17.8%of companies with 10 or more employees carried out

as compared with 14.0%from the previous year. 12.2%of companies carried out sales via electronic commerce on a website.

as compared with 20.3%the previous year. 26.9%of companies carried out purchases via electronic commerce on a website.

10 28.7%of companies with Internet access had a website. One year prior, this percentage was 29.3%.

and website/webpage (1) 29.3 28.7 (1) Percentage over the total number of companies with less than 10 employees and an Internet connection Evolution of ICT use in companies with fewer than 10 employees

from 56.8%to 66.4%.29.3%56.8%61.4%94.2%28.7%66.4%66.2%92.8%0 25 50 75 100 Internet connection and website (1) Mobile broadband


Tepsie_A-guide_for_researchers_06.01.15_WEB.pdf

Palgrave Macmillan. 63. www. emes. net/site/wp-content/uploads/EMESWP-12-03 defourny-Nyssens. pdf 64.


The 2013 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.pdf

jrc-ipts-secretariat@ec. europa. eu IPTS website: http://ipts. jrc. ec. europa. eu, JRC website:

http://www. jrc. ec. europa. eu; the DGRTD website: http://ec. europa. eu/invest-in-research/index en. htm Legal Notice Neither the European commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use

which might be made of this publication. Our goal is to ensure that the data are accurate.

http://iri. jrc. ec. europa. eu/scoreboard13. html In the next edition, this website will allow user-friendly and interactive access to the individual company data

The data is taken mainly from the companies'own websites. The first is Abcam, a biotech

It is a £122m sales Cambridge company that supplies antibodies and proteins to therapeutic and other biotech researchers all over the world through its innovative website

which are marketed all through its website. Its growth has been mainly organic but with related acquisitions.


The 2013 EU SURVEY on R&D Investment Business Trends.pdf

Knowledge-sharing, human resources, proximity to other company sites and market demand make countries attractive for R&d activities.

the respondents state that knowledge-sharing and collaboration opportunities with universities and public research organisations, quality and quantity of R&d personnel in the labour market, proximity to other company sites,

Geographic proximity to other company sites is attractive for R&d in Germany and the UK,

The respondents considered the US a more attractive site for R&d activity than the EU especially in terms of market size and growth,

for the EU geographic proximity to other company sites and technology poles & incubators is a factor for attractiveness.

without the need to refer to actual R&d sites. In this context, two thirds of the respondents considered their home country as the most attractive location.

This question allows for a pairwise comparison of the actual R&d sites. Similar to the observations above, nine out of ten respondents stated their home country as one of the two with the highest volume of R&d activity (Figure 14.

Above average attractiveness was stated for knowledge-sharing and collaboration opportunities with universities and public research organisations, quality and quantity of R&d personnel in the labour market, proximity to other company sites,

& public organisations with other firms quality quantity labour costs of R&d personnel other company sites technology poles

sites (Germany and the UK), and public R&d support via fiscal incentives (France and Spain) or once (IPR enforcement conditions (Belgium), proximity to suppliers (Spain) and labour costs of R&d personnel (Poland

with universities & public organisations proximity to other company sites public R&d support via fiscal incentives France (25) 3

knowledge-sharing opportunities with universities & public organisations quality of R&d personnel proximity to other company sites innovation demand via product market regulation Sweden (12

& incubators other company sites suppliers enforcement conditions time to obtain protection costs grants & direct funding fiscal incentives public-private partnerships loans & guarantees financing other investments market size via product market regulation market growth via public procurement Knowledge-sharing opportunities

The respondents considered the US a more attractive site for R&d activity than the EU especially in terms of market size and growth,

and US. 1 2 3 4 5 other company sites technology poles & incubators suppliers with universities & public organisations with other firms quality quantity

Proximity is on average the most important factor here, in the case for China and India related to suppliers and for the EU to other company sites and technology poles & incubators.

it should be emphasised that they correspond to actual cases of considerable R&d activity by leading companies in these countries. 1 2 3 4 5 suppliers other company sites technology poles

norms & standards costs of protection IPR conditions IPR time to obatain protection suppliers other company sites technology poles & incubators quantity of R&d personnel

an online site was provided to facilitate data entry via the European commission's Interactive Policy-making (IPM) tool,

c1) technology poles52 and incubators53 (c2) other company sites, e g. production or sales (c3) suppliers (d) Collaboration & knowledge-sharing opportunities:(

Knowledge-sharing, human resources, proximity to other company sites and market demand make countries attractive for R&d activities.

for the EU geographic proximity to other company sites and technology poles & incubators is a factor for attractiveness.


The antecedents of SME innovativeness in an emerging transition economy.pdf

a multi-site casestudyoffamilyownedbusiness. Journalofbusinessand Entrepreneurship1 (2), 41 58. Hoffman, K.,Parejo, M.,Bessant, J.,Perren, L.,1998.


The future internet.pdf

enhancements and reengineering of today's Internet protocols are debated heavily. 1 Interested readers may also search for updated versions at the FIARCH site:

as the onset of the phenomenon will still cause thousands of cache servers to request the same documents from the original site of publication. 3. 3 Transmission Limitations The fundamental restrictions that have been identified in this category are:

These systems allow unmanaged deployment of femtocells at indoor sites, providing almost perfect broadband radio coverage in residential and working areas,

From Today's INTRANET of Things to a Future INTERNET OF THINGS: A Wireless-and Mobility-Related View.

what technical designs can protect such sites from being attacked by entities inconvenienced or embarrassed by their revelations?

as a reverse contention tussle among two website owners (the consumers). The tussle is being played out in the routing domain:

so that ISPS update the entries in their routing tables (the resource) and route end-user requests to the fake website instead of the real one.

in order to prevent cross-site scripting attacks and similar vulnerabilities associated with web-based distributed applications.

It also allows an attacker to launch Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks (XSRF.

the user can automatically match his preferences with the privacy policy of the website and the result of the matching generates an agreed policy,

or white lists for websites with whom we do not want to exchange our personal information.

an auction site prototype modeled after ebay. com. It provides a virtualized distributed application that consists of three components, a web server, an application server, a database and a workload generator,

References 1. Website of Panlab and PII European projects, supported by the European commission in its both framework programmes FP6 (2001-2006) and FP7 (2007-2013:

http://www. panlab. net 2. European commission, FIRE website: Last cited: November 21, 2010, http://cordis. europa. eu/fp7/ict/fire 3. RUBIS, http://rubis. ow2. org/4. RADL, http://trac. panlab

a website dedicated to information about Free Tools for Future Internet Research and Experimentation. The Advanced Network Monitoring Equipment (ANME) deployed by the Onelab project within Planetlab Europe includes precise network cards for active delay measurements using ETOMIC and the continuous monitoring platform (Como

Towards the Future Internet-Emerging Trends from European Research, pp. 95 104 (2010) 270 A. Kousaridas et al. 3. Website of Panlab and PII European projects, supported by the European commission

This site was very popular during the event receiving over 2 million queries per day.

data from legacy systems, state of the art Web 2. 0 sites, or sensors, which do not directly conform to Linked Data principles can easily be made available as Linked Data.

which helps to migrate virtual infrastructure resources from one site to another based on power availability.

HEANET website, http://www. heanet. ie/12. NORDUNET website, http://www. nordu. net 13. Moth, J.:

GN3 Study of Environmental Impact Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals NORDUNET (9/2010) 14.

IBBT Website, http://www. ibbt. be/16. Reservoir FP7, http://www. reservoir-fp7. eu/J. Domingue et al.


The Impact of Innovation and Social Interactions on Product Usage - Paulo Albuquerque & Yulia Nevskaya.pdf

According to the game's website, World of Warcraft is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing game (MMORPG

Several independent websites process this information into databases that allow cross-player comparisons and provide recommendations on how to progress in the game.

In this paper, we use a publicly available data set on product usage collected from such a site called Wowhead. 11 We complement these data with information about product updates, their content, firm's actions,

and other announcements from the official game website. Although purchase decisions are not the focus of the paper

First, the website used as a source of the data provides information about experienced users only.

We use data from the website World of Logs18 about the success rates for different content.

This website provides aggregate statistics about the number of times that users attempted and successfully completed tasks in the game.

or websites in social platforms. In the case of our application, the firm has over the years implemented a number of tools that allowed easier access to groups,


The Role of Open Innovation in Eastern European SMEs - The Case of Hungary and Romania - Oana-Maria Pop.pdf

e g. taking photos of the artwork, uploading the images onto the website, establishing payment solutions,


The Role of Universities in Smart Specialisation Strategies - EUA-REGIO Report.pdf

seminars, website and publications


The societal impact of the World Wide Web--key challenges for the 21st century.pdf

Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. The societal impact of the World wide web--key challenges for the 21st century Burn, Janice M;


The Young Foundation and the Web Digital Social Innovation.pdf

and the same amount post messages to chat sites, blogs and newsgroups. ii Nearly a quarter of UK mobile phones users now have a Smartphone,

with over 18 per cent using their devices to access social media sites or blogs. iii We know that digital technology is transforming our professional and social lives.

advice is provided on Maslaha's diabetes website through videos in community languages. x Digital technology makes it much easier to expand the realms of social innovation beyond traditional boundaries such as professions, disciplines

inequality and healthcare. xii Digital technologies are also helping drive public sector innovation. www. Fixmystreet. com is a website that allows users to easily report an issue with their public realm to the relevant authority

to the creation of community websites that help people connect with one another and discuss local issues. www. Fairstead. org is a new hyperlocal website developed as part of Local 2. 0 for a neighbourhood in King's Lynn, West Norfolk.

The website created at low cost through a partnership of local people and local agencies-aims to build local networks,

improve communication between residents and agencies, and increase levels of local action. Leadership and entrepreneurship Digital technologies can reach into the handbags


The Young Foundation-for-the-Bureau-of-European-Policy-Advisors-March-2010.pdf

The site received 120,000 unique visits and a total of 873,476 hits. 40 These are remarkable participation rates,

Kiva, the world's first peer-to-peer micro-lending site, enables individuals to lend small sums of money to entrepreneurs on low incomes.

which is posted on the website, becoming available for scrutiny by potential investors. Repayment is guaranteed as field partners are responsible for entrepreneurs

In its mission to effect maximum transparency, all savings and investment accounts are available to view on Triodos'website.

and asked to develop a website prototype over the next 2 days. At the end of the weekend project teams pitch what they have created to the SI Camp judges.

In addition to functioning within a wider network of parent communities, each community has its own local website.

Each local website is updated and managed by a local mum, thus allowing for the information

collecting evidence and information from emails, blogging sites, and online forums on the site. A series of publications are produced to provide further general guidance.

The website also facilitates a meet up scheme where mothers can meet each other in person. Often these meetings result in new friendship and support circles (especially among those who have moved to a new area,

or those who don't have friends with children), but many mums have developed also child care support circles as a result of these meetings.

Innovation Exchange website-an online forum for sharing and developing ideas for social innovation. As it tests

Initially, and unsuccessfully, they tried to canvass public opinion through social networking sites such as Myspace and Youtube.

The wiki elicited thousands of contributions (some more constructive than others) and at its peak, the site received 10,000 visits in one day. cxiv Suggestions included a governance board of eminent kiwis,

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. clviii Social Value Added Working group of the EQUAL National Thematic Network

A framework for structuring remedial decisions at contaminated sites'.'In I. Linkov & A. Ramadan (Eds.


the_open_book_of_social_innovationNESTA.pdf

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,

from surveys and websites to user representation on management boards and committees. 33) Campaigns which channel dissatisfaction and discontent into a search for innovations.

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.

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.

or the control of a key input such as a critical site or personnel (as in sport.

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.

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.

for example via a website such as netsquared. org. People can take part as collaborators, co-producers, consumers, activists,

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.

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

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 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,

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

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.

'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

Websites like Kiva, which connect donors with social entrepreneurs, have already been 2 172 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION making these links.

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

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.

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

(which now has over 400,000 members) used the social networking site to organise a massive protest against the rebel forces in February 2008.


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