community-based and deploy social networks (not just virtual ones) 51 Finland has used the ERDF to co-finance a living lab focused on health and welfare services.
social networks generation, as well as the renewed necessity for Europe to develop its innovation capabilities and the mounting interest in quality of life, are boosting factors
The rise of the collaborative economy †from Airbnb (the social networking service for bed and breakfast) to car sharing
of the large number of social networks of active citizens and communities who of -ten operate under the radar?
-ed search and distributed social networking. It can also include the development of new mobile platforms able to
laboratory combining the informal character of social networks with the methodological rigour of foresights Besides the standard tools available in most social networks (e g. blogs, polls, content
subscription, update notification, messaging, creation of groupsâ€), Futurium†s participa -tory tools offer a number of special features such as knowledge harvesting tools to
of social networks and internet and also interactivity which is at the very heart of our
y demonstrating the innovative combination of network solutions (social networks sensor networks, knowledge co-creation networks
impacts of the Third Sector in terms of capital building (e g. social networks, cultural values or political participation) and
E-participation and use of social networks should be linked to citizens†deliberations to broaden the scope of those who can become involved, though
and social networking tools The other comes from culture and values: the growing emphasis on the human
blogs. It also needs high quality design to ensure usability and navigability ways of connecting each web site to others (through links and RSS feeds
as well as establishing a presence on other social networking sites like Youtube and Facebook which can act as feeders to the venture†s website
Above all, a venture needs to devote resources to the constant updating and active hosting of their sites.
tap into existing social networks and spread social ideas. Swarmtribes an ongoing NESTA project, applies the principles of viral marketing to
Think, for example, of micro-blogging service Twitter, personal publishing platform Wordpress, citizen reporting papers such as Ohmynews
social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut, and Bebo, or collaborative projects such as Wikipedia. It is easy to see the generative potential of
This includes social networking websites Facebook, Orkut, and Bebo, as well as websites which aim to connect people together in real life for particular causes.
One example of this is Landshare †which connects people who want to grow fruit and
extent to which social networks and a gift economy operate in the sphere of consumption has long been remarked on by anthropologists for example (from
translation software on its Meedan website of Arabic blogs, or Dialogue Cafã and the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) using Telepresence
or web-based social networking around specific issues (there are reportedly 18 million cancer related websites, the great
In the last year alone, Facebook has been used to mobilise protesters against knife crime, the military Junta in Burma, and FARC.
Morales, founder of the Facebook group One million Voices against FARC which now has over 400,000 members) used the social networking
site to organise a massive protest against the rebel forces in February 2008. Over a million people marched through the streets of Bogotã
Facebook 75; 138; 207 Fair Trade 119; 180; 184; 186 Fairtrade Labelling Organisation (FLO 94
we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations and argue that the causal success of DSI located in the social structure.
embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso-level patterns that show
understand the DSI community through events, workshops, social media blogs and articles. Highlights of activities include 640 organisations with 695 projects mapped on www. digitalsocial. eu;
@Digi si twitter account; 15+events and workshop on DSI including workhops at the international Fablab
Conference in Barcelona and Participation Practitioners Forum in Warsaw and more than 25 blogs and articles
for open data distributed repositories, distributed cloud, distributed search, and distributed social networking The Future of privacy, data protection, trust & ethics, emphasising the need for privacy-aware technologies
continue our social network analysis to better understand the needs and opportunities to nourish and scale DSI in Europe.
decentralised social networking, and open hardware, can potentially serve collective action and awareness 7 However, to date it has failed to deliver anticipated solutions to tackle large-scale problems, and the growth
One way of doing that has been through guest blogs and articles-where we have placed a DSI related blog
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The twitter account has proven an effective channel for both engaging new organisations and projects to join the map
Waag (8. 000+followers)  twitter accounts Your Priorities Platform •To support the further development of policy ideas for DSI following the outcome of the DSI policy
In addition to continuing our ongoing work on engaging DSI organisations via twitter we will more actively tap in to
and promote www. digitalsocial. eu in relevant Linkedin and Facebook groups working on digital social innovation. pcoming events
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Tech blogs and mag -azines Decentralized Cluster governance High entry barriers (technological skills Lack of interconnection between
Entrepreneurs and developers also use social networks to get in touch with one another. Some of the most popular social platforms include Entrepreneur Connect48 and Startup Nation49.
They read blogs and tech magazines as well. Some of them belong to entrepreneurs themselves like Steve Blank†s50, Joel Gascoigne†s51
attend events or join social networks to interact with other individuals or they might gather around other
Despite gathering around certain events and activities or participating in social networks, they usually are disconnected and, at any rate, they cluster round specific topics.
Data. gov. uk77 the open data portal of the United kingdom, has an â€oeinteract†section, with blogs
One of them is Goteo85), a social network for crowdfunding and distributed collaboration (services, infrastructure, microtasks,
facilitated by specific participation platforms, wikis, social media, and blogs Legislation is another significant tool that is used by governments.
-tors who often rely too much on Facebook, Twitter ect. for data. It will create more space for innova
Democratic and distributed social network Social network based on open source code to promote the most interesting news decided by the people,
send -ing links and voting. Based on the open source code of Meneame. net, but with a new user interface more similar
to actual social networks like Facebook or Twitter I would call it Yups. com: Yups for the positive votes and
social networking, public identity management and encrypted email service The internet ecosystem today is highly centralised
market, Facebook dominating the Social networking and Identity Ecosystem, whilst Apple, Amazon and Microsoft controlling the mobile market and cloud-based services platforms
search, and distributed social networking. It can also include the development of new mobile platforms alternative to Apple or Android) as a kind of â€oeregulated monopoly†able to ensure some basic services at
we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations and argue that the causal success of DSI located in the social structure.
studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso
Social networks are defined formally as set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types
In the case of the DSI social network collected in this study, the nodes in a graph are
This social network analysis examines the structure and composition of DSI organisations ties in a given network and provide insights into its structural characteristics
media presence (500+twitter followers. In addition to the research we will work with the European Commission on developing a sustainability plan for the DSI website and community before the final event
ICT networks, social networks, and knowledge networks. The networked connections enabled by the Internet and the World wide web grew along
social networking with a process rather than an event. This required the integration of the technological approach
Access to code allows the growth of social networks able to build and transform their business/economic environment
2013) identify six types of online social networking platforms with the potential to enable social innovation.
decentralized social networking, and open hardware, can potentially serve collective action and awareness However, today it stills fail to deliver anticipated solutions to tackle large-scale problems,
Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social networking, such as D-CENT and Diaspora, and the promotion and diffusion of knowledge systems in the Public domain, such as Com
The emerging cloud model,(proprietary social networks, big data providers, the Internet of things im -plementation), are currently following a different model that allows us convenience but at the expense of
network effect of Internet collective platforms strengthen the social networks of offline communities and amplify their collective intelligence.
developments), leveraging social networks (or distributed social networking, sensor networks and the Internet of things, and knowledge co-creation networks
mapping infrastructure and social networking tool. These can evolve organically together with the growth of the DSI innovators community
For instance, distributed social networking projects such as Diaspora, Status. net or easy-to run servers like arkos,
-ed social networks, p2p infrastructures Tor Confine Guifi. net Smart Santander Open Data innovative ways to capture, use,
and digital services adopted by DSI activities such as social networking, social media, crowdsourcing crowdfunding, big data, machine learning, 3d printing, online learning, e-petitions and so on
Ordinary people today use blogs wikis, social network and hundreds of other collaborative platforms to manage their daily lives,
solve so -cial challenges and business problem, and participate in e-campaigns, crowdfunding, crowd-mapping and
social network of peers living with similar conditions 40 Open Hardware Open source hardware consists of hardware
, a trend that includes Web 2. 0, social networks, social comput -ing, and that promotes Internet as a fundamental channel for allowing an increasingly active role of users
we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations, arguing that causation is located in the social structure.
Social networks are formally defined as a set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of relations
By studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso level patterns that show the dynamics in which DSI organisations and their
In the case of the DSI social network that is emerging from the map, the nodes in a graph are communities,
Social network analysis will examine the structure and composition of DSI organisation ties in a given net
private institutions have near-monopolies over social networks and search engine data, giving them nearly exclusive access to the data and algorithms needed for innovative digital research.
oligopolies, these companies are challenged still by new digital actors such as Facebook and Twitter It is key to distinguish between invention and socialisation as part of the wider process of innovation in
and Crowd mapping, social network -ing and democratic decision making tools, are technologies that allow for the quick identification (and
Shifting from Closed innovation models to Decentralized Innovative Social networks The proposed vision is to facilitate the creation of a bottom-up Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem that
plethora of sources, in particular information generated by users (e g. through social networks) or captured from sensors (Internet of things.
By linking differing communities and innovators via a social network, the innovators can more easily find
-ganisations and the linkages between them, has the potential to become an international social network of
•Addition of social network functionalities to the DSI mapping, so to allow creating and visualising dy
•Adding Twitter login option and other social plugins •Improve organisational profiles (they can add pictures,
on its site and social networks with links to documentation and tuto -rials. This helps ensure that partners†brands are marketed to the right
-pany, Facebook. But as entrepreneurs they point to a tendency to always try to turn problems into opportunities.
exploit Facebook, finding that it is one of the best ways to attract people to electronic democracy both via sharing and Facebook advertisements
User interface: There needs to be as little friction as possible for taking part. Therefore, the team have made,
to login and participate using their Facebook login. The user interface has been simplified in every generation of the software to enable more
blog posts, participation in consultations, drafting of policy papers, amendments and statements COMMUNIA believes if they manage to change the law to recognize and
The project makes uses of social networks to organize its activ -ities, to make the knowledge addressing,
social networking tools, which allow effective data and opinion collection, and real-time information spreading processes In addition, theoretical and modelling tools developed by physicists
Facebook Website: http://www. fairphone. com /Organisation Name Fairphone Short description Fairphone is a start-up company producing the world†s first ethically
Through the online platform (50,000 followers on Facebook every step in the research and development is communicated. Fairphone has received many research requests
basically a large group of followers on Facebook and twitter Since this started as a very collaborative project Fairphone has depended
a kind of social network, providing collaborators an easy way to discuss issues in a project, and to follow other users and projects of interest
meant Github has become a social networking site for programmers Enhancing collaboration and engagement: DSI network effect Github hosts open-licensed projects and is designed for collaboration
Short description Goteo. orgâ isâ anâ open sourceâ social network for crowdfunding as well as distributed collaboration based in Spain.
At its simplest Goteo can be described as a social network that helps facilitate both the collective funding of and distributed collaboration or
000 Twitter followers and 3000 Facebookâ likes Most importantly more than 100 open projects have been fully fund
networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching, promoting and engaging online communities of potential
by using its site as a social network where interested D. I. Y. growers can join forces to form a growing collective,
The Landshare. net website includes some built-in social networking features such as message inbox, forums, and chat functions where users
and the diffusion of open innovation, social networks, crowdsourcing and 3d printing, and the benefit of participating in such open innova
Twitter streams on the home page and a blog for news items The Pombola code has been since been used to run sites in Ghana, Nige
communication channels such as Twitter, Facebook and emails, there are public â€oelife platforms†where users can chat
number of open source programmes, tools and resources, such as Twitter Bootstrap and Linux. It is mostly feasible to have the open data database
Famfamfam icons and flags, Twitter Bootstrap, and Justvector icons are used also. The Scraperwiki allows people to write
The network was born in January 2012 out of a Facebook group in Paris Ouishare now counts 400+members from 20 countries in Europe
In its early stages, the Ouishare community was a Facebook group creat -ed in April 2011 to connect people who believed in the potential of the
to create custom social networks) with a few hundred members, and a number of mailing lists, of which the most active is the P2p research list
Ioannina (Greece), a blog and a wiki in Greek, which are administered by Vasilis Kostakis Meet-ups:
website with directories, an electronic newsletter and blog, and a maga -zine. It aims to be one of the places where people can interconnect and
and the P2p blog alone reached about 35,000 unique users in 2012 In addition to this the foundations work on Choke Point was recognised
blog, the Ning social network platform and standard mailing list 172 However, its core focus is on furthering advancements in P2p Technol
The primary service provided by Patientslikeme is a social network for people living with a long term health condition.
online social network that specifically targets people living with a long term health condition. The team mainly code in Ruby on Rails,
Social networking and Community Power: Peer-to-peer networks are becoming the cornerstone for a new era of patient-centered health care
Different online social networks involve different social contracts for participants and different sets of tools Patientslikeme†s tools allow people to manage their health, compare
level allowing Social networks and Consumer-to-consumer marketplac -es Limited storage space in dense urban environment preventing consum
http://blog. safecast. org /Organisation Name Safecast Short description Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source
-cast initially connected on Twitter, and have described in interviews how they managed to connect with people through social networks whenever
they were trying to address a new challenge in the development of Saf -ecast. For example, Dan Sythe, who ran International Medcom-a high
-space took part in the initial twitter discussion about building the device Later on Ray Ozzie a data expert based in Boston joined the conversa
through Twitter that many of the first connections were made between the original founders and developers of Safecast.
through social media channels such as Twitter that Safecast publish their findings Engagement through visualisation and apps:
Tor also cites blog -gers, business executives, IT professionals and law enforcement officers as key users, with the latter including police needing to mask their IP
the context of sites like Facebook that attract advertisers with personal data that people opt to share
email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims
decentralized social networking, and open hardware, can potentially serve collective action and awareness However, today it stills fail to deliver anticipated solutions to tackle large-scale problems,
Other projects are exploring the potential of federated social networking, such as D-CENT and Diaspora, and the promotion and diffusion of knowledge systems in the Public domain, such as Com
The emerging cloud model,(proprietary social networks, big data providers, the Internet of things im -plementation), are currently following a different model that allows us convenience but at the expense of
network effect of Internet collective platforms strengthen the social networks of offline communities and amplify their collective intelligence.
developments), leveraging social networks (or distributed social networking, sensor networks and the Internet of things, and knowledge co-creation networks
mapping infrastructure and social networking tool. These can evolve organically together with the growth of the DSI innovators community
For instance, distributed social networking projects such as Diaspora, Status. net or easy-to run servers like arkos,
-ed social networks, p2p infrastructures Tor Confine Guifi. net Smart Santander Open Data innovative ways to capture, use,
and digital services adopted by DSI activities such as social networking, social media, crowdsourcing crowdfunding, big data, machine learning, 3d printing, online learning, e-petitions and so on
Ordinary people today use blogs wikis, social network and hundreds of other collaborative platforms to manage their daily lives,
solve so -cial challenges and business problem, and participate in e-campaigns, crowdfunding, crowd-mapping and
social network of peers living with similar conditions 40 Open Hardware Open source hardware consists of hardware
, a trend that includes Web 2. 0, social networks, social comput -ing, and that promotes Internet as a fundamental channel for allowing an increasingly active role of users
we are adopting social network analysis to detect patterns of relations, arguing that causation is located in the social structure.
Social networks are formally defined as a set of nodes (or network members) that are tied by one or more types of relations
By studying behaviours as embedded in social network structures, we will be able to explain macro and meso level patterns that show the dynamics in which DSI organisations and their
In the case of the DSI social network that is emerging from the map, the nodes in a graph are communities,
Social network analysis will examine the structure and composition of DSI organisation ties in a given net
private institutions have near-monopolies over social networks and search engine data, giving them nearly exclusive access to the data and algorithms needed for innovative digital research.
oligopolies, these companies are challenged still by new digital actors such as Facebook and Twitter It is key to distinguish between invention and socialisation as part of the wider process of innovation in
and Crowd mapping, social network -ing and democratic decision making tools, are technologies that allow for the quick identification (and
Shifting from Closed innovation models to Decentralized Innovative Social networks The proposed vision is to facilitate the creation of a bottom-up Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem that
plethora of sources, in particular information generated by users (e g. through social networks) or captured from sensors (Internet of things.
By linking differing communities and innovators via a social network, the innovators can more easily find
-ganisations and the linkages between them, has the potential to become an international social network of
•Addition of social network functionalities to the DSI mapping, so to allow creating and visualising dy
•Adding Twitter login option and other social plugins •Improve organisational profiles (they can add pictures,
on its site and social networks with links to documentation and tuto -rials. This helps ensure that partners†brands are marketed to the right
-pany, Facebook. But as entrepreneurs they point to a tendency to always try to turn problems into opportunities.
exploit Facebook, finding that it is one of the best ways to attract people to electronic democracy both via sharing and Facebook advertisements
User interface: There needs to be as little friction as possible for taking part. Therefore, the team have made,
to login and participate using their Facebook login. The user interface has been simplified in every generation of the software to enable more
blog posts, participation in consultations, drafting of policy papers, amendments and statements COMMUNIA believes if they manage to change the law to recognize and
The project makes uses of social networks to organize its activ -ities, to make the knowledge addressing,
social networking tools, which allow effective data and opinion collection, and real-time information spreading processes In addition, theoretical and modelling tools developed by physicists
Facebook Website: http://www. fairphone. com /Organisation Name Fairphone Short description Fairphone is a start-up company producing the world†s first ethically
Through the online platform (50,000 followers on Facebook every step in the research and development is communicated. Fairphone has received many research requests
basically a large group of followers on Facebook and twitter Since this started as a very collaborative project Fairphone has depended
a kind of social network, providing collaborators an easy way to discuss issues in a project, and to follow other users and projects of interest
meant Github has become a social networking site for programmers Enhancing collaboration and engagement: DSI network effect Github hosts open-licensed projects and is designed for collaboration
Short description Goteo. orgâ isâ anâ open sourceâ social network for crowdfunding as well as distributed collaboration based in Spain.
At its simplest Goteo can be described as a social network that helps facilitate both the collective funding of and distributed collaboration or
000 Twitter followers and 3000 Facebookâ likes Most importantly more than 100 open projects have been fully fund
networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching, promoting and engaging online communities of potential
by using its site as a social network where interested D. I. Y. growers can join forces to form a growing collective,
The Landshare. net website includes some built-in social networking features such as message inbox, forums, and chat functions where users
and the diffusion of open innovation, social networks, crowdsourcing and 3d printing, and the benefit of participating in such open innova
Twitter streams on the home page and a blog for news items The Pombola code has been since been used to run sites in Ghana, Nige
communication channels such as Twitter, Facebook and emails, there are public â€oelife platforms†where users can chat
number of open source programmes, tools and resources, such as Twitter Bootstrap and Linux. It is mostly feasible to have the open data database
Famfamfam icons and flags, Twitter Bootstrap, and Justvector icons are used also. The Scraperwiki allows people to write
The network was born in January 2012 out of a Facebook group in Paris Ouishare now counts 400+members from 20 countries in Europe
In its early stages, the Ouishare community was a Facebook group creat -ed in April 2011 to connect people who believed in the potential of the
to create custom social networks) with a few hundred members, and a number of mailing lists, of which the most active is the P2p research list
Ioannina (Greece), a blog and a wiki in Greek, which are administered by Vasilis Kostakis Meet-ups:
website with directories, an electronic newsletter and blog, and a maga -zine. It aims to be one of the places where people can interconnect and
and the P2p blog alone reached about 35,000 unique users in 2012 In addition to this the foundations work on Choke Point was recognised
blog, the Ning social network platform and standard mailing list 172 However, its core focus is on furthering advancements in P2p Technol
The primary service provided by Patientslikeme is a social network for people living with a long term health condition.
online social network that specifically targets people living with a long term health condition. The team mainly code in Ruby on Rails,
Social networking and Community Power: Peer-to-peer networks are becoming the cornerstone for a new era of patient-centered health care
Different online social networks involve different social contracts for participants and different sets of tools Patientslikeme†s tools allow people to manage their health, compare
level allowing Social networks and Consumer-to-consumer marketplac -es Limited storage space in dense urban environment preventing consum
http://blog. safecast. org /Organisation Name Safecast Short description Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source
-cast initially connected on Twitter, and have described in interviews how they managed to connect with people through social networks whenever
they were trying to address a new challenge in the development of Saf -ecast. For example, Dan Sythe, who ran International Medcom-a high
-space took part in the initial twitter discussion about building the device Later on Ray Ozzie a data expert based in Boston joined the conversa
through Twitter that many of the first connections were made between the original founders and developers of Safecast.
through social media channels such as Twitter that Safecast publish their findings Engagement through visualisation and apps:
Tor also cites blog -gers, business executives, IT professionals and law enforcement officers as key users, with the latter including police needing to mask their IP
the context of sites like Facebook that attract advertisers with personal data that people opt to share
email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims
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