into work. But these definitions provide a reasonable starting point A good example of a socially innovative activity in this sense is the spread
-pany Innocentive, for example, offers cash rewards for innovators who have work -able solutions to problems they solve, based on an assumption that often in a
develop experience about how to make them work. This phase involves consolida -tion around a few core principles that can be communicated easily.
-mediaries who help make markets work more efficiently, spotting connections and opportunities, 16 the analyses of how much innovation is understood best as cre
-ative reinterpretation, 17 and the work pioneered by Everett Rogers on diffusion Often the insights from business pose important challenges to social innova
of theoretical work in this field has been low, with little progress since the pioneer -ing work in the 1980s at Manchester
Considerable work is now under way on measuring the outputs and outcomes of public and social organizations, including the fascinating work led by Dale
Jorgensen at Harvard on valuing the informal economy and family work, and the recent work led by Tony Atkinson at Oxford university on the value of public serv
-ices. These go far beyond the rather crude claims that are made sometimes for the productivity and efficacy of social organizations.
Yet the truth is that very little is known about productivity in the civic sectorâ€
Daniel Bell the world†s â€oemost successful entrepreneur of social enterprises, †and in his work and
â€oethe decline in EU labour productivity growth rates in the mid-ï oe990s was attributed equally to a lower investment per employee and to a slowdown in the rate of technological progressâ€
6) Inspired by work of Thomas Kurz, Salzburg University of Applied sciences Fig. 2 The stack view of the Digital Business
This model works well when the central ï rm is healthy, but represents a signiï cant weakness for the
Work currently being done in the OPAALS project: www. opaals. org ï oe2) In the private sector this refers to fewer IPR restrictions,
Therefore, the balance that seems to work in business environments is layered based on a approach: combining an open source shared middleware infrastructure with software services, models and information
community, or the know-how of the way the open source process works and the implications of diï €erent types of
digital technologies that work to meet social needs and enhance society†s capacity to act.
of the social innovative configurations that work Social innovation is also a process which transforms the socio-technical structures which
Research issues to be explored in future work Ahead of the presentation at the BAM 2014 conference we will further develop the
The economic theory, Work Foundation Degelsegger, A. & Kesselring, A. 2012. Do Nonhumans Make a Difference?
Case studies, Work Foundation Latour, B. 2005. Reassembling the social-an introduction to actor-network-theory Reassembling the Social-An Introduction to Actor-Network-theory, by Bruno Latour
The Work Foundation, London The European commission. 2013. Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation Online.
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Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders 53 Work Package 5-Experiment and Pioneer 53 Work Package 6 †Recommendations 53
Appendix 1-DSI Case studies 54 Appendix 2 †Matrix of Case studies grouped by technology trend and domain 217
4 Digital Social Innovation Interim Report Executive Summary i DSI Interim Report Executive Summary Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is an emerging field of study, with little existing knowledge on who the digi
-tal social innovators are, which organizations, and activities support them and how they use digital tools to
This report describes our work to date, having investigated more than 250 case studies of digital social innovation services, support organizations and activities.
within the frameowrk of the Digital Agenda for Europe and under the Horizons 2020 Work Programme
and to access what works and what doesn†t to calibrate interventions and investments •Addressing barriers to growth and scale.
This report describes our work to date, having investigated more than 250 case studies of digital social in
Horizons 2020 Work Programme, and in particular, but not limited to, the Collective Awareness Call 7
Horizons 2020 Work Programme, and in particular, but not limited to, the Collective Awareness Call Research Objectives
Delivering the research through 6 work packages As outlined in the table below, the DSI research project is delivered through 6 work packages that are in
-terlinked. We are now into month 6 of the research, which has been focused mainly on WP1 (identifying
Work package title Lead participant. short name Start month WP1 Identifying DSI organisations Waag Society M1
List of Work Packages 9 A diagram of how the various work packages interrelate is shown below
Figure 4: Work Package Diagram This report forms the third deliverable, D3 in the table below
Del. no. Deliverable name WP no. Delivery date D1 Inception Report WP0 M1 D2 Dynamic Report on Mapping WP2 M5-M17
-sure that policy fostering DSI is based on scientific evidence of what works and what doesn†t and that effec
of the project work packages. Care has therefore been taken to make the website as easy to use as possible
type of technology they are using in their work and what type of activities they are involved in (from re
-isations are looking to make through their work. The category †democracy and participation†showed the
as 136 self-identified categories were used by organisations to define their work Only the most popular are shown below to illustrate this
Work and employment 78 Finance and economy 76 Science& Technology 60 Table 3: Domains of Activity
valorising labour time equally, or linking currencies to data 25 2. New ways of making
•The work by Your Priorities in Iceland and Open Ministry in Finland on bringing DSI to the core of gov
The work by the local government in Vienna on Open Government Data Vienna led to citizens developing a raft of innovations,
The work by the EU DG Research funded social inno -vation research projects TEPSIE on the role of ICT in social innovation,
The work by Nesta in the UK on the tech for good incubator Bethnal Green Ventures and Waag Society in Amsterdam work on setting up
A look across the different activities that DSI organisations are involved in shows how they support work
and looking at in the light of the case study work we can outline some key characteristics of the type of activities that DSI players are carrying forward to
Stand in a classic exhibition this works the other way around, with the organizers dividing the space in square meters which are sold then to exhibitors who have need the to carve out a more or less great visibili
as is the work by the social innovation research project TEPSIE on the role of ICT and social innovation.
the Nominet Trust†s (UK) work Digital Edge, a programme which funds ventures that demonstrate how
The World wide web Consortium (W3c), an international community that works on developing 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
-works, free interoperable network services open Wifi, bottom-up-broadband, distribut -ed social networks, p2p infrastructures Tor
Most European cities work with sensors that moni -tor environmental conditions. Pollution, temperature, humidity and light sensors are installed that provide
The work by Tor on creating a secure and privacy-aware service that bounce Internet users†and websitesâ€
The work by organisations like Raspberry Pi and Arduino illustrates the potential in open hardware
but the majority of work is done by a larger network of other organisations in the â€oelong tail†that are connected via the super-nodes.
Another example is the work by Open Garden on facilitating the sharing of Internet between devices
In this sense, the close work with a small group in the very place where the group lives is of utmost importance.
and work in networks across organ -isation boundaries †including the boundary between the private and public sphere.
and to access what works and what doesn†t to calibrate interventions and investments •Addressing barriers to growth and scale.
Work Package 2 †Crowd mapping DSI organisations and activities The challenges with this approach to date
The next stage of Work package 2 will include the Task 2. 2, the development of the website.
Work Package 3-Assessing Strategies The first steps in Policy Research in WP3 will follow a hierarchical schema, starting from the identification
the European commission, particularly H2020 and work programmes, Digital Agenda, Social Innovation in DG Regio and Social Entrepreneurship in DG Enterprise
Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders To support the growth and spread of DSI it needs traction on multiple levels within the EU, from citizens
Work Package 5-Experiment and Pioneer Because policy aims to shape the behaviour of economic agents by tapping into their motivations and in
Work Package 6 †Recommendations The objective of this work package is to compile the learning of the project by distilling a set of policy rec
-ommendations for Digital Social Innovation In order to accomplish this objective a policy framework for digital social innovation will be elaborated
-work for grouping DSI organisations and developing our understanding of the characteristics of these or
thus not using cheap labour and low quality materials to emphasise this they had the Italian map stamped on the front of the
both personal and commercial derivative works, as long as they credit Arduino and release their designs under the same license
-paigning network that works to ensure that the †views and values of the world†s people inform global decision-making. †Avaaz relies entirely on
-paigning works †you leverage bursts of engagement from our member -ship with particular priorities and campaigns to generate longer term
work and costs money. As †democracy nerds†the Citizens Foundation team are worried that most of our social lives are being run by one com
The actual work is divided into five activities •Developing a Technological Framework (lead: University of Tilburg
Part of the work is technical in nature: selecting standards, developing frameworks and architectures, as well as writing the actual code for the
Lastly there is work in deciding where the results will go after the project, to ensure uptake and growth of the solution
It turns out this actually works well for the development community and data owners alike.
for America involved †a new type of public service based on the work of volunteer programmers that has sought to building bridges between the
-works and fibre deployment as commons (both new techniques such as aerial as well as fibre bandwidth management) â€
range of technologies employed by the different fellows †who will work with their own preferred web platform (using open source languages like
connector generally, Commons4eu also works with other social inno -vators on more specific challenges as part of an informal global network
and new cultural works are created. This definition is extracted from the Public domain Manifesto an output of the Thematic Network
•Management of orphan works, i e. works whose author is unknown COMMUNIA policy paper on the proposed orphan works directive
What is the social impact it is seeking, including any evidence of impact to date? The COMMUNIA Association and its Members raise awareness in, edu
-cate about, advocate for, and offer expertise on and research about the Public domain, in the digital age within society and with policy-makers
The association works on deliverables such as policy papers, projects, and WIPO statements. Event-wise the association or
-work neutrality, openness and size of these networks are a great chal -lenge to routing protocols and its implementation on low-cost devices
-works are built often with simple and low cost off-the-shelf hardware The nodes are usually running an open source distribution, such as Linux
-works, such as VOIP, content distribution, on-demand and live media streaming, instant messaging, remote backups and updates, file storage
-works, such as on-demand and live media streaming, instant messaging remote backups and updates, file storage and file sharing.
universities that work alongside local, regional and global partners to promote and support social change towards sustainability
locally funded, the results of this work and research are shared all across the DESIS network.
In their research and practical work, Everyaware focus on sensing, mo -bile and location-based technologies, as well as data visualisation
for using Fablab Amsterdam in open days is to document the work and project on the Fablab website and share the designs with the rest of the
see as fertile ground for beginning this work. One example of this is the Fablab Low cost Prosthesis program, a technology to produce a lower
its design and production work. The digital fabrication include machines such as, Laser cutter, Milling machine, Vinyl Cutter, Embroidery Ma
placed in an open space, to make the work with different machines easi -er Teleconferencing system and digital communication:
Much of the work in the Fablab relies and is based on open source design and open hardware such as
The majority of work in the Fablab is run by an active community of volunteers. This, the Fablab team sees as one of the most
Fairphone works with factories where a specially established fund will ensure decent wag -es are distributed amongst workers.
Work and employment, other Technology Trends: Open Knowledgeâ Â DSI activities: Operating a web service
new and better versions of their work collaboratively. It has grown since to be the largest social coding repository in the world.
-located work spurred on by the belief that creativity and innovation are contingent upon employees investing themselves in the projects they
the Center for the Future of Work, Heinz College and Carnegie mellon University); ) found that people make a surprisingly rich set of social
strategies for coordinating work, advancing technical skills and manag -ing their reputation 117 How is funded the organisation?
assembling code†in the form of libraries, open source work, etc. †as well as writing it,
Work and employment, other Technology Trends: Open Knowledge DSI activities: Operating a web service Key facts:
it works in a similar way to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. As an ex -ample the platform was used to successfully raise £4, 401 (109 per cent
which can aid board members in their work. One example of the latter is the Slow Food an organisation based in Ger
powerful and do their work, but we want the grassroots to be able to control themâ€
and time consuming to work efficiently, before the advent of the Internet. Finally, the open source ap
Giving back Open-source hardware is about sharing work with others for everyone†s benefit. It is beneficial for all parties to provide upgrades
is possible to make profits doing commercial work that can be re-invest -141 ed in charitable, open source projects without having to employ a huge
-ity, and it is this company (mysociety ltd) that does commercial work Today about 40%of mysociety†s income is from commercial work and
they work towards expanding this, while developing †a reputation as a software company that can solve problems that more traditional web
-works might be used to enhance democratic participation and delib -eration, and influence policy in collaboration with existing political
Open data sit at the core of all Opencorporates work. This is both a tool to scrape, capture
-tion tends to work with freelancers and volunteers What are the main barriers t o innovate?
As described above, Patientslikeme works towards a creating a platform and, in the long-term, a health care system, where information is openly
Sharing only works when there is reputation involved. Most sharing platforms try to combat this issue by building a
growing rapidly and have shown that the platform works on small scale The next challenge is to understand how it could work on a larger scale
so can work more easily in electrical off-grid environments Other than the fact that the demand for the Raspberry Pi computers
the work done by Safecast was evidenced further when, on September 15,2012, it was announced that Safecast†s radiation measurements were
it won†t work. †On one hand, the project is now slowly by slowly gen -erating more attention, through people who are already participating
range of criminal sites. â€oewe work with law enforcement a lot, †Lewman told the Guardian. â€oethey are fully aware of bad guys on Tor.
work to software development. It has built also a strong team of volun -teer developers primarily in Africa,
work they started, and continues to be a resource to the emergency response community there.
Work Package 2 †Crowd mapping DSI organisations and activities Work Package 3-Assessing Strategies
Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders Work Package 5-Experiment and Pioneer Work Package 6 †Recommendations
Appendix 1-DSI Case studies Appendix 2 †ï¿Matrix of Case studies grouped by technology trend and domain
Digital Social Innovation Interim report Contract no. 30-CE-0531673/00-86 Main Author: Francesca Bria (Nesta
Contributors: Esteve Almirall (ESADE Peter Baeck (Nesta Harry Halpin (W3c Jon Kingsbury (Nesta Frank Kresin, Sacha van Tongeren
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial-Sharealike 4. 0 International License 3
Work Package 2 †Crowd mapping DSI organisations and activities 50 Work Package 3-Assessing Strategies 52
Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders 53 Work Package 5-Experiment and Pioneer 53 Work Package 6 †Recommendations 53
Appendix 1-DSI Case studies 54 Appendix 2 †Matrix of Case studies grouped by technology trend and domain 217
4 Digital Social Innovation Interim Report Executive Summary i DSI Interim Report Executive Summary Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is an emerging field of study, with little existing knowledge on who the digi
-tal social innovators are, which organizations, and activities support them and how they use digital tools to
This report describes our work to date, having investigated more than 250 case studies of digital social innovation services, support organizations and activities.
within the frameowrk of the Digital Agenda for Europe and under the Horizons 2020 Work Programme
and to access what works and what doesn†t to calibrate interventions and investments •Addressing barriers to growth and scale.
This report describes our work to date, having investigated more than 250 case studies of digital social in
Horizons 2020 Work Programme, and in particular, but not limited to, the Collective Awareness Call 7
Horizons 2020 Work Programme, and in particular, but not limited to, the Collective Awareness Call Research Objectives
Delivering the research through 6 work packages As outlined in the table below, the DSI research project is delivered through 6 work packages that are in
-terlinked. We are now into month 6 of the research, which has been focused mainly on WP1 (identifying
Work package title Lead participant. short name Start month WP1 Identifying DSI organisations Waag Society M1
List of Work Packages 9 A diagram of how the various work packages interrelate is shown below
Figure 4: Work Package Diagram This report forms the third deliverable, D3 in the table below
Del. no. Deliverable name WP no. Delivery date D1 Inception Report WP0 M1 D2 Dynamic Report on Mapping WP2 M5-M17
-sure that policy fostering DSI is based on scientific evidence of what works and what doesn†t and that effec
of the project work packages. Care has therefore been taken to make the website as easy to use as possible
type of technology they are using in their work and what type of activities they are involved in (from re
-isations are looking to make through their work. The category †democracy and participation†showed the
as 136 self-identified categories were used by organisations to define their work Only the most popular are shown below to illustrate this
Work and employment 78 Finance and economy 76 Science& Technology 60 Table 3: Domains of Activity
valorising labour time equally, or linking currencies to data 25 2. New ways of making
•The work by Your Priorities in Iceland and Open Ministry in Finland on bringing DSI to the core of gov
The work by the local government in Vienna on Open Government Data Vienna led to citizens developing a raft of innovations,
The work by the EU DG Research funded social inno -vation research projects TEPSIE on the role of ICT in social innovation,
The work by Nesta in the UK on the tech for good incubator Bethnal Green Ventures and Waag Society in Amsterdam work on setting up
A look across the different activities that DSI organisations are involved in shows how they support work
and looking at in the light of the case study work we can outline some key characteristics of the type of activities that DSI players are carrying forward to
Stand in a classic exhibition this works the other way around, with the organizers dividing the space in square meters which are sold then to exhibitors who have need the to carve out a more or less great visibili
as is the work by the social innovation research project TEPSIE on the role of ICT and social innovation.
the Nominet Trust†s (UK) work Digital Edge, a programme which funds ventures that demonstrate how
The World wide web Consortium (W3c), an international community that works on developing 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
-works, free interoperable network services open Wifi, bottom-up-broadband, distribut -ed social networks, p2p infrastructures Tor
Most European cities work with sensors that moni -tor environmental conditions. Pollution, temperature, humidity and light sensors are installed that provide
The work by Tor on creating a secure and privacy-aware service that bounce Internet users†and websitesâ€
The work by organisations like Raspberry Pi and Arduino illustrates the potential in open hardware
but the majority of work is done by a larger network of other organisations in the â€oelong tail†that are connected via the super-nodes.
Another example is the work by Open Garden on facilitating the sharing of Internet between devices
In this sense, the close work with a small group in the very place where the group lives is of utmost importance.
and work in networks across organ -isation boundaries †including the boundary between the private and public sphere.
and to access what works and what doesn†t to calibrate interventions and investments •Addressing barriers to growth and scale.
Work Package 2 †Crowd mapping DSI organisations and activities The challenges with this approach to date
The next stage of Work package 2 will include the Task 2. 2, the development of the website.
Work Package 3-Assessing Strategies The first steps in Policy Research in WP3 will follow a hierarchical schema, starting from the identification
the European commission, particularly H2020 and work programmes, Digital Agenda, Social Innovation in DG Regio and Social Entrepreneurship in DG Enterprise
Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders To support the growth and spread of DSI it needs traction on multiple levels within the EU, from citizens
Work Package 5-Experiment and Pioneer Because policy aims to shape the behaviour of economic agents by tapping into their motivations and in
Work Package 6 †Recommendations The objective of this work package is to compile the learning of the project by distilling a set of policy rec
-ommendations for Digital Social Innovation In order to accomplish this objective a policy framework for digital social innovation will be elaborated
-work for grouping DSI organisations and developing our understanding of the characteristics of these or
thus not using cheap labour and low quality materials to emphasise this they had the Italian map stamped on the front of the
both personal and commercial derivative works, as long as they credit Arduino and release their designs under the same license
-paigning network that works to ensure that the †views and values of the world†s people inform global decision-making. †Avaaz relies entirely on
-paigning works †you leverage bursts of engagement from our member -ship with particular priorities and campaigns to generate longer term
work and costs money. As †democracy nerds†the Citizens Foundation team are worried that most of our social lives are being run by one com
The actual work is divided into five activities •Developing a Technological Framework (lead: University of Tilburg
Part of the work is technical in nature: selecting standards, developing frameworks and architectures, as well as writing the actual code for the
Lastly there is work in deciding where the results will go after the project, to ensure uptake and growth of the solution
It turns out this actually works well for the development community and data owners alike.
for America involved †a new type of public service based on the work of volunteer programmers that has sought to building bridges between the
-works and fibre deployment as commons (both new techniques such as aerial as well as fibre bandwidth management) â€
range of technologies employed by the different fellows †who will work with their own preferred web platform (using open source languages like
connector generally, Commons4eu also works with other social inno -vators on more specific challenges as part of an informal global network
and new cultural works are created. This definition is extracted from the Public domain Manifesto an output of the Thematic Network
•Management of orphan works, i e. works whose author is unknown COMMUNIA policy paper on the proposed orphan works directive
What is the social impact it is seeking, including any evidence of impact to date? The COMMUNIA Association and its Members raise awareness in, edu
-cate about, advocate for, and offer expertise on and research about the Public domain, in the digital age within society and with policy-makers
The association works on deliverables such as policy papers, projects, and WIPO statements. Event-wise the association or
-work neutrality, openness and size of these networks are a great chal -lenge to routing protocols and its implementation on low-cost devices
-works are built often with simple and low cost off-the-shelf hardware The nodes are usually running an open source distribution, such as Linux
-works, such as VOIP, content distribution, on-demand and live media streaming, instant messaging, remote backups and updates, file storage
-works, such as on-demand and live media streaming, instant messaging remote backups and updates, file storage and file sharing.
universities that work alongside local, regional and global partners to promote and support social change towards sustainability
locally funded, the results of this work and research are shared all across the DESIS network.
In their research and practical work, Everyaware focus on sensing, mo -bile and location-based technologies, as well as data visualisation
for using Fablab Amsterdam in open days is to document the work and project on the Fablab website and share the designs with the rest of the
see as fertile ground for beginning this work. One example of this is the Fablab Low cost Prosthesis program, a technology to produce a lower
its design and production work. The digital fabrication include machines such as, Laser cutter, Milling machine, Vinyl Cutter, Embroidery Ma
placed in an open space, to make the work with different machines easi -er Teleconferencing system and digital communication:
Much of the work in the Fablab relies and is based on open source design and open hardware such as
The majority of work in the Fablab is run by an active community of volunteers. This, the Fablab team sees as one of the most
Fairphone works with factories where a specially established fund will ensure decent wag -es are distributed amongst workers.
Work and employment, other Technology Trends: Open Knowledgeâ Â DSI activities: Operating a web service
new and better versions of their work collaboratively. It has grown since to be the largest social coding repository in the world.
-located work spurred on by the belief that creativity and innovation are contingent upon employees investing themselves in the projects they
the Center for the Future of Work, Heinz College and Carnegie mellon University); ) found that people make a surprisingly rich set of social
strategies for coordinating work, advancing technical skills and manag -ing their reputation 117 How is funded the organisation?
assembling code†in the form of libraries, open source work, etc. †as well as writing it,
Work and employment, other Technology Trends: Open Knowledge DSI activities: Operating a web service Key facts:
it works in a similar way to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. As an ex -ample the platform was used to successfully raise £4, 401 (109 per cent
which can aid board members in their work. One example of the latter is the Slow Food an organisation based in Ger
powerful and do their work, but we want the grassroots to be able to control themâ€
and time consuming to work efficiently, before the advent of the Internet. Finally, the open source ap
Giving back Open-source hardware is about sharing work with others for everyone†s benefit. It is beneficial for all parties to provide upgrades
is possible to make profits doing commercial work that can be re-invest -141 ed in charitable, open source projects without having to employ a huge
-ity, and it is this company (mysociety ltd) that does commercial work Today about 40%of mysociety†s income is from commercial work and
they work towards expanding this, while developing †a reputation as a software company that can solve problems that more traditional web
-works might be used to enhance democratic participation and delib -eration, and influence policy in collaboration with existing political
Open data sit at the core of all Opencorporates work. This is both a tool to scrape, capture
-tion tends to work with freelancers and volunteers What are the main barriers t o innovate?
As described above, Patientslikeme works towards a creating a platform and, in the long-term, a health care system, where information is openly
Sharing only works when there is reputation involved. Most sharing platforms try to combat this issue by building a
growing rapidly and have shown that the platform works on small scale The next challenge is to understand how it could work on a larger scale
so can work more easily in electrical off-grid environments Other than the fact that the demand for the Raspberry Pi computers
the work done by Safecast was evidenced further when, on September 15,2012, it was announced that Safecast†s radiation measurements were
it won†t work. †On one hand, the project is now slowly by slowly gen -erating more attention, through people who are already participating
range of criminal sites. â€oewe work with law enforcement a lot, †Lewman told the Guardian. â€oethey are fully aware of bad guys on Tor.
work to software development. It has built also a strong team of volun -teer developers primarily in Africa,
work they started, and continues to be a resource to the emergency response community there.
Work Package 2 †Crowd mapping DSI organisations and activities Work Package 3-Assessing Strategies
Work Package 4-Engaging Stakeholders Work Package 5-Experiment and Pioneer Work Package 6 †Recommendations
Appendix 1-DSI Case studies Appendix 2 †ï¿Matrix of Case studies grouped by technology trend and domain
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