Dow chemical managed to reduce consumption of fresh water at its largest production site by one billion gallons†enough water to supply nearly 40,000 people in the U s. for a year†resulting in savings of $4 million
If sites are comparable economically, at which one will the local community benefit the most?
Tab. 2-CAPS ongoing project and related website The websites in the table above give details on the results obtained so far
As the study Digital Social Innovation shows (Bria at al, 2014), CAPS are not alone in the
it is a socio-technical solution that is composed of multiple ICT tools, such as websites forums, social networks, collaborative platforms, deliberating tools, data visualisation, etc
Project Acronym Project Full Title Project Website DECARBONET A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating
and back them up with websites. By using Cohere people can support or challenge each other's ideas
Esperanto, is a network of interconnected sites, where you can communicate, share collaborate with others
Anybody living in Rio de janeiro can log on to the website and denounce a problem and launch a campaign to fix it.
Reddit http://www. reddit. com Social networking service and news website where registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct
posts and determine their position on the site's pages. Content entries are organised by areas of interest called'subreddits
Slashdot http://slashdot. org Slashdot is a website based on, and runs, the Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage software
and managing your website, in a collaborative way Yeswiki is written Free Software in PHP language under the GPL licence,
creating and managing an internet or intranet website 54. Your Priorities https://www. yrpri. org/home/world Your Priorities is an
impressive success stories in obtaining a global reach, in particular campaigning sites such as Avaaz and parts of the collaborative economy and the maker movement.
as social networking sites like Facebook and sites that require large user-bases like Wikipedia or Airbnb,
but it may not apply easily to some other services such as e -democracy platforms, caring networks and
-cess to social data held on third-party sites and permissions to get into proprietary †app stores. †The lack of standards forces
set up open data websites at the regional level that can be considered good practices and in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, the city of Barcelona is leading Multicouncil
Digital Social Innovation website could introduce innovators to both other local innovators and innovators sharing similar
The Impact Hub of Vienna37 is a network of several cities across the world which, according to their websites,
As an example, the Fukushima prefecture in Japan hosts a map of the Safecast data on its website, and in
11 http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default /files/good incubation wv. pdf 1 Combinatorial innovation means
/sites/digital-agenda/files/IA4SI%20 %E2%80%93%20fact-sheet%20 v02. pdf Nesta and Young Foundation Discussion
/sites/default/files/event/attachments /Copy%20of%20generating social Innovation%20v4. pdf Innovation platform. Measurement for policy
standpoint, see the Communia website http://bit. ly/V2knnk 50 http://es. wikipedia. org/wiki
/72 http://www. nesta. org. uk/sites/default /files/good incubation wv. pdf 29 http://www. citizens. is
/76 http://www. nominettrust. org. uk/sites /default/files/Nominet%20trust%20-%20 Triple%20helix%20overview%20paper
http://www. e-living. net/sites/default /files/field/image/internet-of-things-2. jpg
//budgetparticipatif. paris. fr/bp/jsp/site /Portal. jsp? document id=133&portlet id=100 Accessed 29th january 2015
the west, a gasworks site. There are 20 condominium buildings with 1700 people living there. Only a
including regeneration of brownfield sites and reduction of air pollution In thematic objective (8) promoting employment and supporting labour mobility, the possible
http://www. britishcouncil. org/sites/britishcouncil. uk2/files/what will social enterprise look like in europe by 2020 0. pdf 55p A r T I †S O C i a L I N N O V A t I O N, A n E w P A t H
-tive†s dedicated website. 120 They will be completed by the end of 2014 In the Single Market Act II, the Commission also committed to developing a methodology
In January 2014, a new website on the European Company (Societas Europeae †SE) was created.
The website is available in English, French and German170. The Your Europe portal will also provide a link to the SE website.
As a result, there are also plans to create a similar website for the SCE 3. 1. 5. 2. Proposal for a European Foundation
The February 2012 proposal for a European Foundation Statute aims to make it easier for public benefit purpose entities to carry out their activities across the EU. These en
Moreover, the website features case studies of the most successful social innova -tions, profiles of leading social innovators, analyses by thought leaders, and information
Over the course of two years, the website has emerged as a valuable tool on the dis
the event can be viewed on the website 125p A r T I I †M A i N d E V E L O P m E N t S i N e U P O
The conference brought together memorial sites/muse -ums and teachers, Holocaust education and Human rights Education
project website: www. socialinnovator. info Dr Michael Harris, NESTA Published March 2010 CONTENTS 1 CONTENTS
launched an accompanying website, www. socialinnovator. info, to gather comments, case studies and new methods We†re also very conscious of what†s not in here.
These sites show how to run competitions for †mash up†ideas from citizens using government data, such as Sunlight Labs and Show Us a
UK, the website Report Empty Homes, sponsored by the Empty Homes Agency, allows citizens to report empty properties around the UK
through many routes, from surveys and websites to user representation on management boards and committees
such as the Australian site for people with disabilities and their carers, web2care PROPOSALS AND IDEAS 31
spawn a number of similar websites, including the Norwegian Ideas Bank (which focuses mainly on issues of environmental sustainability
Innovation, a website which enables people to make suggestions for improving their healthcare systems. These websites include a vast range
of ideas †everything from the brilliant to the downright absurd. But even when ideas are evidently excellent,
website, based on the principles as laid out in President Obama†s Memorandum on collaborative, participatory and transparent
The website enables citizens to take part in a discussion about the best way to effect the President†s Memorandum in three
One example in the UK is the Prime Minister†s e-Petitions website which has had nearly 10 million petitioners.
of a key input such as a critical site or personnel (as in sport. Mapping a
structures are the site of contending pressures of goals and interests. The organisation may have a social goal of benefitting others,
considerable web-based innovation in this field, with websites providing guidance on organisational forms, and governance.
All social ventures now have to have a website. But their full potential has begun only to be explored.
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.
A good example is the site of the co -operative football team Ebbsfleet United (My Football Club),
which has a team of six working on their website to involve the members, a model
that could be adopted by many consumer co-ops among others 138) Marketing and branding. Social ventures, particularly those that
spreading new ideas, for example via a website such as netsquared. org People can take part as collaborators, co-producers, consumers, activists
multidimensional needs are a key site for potential collaboration Communities of Practice are one important type of collaboration (see
time and travel cost expenses that people incur to visit a site as a proxy
for their valuation of that site. Because travel and time costs increase with distance it†s possible to construct a †marginal willingness to payâ€
curve for a particular site 5 SCALING AND DIFFUSION 103 212) Social accounting matrices and satellite accounts are used to
245) Platform infrastructures, such as feedback sites on public services or M-PESA€ s platform for phone-based banking
It was created in 2000 on the site of the old Toronto General Hospital. Image courtesy of Mars Discovery District
functioning website 136 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION Innovation networks Networks can serve as alternatives to formal organisational structures within
developed a website called Mypolice †a tool for members of the public to give feedback,
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 websites which provide user -generated information such as ehow and Netmums. Netmums provides information on a variety of local resources †including child-friendly
half a million members who use the site on a regular basis †uploading and contributing information 308) Platforms for connecting.
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
at every level has been the site of almost constant change †particularly in the last 30 years.
website, Budget Allocator, which offers citizens the chance to shape municipal budgets 330) Sequencing in funding.
rental value of sites after the public investment has been undertaken The Greater london Enterprise Board financed its operational
Civil society and the grant economy are the most common sites of social innovation †in campaigns, social movements, non-governmental organisations
Websites like Kiva, which connect donors with social entrepreneurs, have already been 2 172 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
Internet donor sites dramatically reduce the cost of fundraising (estimated at between 15 per cent and 33
We can expect similar websites to develop features like donor forums, star ratings, Good Giving Guides and
Worldchanging, a series of books and a website which includes tens of thousands of stories about new tools, models and ideas for building a
translation software on its Meedan website of Arabic blogs, or Dialogue Cafã and the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) using Telepresence
The website Your Ethical Money provides advice on how to direct personal investment into green, sustainable and ethical products
-lending website which enables individuals to lend small sums of money to entrepreneurs on low incomes
charities and social enterprises in sites in central London (see also method 487 467) R&d mentored funding prior to start-up lending, such as
issues (there are reportedly 18 million cancer related websites, the great majority generated by those affected by the disease.
keep discarded items out of landfill sites by gifting them. It now has over five million members in 85 countries
marks to organisations that produce information and moderate websites and forums Propertising not privatising In the social economy, rather than restricting access to knowledge and
516) Neighbourhood websites and other media can become hubs for exchanges and local news. Local residents can find out about initiatives
Examples include hyper-local website Boscalicious Year 1 pupils from Collaton St mary Primary school dig up organic
Constructed households as sites of innovation The longstanding practice of institutionalising those with special needs or
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
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
and Metropolitan Rennes in France have also set up open data websites at the regional level that can be considered good practices
Of particular interest are also those sites devoted to developers†interaction that are embedded in open
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
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
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
Commission on developing a sustainability plan for the DSI website and community before the final event
113. https://open. wien. at/site/anwendungen /114. (IUUQÏ¿ï¿ï¿XXXÏ¿ï¿UPSPOUPÏ¿DBÏ¿
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
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
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
social data held on third-party sites. The lack of standards forces developers to create multiple versions of
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
-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
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
/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
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
-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
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.
these websites are a †better iteration†of their pilot project, Shadow Par -liament†a project which aimed to document and scrutinise the actions
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
website with a broader scope than either the Bub or Code for Europe projects. Europe Commons is intended to catalogue applications which
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
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
Website: http://www. everyaware. eu Short description The Everyaware project aims to empower citizens to engage actively 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
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
-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,
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
-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,
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
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 Open Ministry website was developed using a YUI API †a free, open source Javascript and CSS library for building interactive web applica
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
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
-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,
Technical specs behind the website: Opencorporates is built on the Ru -byonrails framework, uses the Mysql and Neo4j databases, on servers
Website: http://opengarden. com Organisation Name Open Garden Short description Open Garden is based a San francisco start up,
Website: http://okfn. org Organisation Name Open Knowledge Foundation Short description The Open Knowledge Foundation is a global movement to open up
UK€ sâ data. gov. uk website, the United states government†sâ Data. gov and the Australian government†s data. gov. au
Website http://ouishare. net Short description Ouishare is a global collaborative consumption network. It aims to
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,
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
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
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
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?
Website: http://blog. safecast. org /Organisation Name Safecast Short description Safecast is both the name of a Geiger counter built by the open source
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
Website: https://www. torproject. org Organisation Name The Tor Project Short description The Tor project is a nonprofit organisation that conducts research and
were concerned increasingly about all these websites-in the 2000/01 dotcom bubble, everyone was offering free services,
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
the context of sites like Facebook that attract advertisers with personal data that people opt to share
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
This website had 45,000 users in Kenya, and was the central to the Ushahidi team realising there
The site allows the use of Openstreetmap maps in its user interface, but requires the Google maps API for geocoding.
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
that the Zooniverse site now hosts more than a dozen projects which allow volunteers to participate in scientific research.
the site (translating the content into other languages) †thereby having a positive impact on the outreach of the Zooniverse projects
when the site is busy while also spending significant amounts of time monitoring the application performance
-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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