•Software engineering •ICT for healthcare •Ambient intelligence •Security technologies •Transport and logistics
http://www. margueritefund. eu/index. php? pageid=1 Nordic Investment Bank (NIB NIB loans Nordic Investment bank has several loan products
The Vilnius International airport is going through many changes and upgrades also 22/38 Best practices in transport infrastructure financing 1/23/2013
For example, using the internet to send algorithms for 3-D printed prosthetic limbs designed for war victims in developing countries for local production and use
web-design, app development, software programming or any other types which need ICT or are in
analytics and closed algorithms x How to mitigate the digital divide, in terms of access, affordablity, skills and use, whereby some
x Big data and healthcare-Health communication and health information technology (IT) are central to health care, public health,
and computing power it is now possible to deliver health care in fundamentally new ways (OECD (2013.
89 https://medicallhome. com/Medicallhomeweb/index. php 90 clinic in a boxclinipak 91 http://drfosterintelligence. co. uk
100 www. shl-telemedicine. de/index. php/diabetiva/?/page=betreuungsprogramme/diabetiva /91 Focus area Case
103 http://www. diabetes-service-center. de/en/ueber-uns. php? lang=en 95 addresses the lack of reliable patient data, timely monitoring of patients condition and availability to the
the information technology paradigm and they are very different from current schools (UNESCO, 2002; Bereiter 2002;
f) Tangible Computing †Whilst this is still a very experimental and future oriented trend area, tangible
computing includes â€oeembedding computation to the physical via intelligent objects, the internet of things and connectivity with a profound impact on learning mechanisms. â€
April 2012 by the two Stanford computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Four months later
Governance, public administration and information technology for post-2015 development United nations: New york Wenger, E.,White, N.,Smith, J. D. 2009) â€oedigital habitats:
with an MA in Computer science at UNICAMP, Brazil. Previously, she was Senior Researcher at CPQD in Brazil coordinating R&d projects related to the digital divide
of Information Engineering and Computer science of the University of Trento (Italy. As a sociologist who has worked always in interdisciplinary environments,
Web 2. 0 social computing principles motivate the importance of placing useful, usable analytic tools in the hands of users themselves, balancing the traditional focus on †executive
Such evaluation can be delegated to algorithms, like in the case of Google Pagerank, where search results are ordered according to different criteria such as relative
with information systems as a design afterthought, to a new paradigm of privacy-by -design as championed by the Information and Privacy Commission of Ontario, Canada
Wikiprogress http://www. wikiprogress. org/index. php/Main page Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and
Yeswiki http://yeswiki. net/wakka. php? wiki=Accueil Yeswiki is a software application made for creating
Yeswiki is written Free Software in PHP language under the GPL licence, used for creating and managing an internet or intranet website
methods and tools for analysing information systems, and Hall†s (1959) understanding of a societal culture
Journal of Information systems 1 (5). pp. 351-360 de Liddo, A.,Sándor, Ã. & Buckingham Shum, S. 2012)' Contested Collective Intelligence
Liu, K. 2000) Semiotics in Information systems Engineering. Cambridge university Press Macintosh, A. 2008)' The Emergence of Digital Governance'.
Most existing health information systems are inadequate in terms of the new models being deployed in health reform initiatives.
and national planning capacity in information systems and technology Ëoe Convening groups for the implementation of standards
Especially now that computing is everywhere in every pocket, on every desk, in every home people, including children,
Department at the University of Patras and a researcher in its Computer engineering and Informatics Department.
programming gets viewed on non-TV platforms such as computers, ipads, or cell phones. Practically all youngsters
a worldwide basis, the separate disciplines of design, engineering, computer science, business and marketing have developed to a point that an integrated framework for the development of
information systems to work together within and across organizational boundaries in order to advance the effective delivery of healthcare for individuals and communities†(38
More specifically, it is â€oethe ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate,
Health Information technology on Quality, Efficiency and Costs of Medical care. Annuals Internal medicine. 2006; 144 (10: pp. 742-52.
30) Wyne K. Information technology for the treatment of diabetes: improving outcomes and controlling costs. Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. 2008;
The diffusion and value of healthcare information technology. RAND Health; 2005 Available online from http://www. rand. org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND MG272-1. pdf
plan of a health information system including components and their connections and relationships. A particular type of architecture standards
to establish secure information systems and to make these available for the common good Value systems in the digital world
zz We will boost the use of green computing in industry for example, by offering additional certifications and
information technology systems in the long term. As a major procurer of IT services, we will play a role in promoting
The ongoing information technology revolution is transforming established sectors from agriculture to health and creating new ones from microwork to apps
The information technology revolution is also fuelling new business creation. Tech-savvy individuals are applying their creative energies and becoming entrepreneurs in record numbers.
not only for jobs in the information technology (IT) sector. The demand for them cuts across sectors†from agriculture and construction to education and service industries. 61
An Analytical Framework,"Information technologies & International Development, 8, no. 2, 2011 62 European commission,"e-Skills week 2012:
geographical information systems (GIS), wireless sensor networks, data mediation software, and short message service (SMS). At the same time, the expansion of telecommunication networks into rural areas
These services include information technology outsourcing (ITO), business process outsourcing (BPO), and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) as well as industry specific services. 72 73
It requires investment in constant development, upgrades, and new features. App stores are highly competitive
example, the Ministry of Communications and Information technology has held a contest to promote the development of accessibility mobile phone apps and other software applications, with the most recent
information systems to satellite imagery and geospatial tools include •natural disaster management •precision agriculture
www. unworldyouthreport. org/index. php? option=com k2&view=item&layout=item&id=23&itemid=128 Digital opportunities: Innovative ICT solutions for youth employment
•programming •using advanced features of productivity programmes •fixing simple computer problems Computer literacy at the intermediate level is becoming required for almost every job.
3. 4 Programming 4. Safety 4. 1 Protecting devices 4. 2 Protecting personal data 4. 3 Protecting health
Javascript basics e g. programming basics, javascript syntax Contributing to web communities e g. distributed working, collaborative
curation Identity e g. personal information curation tracking management Credibility e g. trustworthiness of websites evaluating information
Advanced web design e g. responsive design, accessibility Storytelling e g. multimedia augmentation Security & encryption e g. data protection
information system (MIS •ability to assess rapidly changing technology tools •integrating technology tools into business
There are currently over 1000 farmers in West Java, Indonesia actively participating in the â€oecrop groups†community
and programming, among others. Becoming a successful entrepreneur requires business skills as well, such as operations and management, finance
"Information technologies & International Development 8, no. 2 (2011): 17-32 Gereffi, Gary, Karina Fernandez-Stark, and Phil Psilos."
www. unworldyouthreport. org/index. php? option=com k2&view=item&layout=item&id=23&ite mid=128 UNESCO. Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010:
Codefest An event where technical people convene to write computer code Coding Writing instructions for a computer program
HTML Hypertext markup language (HTML) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser
Information technology Outsourcing (ITO Refers to the outsourcing of computer or internet related work, such as programming
clusters in such areas as information technology and life sciences. That region, which has benefited from continued investment
as government officials, to work on precompetitive issues that improve the cluster and upgrade the value chain for all
citizens and the use of state-of-the-art information technology to engage citizens, to support stronger links (data exchange, visualization) and thus to multiply the potential
http://www. tepsie. eu/index. php/publications Epstein, M. J.,Mcfarlan, F. W. 2011), Measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of a non profit†s
with an MA in Computer science at UNICAMP, Brazil. Previously, she was Senior Researcher at CPQD in Brazil coordinating R&d projects related to the digital divide
of Information Engineering and Computer science of the University of Trento (Italy. As a sociologist who has worked always in interdisciplinary environments,
Web 2. 0 social computing principles motivate the importance of placing useful, usable analytic tools in the hands of users themselves, balancing the traditional focus on †executive
Such evaluation can be delegated to algorithms, like in the case of Google Pagerank, where search results are ordered according to different criteria such as relative
with information systems as a design afterthought, to a new paradigm of privacy-by -design as championed by the Information and Privacy Commission of Ontario, Canada
Wikiprogress http://www. wikiprogress. org/index. php/Main page Wikiprogress is a global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and
Yeswiki http://yeswiki. net/wakka. php? wiki=Accueil Yeswiki is a software application made for creating
Yeswiki is written Free Software in PHP language under the GPL licence, used for creating and managing an internet or intranet website
methods and tools for analysing information systems, and Hall†s (1959) understanding of a societal culture
Journal of Information systems 1 (5). pp. 351-360 de Liddo, A.,Sándor, Ã. & Buckingham Shum, S. 2012)' Contested Collective Intelligence
Liu, K. 2000) Semiotics in Information systems Engineering. Cambridge university Press Macintosh, A. 2008)' The Emergence of Digital Governance'.
Their computing power can now then be used to store and analyse medical information, sensor and
By centralising computing, data storage and service provision (via the Cloud), and by striking strategic alliances between the largest
is to teach the high-level abstraction of programming as a sequence of instructions to young children in schools, creating an appealing game.
as well as access to computing resources). Any privileged access provided to the owner/managers of the infrastructure would alter free competi
XML52 and RDF53 (which includes Linked Data54 and SPARQL end-points55. Opening up access to an application†s source code exposes that code to a relatively large number
of developers, subjecting it to rigorous critical inquiry of a pool of reviewers larger than
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A Faster Algorithm for Betweenness Centrality, Journal of Mathematical Sociology 25 (2): 163-177 Clauset, A. et al.
19 http://www. bmbf. de/en/19955. php about-city-budgets-heres-what-happened 31 http://council. nyc. gov/html/action
/rdf-sparql-query /56 http://www. theopeninter. net /57 http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki /Dataportability
/index. php/Event: Using technology to engage citizens with well-being Statistics -Perspectives from civil Society 80 http://global. census. okfn. org
Guidance on programming social innovation in the Structural Funds 1. The role of social innovation in Cohesion policy 48
2. Programming Social Innovation 55 Part 4: Ten Practical Steps to Implement Social Innovation 59
45 http://www. avise. org/spip. php? article2232 31 marginalised groups. The example from the City of Nantes below illustrates how a procurement
www. european-microfinance. org/index2 en. php Jobs for injured fishermen, supported by a Fisheries Local Action Group, in Charente-Maritime
/61 Financed by ERDF, see also http://www. avise. org/spip. php? article825&var recherche=FEDER 62 http://socialinnovation. ca
Commission's proposal for the regulatory framework of the future (2014-2020) programming period This guide aims to raise awareness-of project promoters, beneficiaries, planners, managing
Guidance on programming social innovation in the Structural Funds 49 enterprises, etc. -on how this framework can be used for implementing social innovation in favour of
In terms of programming, the provision translates into the possibility to design social innovation programmes through every ESF investment priority.
On the other hand, the future Cohesion Policy sets up a number of programming tools, such as Financial Instruments or Integrated Territorial Investments,
2. Programming Social Innovation Programming options In the current programming period, there have been two types of systemic approaches to
programming social innovation in ESF operational programmes. 85 ï A dedicated priority axis or sub-axis has been included in BE (Flanders), AT and FI
ï Horizontal principles/priorities across all axes have been applied in LU, PT, UK (Northern -Ireland and Scotland
In principle, programming can follow multiple approaches and also combine these. Possibilities range from one or some specific social innovation interventions linked to specific themes to mainstreaming
social innovation throughout the OP 1. Member States or regions can identify the part of a specific priority axis where they
The principle of Innovation in the new ESF programmes (2007-2013 †A framework for programming.
the ESF and ERDF and it will receive particular attention in the programming exercise which started in 2014 with an informal dialogue procedure with the Member States†au
innovation in the programming of their investments We will first review the three main funding schemes in the field of social innovation
States and the programming documents will present their contribution to social innovation. The focus of ESF support will fall on employment and social policies:
In the current programming period (2014-20) the European Social Fund (ESF) will also contribute to the 20%climate mainstreaming target by supporting the labour force
The ERDF has contributed to social innovation alongside the ESF in past programming periods and there are a number of ways in
so during the new programming period, covering the years 2014-20. In this respect, the strategic choices made by Member States and their regions in the areas where they
-vation, as one of the crosscutting objectives for the programming period, and provides a broad range of concrete instruments to cope with the different conditions and needs of
environmental conditions of the programming area, identification of needs, selection of measures and assessment of ex ante conditionalities.
which the LEADER approach has evolved in the 2014-20 programming period, which may also be supported by the other ESI funds,
As the new programming period for the Funds emphasised the alignment of the Funds†activities with the priorities of the Europe 2020 Strategy and the CSRS, the conference
the 2014-20 programming period for the ESIF, in particular the ESF and the Easi pro
-tives †JASPER, JESSICA and JASMINE177 †were developed in the 2007-13 programming period by the European commission, the European Investment Bank Group and other
-based programming in emergencies has become commonplace: communities empowered to use local markets via vouchers or smart cards
195 http://eacea. ec. europa. eu/about/call tenders/2011/call tenders 03 2011 en. php 196 (As presented in section 6. 3. 2 of the BEPA 2010 Report
diverse and complementary fields (art and design, computer science, engineering, lin -guistics, evidence-based medicine, psychology),
The Strategic Planning and Programming community of practi -tioners has worked relentlessly since 2008 to improve the way stra
Much of this economy is formed around distributed systems, rather than centralised structures. It handles complexity not by standardisation and
information systems 171) Outcomes based commissioning is where a commissioning body agrees to fund a provider on the basis that they will achieve particular
a new information technology system and is paid then from the savings 5 92 THE OPEN BOOK OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
to the nature of technology and the design of distributed systems which provide spaces for people to contribute to projects directly,
267) Information systems that reinforce systemic change. For example, ways of measuring emissions in real time, or that make costs
towards customer-driven management information systems that has transformed industrial and service processes in the market sector,
through conscious and careful curating and programming. These layers form the basis for innovation †the serendipity that happens when you
Distributed systems 5; 38; 71; 87; 98 110; 114; 139; 195 Accountability 152-155 Organisation 69;
Information systems 20-22; 89; 119-120 Infrastructure 114-115 Innocentive 134 Innovation Innovation Challenge Prize 54
Today information technology is opening up new opportunities to transform governance and redefine government-citizen interactions, particularly within cities
or modify as its source code is made available. The open source software community is formed by programmers who support the open source philosophy
to the community by voluntary writing and exchanging programming code for software development. There are several examples of software that have been developed under an open source philosophy.
are Mozilla, Apache, Openoffice. org, or PHP The open source hardware community is formed by individuals that design hardware (that is, tangible
or modify as its source code is made available (open source software activists) or they support the open source philosophy
the community by voluntary writing and exchanging programming code for software development (the open source hardware activists
For instance, R is an open source environment and programming language for statistical computing that is also free of cost. While R offers no cost access to its software and source code
Revolution R Enterprise92, a proprietary spin-off, markets a faster version of R. The company can process very
large data sets and offers, for a fee, training, consulting, and technical support services. Though the services
Science, Information technology, Innovation and the Arts of the Queensland Government. In Europe, the City of Stockholm organized in April 2014
information technology advisory and consultancy servicesâ in the areas of linked open data technologies, data and metadata licensing,
Community detection algorithms can be used to find dense substructures (often called â€oecommunitiesâ€) within a larger and often sparse network.
8. http://eacea. ec. europa. eu/citizenship/programme/action1 measure1 en. php 9. Competitiveness is defined as the capability of an economy to maintain increasing standards of living for
/93. http://www. revolution-computing. com/revolution-r-enterprise 94. http://floksociety. org /95. http://publiclab. org
-terns developed in sectors such as information technology or insurance Thousands of recent examples of successful social innovations have moved
GDP than information technology or cars†will require very different approach -es, partly because they are shaped so deeply by public policy, and partly because
will change the world are at http://www. globalideasbank. org/site/store/detail. php? articleid=178
Formal languages that Evolve and Proliferate Social Constructivism Multiple and Subjective Descriptions Open source in Digital Ecosystems 17
model between biological behaviour and the behaviour of the software, based on theoretical computer science implications and leading to an evolutionary, self-organising,
autopoiesis is used as the ultimate model of interactive computation, but it is used also as a metaphor for a generalised
which is represented through a variety of continuously evolving (natural and formal languages and protocols  the architectural infrastructure that enables the desired â€oeautopoietic†mechanisms
Computer science is concerned with the construction of new languages and algorithms in order to produce novel desired computer behaviours.
Formal languages that Evolve and Proliferate The issue of how distributed knowledge should be represented -and created-is one of the main research topics
The evolution operates at the level of the speciï c languages/protocols: some languages are initially rudimental, but
focus of many scientists in recent years has in fact been to develop formal languages that have the expressive power
tree24 of formal languages: new and more complex languages appear in the digital ecosystem, whilst the older ones
and we apply these insights to the digital world and to formal languages, we gain powerful
The software engineering approach and the Semantic web approach are based on the description of some aspect of
The formal languages used have a high expressive power, but due to their complexity the codiï cation requires mediation by experts.
formal languages; however, being much easier to write, they are made eï €ectively by the users, and the ecosystems
â€oenature-inspired computing technology and applicationsâ€, BT Technol J, Vol ï oe8 No 4 october Maturana, H and F Varela (ï oe998.
The Economic and Social Implications of Information technology, Edited by William H. Dutton, Boston: MIT Press
Credit information systems enable lenders†rights to view a potential borrower†s financial history (positive or negative) †valuable information to
How well do the credit information system and collateral and bankruptcy laws in Spain facilitate access to credit
Collecting information and computing the tax payable Completing tax return forms, filing with proper agencies Arranging payment or withholding
By centralising computing, data storage and service provision (via the Cloud), and by striking strategic alliances between the largest Over-The
and interpreted by algorithms through highly normative processes This smart infrastructure is also increasingly â€oegetting to know people†by aggregating personal and social
case, the likelihood ratio is given under two distributions fitted by the Kolmogorov-smirnov test algorithm and it is simply the likelihood of the first ratio over the second ratio
we can run the above algorithms on it to determine if the data is sufficient. The MATLAB code developed by Aaron Clauset at the Santa fe Institute was used (http
Community detection algorithms can be used to find dense substructures (often called â€oecommunities†within a larger sparse network.
than 10,000 organisations) we will use the Newman algorithm to identify communities. We will also find
We can also reverse the algorithm and find communities that need a bridge to other communities (see Fig
exclusive access to the data and algorithms needed for innovative digital research. Yet, perhaps surprising
-gramming language compiler and a boot loader that executes on the micro controller. The project first started with 3, 000 euros for the pro
programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing. Arduino projects can be stand-alone
The source code for the Java environment is released under the GPL and the C/C++ micro
controller libraries are licensed under the LGPL What technological methods and tools is it using, and
The source code for the Java environ -ment is released under the GPL and the C/C++ micro controller libraries
are under the LGPL 61 Avaaz At a glance Type of Organisation: Not for profit
Computing sites such as Avaaz, is the potential for adoption by a large number of organisations belonging to the so-called third-sector (char
increasingly adopt Social Computing applications to manage, promote and run their activities, and change their ways of organising,
In fact, Social Computing is seen even to challenge the established mode of operation of the third sector, by favouring light structures of
-ing and Social Computing. This is critical in the context of informed poli -cy implications. According to the IPTS, the most urgent need is certainly
of Social Computing trends in terms of their socioeconomic impact and the quantitative and qualitative differences between the EU and the
Security Upgrades: One challenge Avaaz was forced to overcome was a â€oemassive†persistent cyber attack, which it believes a government or
asking for donations to allow for this security upgrade Avaaz†s site shows that almost 42,000 people have donated to this cam
Therefore, the Source code of â€oetag. Check. Score. †available on Github, while the code is licensed
that this is an opportunity to do more than simply upgrade technological products and service offerings, and to instead reflect more deeply upon
It is a web platform for gaming and social computation. It helps research -ers to devise web games/experiments,
The web platform is built to engage social computation, letting the different organisers of projects collaborate
Source code management was historically a particularly asocial (and sometimes antisocial) practice. By shifting this once solitary
and improve the Homebrew source code. While Homebrew is just one sample project hosted on Github,
-eral Github users (carried out by the School of Computer science and the Center for the Future of Work, Heinz College and Carnegie mellon
Github has remodelled how programmers engage with Source code Management (SCM) †a fundamental tool for programmers, that
stores, versions and branches source code being developed by teams of programmers. While traditionally SCMS have been a highly complex
Because modern programming tends to be about assembling code†in the form of libraries, open source work, etc. †as well
In essence this people-centred approach to programming has meant Github has become a social networking site for programmers
Source code Management: According to Preston-Werner (a Github founder), the main problem is the site†s forbiddingly technical approach
a premium price to host their source code privately with Github) is un -derpinned by the fact that as the cost of computing, storage, and (most
importantly) bandwidth has fallen over the past few years. For these reasons, Github has been able to offer free project hosting to millions
and have made the source code for the platform available for everyone to access on Github While not directly technologies, the project relies heavily on the open
It is beneficial for all parties to provide upgrades and additions to the community whenever possible so that the next user
in computing storage and high levels of Internet penetration Enhancing collaboration and engagement: DSI network effect Open Government Vienna has centred itself around interaction, com
source Javascript and CSS library for building interactive web applica -tions. Demographic metrics are gathered using Quantcast.
source code is also available on Github †where anyone can fork the project, contribute to it,
scrapers in Python or PHP 156 How is funded the organisation? Chris Taggart and Rob Mckinnon started Opencorporates from their
-erful Application programming interface (API) which allows third-party applications and services to be built using the published data
Using a smart search algorithm the platform immediately asks the 100 closest Peerby neighbours if
people engage with computing †with the hope of transforming them from passive consumers into active creators
-graduates applying to study Computer science. Upton has hypothesised that this drop in skills and interest was related to disappearance of open
which would encourage programming experimentation and encourage a new generation of students to pursue computing science scholarship
which would become the Rasperrypi What does it do, and how does this activity enhance social innovation?
Raspberry Pi is a simple computing device that looks like a motherboard with the mounted chips and ports exposed (something you†d expect
an emerging class of computing devices they refer to as ultra-low-cost computing (ULCC. These are defined as devices that wrap computing pe
-ripherals around a cellphone hardware core; meaning that such devices can be produced for just a few tens of dollars
For this reason Raspberry Pi computers have already been used as as learning tools in the context of various developing countries such as
instruction from other programming websites like Codeacademy and Khan academy. When projects are complete, users can host their own
with programming 191 Safecast At a glance Type of Organisation: Grassroots communities Aim: Health and wellbeing, Energy and environment, Participation and
Safecast provides an Open Application Programming In -terface (API), allowing people to access raw measurement data.
days all pure Javascript applications that are hosted on Amazon S3 and they†re pretty much all open source. They†re generally still bespoke appli
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