Synopsis: Ict: Communication systems: Telecommunication: Computer networks: Internet: Web: Web:


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Growning a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe.pdf.txt

good, even though the web itself was founded at CERN to further a vision of scientific knowledge sharing.

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

web. This was a hard and contested battle which turned out to be the best way to do

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

create and share on the web. It achieves this through two primary activities, Ouishare. net and collaborative economy events.

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

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

-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

Commons4eu, partners got together to explore the development of collaborative web projectsâ and bottom-up broadband technologies15.

WEB SERVICE RESEARCH PROJECT EDUCATION AND TRAINING NETWORK ADVOCATING AND CAMPAIGNING EVENT INCUBATORS AND ACCELERATORS

Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Innovation and innovation policy are not

Social web entrepreneurs Startup Europe Smart Cities Internet of things Bottom up and grassroots approaches

Innovation (CAPS), Web entrepreneurs young entrepreneurs in the field of active and healthy ageing, digital champions, in

Web) Encourage people to think about Who could implement it (European Commission, national governments, mu -nicipal etc

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

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

Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the Web is advocating for a sort of Magna carta for the Internet to estabilish basic rights

A Magna carta for all Web users could be directly crowd-sourced from the Web itself

Wide Web Foundation81 illustrate examples of how this could be captured and measured. Another metric to focus on could

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

com/2013/04/10/web-2-0-vs-web-3-0 -what-really-Is accessed-the-difference


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION social_innovation_decade_of_changes.pdf.txt

The development and use of a web-based application, the Toolkit, designed to facilitate partner search

-izen web platforms to target sustainability challenges. Experiments in social innovation are expected to provide collective solutions to pressing needs (including policy needs

y Increasing trust in collectively-generated statistics (WEB-COSI: this is about en -gaging communities in the discussion and definition of official (e g. from the OECD

Web-COSI Web Communities for Statistics for Social Innovation aims to improve the way people engage with statistics, wheth

-er they are produced officially or generated via community-based organisations. Under the mantra †Statistics for

Everyoneâ€, Web-COSI will be exploring innovative ways to bring the production, promotion, access and engagement

Web-COSI is designed to improve people†s engagement with statistics and aims to *increase trust in collectively generated statistics


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Study on social innovation in Digital Agenda GÇô SMART 2012_0.pdf.txt

the â€oenetwork effect†caused by the spread of the Internet and the Web throughout society

particular grassroots communities of civic innovators, web entrepreneurs, hackers, geeks, SMES open source and DIY makers,


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION The-Open-Book-of-Social-Innovationg.pdf.txt

User feedback on service quality, including web-based models such as Patient Opinion and I Want Great care that hold service

40) Web-based tools for co-design, such as the Australian site for people with disabilities and their carers, web2care

web. Examples include the webinars organised by the Cities of Migration network which have linked NGOS, foundations and academics involved

those around the web that share knowledge and intellectual property 106) Business strategies. The context for a business model is a business

business models adopted by web companies which, like social ventures have an interest in maintaining free access, while at the same time

considerable web-based innovation in this field, with websites providing guidance on organisational forms, and governance.

example is One Click Organisations, an ultra simple web-based tool for creating new organisations, changing constitutions, and engaging

or download systems (such as web designs and technologies) that are becoming freely available. One model is

137) Web presence. All social ventures now have to have a website. But their full potential has begun only to be explored.

placed its most valuable technical information on the web for open access in order to enable its ideas to be adopted more rapidly.

intermediary institutions, the web opens up the possibility of making new types of connections and raising finance from potential consumers

through a network of online communities, web related resources and peer review. Another example is Australian Social Innovation Exchange

197) Diffusion through the web. Viral marketing techniques can be used to tap into existing social networks and spread social ideas.

Members of the Network are supported also with branding, web and technical support, policy work, media and PR, and internal/external

The web has brought also systemic innovation to retailing and news, and has the potential (albeit not yet

This involves a wide range of issues from the use of the web to the nature of technology and the design of distributed systems which

meeting social needs to design web-based solutions to particular social challenges. Over one weekend, groups have to design

Lego have created a web platform †Designbyme 3. 0 †which enables users (mainly children) to design their own Lego sets.

and the Apache web server. These rely on a large and highly distributed community of programmers to

field, the web offers new ways to cut costs and widen connections. Websites like Kiva,

Guaranteed Electronic Market (GEM), a web-based market for people to exchange time and loans of products.

or web-based social networking around specific issues (there are reportedly 18 million cancer related websites, the great

-based social innovation that uses web technology to give voice to citizen journalists. Image courtesy of Erik MÃ ller

Web based platforms for organising grass roots campaigns In the last year alone, Facebook has been used to mobilise protesters

Web, The 21,38, 45,79, 97,108, 171 Web2care 31 Wellink 205 Welsh Water 65,183 West Philly Hybrid X-Team 170


Digital Social Innovation_ second interim study report.pdf.txt

process, taking advantage of the â€oenetwork effect†caused by the spread of the Internet and the Web throughout

web/Isuu (combined figures from www. waag. org and www. digitalsocial. eu sites 16 Social media+other Media outreach

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.

combine or turn into web-based or mobile applications that citizens may find useful. There are other local governments around the world that

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

in the June 2006 of Wired magazine, it describes a web-based business model that harnesses the creative

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

Your Priorities is a web app that allows people to submit new ideas, debate and discuss ideas and vote up

Web) Encourage people to think about Who could implement it (Europe -an Commission, national govern


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATIONThe_Process_of_Social_Innovation.pdf.txt

The web-based com -pany Innocentive, for example, offers cash rewards for innovators who have work

because the economics of web-based pilots may make it as inexpensive to launch on a national or continental scale.

/MIT Community Innovation Lab<http://web. mit. edu/cilab/>;/>ETSU Innovation Lab http://www. etsu. edu/innovationlab


DigitalBusinessEcosystems-2007.pdf.txt

however, SMES are networked heavily in a web of business and social links with their suppliers, clients,

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

infrastructure and middleware, the software services and applications, all the attendant web technologies, and all the software development, requirements capture,

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


Digitally_Mediated_Social_Innovation_for_revised_submission (1).pdf.txt

The Young Foundation and the Web: Digital Social Innovation The Young Foundation 2012. Social Innovation Overview:


dsi-report-complete-EU.pdf.txt

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

The Web is today increasingly more enmeshed with our daily lives, forming a uni -versally distributed intelligence constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time,

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

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

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

Digital Social Innovation web platform www. digitalsocial. eu Crowdmapping DSI organizations, projects, and resources to engage

Holland†Avaaz†s Online Director, like other high-capacity web services Avaaz†s hosting platform is complex

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

Short description Your Priorities is based a web platform developed by the Icelandic Citi -zens Foundation.

first attempt at creating an †electronic democratic†web platform. Rather these websites are a †better iteration†of their pilot project, Shadow Par

-zen Foundation Web tools which they used as a guide for their policy focus. The decision to integrate,

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.

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Members active in Europe, America, Asia, Australia, and Africa

Research project, network, operating web service providing education & training Key facts: 3-year project EU funded with â 2. 1m

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

Operating a web service Key facts: The platform has 4 million users worldwide Website: https://github. com

collaborate Git has developed a number of features such as a Web-based graphical interface, wikis and basic task management tools for every pro

Operating a web service Key facts: 14.000 registered users, launched 100 successful projects and sourced

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Landshare has got 55,000 members worldwide Website: http://Landshare. net

Operating a web service Key facts: Used by the pirate party in Germany to source policy from members

Operating a web service Key facts: The Whatdotheyknow app has helped over 130,000 Freedom of Information requests.

Boundaries data is essential for anyone creating geographic web and mobile services that rely on locating a particular point within the correct

software company that can solve problems that more traditional web companies can†t. †mysociety Ltd.

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

Operating a web service Key facts: has released 160 datasets which has lead to the development of more

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Five citizen driven law proposal have reached support from 50.000

the Ministry of Justice web platform by providing citizens with the tools and support to make potential citizen initiatives far more comprehen

source Javascript and CSS library for building interactive web applica -tions. Demographic metrics are gathered using Quantcast.

Operating a web service Key facts: Created open data sets with more than 60 million companies registered

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.

Operating a web service Key facts: 3 million users in 2013, which is tripled from 1 million a year before

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

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

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

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Online community with More than 220,000 members, has 2, 000

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

Thanks to the social web, people can now share anything with anyone in the world.

a variety of Pi projects have emerged on the Web. These range from making your own retro Pi-powered arcade machine to adapting your

their own apps for the web and then host them on a miniature server located directly on the Raspberry Pi.

Operating a web service Key Facts: In 2013 over 10,000, 000 individual data points collected Website:

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

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

corporations †learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits. It offers a technology that bounces Internet users†and websitesâ€

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

Dark web: The cloak of anonymity provided by Tor makes it an attractive and powerful for criminals.

email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims

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

using the web to provide a means of reaching a much larger audience willing to devote their free time to collaborative projects


dsi-report-complete-lr.pdf.txt

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

The Web is today increasingly more enmeshed with our daily lives, forming a uni -versally distributed intelligence constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time,

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

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

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

Digital Social Innovation web platform www. digitalsocial. eu Crowdmapping DSI organizations, projects, and resources to engage

Holland†Avaaz†s Online Director, like other high-capacity web services Avaaz†s hosting platform is complex

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

Short description Your Priorities is based a web platform developed by the Icelandic Citi -zens Foundation.

first attempt at creating an †electronic democratic†web platform. Rather these websites are a †better iteration†of their pilot project, Shadow Par

-zen Foundation Web tools which they used as a guide for their policy focus. The decision to integrate,

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.

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Members active in Europe, America, Asia, Australia, and Africa

Research project, network, operating web service providing education & training Key facts: 3-year project EU funded with â 2. 1m

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

Operating a web service Key facts: The platform has 4 million users worldwide Website: https://github. com

collaborate Git has developed a number of features such as a Web-based graphical interface, wikis and basic task management tools for every pro

Operating a web service Key facts: 14.000 registered users, launched 100 successful projects and sourced

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Landshare has got 55,000 members worldwide Website: http://Landshare. net

Operating a web service Key facts: Used by the pirate party in Germany to source policy from members

Operating a web service Key facts: The Whatdotheyknow app has helped over 130,000 Freedom of Information requests.

Boundaries data is essential for anyone creating geographic web and mobile services that rely on locating a particular point within the correct

software company that can solve problems that more traditional web companies can†t. †mysociety Ltd.

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

Operating a web service Key facts: has released 160 datasets which has lead to the development of more

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Five citizen driven law proposal have reached support from 50.000

the Ministry of Justice web platform by providing citizens with the tools and support to make potential citizen initiatives far more comprehen

source Javascript and CSS library for building interactive web applica -tions. Demographic metrics are gathered using Quantcast.

Operating a web service Key facts: Created open data sets with more than 60 million companies registered

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.

Operating a web service Key facts: 3 million users in 2013, which is tripled from 1 million a year before

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

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

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

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

Operating a web service Key facts: Online community with More than 220,000 members, has 2, 000

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

Thanks to the social web, people can now share anything with anyone in the world.

a variety of Pi projects have emerged on the Web. These range from making your own retro Pi-powered arcade machine to adapting your

their own apps for the web and then host them on a miniature server located directly on the Raspberry Pi.

Operating a web service Key Facts: In 2013 over 10,000, 000 individual data points collected Website:

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

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

corporations †learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits. It offers a technology that bounces Internet users†and websitesâ€

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

Dark web: The cloak of anonymity provided by Tor makes it an attractive and powerful for criminals.

email, Twitter and the web The Swiftriver Platform: Swiftriver is an open source platform that aims

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

using the web to provide a means of reaching a much larger audience willing to devote their free time to collaborative projects


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