An increasing number of companies known for their hard-nosed approach to business†such as Google, IBM, Intel
A growing number of companies known for their hard-nosed approach to business†such as GE, Google, IBM, Intel, Johnson
Dow chemical managed to reduce consumption of fresh water at its largest production site by one billion gallons†enough water to supply nearly 40,000 people in the U s. for a year†resulting in savings of $4 million
As itunes, Kindle, and Google Scholar (which offers texts of scholarly literature online) demonstrate, profitable new distribution models can also dramatically
If sites are comparable economically, at which one will the local community benefit the most?
meaning internet connections, web collaborative tools, sharing of open data and a process of bottom-up peer-supported
The idea behind it is that web platforms and the new forms of interactions promote
example, for the net innovation unit, the public-private partnership on the Future Internet currently has a budget of 130 million for its phase three.
These resources are for internet platforms that are digital open source and open hardware environments supporting social innovation by
namely to set up Internet platforms and digital information processing tools to promote those value-generating collaborations
of grass-root initiatives across social networks. The term Digital Social Innovation includes therefore, the role of ICT in social innovation process such that the people come first
open source and decentralized infrastructure for connecting citizens and the internet in a decentralized open architecture
Today's internet is centralized more than it once was: take Facebook, a centralized social network, take Google docs,
a centralized group and document management system, take Youtube, a centralized media hosting facility. To counter the big commercial players
innovation activities and research projects built peer-to-peer and small scale local social media, building on small community networks.
ï€ Downloads ï€ Closed, formal ï€ Top down ï€ Perfectionism ï€ A current of transparency, social
EC activities include the Future Internet public private partnership, and other numerous such PPPS. The DG CNECT budget amounts to 1 Billion euros per year in R&d grants
Finally there is the DG CNECT FP7 FIRE-Future Internet Research and Experiments funding a network of hubs that cooperate to interconnect the experimental test beds and
ï€ WEB-COSI: developing instruments for collectively-generated statistics and increasing trust for nonofficial statistics
P2p production and sharing, the legal rights-related issues of social network such as the management of personal data and the potential economic value of users activities on
social networks and the engagement and security issues of CAPS 6 Tab. 2-CAPS ongoing project and related website
The websites in the table above give details on the results obtained so far As the study Digital Social Innovation shows (Bria at al, 2014), CAPS are not alone in the
DSI panorama but are, in fact, part of a larger and growing ecosystems of innovators. This study, in fact, mapped 590 organisations with 645 projects active in the filed across
the Social media ROI. To analyse any changes in CAPS users'attitudes and behaviours a Stated Preference methods and Revealed Preference methods will be used while for the
-Service and Internet of Services research projects, Research Evaluation, 2014 23: 133-149 Passani A.,Spagnoli, F.,Prampolini, A.,Firus, K.,Van der Graaf, S.,Vanobberghen, W. 2014b
The Young Foundation and the Web. Digital Social Innovation working paper
Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation An Introduction i Foreword In just three decades, the internet has evolved from an experimental tool for researchers
to a pervasive, omnipresent backbone for society and the economy. In my eyes its main
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'.
Digital technologies and the Internet have transformed many areas of business †from Google and Amazon to Airbnb and Kickstarter.
Huge sums of public money have supported digital innovation in business, as well as in fields ranging from
These range from social networks for those living with chronic health conditions, to online platforms for citizen participation in policymaking, to using
networks †where they connect their devices, such as phones and Internet modems, to collectively share resources and solve
which was founded in 2000 as a response to the lack of broadband Internet in rural Catalonia
where commercial Internet providers weren†t providing a connection. The idea was to build a †mesh network†where each
person in the network used a small radio transmitter that functioned like a wireless router to become a node in the Guifi net
and provides Internet connection to those who would otherwise not be able to access it 6 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe
The Internet is approximately 40 years old, and its capacity for generating societal and economic value is understood relatively well, yet its potential for solving large-scale
good, even though the web itself was founded at CERN to further a vision of scientific knowledge sharing.
the web†s incredible growth, the use of platforms like Facebook to serve social good has
therefore, exists at the heart of the Internet. Despite the existence of a technical networking layer that could spread power
impressive success stories in obtaining a global reach, in particular campaigning sites such as Avaaz and parts of the collaborative economy and the maker movement.
context of Future Internet in Europe EXPLORING DSI NETWORK EFFECT PART PART PART 4 5 6
Digital Social Innovation in the context of Future Internet in Europe 15growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe
of the network effect of the Internet i e. that the benefit of a network and its
costs), as the Internet is increasingly the technical underpinning of the sociotechni -cal fabric of our societies
-ed by the Internet and 2) the level of online services built on top of these networks. Metcalfe†s Law,(i e. that the
For example, despite the Internet being a military-funded research project and the web a scientific project at their inceptions
the Internet and web were based on open standards and a radically decentralised architecture that could be harnessed by
any actor. So the Web was able to reach a critical mass of connectivity so that both
commercial entities (like Google) and noncommercial entities (like Wikipedia were able to exploit the â€oenetwork effect. â€
Beyond the Internet, many new technol -ogies such as open hardware may have positive network externalities. Â
This network effect applies in a straight -forward manner for some services such as social networking sites like Facebook
and sites that require large user-bases like Wikipedia or Airbnb, but it may not apply
easily to some other services such as e -democracy platforms, caring networks and local currencies. For each kind of social
-ly innovative service, we want to de -termine how they can maximise their impact using the infrastructure made
available by the widespread usage of digital tools such as the Internet There are many cases of DSI being spread throughout society
and we attempt to define and cluster these in this report. They include: the collaborative economy, local exchange and trading systems, digital currencies, and awareness networks
Digital Social Innovation in the context of Future Internet in Europe 16 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe
mediated attention, the Internet forms a natural digital substrate for collective intelligence Looking forward, collective intelligence is
-ment, the Internet offers unprecedented opportunities for collective intelligence via its increasing ubiquity and the massive
to the Internet globally in the next ten years, whilst over twenty billion objects will be connected to the Internet, trans
-mitting data coming from people, sensors the environment and objects themselves However, we cannot expect the Internet
by itself to drive innovation to help citi -zens address major societal challenges If we observe the Internet during its early
phases when it was funded primarily by research and defense, its founding princi -ples, such as network neutrality, equita
web browsers to be implemented over dif -ferent underlying platforms, avoiding pro -prietary systems and vendor lock in on the
web. This was a hard and contested battle which turned out to be the best way to do
-etary social networks, big data providers implementations of the Internet of things is convenient for users but also â€oelocks us
-cess to social data held on third-party sites and permissions to get into proprietary †app stores. †The lack of standards forces
A main Internet trend-threat is recognised today: an increasing con -centration of power in services in the
of which are based in Europe (Google controlling nearly 82%of the global search market and 98%of the mobile search
market, Facebook dominating the social networking and identity ecosystem, while Apple, Amazon and Microsoft control the
Google has developed the open source Android operating system and spawned innovation in applica -tions worldwide; Facebook has enabled
the building of thousands of apps and helped people to connect and organise However, one danger is that firms cap
INTERNET IN EUROPE The world wide web became successful because it was built on a set of royalty-free open stand
by US companies such as IBM, Google and Ciscos, partly because of the lack of alternatives Take for example the commercial success
of Google: Google has built already one of the world†s largest networks of computers and data centres for online-search results
and can repurpose their technology in or -der to expand into other data-driven ser
The future of the Internet should remain pluralistic, so that there is space for DSI alongside commercial services in the
Digital social innovation could play a central role in the development of the Future Internet and
Free Content Blogs Social networks E-democracy PEOPLE SOCIETY COLLABORATION DISTRIBUTED BIG BROTHER Commercial services Entertainment (eg.
IPTV DRM-heavy apolitical INDIVIDUALISM BUSINESS COMPETITION CENTRALLY CONTROLLED Open and distributed digital ecosystems to foster grassroots social innovation
align the capacities of the Internet better to social needs and that decentralise power to citizens
A major risk for the Future Internet is the realisation of the †Big Brother†scenario, with big industrial
Internet ecosystem. Even more worrying, the latest NSA data-gate showed that intelligence agencies and governments have been engaging in mass
Delivering a web service, Network, Research project, Research project, Advocating and campaign -ing, Maker and hacker spaces, Investing and Funding, Event, Incubators and Accelerators, Advisory or expert body, Education And Training. 3 Technology
Nesta research documented how 25%of UK adults used Internet technologies to share assets and resources in 2013 †20146
create and share on the web. It achieves this through two primary activities, Ouishare. net and collaborative economy events.
Goteo is a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructure, micro tasks and other resources) for encouraging the independent development of
Openspending encourages transparency and accountability, whilst participatory web platforms such as Wikigender and Wikiprogress developed by the OECD facilitate
Openspending is a data sharing community and web application that aims to track every government and corporate financial
with the support of the Open Ministry to mobilise a minimum of 50,000 votes for the proposal, primarily through social media
D-CENT is developing a decentralised social networking platform for large-scale collaboration and decision-making and is piloting open source solutions across Europe engaging new political partices, citizen
and implement open social web standard standards, contributing to the W3c Federated Social Web Working group
32 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source community as well as a global sensor network where
Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social network -ing, such as D-CENT and Diaspora,
-serving decentralised infrastructure for the open Internet constituted by open standards open data, free and open software and open hardware
Important developments to re-decentralise the Internet, leveraging P2p open technolo -gies, are happening at many levels.
For instance distributed social networking projects such as Diaspora, Status. net or easy-to-run servers like arkos â€
and accessibility of the Internet infrastructure Many activities in this space are driven by grassroots networks, like Observe Hack
of the Internet infrastructure. It includes projects that are using bottom up privacy-preserving and
model for the Future Internet across Europe and beyond, where communities of citizens build, operate and own open IP-based networks, a key infrastructure for individual and
Internet networks have become a key infrastructure for the development of the digital economy due to the †democratisation†of the access technologies, reducing
social networks, p2p infrastructures OPEN NETWORKS 40 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe and experiment with services and protocols.
and obstacles regarding Internet specifications that are exposed by these edge networks The Guifi. net initiative is developing a free,
Guifi. net is connected to the Catalan Internet Exchange (CATNIX) as an autonomous system (AS) via optical fibre with IPV4 and IPV6
Guifi. net COMMUNITY NETWORKS The work by Tor on creating secure, privacy-aware and crypto tools that bounce Internet users†and websites†traffic
through †relays†run by thousands of volunteers around the world, making it extremely hard for anyone to identify the source
-vited programmers and developers to make apps and web services based on the data which to date have resulted in more than 60 applications for citizens.
combine or turn into web -based or mobile applications that citizens may find useful. The movement for more and better open data has grown significantly
set up open data websites at the regional level that can be considered good practices and in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, the city of Barcelona is leading Multicouncil
today use blogs, wikis, social networks and hundreds of other collaborative platforms to manage their daily lives,
Commons4eu, partners got together to explore the development of collaborative web projectsâ and bottom-up broadband technologies15.
-tidisciplinary research projects are the Network of Excellence on Internet Science EINS), that aims to integrate multidisciplinary scientific understanding of Internet
networks and their co-evolution with society, and the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICS), promoted by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Internet of Thingst Open-source hardware consists of hardware whose blueprints are made publicly avail -able so that anyone can study,
anywhere/anytime access to the Internet, and to new services So-called Cyber Physical Systems (CPS),
-ing of embedded ICT systems both with one another and with the Internet, is giving rise to what has been named as Industry 4. 019
WEB SERVICE RESEARCH PROJECT EDUCATION AND TRAINING NETWORK ADVOCATING AND CAMPAIGNING EVENT INCUBATORS AND ACCELERATORS
part of a larger social network and have mapped this network in a way that has not been possible before
Social networks are defined formally as set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of rela
the case of the DSI social network col -lected in this study, the nodes in a graph
social networks. However, it is a large sample and thus worth exploring in de -tail. The graph of the networks is given
Internet in order to accomplish innova -tion at scale by the network effect. We can define scale in terms of †scale-freeâ€
Digital Social Innovation website could introduce innovators to both other local innovators and innovators sharing similar
Social networks Diaspora Crowdsourcing Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Innovation and innovation policy are not
new to the European union. Delivering on the Europe 2020 objectives of smart and inclusive growth depends on research
and innovation as key drivers of social and economic development and envi -ronmental sustainability. The European
Smart Cities, the Future Internet Public -Private Partnership Programme (FI-PPP and the European Cloud computing
The development of the Future Internet is addressed mainly through a number of technical projects, such as the FI PPP23
Social networks Diaspora Crowdsourcing Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Bottom up and grassroots approaches
A counterpoint to the top-down strategy is the bottom-up, human-centred approach that is characterised by emergent forms of
community intelligence. Relevant bottom -up initiatives are the Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability and Social
Innovation (CAPS), Web entrepreneurs young entrepreneurs in the field of active and healthy ageing, digital champions, in
-ture of social networks with a methodo -logical approach of foresights to engage stakeholders in the poliy making process
most social networks, Futurium participa -tory tools offer several features to sup -port collective foresight, such as scenario
social network Distributes and federated social networks based on open source code and open standards to promote open democracy
Internet needs to continue to be a neutral space where creativity can continue to flourish
decentralised social networking public identity management and encrypted email service The Internet ecosystem today is highly centralised The current
Internet is dominated by a handful of mainly US companies that control all the layers of the
ecosystem (app store, cloud machine learning, devices), and are imposing their rules of the game. Europe needs to invest in
future infrastructures that reflect the European values, support SMES and civic innovators and deliver public good.
the creation of the internet, the R&d fund -ing at CERN led to the invention of the
Web) Encourage people to think about Who could implement it (European Commission, national governments, mu -nicipal etc
we†ll email their pledge back to them af -ter six months (this keeps people on their
Magna carta for the Internet Enabling open infrastructures Innovation Labs Incubators & accelerators Knowledge sharing & networking
Magna carta for the Internet Enabling open infrastructures Innovation Labs Incubators & accelerators Knowledge sharing & networking
is supported the Google programme Google for Entrepreneurs36 that in 2011 created a campus where innovation and start-ups can meet
The Impact Hub of Vienna37 is a network of several cities across the world which, according to their websites,
The Internet is the best example of the power of interoperability. Its open architecture has given billions of
people around the world access to information, the possibility to add (web) content and services themselves, access to devices and modular applications that talk to one another
OPEN PLATFORMS Users of the Internet ecosystem include the independent application and service provid -ers who have the right to use the future Internet infrastructure (including both data in
a raw and processed form, as well as access to computing resources). Any privileged access provided to the owner/managers of the infrastructure would alter free competi
Federated Social Web â€oedo-not-track†technologies should be implemented in order to give users control over their social data and sensitive information, to make it easier for businesses to
An important effort towards a federated identity system Is federated the W3c Social Web Working Group58 to develop
The federated web standards will also be implemented within the EC-funded D-CENT Project59 that is piloting federated social applications for participatory
Future Internet users must be able to come (no barriers to entry) and go (no barriers
A Magna carta for the Internet Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the Web is advocating for a sort of Magna carta for the Internet to estabilish basic rights
and freedoms, to keep the Internet open, without surveillance and censorship, and to halt power abuses from Governments
and corporations. The Magna carta for the Internet goes along with recent UN General assembly (UNGA) resolution on The
Right to privacy in the Digital Age. 68. A Magna carta for all Web users could be directly crowd-sourced from the Web itself
engaging effectively in multi-stakeholder processes Distributed and open architectures Community and bottom-up networking 5. 3 RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SUPPORT
Community and bottom-up networking is an emerging mode of the Future Internet, where communities of citizens can
and management systems, distributed secure Clouds, distributed search, and federated social networking It can also include the development of open source mobile phone alternatives such as Fairphone69 on top of which a whole
This should include the use of social networking platforms, independent media and other news applications. For instance, the elaboration of a newsletter or creating a DSI
strategy blog would be a helpful instrument to spread the message from the European Commission and to provide updated information about policy deployment
Wide Web Foundation81 illustrate examples of how this could be captured and measured. Another metric to focus on could
As an example, the Fukushima prefecture in Japan hosts a map of the Safecast data on its website, and in
and future Internet infrastructures At regulatory level, The Digital agenda emphasises the need to adopt open standards and interoperable solutions to
Daniel Kaplan Founder and CEO, The next-Generation Internet Foundation Simona Levi Founder, Forum for the Access to Culture and Knowledge
11 http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default /files/good incubation wv. pdf 1 Combinatorial innovation means
â€oedoes the Web Extend the Mind†available online at: http://www. ibiblio org/hhalpin/homepage/publications
/websci2013-halpin-web-extend-the-mind pdf and published as Harry Halpin â€oedoes the web extend the mind?
†Proceedings of the ACM Web Science Conference (2013): 139-147 3 Over-the-topâ is a general term for
service providers that develop services that are utilized over a network that is owned by traditional network operators
Big OTT are Google, Skype, Youtube Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and EBAY 4 Sestini, Fabrizio.``Collective awareness
platforms: Engines for sustainability and ethicsâ€.  Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE 31.4 (2012): 54-62
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Social network Analysis: Methods and Applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press D. Watts and S. Strogatz (1998
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standpoint, see the Communia website http://bit. ly/V2knnk 50 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki
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