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Digital Opportunities_ Innovative ICT solutions for youth employment.pdf.txt

new Youth employment and Entrepreneurship Resources Database at www. itu. int/ITU-D/youth What will be required to connect more youth to this new world of opportunities?

a database that includes the resources and can be updated continuously as new ones become available.

is hoped that this database will provide youth with a valuable asset in their efforts to secure meaningful

The database is available at: www. itu. int/ITU-D/youth A focus on emerging trends is an inherently risky proposition.

Chapter 2 presents data on the state of youth unemployment and underemployment, illustrating the scale of the challenge and some of the factors that

This chapter provides data and context about youth unemployment, and discusses the primary causes of this acute state of affairs

ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database Educational attainment among youth is chronically low. In Sub-saharan africa just 77 per cent of

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

Tools that help collect agricultural data are useful for yield technologies like improved seeds, crops

The World health organization (WHO), using data from the Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI analysed 176 programmes that use innovative solutions in global health.

4. Improve data management: Data collection and data analysis, particularly in remote areas, is eased by using devices like personal digital assistants that electronically collect information

5. Streamline financial transactions: Using mobile phone applications, financial transactions are expedited between physicians and patients

Improve data management Streamline financial transactions Mitigate fraud and abuse Other/Unknown Pe rce nt

Employers enter job openings into Souktel's database. Young job seekers use their mobile phones to create

voice and traditional data entry, coding, tagging, and text-based tasks can be broken down into small

ebay, and Taoboa, to customer database management, to content creation. Human labelling of products and search results is time consuming,

to provide data entry, digitization, content moderation, and other services. Component tasks (â€oemicrowork†are distributed to the workforce,

including 1 600 women and youth working with partner organizations in countries such as Haiti, Pakistan, and Uganda.

These incubation spaces are key to emerging digital economies because they solve a lot of the problems that young digital entrepreneurs face by providing connectivity

Data centres and other ICT infrastructures are increasingly vital for all sectors of the economy, and green

•understanding operating system, programmes, and data •managing files Intermediate computer skills (sample •performing basic functions of common productivity programmes (word processing

purposes can be found in the accompanying resource database Entrepreneurship, Emprendimiento, Ujasiriamali The importance of entrepreneurship is being elevated around the world.

•digital images •electronic marketing •social media skills: blogging, social media management •basic understanding of search engine

mentoring opportunity database, where volunteer mentors can offer to help. Help can also be requested from specific mentors.

but also for making financial transactions, establishing a client database, or coordinating justin-time supply-chain deliveries.

proliferation of data-enabled phones (smart phones) that offers the greatest opportunities for mobile learning.

OECD Digital economy Papers, No. 198. OECD Publishing, 2012 http://dx. doi. org/10.1787/5k994f3prlr5-en

Data depulication A technique for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data Digital native A person born after the general introduction of digital technologies

and displaying geographical data Gold Farming Playing a multiplayer online game to acquire in-game currency that other players


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Creating-shared-value.pdf.txt

be driven data, clearly linked to defined outcomes, well connected to the goals of all stakeholders,

collecting reliable benchmarking data (such as nutritional deficiencies in each community. This motivates and enables continual improvement beyond current targets.


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION A Hitchiker 's Guide to Digital Social Innovation.pdf.txt

collaborative tools, sharing of open data and a process of bottom-up peer-supported activities and applications.

data from sensor networks and community use of mobile phones. The impact measurement of the DSI initiative at social, economic and environmental level is

Our data comes from the EU activities and R&d grants awarded up to 2014 We describe the concept, the context,

support stronger links (data exchange, visualization) and thus to multiply the potential effect of grass-root initiatives.

namely to set up Internet platforms and digital information processing tools to promote those value-generating collaborations

Europe (data of August 2014. Actors and initiatives were crowd-mapped trough the project platform digitalsocial. eu were data are updated constantly.

Considering the typology of organisation engaged, 194 are social enterprises, charities or foundation, 183 are businesses,

the â€oeself-assessment toolkit†(SAT) and the â€oeuser Data Gathering Interphase†(UDGI. The first one is dedicated to CAPS projects coordinators

6. The data inserted by CAPS representatives will be elaborated in real time by the SAT that will provide them an impact assessment report.

IA4SI team will use all the gathered data for developing two impact assessment reports one will include the assessment of each CAPS project

and one will analyse the data at aggregated, domain level. Besides this, a set of best practice will be identified and further

data improves impact measurement, but that ultimately it is stakeholder engagement that makes the difference to sustainable social innovation

Twenty-first century social science needs to have access to new data gathering resources to collect to sample to validate hypotheses

data portal is experimenting with this distributed data resource. The findings can be reapplied to generate more collective intelligence.

"Guidelines for Collecting and Interpreting Innovation Data Passani A.,Monacciani F.,Van der Graaf S.,Spagnoli F.,Bellini F.,Debicki M.,and Dini P


DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation.pdf.txt

network people, ideas and data across boundaries of any nature: geographical, cultural disciplinary, linguistic, social, economic

social media, distributed knowledge creation and data from real environments "Internet of things")in order to create awareness of problems and possible solutions

collaboration of human and nonhuman actors we can think of data being gathered by engaging both citizens and sensors,

Safecast, which†after the March 2011 earthquake in Japan†provided data about radiation by using a sensor network;

Another important area of analysis is related to data security, protection and data sharing in the use of online social networks and the value proposition and business models that

surround personal and sensitive data With reference to more action-oriented research questions we have, first of all, questions

Moving from citizen engagement to the data that these citizens produce on the web intentionally or unintentionally, a main research question is how to make that data

reliable, trustworthy and meaningful? To this end CAPS projects study manners of visualising behavioural patterns and information diffusion, of supporting and

official and unofficial statistical data In addition, CAPS projects support existing communities by intensifying the analysis

knowledge, visualisation of digital (open) data, and copyright All such topics involve the understanding of collective forms of behaviour and of self

†Users of online communities interested in knowing more about their data and in defending their online rights

could be used as a useful data source to identify the type of organisations, technologies and movements with which CAPS projects are already engaging

overview consists of a clustering of the funded CAPS projects under 14 emerging categories. The clustering is based on available public documents of CAPS projects and on

the knowledge available among the authors, who are also part of the CAPS community. It has to be noted that CAPS projects are still in the early stage of development, therefore a

This clustering considers the main 'innovations'produced by the projects. More comprehensive outputs of each project

statistical data collections (WEB-COSI), and reputation and rating systems (WIKIRATE e-Democracy, e-Participation, Direct Democracy

Open) Data Integration Each social network has a different affordance for users. Twitter, Facebook and other widely-adopted social systems format the content in different ways,

Integrating user-generated data from different media, analysing the content as well as user participation, and providing

insightful visualisations are some of the complex tasks related to data integration addressed by CAPS projects

and WEB-COSI are focused on open data integration by providing different standards, tools and methods for data federation.

DECARBONET and D-CENT work on the modelling of social media data for mining and presenting it in an aggregated

way. CATALYST, DECARBONET, and WIKIRATE are also together in that they aggregate data from different social media sources (such as Facebook, Twitter and emailing systems

Online Deliberation†From Group-Based to Large-scale Recent events have given evidence to the fact that communities can be created and

provide unstructured conversations where data is not presented in a way that makes it easy for other people

results, from statistical data (SCICAFE2. 0) to scientific themes (SCICAFE2. 0), and passing through knowledge on corporate social responsibility (WIKIRATE

and data quality discrimination WIKIRATE and WEB-COSI 38 Privacy-Aware Tools and Applications Privacy-aware systems have evolved over the last decade from privacy-enhancing

full control of their data, maintaining privacy and trust in the technology they use FOCAL is motivated by privacy concerns about the data and location of the end users that

contribute to CAPS. It is concerned thus with the analysis of privacy, reputation and trust in

provide a secure environment for effective control over relevant data Social networking & Social media Enhancement The confluence of network-centric systems, mobile telecommunications, semantic web

with tools to enable the use of their data by entities outside of the OSN, for example, in

7. CKAN http://ckan. org CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible†by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and

using data. CKAN is aimed at data publishers (national and regional governments companies and organisations) wanting to make their data open and available

8. Climate Quiz https://apps. facebook. com/climate-quiz A Facebook application in the tradition of â€oegames with a Purpose†for Measuring Environmental Knowledge

9. Cohere http://cohere. open. ac. uk Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and

share ideas, and back them up with websites. By using Cohere people can support or challenge each other's ideas

and maintain data about roads, trails, cafã s railway stations, and much more, all over the world

to perform semantic fusion of data that can make sense of the underlying causal processes of a problem situation (i e. the

Integrating quantitative data with content analysis of self-reports is a possible way to evaluate,

The results of the data and evidence collected in such a way can be used to

Systems Methodology to Analyse Qualitative Data'.'Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management, Salford, UK, April 2002

Data De Paoli, S. & Teli, M. eds. 2011)' New Groups and New Methods? The Ethnography and


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

data included in this study. Neither the Commission nor any person acting on the Commission†s behalf may be

data †open data. Open data increases awareness and coordination, creates new opportunities for innovation,

and strengthens inclusion, participation and ultimately, human well-being Society, economy, and even human psychology itself are undergoing an irreversible change, which we as citizens and

open data to create more transparency around public spending. We call this Digital Social Innovation (DSI

Open Data and Open Knowledge Open hardware: These projects are inspired by the global do-it-yourself maker movement and the spread of maker spaces

All data is plotted on a map that visualises radia -tion levels in a given geographical area,

Open data: This refers to innovative ways of opening up, capturing, using, analyzing and interpreting data

Opencorporates (OC) provides a good example of the opportunities in open data. It was set up to in the wake of the financial

crisis to make information about companies and the corporate world more transparent and accessible. It has grown since to

become the largest open database of companies in the world, including data on 60 million companies and their subsidiaries

and searchable maps and visualizations. OC is used widely by journalists and governments seeking to understand global

decentralised environment for open data 3. Educate a technology-savvy multidisciplinary workforce, and use all their powers

data, open hardware, open networks, and open knowledge; and they give rise to new DSI areas such as:(

Open Data Open Hardware Organisations M or e Fi lt er s Screenshot of the crowdmap www. digitalsocial. eu

Open Data Open Hardware Organisations M or e Fi lt er s 1 2 3

of scientific data allows for some scientific research to be conducted by nonprofessional scientists; new ways of making

cognitive mapping based on real-time data analysis and visualisation There have been lots of attempts to har -ness collective intelligence to address

of environmental data, where people col -lectively identify their own high-carbon intensive behaviour, then brainstorm and

amounts of data available for collective transformation into knowledge 17growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe

-mitting data coming from people, sensors the environment and objects themselves However, we cannot expect the Internet

-etary social networks, big data providers implementations of the Internet of things is convenient for users but also â€oelocks us

-cess to social data held on third-party sites and permissions to get into proprietary †app stores. †The lack of standards forces

hands of a few data aggregators, none of which are based in Europe (Google controlling nearly 82%of the global search

while the value of big data is often only associated with efficiency and profitability big data can also be used for social good

to improve public services and stimulate inclusive innovation 1. 3 DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION IN THE CONTEXT OF FUTURE

Big data can also be used for social good, to improve public services and stimulate inclusive innovation 18 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe

open knowledge, data storage and ana -lytics and are producing valuable data about people, the environment and bio

-metric and sensor data. The amount of data produced by open platforms and used for social innovation is dwarfed still

by the amount of data collected on propri -etary platforms, with the danger that much of this data is not available for the social

good. For example, even the European Smart Cities project risks being dominated by US companies such as IBM, Google

and Ciscos, partly because of the lack of alternatives Take for example the commercial success of Google:

Google has built already one of the world†s largest networks of computers and data centres for online-search results

and can repurpose their technology in or -der to expand into other data-driven ser

-vices in order to increase their value, profit and marketability. For example, the com -pany is now pushing into smart watch

environmental data, which raises signifi -cant issues of privacy and competition Right now few of these opportunities are

all data-driven services, this threatens the ability of the European innovation system to compete

the network, service and data layer. We emphasize the importance of building European public distributed, privacy-aware architectures that can provide the underlying open digital

The development of open data federated identity, bottom-up wireless and sensor networks, open hardware and distributed social

Making data available as part of a common distributed and decentralised architecture open to all, allow new entrants to aggregate data

on demand and create new services. Competition based on open standards, protocols and formats are essential to deploy interoperability between data

devices, services and networks. This vision requires more investment in fundamental research to promote net-neutrality, strong encryption, banning of trivial

appropriating users†data and discriminating network traffic. By centralising computing, data storage and service provision (via the Cloud), and

by striking strategic alliances between the largest Over-The-Top (OTT) iand largest network operators

NSA data-gate showed that intelligence agencies and governments have been engaging in mass surveillance operations, with huge implication on civil

used to capture data on DSI organisa -tion via www. digitalsocial. eu. We have mapped 1000 DSI organisations and 630

Data is categorised by 1. A typology of organisations (e g Government and public sector organi -sations, businesses, academia and re

e g. open data, open networks, open knowledge, open hardware 4. The area of society the organisa

Open Knowledge, Open Hardware, Open Data, Open Network. 4 Areas of Society: Health and Wellbeing, Finance and Economy, Energy and

-matic clustering of DSI organisations is emerging, grouping activities into 6 macro clusters that capture the way

data. In East Africa the development of M-PESA (a mobile financial payment system born

send open data information requests to Spanish public bodies Goteo SHARING ECONOMY NETWORK A vibrant ecosystem of makers is developing across Europe and globally.

results in open business, open government or open data. Projects like Open source Ecology are promoting a shift towards a more sustainable lifestyle

open source software and open data. Projects and areas of work like Safecast or open source Geiger, the Smart Citizen Kit and open wearables are showing interesting

Openspending is a data sharing community and web application that aims to track every government and corporate financial

transaction across the world and to present that data in a useful and engaging form.

Anyone interested in spending data of any kind is invited to contribute data to the Openspending data

andâ CKAN, the biggest repository of open data in Europe, which is underpinning a new

now able to aggregate data coming from people and the environment in order to create a new generation

data and open sensor networks that are changing the provision and delivery of public services;

-ning to aggregate the layers of data that increasingly permeate the urban environment, in order to create a new generation of products and services, fostering behavioural change9

and freely share their radiation measurements in open data sets. The overarching aim of Safecast

is to encourage people to actively contribute to the generation of a body of data that might alleviate environmental problems

decided to take part in surfacing data on radiation levels across Japan, caused by the meltdown at the power plant.

were massive holes in the public radiation data sets available. As a response to this, the team developed the bgiegie Geiger

-work where bgiegie owners could share the data they were collecting. Safecast then worked with hackerspaces and used

use GPS technology to timestamp the data and log the location. All Safecast data is uploaded to an open data set, which

visualises radiation levels across Japan. To date, the Safecast network has used the Geiger counter to map more than 13

and organise crisis data from a variety sources, such as social media, sensors or even quasi-real-time data.

The hope is that the quick and easy access to real-time crisis data will make it

easier for organisations and developers to quickly to build their own applications without the need to spend days locating

identifying and processing data, thereby enabling much quicker responses to crises such as Ebola or conflicts

Many activities in this area exploit the power of open data, open APIS, and citizen sci

-ence such as Open Data Challenge and Open Cities that provide citizens with better public services, or Citysdk which is defining interoperable interfaces for city-scale

open data, free and open software and open hardware Github, the collaborative service for open software developers, is revolutionising

The Open Data Institute†s start up programme, which has supported organisations like Open Corporate and Provenance

to grow their open data projects, is one of them. 13 Although incubators and accelerators have been always around, their pres

The Open Data Institute (ODI) OPEN DATA ACCELLERATOR Traditional business accelerators offer advice and resources to fledgling firms to help

up public data sets Delivering or partnering with DSI services Delivering services Providing funding for

open knowledge, open data, open net -works, and open hardware Through case study analysis we have

such as open data, open networks, open hardware and open knowledge, are be -ing harnessed by digital social innova

data to share and analyse the data cap -tured across all of the Geiger counters Within these broader technology areas

we have been identifying a variety of more specific technologies and activities adopted by DSI activities such as:

big data, machine learning, 3d print -ing, online learning and e-petitions The main technological trends in DSI

and to pass their data through the network to a single or replicated data -processing location.

An open sensor network (OSN) is a wireless sensor network that manages open information in an open environment.

The open sensor network connects the sensor with the data repository where the information is processed

as it uses public data from different sensors and forwards the gathered information to the central point within a

Sensor networks are the key infrastructures of a smart city, providing basic data on the

fed by open data from the OSN A number of European cities have established sensors that detect traffic density and

order to provide external parties a single point to consume this data For instance, Smart Santander demonstrates the potential of creating large networks

of the digital economy due to the †democratisation†of the access technologies, reducing the price and complexity in setting up wired or wireless links

OPEN DATA Innovative ways to capture use, analyse, and interpret open data coming from people and

from the environment The explosion of new types of data analytics and machine learning means that it is no

longer only government or corporate forecasters who have the opportunity to access and analyse data.

By making data open, governments and other large organisations and companies that hold or generate data about society have the opportunity to enable

citizens to hold government to account for what it spends, the contracts it gives and the assets it holds

Local authorities are playing a leading role in implementing open data policies and driving forward the open data movement.

The social benefits of open government vary from citizen engagement to increased transparency and accountability, as well

as enhanced interaction between governments, other institutions, and the public. For instance, citizens are gaining greater insight into how their tax payments are being spent

Beyond the social aspects, open data also supports public sector innovation by break -ing the competitive advantage gained by proprietary access to data

and data lock in Innovation is most likely to occur when data is available online in open, structured

computer-friendly formats for anyone to download, use, and analyse, as long as the privacy and data protection of all citizens is preserved

and that communities are entitled to share the value and social benefits of public assets. Thus, open data, together with

open and standardised APIS is crucial for open innovation, as developers are able to access and use public data and mesh it with other sources of data produced by the

crowd to build novel applications that have a social utility Another important trend, boosting the diffusion of open data is the increasing number

of mobile devices. Smartphones, tablets, PDAS and other devices are becoming smaller faster, smarter, more networked and personal.

For instance, the city of Vienna has, with its Open Data in Vienna programme demonstrated the potential in opening up its data.

The city opened its data records to the population, businesses and the scientific community. Released data ranges from

statistics and geographic data on traffic and transport to economic figures. It then in -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. Other pioneering examples include the work by the Estonian Government and the not-for-profit Praxis

on the Meiraha project, which focuses on opening up and visualising the Estonian budget. The citizen science project Globe at Night is yet another example of this

where citizens using the camera and geo-tagging functions on their smartphones help the research project measure global levels of light pollution,

data and citizen science 42 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe Helsinki Region Infoshare OPEN DATA FOR REGIONS

Through an entity called Helsinki Region Infoshare34, Helsinki and three of its neighbouring cities publish all of their data in

formats that make it easy for software developers, researchers, journalists and others to analyse, combine or turn into web

The movement for more and better open data has grown significantly over the last few years through projects funded by the European commission, such as City SDK that help cities to standardise

open data portals. In the United states, the cities of Chicago, San francisco, Philadelphia and New york are only a few of the examples worth mentioning.

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

Open Data Open Data Challenge OPEN DATA FOR REGIONS There are several examples where Governments and the developer communities interact.

One of them is the examples of competitions and challenges. One of Europe†s biggest open data competitions is the Open Data Challenge15.

It was organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Openforum Academy and Share-PSI. eu. It offered 20,000 Euros in prizes to win and

Price Visualization, Better Data Award, Open Data Award, and Talis Award for Linked data. In total, 13 awards were given

There are many other competitions, such as Apps4finland16, the biggest European apps contest organized since 2009 and

Apps for Amsterdam promoted by the City of Amsterdam to make accessible to developers and citizens the data of the City

emerged, such as Apps for Goodi or the Open Data Institute†s (UK) open data training

itself and the platform used to share data between people operating a kit. The kit is an electronic board based on the Arduino

equipped with sensors that capture data on air quality, temperature, noise, humidity and light. The board also contains a Wifi

antenna that enables the direct upload of data from the sensors in real time. A number of cities, including Manchester in the

UK and Amsterdam in The netherlands, have shown an interest in supporting citizens to monitor environmental data and have

and measure data about real-world activity. This is possible due to the increasing number of powerful smart personal devices, which facilitate the

personal and social data in massive data centres. This can also mean increased surveil -lance, prediction and control of people and the environment.

allocation, the best possible decision making based on a real time data and information from open sources and the best possible alignments of my local providers with the

Open Data Arduino Avaaz Avoin Ministeriã Bethnal Green Ventures Citysdk Clearlyso Angels Communia Commons 4 Europe

Open Data Arduino Avaaz Avoin Ministeriã Bethnal Green Ventures Citysdk Clearlyso Angels Communia Commons 4 Europe

streams of data from interviews to social media into a central repository capable of giving a †big picture†of European DSI

Using the network data, stored as W3c Linked Data at http://data. digitalsocial. eu in combination with our hybrid iterative

strategy of case study interviews, work -shops and events relevant to these com -munities, we have identified DSI actors as

Open data for open access is the last dense community (4. 95 per cent), with

working on open data, such as Salford in the UK. Interestingly, although the open hardware network is the smallest overall

-munities, such as those around open data are connected developing communities Nonetheless, the vast majority of commu

such as those of open data, open knowl -edge, open hardware and open networks Even if an organisation is not central and

-bining open hardware, open data, open knowledge and open networks 56 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe

data (turquoise Successful actors in DSI have managed to leverage large networks using the Internet in order to accomplish innova

social innovation in the data in Figure 4 at least for organisations with more than 3 connections.

Looking at the data, if we want a single scaling European DSI network, an additional magnitude more of

Big data and cloud computing Collective awareness platforms collective intelligence CENTRALISED TOP-DOWN GRASSROOTS DISTRIBUTED COMPETITION ECONOMIC ENTERESTS

A EU Big data strategy is becoming a pri -ority for the competitiveness of European industries.

Public Private Partnership on big data with industry. The focus is driven business with little attention to societal challenges

for the creation of an open data incuba -tor within Horizon 2020 aims to help SMES

Big data and cloud computing Collective awareness platforms collective intelligence CENTRALISED TOP-DOWN GRASSROOTS DISTRIBUTED COMPETITION ECONOMIC ENTERESTS

information and sensor data to improve collective wellbeing Furthermore, there are initiatives in the area of open access, such as Global System

identity and payment data Many US companies have patents on identity, social and payment data.

There is a need to require the European Public sector and EC funded projects to not fall into this trap

and provide open data sets in particular on social identity and payment. Public data sets will remove barriers for social

innovators who often rely too much on proprietary data 2. EU public Digital ID with

citizen control Create a European standardised public digital ID for all citizens with guidelines and rules to

Big data and cloud companies but also States have a lot of control over an individual†s online identity

open data distributed repositories, distributed cloud, distributed search decentralised social networking public identity management and encrypted email service

open data, ubiqui -tous broadband Enabling some of the radical, disruptive innovations emerging from digital SI †new

Open data Privacy-aware technologies and encryption Federated identity management Data control and data ownership

The EU data protection reform package Directive on the reuse of public sector information Copyright reform Net Neutrality

Open data Privacy-aware technologies and encryption Federated identity management Data control and data ownership

The EU data protection reform package Directive on the reuse of public sector information Copyright reform Net Neutrality

waste, data to education. In 2014 Nesta revived the 300 year old Longitude Prize and

The Open Data Challenge Series42 is a collaboration between Nesta and the Open Data Institute and has been very suc

-cessful, attracting developers and social entrepreneurs to develop innovative solutions to social challenges using open data

The European Social Innovation Challenge44 was launched by the European commission in 2013 in memory of Diogo

-serving citizens†rights and data protec -tion. One of the first steps of DSI policy implementation should be to integrate

-ve transparency/open data and privacy /data protection as complementary issues and not as opposites. In fact, the right

in both legal frameworks (such as data protection) and technologies (such as en -cryption) should apply to individual citi

-tween data, devices, services and networks Standards will enable new business models for co-operation between multiple stake

so that innovators can build data mashups on top of a distributed data infrastructure (technological neutrality) without fear of unfair licens

-ing issues Open standard licences, for exampleâ Creative Commons (CC) licencesâ could allow the reuse of PSI without the need to develop

tool that allows the waiving copyright and database rights on PSI, it ensures full flex

-ers who have the right to use the future Internet infrastructure (including both data in

All functionality must be exposed by way of open APIS51 that expose data using open standards.

User data and metadata should be represented in open formats such as XML52 and RDF53 (which includes Linked Data54 and SPARQL end-points55.

OPEN DATA People are not passive consumers of the data, but actively engaged in producing it.

primary advantage of open data is that it prevents the concentration power by leverag -ing asymmetries of information and differentials of access.

Open access to data would enable developers to create applications and services built on freely acquired data, as

long as they respect provisions in the license. Private data should also have its privacy

dimension encoded using open standards and the correct licensing, as well as clear requirements for how to access this data

and determine its ownership, both by vendors and end-users. This should include the right to remove data by its creators

Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe 75 The preservation of Net Neutrality56 is a crucial to define

and governments should treat data traffic equally. Net neutrality protects freedom of expression and freedom of information online, reasserts the principle of fair

data policies. The directive provided an EU-wide framework for governments, at all levels, to begin opening data.

The European Commission estimates the economic value of the PSI market at approximately â 40 billion per annum.

European commission Directive on the reuse of public sector information will further enable the opening of public sector data

Although changes in the European legal framework in the field of transparency and open data have already been implemented

over their social data and sensitive information, to make it easier for businesses to innovate on top of the infrastructure.

role of data brokers64 will be crucial for understanding the future of bottom-up digital economies. New forms of data control and data collective ownership by citizens

should be encouraged. For instance, in the UK, the government backedâ Midataâ pro -gramme is encouraging companies to bring data back to public control, while the US

has introduced green, yellow and blue buttons to simplify the option of taking back your data (in energy, education and the Veterans Administration respectively

76 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe DATA CONTROL AND DATA OWNERSHIP PRIVACY-AWARE

TECHNOLOGIES AND ENCRYPTION An important effort towards a federated identity system Is federated the W3c Social Web Working Group58 to develop

standards to make it easier to build and integrate social applications. These standards will give citizens greater control over

their own social data, allowing them to share their data selectively across various systems. The federated web standards will

User data is moving more and more into the †Cloud†and people are getting their music

The aggregated data extracted from the analysis of our identities (what companies define as â€oesocial graphsâ€) and behavioural patterns of the

In this context, the infrastructure should preserve the right of data-portability57, and prevent lock in, therefore allowing for innovation in the wider economy based on the

management, fully respecting the users†privacy and ownership of the data Personal data stores There are also new available solutions, such as Mydex, Qiy,

receive guidance on data anonymisation and pseudonymisation. This should prevent any unauthorised collection processing and tracking of personal information

This includes the need for distributed data repositories and management systems, distributed secure Clouds, distributed search, and federated social networking

or by the Open Data Institute (ODI) and Open Knowledge Foundation on open data, and by organisations such as Tactical tech or Open Rights Group on privacy and digital rights

Most reports about innovation refer to GDP and financial return as one of the main in

or analysing existing data sets to understand the extent of the social issue •Online responses to the proposed service from partners or potential

draw upon existing data and research from other sources Level 2 You are gathering data that shows

some change amongst those using your product /service At this stage, data can begin to show effect but

it will not evidence direct causality. You could consider such methods as: pre and post survey

standardisation of delivery and you will need data on costs of production and acceptable price point

The Global Open Data Index developed by the Open Knowledge Foundation80 and the Webindex developed by the World

statistical sources for measuring input (such as firm level micro data, R&d statistics, labour force survey), which could evolve

à Explore DSI specific indicators such as Open Data access, digital skills and proliferation of open source projects or creative commons licenses

Many of the inventions that now form the basis of the digital economy and the emerging Internet of things have their roots in

As an example, the Fukushima prefecture in Japan hosts a map of the Safecast data on its website, and in

what public data is, and the question of who controls it, is becoming more important.

Thus data portability, federated identity management and trust frameworks should be encouraged. Defining sensible governance modalities for the data infrastructure and the DSI ecosystem will require a large col

-laboration between public and private Ultimately, just as in science and technology, innovation in society needs carefully crafted investment and support.

The incubator programme run by the UK€ s Open Data Institute and the DSI accelerator programme run by Bethnal Green Ventures have demonstrated potential in how models developed to support

/open-data-challenge-series 44 http://ec. europa. eu/enterprise /policies/innovation/policy /social-innovation/competition

/documents/reports/data-brokers -call-transparency-accountability -report-federal-trade-commission-may -2014/140527databrokerreport. pdf 65 http://www. citizenme. com

Brendan Lea (2013) â€oeopen Data Institute Annual Summit 2013†online Flickr Open Data Institute Knowledge for

Everyone. Available from: https://www flickr. com/photos/ukodi/10590223144 /in/photostream/Accessed 29th january 2015


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