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30 september 2014 Case study analysis report of online collaboration and networking tools for social innovation Deliverable 8. 3 of the

like Web 2. 0, Web 3. 0 and even Web 4. 0. Deliverable D8. 1 also argued that ICT in an historical

apt comparison with the current impact of ICT and internet might be 17th century England when

unimaginable before the rise of Internet-enabled collective platforms. †1 Tepsie includes in its

internet, the world-wide-web, social media and smart phone apps, new ways of carrying out social innovation have become possible

possible more than ever before using the internet or mobile apps to link, almost instantaneously and regardless of distance, people with a social need to others who can meet that need.

For example, using the internet to send algorithms for 3-D printed prosthetic limbs designed for war victims in developing countries for local production and use

/2 †Big data†refers to the vast amount of data that can be collected from the internet,

channels over a broadband Internet link Diabetiva (GER) Reach high-risk patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 who have displayed symptoms or developed illnesses & blood complications

11 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Zero-hour contract 12 http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/social-economy

highly skilled individuals selling their talents in a global market place over the Internet, playing off

x Networks such as Linkedin allow people to stay in touch with potential work partners much

a particular website/app, more a technological shift that enables the social innovation of flexible working

Internet. The Internet can also be used to match work or tasks which people need doing with those

willing and able to do them in real or very quick time, for example the US-based Taskrabbit which also recently launched in the UK. 16 ICT can assist in finding work in two main ways

web-design, app development, software programming or any other types which need ICT or are in

Eslife has a website with simple navigation in 3 steps: i notification of work or a task which needs doing,

matching, and also runs a blog with news, information and practical tips. As in the other two

mainly by social media (Facebook and Linkedin with Mailchimp for newsletters. ICT is used alongside physical and traditional training workshops, mentoring, brainstorming and general

â€oeevents, conferences, training, blogs, webinars, newsletters, books, films, guides, tweets, and more†â€. 27 The Transition Town Network is seen as a socioeconomic movement based on fiscal

/28 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Transition towns (network 29 As in the ZBILETEMTANIEJ example 30 for example in Russia:

agents, cloud based services, the semantic web and the internet of things, mobile and mobile apps social media, and augmented

and virtual reality) are enabling us to better contextualise our physical interactions with people, things and places. 33 For example, the so-called †geoweb†of data

34 This relates to the so called †internet of things†and †internet of everything††see also Tepsie D8. 1 section 3. 2. 3

-Enabling real-and quick-time online (web & mobile) reporting of problems to authorities & community dialogue

-ICT web/mobile for matching supply & demand, managing system social fora, awareness raising; local currency to exchange work and

-Online crowdsourced campaigning tool using website, mobile and social media to collect data and organise, increasing civic engagement

on issues, community voice and agency -Public lottery fund, many civil organisations, with public & private

on website for project registration, finding, donating and volunteering plus social media -Started in 2008 by 3 grassroots activists in New york,

rapidly gained funding from many foundations & other donors, remains civil operated -£740, 000 donated;

social networking, including information and interactive services from the City council, national government departments, the police and local community networks.

access and training sites in 17 local schools, eight UK-Online community access centres and 10

assistance for anyone to â€oerun a website like Fixmystreet in your country or city, for freeâ€. the

Fixmystreet Platform is for citizens who want to run their own sites. â€), 46 as well as the

solutions for both web and mobile as open source e-platforms, but these are used very specifically to match the supply and demand for the exchange of local goods, services and tasks

and via social media for ensuring transparency to combat corruption, promote discussion and raise awareness alongside a large number of

website, mobile and social media) to create a multidimensional campaign to gather stories and raise awareness of the impact of housing benefit changes in Hackney.

a free blogging platform †to create a website that includes information on the changes, shows

and Facebook †the most popular online social networking tool †to reach more residents of Hackney.

These free online tools meant that Hackney CAB Crowdmap could reach the community and gather

crowdfunding (mirco-finance) based on website for project registration, finding, donating and volunteering, plus social media (Facebook, blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo) for constant updating

and following up projects, people and places. This is supplemented by traditional and physical activities, given that of course all projects are physical and tangible projects in the

collectively, to become stakeholders in new online and offline social networks, encouraging strong and positive relationships between people from different backgrounds in the workplace, in

and all were were added to the map on the website to provide an easily accessible and illustrative visualisation of the housing benefit problems in Hackney.

published research findings on the website. The results of a mystery shopping housing exercise and

the online impact map were shared through social media and used by other organisations to supplement their own findings.

site-based projects, all of which are conceived, designed, and run by neighbours. This ensures community buy in, long-term caretakers and daily reminders of what†s been achieved.

citizens†PCS connected to the Internet which requires a lot of support especially concerning viruses, firewalls and malware.

Drivers for Eastserve include conducive national and regional policies during most of the 2000s, and European networks like Eurocities and Telecities, plus

internet at home. Where they did, directing them to the website was difficult. In addition, people could be somewhat apprehensive about sharing their details online,

worried that they were identifiable. To overcome this, and to ensure the campaign reached as many people as possible

support from web developers who provided further support. But the dedication and commitment of one champion volunteer to develop the campaign

social media discussion and to raise awareness. In both cases, ICT is deployed alongside physical and traditional activities,

online and via social media, ICT makes it easier for research findings to be found and accessed by

to facilitate social media discussion and to raise awareness, and in most cases ICT is deployed alongside physical and traditional

developments, especially the internet and mobile devices. ICT can very efficiently match idle assets with new forms of demand, not otherwise possible, thereby enabling these outputs to be realised

ICT connectivity, via the Internet and especially mobile, is now making all the difference, driving the massive growth and impact of the

57 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Fab lab 66 Case analysis Social needs addressed and summary

-ICT web/mobile free platform for matching supply & demand managing system, social fora, traditional media, awareness

1, 800 members, 1, 200 on Facebook, 500 exchanges at any one time Cookisto (EL and UK) 59

-Online internet and mobile platform for all contact for swapping and exchanging homemade food, social media, traditional media

-Civil start-up in Greece, small private sponsorship to start in UK sometimes â 4 per meal payments between Cooks and Foodies, all

-Online internet and mobile platform for all contact for sharing assets, linked to traditional media

-Online internet platform and social media for promotion, news contacts, discussions, advice, manuals and starter kit

-Global database of companies, web scraping, reconciliation function, analysis and visualisation tools, also spinning off physical

The Athens Time Bank case has adopted standard ICT solutions for web and mobile as free of charge open source e-platforms, based on the Cyclos online banking platform

Social media and social communication tools (like Skype) are used also. The ICT operates together with traditional and physical activities, such as workgroups and

The Cookisto case similarly uses standard online internet and mobile platforms for all contact, in this case for swapping,

It also uses social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to take pictures of the dishes.

the meals provided by the Cooks through the social media which is used also to communicate and create a community

The Streetbank case uses online internet and mobile platforms for all contact for sharing assets.

version of the website, and will also soon join forces with 55,000 members of another neighbourhood sharing scheme.

The website provides a variety of offline tools for encouraging participation, such as fliers, custom posters, customised neighbour invitations or even making

The Repair Cafã s case uses standard technology in the form of an internet platform

It uses Facebook and Twitter to support discussion and raise awareness, using text, photos and videos,

enabling members to illustrate discussion and show problems, making it easier to find solutions and volunteers to help.

data database of over 60 million companies in 75 jurisdictions, together with web scraping reconciliation functions, analysis and visualisation tools, all in open format for anyone to use to

platform for doing data science on the web, to help get corporate data by scraping it from the

web. The site also has a Google Refine reconciliation function that matches legal entities to

company names. The core business of Opencorporates is to collect data on companies through web scraping tools and then to visualise the data which is mainly from company registers, but

also from a wide range of other published datasets, both national and global. For example every night data is imported from the London Gazette, the Belfast Gazette and the

but generally leaves communities to use the site without interference. The platform and its physical activities fosters trust, reciprocity and mutualism which

and Internet literacy which can preclude people from participating on the online platform Ironically, those with a distinct lack of these skills are usually poorer households

the Repair Cafã s case is lack of computer skills and Internet literacy which can preclude people

but generally leaves communities to use the site without interference. Thus, trust and ethics are driving features both to make the system work in a

The second are the social networks that are emerging which enable the leverage of existing trusted networks or the building of trust between

67 http://www. marketingmag. com. au/blogs/collaborative-consumption-and-the-sharing-economy-shaping-the

and include the broader social network (with family and community contributing significantly to individual health and well-being.

This model will also encourage the inclusion of the broader social network (i e. family and community as significant contributors to individuals†health and well-being.

x Social media enriched healthcare (Health 2. 0)- Health 2. 0 strategies have been formulated and discussed for the past years all over the world.

It includes the use of a specific set of Web tools (blogs, Podcasts tagging, search, wikis,

One can also observe a trend of platform-based health-related websites that focus on the provision of

73 See for instance-http://www. npr. org/blogs/health/2013/07/03/198065436/one-mans-quest-to-make-health-care-accessible-and

74http://www. forbes. com/sites/jenniferrooney/2013/03/26/the-opportunities-that-exist-in-the-market-of-well-being-mequilibriums

This is still a rather unexplored area particularly outside of the formal website domains Finally, platform technology is also enabling internet users to volunteer to improve health outcomes.

For instance the Bemyeyes app83 allows users to support blind people in telling them what label they want to read in everyday

85 https://www. facebook. com/nayajeevan/info 86 http://www. centreforbetterhealth. org. uk /87 http://www. derbyshirehealthunited. com

/88 https://www. facebook. com/Pendahealth 89 https://medicallhome. com/Medicallhomeweb/index. php 90 clinic in a boxclinipak

Internet link -Cooperation between the public and private sectors, originally supported by public innovation funds (both European and Danish) as well as private

PHTS) via the internet -44 diabetes specialists, 299 medical practitioners, and 799 patients 97 www. patientslikeme. com

introduce Internet users to the approach and to give them the opportunity to familiarise themselves with projects/organisations to be funded.

-Cell Slider is an interactive website that encourages members of the public to engage in cancer research

-While Cancer Research UK is based a United kingdom charity, the web tool can be accessed by people around the world

utilising internet-based citizen science projects to further science and the public understanding of science and the

developers to maintain the website and researchers to interpret results in order to develop cures and treatments.

where the data is available for download and reporting. This has been a vast improvement over the paper

builds on standard ICT with emphasis on telecommunications solutions such as the internet, mobile apps and so

infrastructure in the world, the Internet, dothiv is a profoundly far-reaching approach. Nevertheless, there are also some more â€oedown to earth†implications and opportunities.

-Shape the structure of the Internet, thereby anchoring the HIV/AIDS problem on the Internet†s highest

domain owners, domain users, Intermediaries, Registrars, Google, facebook, Twitter, etc. dothiv itself -Raise awareness and de-stigmatise

However, the approach is almost 100%Internet-based and thus makes use of networks effects

104 A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain name System of the Internet.

http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Top-level domain 97 projects/organisations will be spread via random networks using social media.

That is likely to lead to additional awareness, de-stigmatisation, more clicks, etc. †in the best case the approach or at least

the Internet and social media developing vastly and unpredictably x Patient Briefcase-The case is a good example of successful cooperation between the public and private

Relatively new technology will be used to introduce Internet users to the approach and to give them the opportunity to familiarise themselves with

Internet bandwidth at a suitable price, both in terms of setup and operational costs. More recently, the availability

is a commercial supplier of an Internet service, and one is a charitable organisation dedicated to solving a distinct

and the associated websites may be very much in conflict or opposing the views of dothiv as a charitable organisation;

manage and support Internet sites that conflict with the views and objectives of dothiv g. e. V. However,

utilising internet-based citizen science projects to further science and the public understanding of science and the

developers to maintain the website and researchers to interpret results in order to develop cures and treatments.

world access to top education through courses offered on web-based teaching platforms and by the world†s leading

social networks is required still, but the core technology of a †badge backpack†has already been refined

others, shared through online social spaces, websites, and activities. Such learning is often informal and

110 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Personalized learning 115 Vignette: Assessment and Teaching of Twenty-first Century Skills:

web (see also www. atc21s. org ATC21S has been initiated and is sponsored by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft; the companies have a long history of

-It can be used via the Internet or in paper form (Kurzskalen/short scales) by the public, by professionals and by experts.

the internet in the case of the MOOCS and gaming technologies for the Quest to Learn example.

such as the Google suite, Algodoo116, Brainpop117 and Dragon Box118. In the area of new learning environments

The website informs about the project and its aims, too. This example has a strong focus on content creation and issue identification

sessions or online (contact form on the website. Ideally this creates a circulation and improvement of spoken

either by visiting the website, reading the book or using the short scales to monitor one child or several children.

Q2l is â€oebounded by the barriers placed on public schools, such as firewalls which Q2l has had to work round for

computer with an internet connection. Whilst there have been based paper concepts for open universities/open education, ICT are considered widely as a game changer for education.

computer and Internet and digital literacy. Also, the rise of MOOCS potentially allow for a different value for money

internet and because the courses are free Coursera contributes to society with a widening of education possibilities

It uses the internet to disseminate knowledge on early childhood development. But at the same time it uses the internet to gain knowledge

when MONDEY receives data on the monitoring of babies and toddlers. This is definitely innovative. MONDEY is dynamic and interactive.

To connect MONDEY with social media in a controlled way is discussed but not yet planned Strategic and operational considerations related to ICT in social innovation

education, and make the best education in any topic available to anyone with a computer and Internet connection

access to a computer and Internet and digital literacy. MONDEY specifically also highlight the importance of requires a good framework for data security

Internet & platform technol -ogy crucial -Content creation -Issue identifi -cation -Online knowledge communities All types

and Internet and digital literacy Personalised education & new learning environment s Standard ICT solutions

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In just three decades, the internet has evolved from an experimental tool for researchers to a pervasive, omnipresent backbone for society and the economy.

All of the most innovative ideas, from Skype to Wikipedia, from online cartography to app stores, had a very quick, viral spreading.

the confluence of social networks, knowledge networks and networks of things. It was a broad concept and was very far from the traditional approach to research funding

the internet I like to think that a book sprint is a very good example of how people can collaborate in

journalist and social media manager. Marta graduated in philosophy, studying contemporary aesthetics and politics in the urban context,

social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments "Internet of things")in order to create awareness of problems and possible solutions

as it segregates internet users into small-scale groups that share professional and leisure interests. The understanding and transparency of

Web platforms are the locus on which the CAPS projects focus on enabling the dynamics of collective awareness construction.

it is a socio-technical solution that is composed of multiple ICT tools, such as websites forums, social networks, collaborative platforms, deliberating tools, data visualisation, etc

The first of the societal challenges the EC is focusing on with the action of CAPS

web. Among others it is possible to mention Avaaz, which defines itself as'A global

web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere 'Laborvoices, which allows companies to get information about their suppliers in developing

and Goteo, a Spanish social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructures, micro-tasks and

explicitly addresses, according to the model of Wikipedia, the existence of different levels of contribution. For the general public the existence of CAPS initiatives can be a way

the internet, but rather the lack of skills to use it); transparency and trustworthiness of

in the use of online social networks and the value proposition and business models that surround personal and sensitive data

Moving from citizen engagement to the data that these citizens produce on the web intentionally or unintentionally, a main research question is how to make that data

to looking at what is used already on the web and how it is successful, it is also necessary

like the one of Wikipedia, that show reward mechanisms based on credibility, recognition and respect, that are not too different from the reward mechanisms of

Participation in work-related communities such as Linkedin groups and other professional networks can trigger different motivations.

†WEB-COSI: increases trust in collectively-generated statistics Moreover, the study on Digital Social Innovation in Europe (DSI) is dedicated to

commons-based peer production in the future Internet 3. Overview of the First CAPS Projects 22 These two are funded under the FP7 Objective 1. 7 Future Internet Research

Experimentation (FIRE) of the 2013 Work Programme. Finally, CAPS are an important topic for internet science, a research domain dedicated to the understanding of techno

-social issues. In this field, the Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS), recently funded the FOCAL project (Foundation for Collective Awareness Platforms)

which will study CAPS projects with a special focus on trust, security and engagement issues The CAPS EC funded projects pool is indeed a network of networks, building from existing

Project Acronym Project Full Title Project Website DECARBONET A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating

the Future Internet http://www. p2pvalue. eu USEMP User Empowerment for Enhanced Online Presence Management www. usemp-project. eu

WEB-COSI Web Communities for Statistics for Social Innovation www. webcosi. eu CAPS2020 CAPS2020 http://caps2020. eu

Wikipedia †Users of online communities interested in knowing more about their data and in

CC RESEARCH GROUP ON INTERNET, POLICY AND COMMONS AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-Barcelona, Spain †IMAGINATION FOR PEOPLE-France

and meta-analysis. These projects are WEB-COSI CAPS2020, IA4SI and SCICAFE2. 0. These projects, by their very nature, are developing

WEB-COSI makes a Wiki of progress statistics available and fosters the use and improvement of quality of nonofficial statistics beyond GDP statistics

USEMP aims at empowering social network users with regards to the sharing of their personal data and its potential economic value.

participation, and with WEB-COSI in terms of analytics and visualisations CHEST shows potential synergies could emerge with IA4SI, and from their

for Internet Science, deserves to be mentioned 30 Figure 3 Synergies between CAPS Projects 31 Collective Awareness Platforms

Web 2. 0 social computing principles motivate the importance of placing useful, usable analytic tools in the hands of users themselves, balancing the traditional focus on †executive

social network analytics and visualisations structure and dynamics of peer-to-peer networks, e g. the roles that people play in collective

CATALYST, DECARBONET, IA4SI, WEB-COSI projects Collective Assessment When many people coordinate each other through the use of digital technologies, one of

Such evaluation can be delegated to algorithms, like in the case of Google Pagerank, where search results are ordered according to different criteria such as relative

statistical data collections (WEB-COSI), and reputation and rating systems (WIKIRATE e-Democracy, e-Participation, Direct Democracy

use of the internet and mobile devices, these tools will serve to empower members of the

condition with which to explore the potential of social media for tackling social challenges The issue of how to engage people with social innovation as users of the collective

Each social network has a different affordance for users. Twitter, Facebook and other widely-adopted social systems format the content in different ways,

suggesting to users to attribute different meanings and ways of use. Integrating user-generated data

and WEB-COSI are focused on open data integration by providing different standards, tools and methods for data federation.

work on the modelling of social media data for mining and presenting it in an aggregated way.

data from different social media sources (such as Facebook, Twitter and emailing systems Online Deliberation†From Group-Based to Large-scale

mobilised by engaging in online dialogues mediated by social media platforms, for example the Arab spring uprisings organised through Facebook,

or the use or Twitter for emergency response. Even though society seems to urge technologies to facilitate and

37 empower widespread collective deliberation, social media platforms, as well as the more targeted platforms for e-democracy,

provide unstructured conversations where data is not presented in a way that makes it easy for other people

CBPP projects and initiatives, other projects, like SCICAFE2. 0, WEB-COSI, and WIKIRATE actually leverage some of the characteristics of this mode of production in delivering their

WIKIRATE and WEB-COSI 38 Privacy-Aware Tools and Applications Privacy-aware systems have evolved over the last decade from privacy-enhancing

internet governance, is a complex co-design challenge that can be supported strongly by CAPS. This can be done in providing the requisite participative engagement to discuss

internet governance issues worldwide Three CAPS projects, namely FOCAL, USEMP and D-CENT have included privacy-related

social networks USEMP will build upon the notion of PDE and may in fact assume a personal data vault to

Social networking & Social media Enhancement The confluence of network-centric systems, mobile telecommunications, semantic web and web 2. 0,

as well as the emergence of the growth of networked media, in particular the creative media industry and prosumers sharing media for entertainment, has contributed to

a thriving ecosystem of online social networks (OSN) serving various business models and personal interests for the citizens ranging from specialist interest groups to social meeting

places. It is clear that this ecosystem should be exploited maximally to serve the European citizen and economy by linking it to the Internet of things (Iot), sensor network and cloude

services in order to support open online social media and distributed knowledge co -creation thus maximising the network effect, using sharing to support social innovation

and developers, is creating a distributed social networking platform for large-scale collaboration to solve social problems

†USEMP will develop a set of tools allowing users of online social networks greater control over the personal data they share within the network

2. Assembl http://assembl. org Assembl is a web application that enables hundreds to thousands of people to work together with the goal of creating a single, tangible

8. Climate Quiz https://apps. facebook. com/climate-quiz A Facebook application in the tradition of â€oegames with a Purpose†for Measuring Environmental Knowledge

and back them up with websites. By using Cohere people can support or challenge each other's ideas

Crabgrass https://we. riseup. net Crabgrass is a software libre web application designed for group

decentralised social network which puts users in control of their data security and was touted by the media as a'Facebook killer

'41 15. Edgeryders http://edgeryders. eu/page/home-mb-ano Edgeryders is a global community and boutique consulting company.

Elgg http://elgg. org Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and

associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications 17. Evidence Hub http://evidence-hub. net The Evidence Hub is a collaborative

knowledge-building (specifically evidence-building) web platform. It was designed in KMI by the team developing the concept of'Contested Collective Intelligence',where

-and-services/products A set of In-Home Displays, smart plugs and web visualisation of energy consumption

Esperanto, is a network of interconnected sites, where you can communicate, share collaborate with others

and create your web spaces easily 25. Libbitcoin http://libbitcoin. dyne. org Libbitcoin is a community of developers

software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making 27. Loomio https://www. loomio. org/?

Mailpile https://www. mailpile. is Free and open-source web mail client with user -friendly encryption and privacy features

It tracks the latest news and social media coverage on climate change and related issues. The dashboard provides interactive means to access this repository,

Metamaps http://metamaps. c/Metamaps. cc is a free and open-source web platform for changemakers, innovators, educators and students.

Anybody living in Rio de janeiro can log on to the website and denounce a problem and launch a campaign to fix it.

Reddit http://www. reddit. com Social networking service and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct

posts and determine their position on the site's pages. Content entries are organised by areas of interest called'subreddits

Slashdot http://slashdot. org Slashdot is a website based on, and runs, the Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage software

Utopia Docs http://getutopia. com Collaborative web annotation tool for PDF files 50. Wagn http://wagn. org Wagn is a Wiki Platform

and managing your website, in a collaborative way Yeswiki is written Free Software in PHP language under the GPL licence,

creating and managing an internet or intranet website 54. Your Priorities https://www. yrpri. org/home/world Your Priorities is an

e-democracy web application designed by the nonprofit Citizens Foundation to help groups of people speak with one voice.

across the internet, are examples of problems experienced across nations, to a greater or lesser extent, that are apparently beyond individual control,

The internet-based physical and digital ensemble, including the Internet of things, today can enable us to obtain the required measurements,

By converging cloud services, mobile telecommunication and Web 2. 0 technologies the collective awareness platforms will support wide spread participative engagement

users must influence others, and social media boosts this process Engagement strategies must provide an incentive to self-report achievements and changes

the potential of social media to reach a goal are not rare: the difference between'reach'and

a political one) using the web as a principal channel. Providing an adequate tool is definitely

innovative, for example, can be a powerful motivator, especially for a younger, internet savvy audience. The broad range of computer games and apps that appeal to the users of internet

devices are a valuable resource for understanding what motivates a large segment of the population. Social media channels and blogs are also very powerful tools for engaging

communities of interest over a longer period of time, and will play an important role in the

addressed is, on average, internet savvy or not. How familiar people are with technologies must be considered in designing engagement strategies and the participatory working

9) exemplifies how user-generated information in different social media channels can be used by NGOS and policy makers to understand how specific topics, for example

engaging European citizens in a sign-in campaign centralised on the initiative web 69 †Outlook for the Future

Badii A. 2000)' Online Point-of-Click Web Usability Mining with Popeval-MB, Webeval -AB and the C-Assure Methodology'.

Forte, A. & Bruckman, A. 2005) Why Do People Write for Wikipedia? Incentives to Contribute to Open†Content Publishing.

What the Internet is Hiding from You. Penguin UK Philip, J. A.,Deiglmeier, K. & Miller, D. 2008)' Rediscovering Social Innovation'.


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