The site received 120,000 unique visits and a total of 873,476 hits 40 These are remarkable participation rates, far exceeding similar experiments in
-peer micro-lending site, enables individuals to lend small sums of money to entrepreneurs on low incomes.
posted on the website, becoming available for scrutiny by potential investors Repayment is guaranteed as field partners are responsible for entrepreneurs
are available to view on Triodos†website Civil society and the grant economy Civil society and the grant economy are rich sources of social innovation â€
into teams around selected ideas and asked to develop a website prototype over the next 2 days.
communities, each community has its own local website. Each local website is updated and managed by a local mum,
thus allowing for the information and networking possibilities available to be specific to individual communities.
evidence and information from emails, blogging sites, and online forums on the site. A series of publications are produced to provide further general
guidance The website also facilitates a meet up scheme where mothers can meet each other in person.
Often these meetings result in new friendship and support circles (especially among those who have moved to a new area, or those who
•Innovation Exchange website-an online forum for sharing and developing ideas for social innovation
social networking sites such as Myspace and Youtube. However, they decided that a wiki would be more appropriate †it was practical and easy to
peak, the site received 10,000 visits in one day. cxiv Suggestions included a governance board of eminent kiwis, a minimum recruiting age for police and
people incur to visit a site as a proxy for their valuation of that site.
a particular site clviii Social Value Added Working group of the EQUAL National Thematic Network for
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
Actually, those websites â€oelost in cyberspaceâ€, were visited not by the target clients, and the unavoidable
â€oedispersion†of those website led to a limited effectiveness in the cyberspace, partially solved by the establishment of vertical, thematic or regional e-marketplace portals
their own website, but the difference between large enterprises9 and SMES10 and between regions is relevant.
Have their own website the 80%of large enterprises 8 SMES10=enterprises with between 10 and 249 employees
processes are customer call centers, Intranets that link business partners, data warehouses that improve customer relationships
financial capital, delocalisation and globalisation of production sites, labour and social relationships, etc. Elements like generation and internalization of new skills and abilities
http://www. adimoserver. se/adimo4/(S (kokri4qeowj3nyvt0tkb1s45))/site/kista/web/default. aspx? p=1546&t=h40
sources, like GPS, mobile phones and social networking sites. With the goal to forecast the nationwide consequences of a massive switch to electric vehicles, given the intertwined nature of mobility and power
-agenda/sites/digital -agenda/files/newsroom/data sim 8138 1 83. jpg A Europe 2020 Initiative DIGITAL AGENDA FOR EUROPE
analytics capabilities for an ††Industrial Internet. ††http://sites. tcs. com/big data-study
firms by using mobile phones, emails, intranet, internet, and faxes, and between the business and its customers.
websites, blogs or social media that really talk about the products or issues we are actually looking for.
this aim, systems able to interpret the overall opinion on a blog, website, or social
As well as a search engine allows searching information through websites, an opinion search engine can easily find judgments and evaluations about the argument
lot of websites gives users the chance to rate comments helping other users in their researches.
channels such as social networking, chatting and blogging websites. The ability to mobilize cross-disciplinary teams on the virtual space is essential for success
example, by the beginning of 2011, the average user of Facebook website spent 1, 400 min,
websites and 63%ban their employees from saving personal data and files on company†s computers.
blogs, wiki pages, newsgroup, social networking sites and shared calendars 14 Nonsynchronous conferencing offers its members the flexibility and control over
•create notes, outlines, clippings of websites, and collections of images •share and collaborate the created notes
websites that are organized by their own members who can access interactive discussions and share documents and media files 4. These communities can be
and intelligence to identify distorted words on websites. Moreover, many other websites such as Google books and the New york times, use this kind of service
for text digitization 22 Nevertheless, despite its powerful features, many research areas related to Crowdsourcing need to be covered.
humans†abilities to detect the meaning of distorted words on websites. This project is initiated by computer scientists from Carnegie mellon University, in
understanding abilities to identify two unclear words on websites they use. The distorted words were chosen from scanned books and digital archives, which
the websites, in order to identify themselves as humans and not automated services or programs, they contribute to digitizing books
advertising on top running sites (e g.,, Runnersworld. com), rich media banner including 60 custom videos,
Indeed, the web teams feel they should take the control over the websites and social channels because they feel they have the skills
that they should own this ability over their parts of the website because they think
possible to their websites, which provided some service, and to pursue this end they faced huge advertising investments.
business model that could convert the number of users who visited their sites in cash flows and profits.
are some of the most visited websites and they make money thanks to sponsored links and paid advertising;
2 For more information, see the website of the Australian Government†s Department of the Environment at http://www. envi
summary of that report on the organization†s website, http://www globeinternational. org/studies/legislation/climate
//www. adb. org/sites/default/files/pub/2007/WP097. pdf Arrow, K.,P. Dasgupta, G. Lawrence, D. Gretchen, P. Ehrilch, G. Heal
gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44223 carbon 0. pdf CDP and WWF-US (Carbon Disclosure Project and the World Wildlife
//www. odi. org/sites/odi. org. uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion -files/3810. pdf
available at http://www. wri. org/sites/default/files/pdf/aqueduct metadata global. pdf Source: World Resources Institute, Aqueduct Country and River
managementthinking. eiu. com/sites/default/files/downloads/In%20 search%20of%20insight%20and%20foresight 0. pdf
at https://ec. europa. eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital-agenda/files /DAE%20scoreboard%202013%20-%20swd%202013%20
Cisco†s Technology News Site, July 29 Available at http://newsroom. cisco. com/feature-content? type=web
/sites/default/files/downloads/The%20deciding%20factor final pdf EMC2. 2013. â€oedigital Universe. †Available at http://www. emc. com
Website. â€oebig Data. †Available at http://www. ibm. com/big -data/us/en /IBM Software. 2012. â€oemanaging Big data for Smart Grids and Smart
/sites/maribellopez/2013/05/10/ge-speaks-on-the-business-value -of-the-internet-of-things
Supercomputer Sites. http://www. top500. org /system/177999, accessed October 4, 2013 The Global Information technology Report 2014 41
Usage statistics emanating from social media sites illustrate the sheer volume of unstructured data. For example, in 2012 Facebook reported that it was
its website content to trigger an increase of 12 percent in sales. After customers logged in, the bank presented
one of several alternative websites based on the relevant individual†s transaction history and segment and the
•Website clickstream analysis •Loyalty schemes •Customer satisfaction opt •Supply chain balancing
analyzed by companies through their own websites or by monitoring social media. These details are all
http://www. stanfordlawreview. org/sites/default/files/online/topics /Polonetskytene. pdf The Global Information technology Report 2014 51
that include historical visits to the website as well as transactions completed or shopping carts abandoned with the addition of geographical information from a
constantly from the website, store, and logistical systems, along with data coming from mobile devices That information is vitally important to knowing not only
2 The website for the service is http://mercytelehealth. com/services /safe-watch /3 Confidential client example
Available at http://www. whitehouse. gov/sites/default /files/microsites/ostp/pcast-health-it-report. pdf
unglobalpulse. org/sites/default/files/Bigdatafordevelopment -UNGLOBALPULSEJUNE2012. pdf 1. 8: From Big data to Big Social and Economic Opportunities
media feeds, news sites, and so on In comparing views of data from a traditional business intelligence perspective versus a big data
local seed and crop protection data from its test sites to provide a service that generates field performance
website at www. weforum. org/gcr For those indicators not derived from the World Economic Forum†s Executive Opinion Survey, the scale
available for free on the World Economic Forum website at www. weforum. org/gcr OTHER INDICATORS
and usefulness of government websites in providing online information and participatory tools and services to their citizens 2012
and usefulness of government websites in providing online information and participatory tools and services to their citizens 2012
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