the www. digitalsocial. eu website, which engages, builds and maps the DSI community The project†s most substantial challenge is to develop a crowdmapping facility based on open and linked data
process, taking advantage of the â€oenetwork effect†caused by the spread of the Internet and the Web throughout
data mapping website •&ohbhjohï¿UIFÏ¿%%4*ï¿DPNNVOJUZÏ¿ï¿an overview of the engagement strategies to involve the DSI community
We have redesigned the crowdmapping website and increased the numbers involved in the DSI network. Â At
In time, the site will be an open database of relational links between DSI organisations and projects, case studies and potential funding opportunities
We then created a new visual layout for the 36 DSI case studies that are showcased in on the website and also
we don†t have the resources to do get the developer to do a translated version of the survey on the site, we
We will then create a profile on the site for The french or Spanish organisation using
Nesta and D-CENT website In addition to the guest blogs we have done a large number of blogs,
on Nesta website) 6. 000+readers to date tï¿ï¿ï¿ï¿%%JHJUBMÏ¿4pdjbmï¿**OOPWBUPSTÏ¿UPÏ¿
web/Isuu (combined figures from www. waag. org and www. digitalsocial. eu sites 16 Social media+other Media outreach
The DSI mapping website and the overall research was presented during a dynamic debate about policy
We demonstrated how the website worked and how organisations could be added, and went over some of the high points of the final report regarding the potential of digital social
The Chest project website (www chest-project. eu/)has a description of the DSI project along with the project logo and a link to www
Research project and website which list 100 short case studies of social innovations using digital technologies
and the redesign of the website has been successful in helping us map 500 organisations and establish the research project and the term Digital Social Innovation within the
companies is also available through the Commission†sâ Startup Europe programme for web and tech
29, Web entrepreneurs, young entrepreneurs in the field of active and healthy ageing, digital champions, innovation camps and so on.
philosophy/culture, described by Wikipedia as the creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found
combine or turn into web-based or mobile applications that citizens may find useful. There are other local governments around the world that
and Metropolitan Rennes in France have also set up open data websites at the regional level that can be considered good practices
initiatives led by the private sector through web-based platforms. Others are taking the initiative to license tools
Github44 a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, an open source version
the leader being the founder of the project, such as Linus Torvalds for Linux or Jimmy wales for Wikipedia
The case of Wikipedia, and its internal struggle between deletionists and inclusionists, has been studied widely and analysed as an example of an open-sourced
Wikipedia defines it as financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, growth start-up companies.
Another type of living lab is the fab lab. According to Wikipedia, a fab lab (short for fabrication laboratory) is
Of particular interest are also those sites devoted to developers†interaction that are embedded in open
in the June 2006 of Wired magazine, it describes a web-based business model that harnesses the creative
Geological Survey†s Earthquake Program, a US multi-agency programmme, has a crowdsourcing site, â€oedid you
a website where he posts articles and news. Chris Quegley is another one. He is the cofounder of Delib90
and the web 2. 0 social media can play an important role in this direction, and enable the application of crowdsourcing ideas in the public sector. However, the collection of a large amount
According to Wikipedia, seed funding is a form of securities offering in which an investor purchases part of a business.
These same sites can also be an interesting tool in order to share examples of using/reusing open data.
Crowdsourcing sites fall into one of two categories in terms of their compensation: pay-on-task or contest
The pay-on-task sites offer a nominal level of compensation for a completed task.
Contest/prize sites pay significantly more money or offer job contracts, product prototypes and royalties
Also, Wikipedia refers to specific initiatives/activities such as town hall meetings, opinion polls, participatory budgeting referenda, protests or voting.
Your Priorities is a web app that allows people to submit new ideas, debate and discuss ideas and vote up
Powers of companies such as Google and Fa -cebook have a lot of control over an individual†s
Web) Encourage people to think about Who could implement it (Europe -an Commission, national govern
located in Europe (Google controlling nearly 82%of the global search market and 98%of the mobile search
visualization of the DSI network, embedded in our website, is interactive and aims at engaging the larger DSI
towards English speakers due the lack of translation of the website into languages outside English.
Howver, the website was not designed using standard internationalisation techniques and adding them is outside of the budget allocated
We would argue that future work after the end of the DSI project should allow the website
be the case in a graph of links to and from Wikipedia, for example. In detail, there is a clustering coefficient
Commission on developing a sustainability plan for the DSI website and community before the final event
independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software (Wikipedia 47. http://www. barcelonastartupfestival. com
113. https://open. wien. at/site/anwendungen /114. (IUUQÏ¿ï¿ï¿XXXÏ¿ï¿UPSPOUPÏ¿DBÏ¿
/117. http://en. wikipedia. org /118. https://www. mturk. com/mturk/welcome 119. http://www. namingforce. com
see the Communia website http://bit. ly/V2knnk 134. To take an intuitive example, in a world with one 3000 foot tall giant being compared against a normal
Wikipedia and the Open university; holistic health care and hospices; microcredit and consumer cooperatives; the fair trade movement
The web-based com -pany Innocentive, for example, offers cash rewards for innovators who have work
Wikipedia was a failure in its first outing In business, people talk of the â€oechasm†that innovations have to cross as they
because the economics of web-based pilots may make it as inexpensive to launch on a national or continental scale.
9. See Global Ideas Bank,<http://www. globalideasbank. org/site/home/>./>The top 500 ideas that
will change the world are at http://www. globalideasbank. org/site/store/detail. php? articleid=178
/MIT Community Innovation Lab<http://web. mit. edu/cilab/>;/>ETSU Innovation Lab http://www. etsu. edu/innovationlab
however, SMES are networked heavily in a web of business and social links with their suppliers, clients,
Microsoft to Google. It looks at new institutional and transaction costs economics (Coase, ï oe937;
is fundamentally an extension and a conceptualisation of the evolution of the Internet and of the Web
The Web is engineered an space created through formally speciï ed languages and protocols Berners-Lee, 2006
In the Web, due to the pressure of user needs, we see a continuous evolution of the protocols and artiï cial languages
semantic web stack of W3c. 23 In the ecosystem metaphor this research activity can be described as the phylogenetic
The cathedral of the Semantic web is replaced by a bazaar of descriptions and formalisms. The Digital Ecosystem can support such a bazaar of fragments of knowledge at
Semantic web Stack and how to express business deï nitions for business use (to represent policies, practices and
infrastructure and middleware, the software services and applications, all the attendant web technologies, and all the software development, requirements capture,
The software engineering approach and the Semantic web approach are based on the description of some aspect of
in most technological ï elds, is actually rather obviously the basis of the Web 2. 0 phenomenon.
latest software and web technologies, with social systems and social processes, and with the construction of a shared
â€oea Framework for Web Science†Foundations and trends in Web Science, Vol. ï oe. No ï oe (2006.
ï oe-ï oe30 Bessen, J (2002. â€oeopen Source Software: Free Provision of Complex Public Goodsâ€, SSRN-id588763. http://citeseer
Cybernetica Web (Principia Cybernetica, Brussels), http://cleamcï oeï oe. vub. ac. be/SECORCYB. html last visited
Terapia Cognitiva Web, Santiago) http://www. inteco. cl/articulos/006/doc ingï oe. htm last visited ï oe/6/2007
as Wikipedia, can democratise the processes of developing and managing technology and knowledge. Conversely, digital technologies are also an integral part of the socio-technical
The Young Foundation and the Web: Digital Social Innovation The Young Foundation 2012. Social Innovation Overview:
Resources on the Doing Business website...91 4 Spain Doing Business 2015 INTRODUCTION Doing Business sheds light on how easy
available on the Doing Business website at http://www. doingbusiness. org 5 Spain Doing Business 2015
For a list of these economies, see the Doing Business website http://www. doingbusiness. org
website (http://www. doingbusiness. org. For details on the procedures reflected here, see the summary at the end of this chapter
Doing Business website (http://www. doingbusiness. org. For details on the procedures reflected here, see the summary at the
inspection is provided on the official website of the Municipality of Madrid, www. munimadrid. es. The legal basis is Agreement of the Local
getting electricity indicators, see the Doing Business website (http://www. doingbusiness. org. For details on the procedures reflected
website (http://www. doingbusiness. org. For details on the procedures reflected here, see the summary at the end of this chapter
regulations are available on the Doing Business website http://www. doingbusiness. org. The data on labor
RESOURCES ON THE DOING BUSINESS WEBSITE Current features News on the Doing Business project http://www. doingbusiness. org
transparency and accountability, participatory web platforms such as Wikigender and Wikiprogress devel -oped by the OECD that facilitate the linking of National statistics to actual individual living conditions
communities of civic innovators, web entrepreneurs, hackers, geeks, SMES, open source and DIY makers but also policy makers and decision makers at various levels
-structure and promoting the generative web-enabled survey. Key activities were conducted also as part of WP4,
A primary example of Digital Social Innovation is the Web itself. As it was based on open digital technol
the Web was able to reach a critical mass of connectivity and exploit the â€oenetwork effectâ€oe described by the Metcalfe†s Law,
 The Internet and the Web are the technical underpinnings that represent a densely intertwined techno-social fabric of our societies,
because the Web was built on a set of royalty-free open standards decided through an inclusive and transparent process that, via standards
allowing the Web to be implemented by anyone over different underlying systems, avoiding proprietary systems and vendor lock in
social data held on third-party sites. The lack of standards forces developers to create multiple versions of
and the long-awaited deployment of the semantic web, can potentially serve collective action and awareness.
The Web is today increasingly more enmeshed with our daily lives, forming a uni -versally distributed intelligence constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time,
but simply makes it easier for Google to index and search through images (von Ahn and Dabbish 2005.
on the website for users to download and investigate, just as any custom code developed in the course of
developing the Website, Database and Dynamic Visualisations will be shared back with the relevant open source communities
and its structure determines the mapping capabilities of the website. Therefore the sur -vey has been designed
Overall, the website survey provides the foundation for the empirical results that are to be used in the rest
Care has therefore been taken to make the website as easy to use as possible with the aim for it to go viral across the European Digital Social Innovation community.
over two hundred organisations that have registered with the website. However, to date, the survey is only available in English,
Thus, the next stage for the website will be to consider how to produce a multilingual version
Currently the web -site is focused on the geographic mapping of organisations. Over the next stage of the DSI report, various
-ty, participatory web platforms such as Wikigender and Wikiprogress developed by the OECD facilitate the linking of National statistics to actual individual living conditions;
Delivering a web service 73 Research project 49 Education and training 31 Network 29 Event 27
-project space and distributed group spaces of former years (https://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Chaos commu
partners got together to explore the development of collaborative web projectsâ and bottom-up broadband technologies.
on developing and advocating for Web standards, the P2p foundation that works on promoting peer to
It then invited programmers and developers to make apps and web services based on the data, which
, 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
-more, this visualisation of the DSI network, embedded in our website, is interactive and aims at engaging
as the website currently supports only English) into French and then launching that call to
digitally native companies such as Skype and Google. Likewise, national research institutes such as INRIA or CNRS are threatened by the research divisions of companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft †who now
increasingly dominate premier academic conferences such as the World wide web Conference. The institu -tional infrastructure necessary for cutting-edge research no longer requires state investment, and in fact
a technical system such as the Internet and the Web. The Internet and Web have intrinsic architectures
defined by their open standards that offer themselves as a series of constraints such that †the choice of pos
Many of the inventions that now form the basis of the Web 2. 0 economy and the emerging Internet of
be more effective than so-called â€oeindependent†private contractor in determining how to best unify a web
This commission of experts should not simply solidify their position as experts in creating websites
so that the public service workers in London can maintain their own website with -out again gathering all the experts from the various boroughs or from a neighbouring city.
although filters are in the process of being implemented they are not yet live on the site The challenge of balancing quality and quantity within the data set is an aspect that we are constantly mon
The next stage of Work package 2 will include the Task 2. 2, the development of the website.
website and survey is stable, there will need still likely to introduce minor adjustments in response to us
the block in getting more input seems to be the fact that the website and survey is only in English, a mul
Digital Social Innovation web platform www. digitalsocial. eu Crowdmapping DSI organizations, projects, and resources to engage
/The website is a Ruby on Rails app, but uses Tripod and Mongodb instead of Activerecord.
In this manner, the website would become not only a data source but also a kind of learning tool to understand what digital social innovation concretely means
opportunities etc from other sites •Add a section to the site that shows and visualises funding opportunities for organisations.
N. B. these are likely to come from EC grants and crowdfunding projects such as CHEST
Zooniverse (citizen science web portal of CSA) 213 Case studies 56 57 Arduino At a glance Type of Organisation:
Website: http://arduino. cc /Organisation Name Arduino Short description The core to an Arduino is a simple, ultra-low-cost circuit board, based on
on its site and social networks with links to documentation and tuto -rials. This helps ensure that partners†brands are marketed to the right
On its website, it posts all of its trade secrets for anyone to take †all the schematics, design files,
Website: http://www. avaaz. org Organisation Name: Avaaz Short Description Avaaz is an independent, not-for-profit global e-petitioning and cam
Avaaz website, their â€oemodel of Internet organising allows thousands of individual efforts, however small, to be combined rapidly into a powerful
Similarly, their site encourages the use of both online and offline channels to generate the greatest impact of members†campaigns
Computing sites such as Avaaz, is the potential for adoption by a large number of organisations belonging to the so-called third-sector (char
According to the Avaaz website, the organisation employs a technical team to make sure the website is constantly secure.
The site is also verified by Geotrust, a world leader on Internet security verification The Avaaz donation pages have addresses beginning with https://rather
than http://thus signalling they are secure pages 64 The site is integrated well with other social media platforms,
allowing users to easily share online petitions or campaigns. According to Matt Holland†Avaaz†s Online Director, like other high-capacity web services
Avaaz†s hosting platform is complex and includes a physical server farm a content distribution network,
Petitions is â€oea new web platform that gives people around the world the power to start
It is â€oea crowd-sourced part of Avaaz, the largest-ever global web movement bringing people-powered politics to decision-making every
-tion made a public appeal on its website, revealing that a 44-hour distrib -uted denial of service (DDOS) strike hit the organisation†s IT infrastruc
times Avaaz†s highest traffic in its history, taking the site down for a total
Website: https://www. yrpri. org /Organisation Name Citizens Foundation (including the Your Priorities platform Short description Your Priorities is based a web platform developed by the Icelandic Citi
-zens Foundation. The platform enables groups of people to develop and prioritize ideas and together discover which of these ideas are deemed
design and functionality of their websites, products and services might be thought of as an attempt to redesign democracy itself.
websites is participation. Without participation there is no democracy†Created in 2008 in the wake of Iceland†s economic collapse, Citizen
the site, 43%of voters viewed the site, and over 1, 000 priorities were created.
Better Reykjavã k website, which is built on the Your Priorities platform What does it do,
The Your Priorities website enables citizens to voice, debate and pri -oritize policy ideas, budget decisions
For example on the Better Reykjavik website each month the top ideas in all categories are gathered by city officials
website was because of its perceptible impact †in 2011, at the time of the award, the site involved 40%of Reykjavik†s citizens and obtained
direct implementation of many proposals in political programmes 69 What is the role of the organisation
The fact that Citizens Foundation†s website, Better Reykjavik is integrated well into the official political structure †means that citizens
While users can use the website totally free of charge, the website features an integrated tool to make donations to the Your Priori
-ties project. As a nonprofit organisation, donated funds ensure continual development and maintenance of the Your Priority software
and websites like Better Reykjavik to operate properly 70 Marketing and PR:  â€oeif you build it they will come†is a famous quote
 Marketing and promoting a website is a lot of hard work and costs money. As †democracy nerds†the Citizens Foundation
-zen Foundation websites enable people to earn †Social Points†for writing up points for or against ideas that many people think are helpful †these
-ities nor the Better Reykjavik websites were Citizen Foundation team†s first attempt at creating an †electronic democratic†web platform.
Rather these websites are a †better iteration†of their pilot project, Shadow Par -liament†a project which aimed to document and scrutinise the actions
of the government. Founders Gunnar Grã msson and RÃ bert Bjarnason report that Shadow Parliament never gained the critical mass of users re
-zen Foundation Web tools which they used as a guide for their policy focus. The decision to integrate,
categories on the website. Citizens involved in supporting a particular 71 proposal are given regular updates from the city council regarding its via
Iceland, using the most popular ideas on the website as a guide for ques -tioning the government,
Website: http://www. citysdk. eu /Organisation Name City Service Development Kit (Citysdk Short description City SDK is a European consortium of partners helping cities to open
Website: http://commonsforeurope. net /Organisation Name Commons4europe/Commons4eu (consisting of Code4eu, Bub and Europe Commons
They develop collaborative web projects fol -lowing the methodology of Code for America †based on principles rather
Projects should be based around web/mobile applications Applications should enable cities to connect with their constituencies in
is evidenced by the host of custom-tailored web applications that have emerged to address specific, †local†needs.
website with a broader scope than either the Bub or Code for Europe projects. Europe Commons is intended to catalogue applications which
bandwidth management), to the web applications developed by fellows for Code for Europe †these smaller projects tend to be reflective of
with their own preferred web platform (using open source languages like 83 Python and Ruby on Rails) to build their open web applications
On a larger scale, this might be indicative of how Commons 4 EU looks beyond more traditional †big tech solutions†to offer a simpler, much
and reuse of good ideas, websites like Europe Commons and collaborative tools like Github offer a glimpse to
Website: http://www. communia-project. eu Organisation Name COMMUNIA Short description COMMUNIA †The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public
Website: http://confine-project. eu Organisation Name Confine Short description The Confine Testbed experimental facility supports experimentally-driv
Operating a web service Key facts: Members active in Europe, America, Asia, Australia, and Africa
Website: http://www. desis-network. org Organisation Name Desis Network Short description DESIS (Design for Social Innovation towards Sustainability) is a network
and website manage -ment 96 History and Mission The DESIS Network originates from three main international activities
DESIS UK website. This is just one instance that demonstrates how DE -SIS has forged useful alliances between academic institutes and govern
Research project, network, operating web service providing education & training Key facts: 3-year project EU funded with â 2. 1m
Website: http://www. everyaware. eu Short description The Everyaware project aims to empower citizens to engage actively in
of mobile and web-based devices such as smartphones, computers and sensors. The work on Everyaware is presently ongoing (the project runs
At the same time, web-interfaces allow users to easily upload their sensor readings, and equally easily tag these with subjective
It is a web platform for gaming and social computation. It helps research -ers to devise web games/experiments,
and offers a platform for others to join in, meaning the public can both enjoy
The web platform is built to engage social computation, letting the different organisers of projects collaborate
components of the Everyaware web-based infrastructure, which comple -ment each other by addressing specific goals in the context of collecting
Sensorbox, Airprobe, a dedicated Web server and Web application together form a system that measures concentrations of pollutants in
Website: http://fablab. waag. org /Organisation Name Waag Society Short description Fablab Amsterdam is a Fab Lab (short for fabrication laboratory), fully
project on the Fablab website and share the designs with the rest of the community under a Creative Commons license
Website: http://www. fairphone. com /Organisation Name Fairphone Short description Fairphone is a start-up company producing the world†s first ethically
Operating a web service Key facts: The platform has 4 million users worldwide Website: https://github. com
/Organisation Name Github Short description Github, a San francisco-based company, was started in 2008 as a way
websites and software solutions. As a project is developed Github stores and manages revisions to projects.
collaborate Git has developed a number of features such as a Web-based graphical interface, wikis and basic task management tools for every pro
on the site involving 3 million coders However it seems Github wants to stretch digital collaboration and
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
intended to enable users to navigate through its site, and to choose the most suitable healthcare package.
Healthcare. gov †the â€oefrontend†of the site †was written by a Washing -ton, D c. startup (Development Seed) and a small team of consultants
Operating a web service Key facts: 14.000 registered users, launched 100 successful projects and sourced
Website: http://goteo. org /Organisation Name Goteo Short description Goteo. orgâ isâ anâ open sourceâ social network for crowdfunding as well as
micro credit site Kiva, P2pâ lending models and emerging crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. The aim of the exercise was to understand
features ofâ crowdfunding from other sites, but also adding new features such as optimum and minimum costs needed, petitionsâ for collabora
follow the wrap as it is used on future presents with web geolocation was able to get support from app developers in addition to the reaching
networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Youtube are a crucial part of launching, promoting and engaging online communities of potential
Operating a web service Key facts: Landshare has got 55,000 members worldwide Website: http://Landshare. net
Organisation Name Landshare Short description At its simplest, Landshare can be described as an open platform that
by using its site as a social network where interested D. I. Y. growers can join forces to form a growing collective,
Having said that, the site boasts over 73,000 members, and claims to have a community of over 60,000 grow
The Landshare. net website includes some built-in social networking features such as message inbox, forums, and chat functions where users
website The website also includes a number of sharing and support platforms that promote digital collaboration related to finding or sharing land
finding groups in a member†s local area, and advice for starting up a community garden or approaching local councils to try to secure an
website, members are presented potentially with a number of helpers sharers or growers in their area.
sister site the crowdfunding platform Peoplefund. it, which, like the Landshare website and app, was also set up by KEO Digital.
Peoplefund it works in a similar way to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. As an ex -ample the platform was used to successfully raise £4, 401 (109 per cent
website fees; travel expenses and Welsh translation services Recently, Landshare. net has decided to run a trial to test the inclusion
-ment and maintenance of its website. According to the site, the income from these adverts will help to fulfil the initiative†s primary objective
to connect as many growers with available growing space in the UK and beyond What really helps reach goals?
Operating a web service Key facts: Used by the pirate party in Germany to source policy from members
Website: http://liquidfeedback. org /Organisation Name Liquid Feedback Short description Liquid feedback is free open source software
Website: http://makerfaire. com /Organisation Name Makerfaire Short description Maker Faire is created an event by Make magazine to â€oecelebrate arts
Operating a web service Key facts: The Whatdotheyknow app has helped over 130,000 Freedom of Information requests.
Website: http://www. mysociety. org /Organisation Name mysociety Short description mysociety†s key mission is to help people become more powerful in the
Since 2004 they have launched various websites that made it easy to do tasks such as identifying which politician (s) represent you,
benefits†that e-commerce sites give people, but in the civic and dem -ocratic parts of their lives.
Building websites that make it easy for people to write to their politicians to get potholes fixed,
-tions around the world who want to build copies of the sites mysociety builds Some of the most prominent websites and software solutions developed
by mysociety are listed below Fixmystreet-Fixmystreet Platform is built open-source software to help people run websites for reporting common street problems, like
potholes and broken street lights. It has been used in many countries around the world, from Norway to New zealand to Georgia to Italy
-where versions based on the original UK Fixmystreet website have been built ALAVETELI-â€oemagnify the power of Right to Information laws in your
-now. com website MAPIT-Mapit Global†s API uses Openstreetmap data to †establish the
Boundaries data is essential for anyone creating geographic web and mobile services that rely on locating a particular point within the correct
-do, to relaunch Kenya†s independent parliamentary monitoring website The software created for this purpose is called Pombola.
this website are 139 A structured database that links people to places, organisations and roles.
since been used to run sites in Ghana, Nige -ria and Zimbabwe What is the social impact it is
mysociety†s UK sites are the best showcases in terms of pure volume and engagement Fixmystreet: Over 250,000 problems reported, with 50%of users having
Kenyan Election contacted the site personally to query the data behind their scorecard rating. mysociety emphasize the fact that, if Presidential
candidates care about how they are being represented on the site, then that is an indicator of impact †not least because awareness that they will
mysociety†s sites are all open source. Some of the mysociety codebas -es have been worked on extensively to make them easy to use for the
mysociety†s websites seem to have used technology to achieve their objective of holding governments more to account,
As mentioned above all of its sites and applications use Github Issues for tracking bugs and feature requests,
software company that can solve problems that more traditional web companies can†t. †mysociety Ltd.
many socially focused websites set up at similar times were expected to deliver immediately, and then were killed off by
organisation could afford to keep sites running for years at a time. They now consider longevity and sufficient development budget to be the
To grow the open-source communities around some of their core web -sites and components so that they are of ever greater value to larger
numbers of people To upgrade their UK sites to make sure that they are always serving the
needs of local users as best as is possible, and to use the UK as a lab to
Operating a web service Key facts: has released 160 datasets which has lead to the development of more
Website: https://open. wien. at/site /Organisation Name Open Government Wien (Vienna henceforth Short description Open Government Vienna is part of the Smart City
and Open Govern -ment strategies of the City of Vienna. Open Government is defined as â€oethe comprehensive redesign of politics and administrative activities
off web and phone apps emerge to enhance how citizens engage with the city Type of organisation The Open Government Vienna strategy is part of the Smart City strategy
to be accessed via an all-new web portal Presently 109 apps and visualisations have been made that make use of
about 600 officialâ e-government web pages and a variety of adminis -trative services available online. †For instance, more than 180 different
Operating a web service Key facts: Five citizen driven law proposal have reached support from 50.000
Website: http://openministry. info /The Finnish language platform is at http://avoinministerio. fi /Organisation Name Open Ministry (Avoin Ministeriã in Finnish
Ministry of Justice website due to be launched in Autumn 2012, Open Ministry came about to bridge this gap.
the Ministry of Justice web platform by providing citizens with the tools and support to make potential citizen initiatives far more comprehen
The Open Ministry website was developed using a YUI API †a free, open source Javascript and CSS library for building interactive web applica
-tions. Demographic metrics are gathered using Quantcast. The site†s source code is also available on Github †where anyone can fork the
To ensure the site was compliant with security standards, the National Communications security Authority audited the site†s code
Part of the functionality of the website has had to be discontinued because not all banks were enabling Open Ministry
able to use the site for free to sign particular initiatives, whilst others from a different bank were not.
Instead users can now use the website to sandbox ideas, find support amongst the community of users,
Ministry of Justice website, which is approved where initiatives are host -ed Technological Literacy: While Finland is networked a highly country, not
Operating a web service Key facts: Created open data sets with more than 60 million companies registered
Website: http://opencorporates. com /Organisation Name Opencorporates Short description Opencorporates is the largest open database of companies in the world
It is a website which shares data on corporate entities as open data under the share-alike attribution Open Database Licence.
The site also shows groups of companies that are legally part of the same conglomerate, which helps provide transparency
Today the site has grown from 3 territories and a few million companies to over 75 jurisdictions and 60
through web scraping tools and then visualize the data Web scraping data: The main activity within Opencorporates is to collab
-orate with Scraperwiki, a platform for doing data science on the web, to help get the company data.
The basics that are needed in order to create a company record at Opencorporates are the company number, the juris
) Web scraping (web harvesting or web data extraction) is a com -puter software technique of extracting information from websites.
The site also has a Google Refine reconciliation function that matches legal entities to company names
â€oea bounty schemeâ€: Opencorporates offered a small fee for new jurisdic -tions opened up, in order to encourage people around the world helping
Technical specs behind the website: Opencorporates is built on the Ru -byonrails framework, uses the Mysql and Neo4j databases, on servers
Operating a web service Key facts: 3 million users in 2013, which is tripled from 1 million a year before
Website: http://opengarden. com Organisation Name Open Garden Short description Open Garden is based a San francisco start up,
Greg Hazel, decided to make the mobile web fit that could address this challenge What does it do,
connect to the mobile web more frequently and with better results The Open Garden App can be turned into an open network, which im
Website: http://okfn. org Organisation Name Open Knowledge Foundation Short description The Open Knowledge Foundation is a global movement to open up
Web and Software Development: Through developing software OKF are trying to create tools that support a global open knowledge and open
on the web by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data; its obvious usefulness has been evidenced by its wider
UK€ sâ data. gov. uk website, the United states government†sâ Data. gov and the Australian government†s data. gov. au
mostly web and software development related. Naturally most of its projects rely heavily on open data, open data and open source standards
Its core activities are focusing on using the web and online technologies to better open
new web services and events related to the open knowledge agenda What are the main barriers to
Website http://ouishare. net Short description Ouishare is a global collaborative consumption network. It aims to
create and share on the web Ouishare calls this paradigm shift and the sum of these developments
A network, A research project, Operating a web service Key facts: A †wiki†with nearly 8000 pages of information, which have been viewed
Website: http://p2pfoundation. net /Organisation Name P2p Foundation Short description The P2p Foundation is registered a institute with the aim of studying
-ning the P2p foundation wiki, a website with with nearly 8, 000 pages of information on the P2p economy.
The zero node website, i e. the site of the P2p Foundation, would have a 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 strengthen each other,
and discuss topics of common interest In the context of the above, the primary impact of P2p Foundation is
demonstrated through traffic on the site. The wiki it self has been viewed over 5 million times,
Wikipedia †with users being given the option to donate preset or other amounts through a Paypal platform
Operating a web service Key facts: Online community with More than 220,000 members, has 2, 000
Website: http://www. patientslikeme. com /Organisation Name Patientslikeme Short description Patientslikeme is a free patient network where people can connect with
sites founders has described it †Our goal ultimately is that every patient†s decision is informed by every patient before themâ€.
from Clinicaltrials. gov, a US government funded site which provides access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies
of the site can search for trials for which they are eligible free of charge the company also offers a commercial service to actively message poten
newly diagnosed ALS patients register on the site each month, and 2 percent of all multiple sclerosis patients in the country participate in the
Operated as a web-based community where it shares open knowledge and generates an database that is being used to return the benefit to the
Operating a web service Key Facts: About 15,000 members in September 2013 Website: https://peerby. com
Organisation Name Peerby Short description Peerby is a Dutch for-profit start-up that operates a peer-to-peer shar
in their neighbourhood online, via the Peerby website, their mobile or social media channels. The platform was launched in Beta as a service
others by creating a website for the neighbourhood that would allow people to meet and engage with each other.
-quest has been posted using either the Peerby website or app the Peerby seeks to further encourage the matching between people looking for an
Thanks to the social web, people can now share anything with anyone in the world.
of websites that offer to facilitate peer-to-peer rental transactions. All of these sites are encouraging something academics call collaborative
consumption, in other words, peer-to-peer sharing or renting Enhancing collaboration and engagement: DSI network effect The value of Peerby increases as more people are using the platform to
forum on the Raspberry Pi site, and a whole host of tutorials and other materials are readily available online
with Google, Code, is hosted on Github. Overall, Raspberry Pi aims to build an ecosystem of more engaged creator-users,
a variety of Pi projects have emerged on the Web. These range from making your own retro Pi-powered arcade machine to adapting your
Raspberry Pi has collaborated also recently with Google to deliver a new open source coding tool called Coder.
their own apps for the web and then host them on a miniature server located directly on the Raspberry Pi.
instruction from other programming websites like Codeacademy and Khan academy. When projects are complete, users can host their own
websites via Raspberry Pi or zip them to share with friends 189 How is funded the organisation?
Google announced it was giving the Raspberry Pi Foundation a grant worth an estimated £670, 000 to put 15,000 of the devices into UK
Operating a web service Key Facts: In 2013 over 10,000, 000 individual data points collected Website:
http://blog. safecast. org /Organisation Name Safecast Short description Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source
The web-based online platform also enabled a sharing of data collected by citizens, to citizens
A network, operating a web service Key facts: More than 400 active users and more backers
Website: http://smartcitizen. me /Organisation Name Fablab Barcelona Short description The Smart Citizen Kit is a set of tools (mostly sensors) built on an Ardui
The web platform is developed with Open -Streetmap, Leaflet, Raphaã l, jquery, Cakephp, and many more. The
Operating a web service Key Facts: Tor has a staff of 30 paid developers, researchers, and advocates, plus
Website: https://www. torproject. org Organisation Name The Tor Project Short description The Tor project is a nonprofit organisation that conducts research and
corporations †learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits. It offers a technology that bounces Internet users†and websitesâ€
were concerned increasingly about all these websites-in the 2000/01 dotcom bubble, everyone was offering free services,
you take decisions about do you trust Google, do you trust Amazon, do you trust the BBC, whatever. â€
websites and advertisers; those concerned about cyberspying; and users evading censorship in certain parts of the world.
-ple, an e-commerce site uses price discrimination based on your country or institution of origin. It can even threaten your job and physical safety
development of the web itself Open source: The Tor software itself is open source and free for anyone
want to stop advertisers from following them around the web. It†s an issue that people are just beginning to think about now † especially in
the context of sites like Facebook that attract advertisers with personal data that people opt to share
Dark web: The cloak of anonymity provided by Tor makes it an attractive and powerful for criminals.
their websites via its â€oehidden services†capabilities, which mean sites can only be accessed by people on the Tor network.
This is the so-called â€oedark web†element, and it†s not unusual to see Tor pop up in stories about a
range of criminal sites. â€oewe work with law enforcement a lot, †Lewman told the Guardian. â€oethey are fully aware of bad guys on Tor.
is a website that was in -itially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-elec
message and placed them on Google maps. This website had 45,000 users in Kenya, and was the central to the Ushahidi team realising there
was need a for a platform based on it, which could be used by others around the world
email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims
The site allows the use of Openstreetmap maps in its user interface, but requires the Google maps API for geocoding.
Ushahidi is often set up using a lo -cal SMS gateway created by a local Frontlinesms, a free open source
to take over the website including overall management of the call/SMS centre function, and a micro-tasking NGO called Samasource that focus
policy as significant obstacles to accessing the UHP website and data streams. Limited bandwidth was cited by organisations on the ground in
web portal of CSA At a glance Type of Organisation: Academia and research organisations Aim: Education and skills
are housed on Zooniverse †the †home of Citizen Science on the web. †Type of organisation Zooniverse is a project of the run by the Citizen Science Alliance (CSA
via its web portal. The CSA is a collaboration of scientists, software developers and educators primarily coming from universities and public
that the Zooniverse site now hosts more than a dozen projects which allow volunteers to participate in scientific research.
using the web to provide a means of reaching a much larger audience willing to devote their free time to collaborative projects
the site (translating the content into other languages) †thereby having a positive impact on the outreach of the Zooniverse projects
Rails that runs on Amazon web services and uses Mongodb, Redis and a few other technologies Scalability: Pretty much all of the site†s requirements point to having a
when the site is busy while also spending significant amounts of time monitoring the application performance
scaled back to a minimal level (†automagically†on Amazon web services The actual citizen science projects that people interact with are these
-vide some of the images in the site today. With so many galaxies, it was assumed it would take years for visitors to the site to work through them
all but within 24 hours of launch the site received almost 70,000 classifi -cations an hour.
In the end, more than 50 million classifications were received by the project during its first year, contributed by more than
support (translating sites into multiple languages. This latter point demonstrates how this process of collaboration can aid in the scaling up
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