1945 democratic governments built welfare states, schooling systems, and institu -tions using methods such as credit banks for farmers and networks of adult edu
-cation colleges. This was a period when many came to see civic and charitable organizations as too parochial, paternalist,
University college London and Melbourne University This paper draws on a report titled â€oesocial Silicon valleys: A manifesto for social
economies is likely to come in health education, whose shares of GDP are already much greater than are cars, telecommunications, or steel.
-ate value alongside producers (no teacher can force students to learn if they don†t
Wikipedia and the Open university; holistic health care and hospices; microcredit and consumer cooperatives; the fair trade movement
of course very many borderline cases, for example models of distance learning that were pioneered in social organizations but then adopted by businesses, or
including the Open university and its parallels around the world, Which? the School for Social Entrepreneurs,
-noses, extended schooling, and patient-led health care. 2 This tradition of practical social innovation is now being revived energetically from the Young Foundation†s
ways of organizing schooling, language training, and housing, to avoid the risks of conflict and mutual resentment
first private higher education institution in South africa to offer a virtually free business degree to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. 5 These individual
stories are always inspiring, energizing, and impressive. They show just how much persistent, dedicated people can achieve against the odds;
some linked to universities some linked to companies, and some focused on particular problems, including
learning and adaptation turns the ideas into forms that may be very different from the expectations of the pio
-ingly sophisticated understanding of how learning takes place. New models such as the collaboratives in health (used by the U k. National Health Service to
These examples highlight innovation as a learning curve, rather than as the â€oeeureka†moment of a lone genius. Ideas start off as possibilities that are only
learning once again becomes more tacit, until another set of simpler syntheses emerge Some organizations appear particularly good at maintaining the momentum
fields (including health education, and criminal policy), and useful attempts have been made to understand social innovation in some universities,
including Stanford, Duke, and Harvard. However, these endeavors have focused on individ -ual case studies rather than investigating common patterns
and Sussex Universities linking social innova -tion to broader patterns of technological change. Nor has much use been made of
education, and childcare and eldercare, each of which will be a far larger share of GDP than information technology or cars†will require very different approach
they depend so much on co-production by the user, patient, or learner We have proposed some of the new mechanisms
there are sophisticated metrics of success that can reward rapid learning and evolv -ing end goals
University Press, 1983; M. Njihoff, The Political economy of Innovation (The hague: Kingston 1984 2. Michael Young, inspiration for the Young Foundation, was judged by Harvard University†s
-ty operated and managed by its students. Students perform all functions, from administrative duties to facilities management.
Two key features of the university are (1) its partnerships with a great number of businesses in the design and delivery of all programs,
and (2) the requirement of all students to return to their rural schools and communities during holidays to teach what they
have learned. For a full account, see Bornstein, How To Change the World. See also http://www. cida. co. za (accessed May 24, 2006;
University Press, 2004 18. For a thorough analysis of open source methods and their great potential, see G. Mulgan and
Northeastern University in Boston, KCR, Economist, Deloitte research â€oeyoung people increasingly view cars as appliances not aspirations, and say that
folksonomies, ontologies, descriptions of skills, reputation and trust relationships, training modules, contractual frameworks, laws Business (ecosystem:
6) Inspired by work of Thomas Kurz, Salzburg University of Applied sciences Fig. 2 The stack view of the Digital Business
based on the business school of the University of Central England acting as the Regional Catalyst, but partly
University of Chicago Press Baudrillard, J (ï oe975. The Mirror of Production, Mark Poster (trans.
Harvard Business school Press Cerf, V (2005. Letter about Net Neutrality of Vint Cerf to the Chairman of US Committee on Energy and Commerce
VUB University Press David S. â€oeon Sourcescapes and Filescapes: Towards a Critique of the Political economy of Free/Open source Software
and Peer-to-peer File sharing Networksâ€, Cornell University http://www. shaydavid. info/indexpapers. html, last accessed ï oe/7/07
â€oeepistemic Communities, Situated Learning and Open source Software Developmentâ€, Working Paper, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Technical University of Denmark
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The Hard Problem for Artiï cial Lifeâ€, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Halpin, H (2006b.
Harvard Business school Press Khondker, H (2004), â€oeglocalization as Globalization: Evolution of a Sociological Conceptâ€, â€oebangladesh e-Journal of
Public and private learning in a changing society, Harmondsworth Penguin Steindl, J (ï oe990. â€oefrom Stagnation in the ï oe930s to Slow Growth in the ï oe970sâ€, in Political economy in the 20th century
VUB University Press Varela, Francisco J, and H r Maturana (ï oe973). De Máquinas y Seres Vivos:
A Way of Knowing and Learning, London: Routledge Watzlawick, P, Beavin, J H, and D Jackson (ï oe967).
2013) of social learning, where novel socio-technical configurations evolve. Furthermore, some novel configurations break through
ES/L00271x/1) and the Open university Business school. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewer of the initial draft of this paper for their insightful comments
does not have any special accreditation such as an authorized economic operator status WHAT THE TRADING ACROSS BORDERS
Doing Business studies the time, cost and outcome of insolvency proceedings involving domestic legal entities. These variables are used to calculate the
What are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation? 40 How Digital social innovation happens 45
and education;(5) public services iii Experimental policy tools and actions to enable DSI to scale in Europe
Maria Savona SPRU University of Sussex Peter Corbett Advisory board Code for America, US Sasha Costanza-Choc MIT Department of Comparative Media Studies, US
wealth that resides in new sectors such as energy consumption, mobility, education, welfare and so on we need to be able to solve â€oewicked†problems through innovation
and the social domains they were affecting, such as health, economy, energy governance, education, and public services.
government, Smart public services, Pioneering science, culture & education Cases were clustered then into the following macro DSI areas that capture key dimensions of the phenome
and †from new models of learning, access to knowledge and education, to new ways of improving the quality of the environment, to mass scale behav
-ioural and political changes that empower communities and transition to a low carbon economy. The se
3) participation and open governance,(4) science, culture and education;(5 public services Figure 8: Domains of Activity
Education and skills 152 Health and well-being 98 Neighbourhood regeneration 84 Culture and arts 82
changed the state of education. It brings primary sources into every classroom and allows for more open
and rapid communication between teachers and students. For instance, The Open university, based in the United kingdom, and other models of distance learning have made education much more widely availa
-ble. The same goes for the way scientific research is being done with its culture being influenced through
the ability to globally access and share knowledge, culture, information, and code and to undertake better
collaboration within the research community. A good example of where developments in DSI could lead us
which is born out of collaboration between Arduino and designers in the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction design at SUSPI in Lugano.
These kinds of projects are able to combine open hardware technologies with new learning methods to ex
-periment with new educational practices, enhanced by the way technology is appropriated and integrated within the learning environment 27
Table 4 Â Health wellbeing and inclusion Sustainable socio -economic models Energy and environment Participative
education Smart public services Open Networks Confine Open -garden. net Everyaware Commons 4eu Tor project
bodies and universities to business and third sector organisations. Below we give a short description of the
Universities and other research-driven organisations such as think thanks, unsurprisingly play a big role in
-nally developed in a university setting. Arduino, the open hardware circuit board was, for example, original -ly developed by students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Italy
Social enterprises, charities and foundations Some of the most well-known DSI services have been developed and delivered by not-for-profits, such as
Education and training 31 Network 29 Event 27 Incubators and Accelerators 26 Advisory or expert body 15
and universities to big charities and public museums support the development of Digital Social Innovations by hosting small-scale workshop spaces often with digital tools and 3d printing
By providing education & training A fundamental requirement for DSI is that innovators with an ambition to use technology for social good
able to able to foster these skills that often are not being provided by traditional education and training
is to help †students use new technologies to design and make products that can make a difference to their
through access to knowledge and education happens when groups and individuals can acquire skills and
capacity-building & constructing informal learning networks •Fab Academy •Institute for network culture
crowdfunding, big data, machine learning, 3d printing, online learning, e-petitions and so on Open networks The ability to build bottom-up networking capabilities in every corner or the world and in people†s everyday
What are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation Analysing network data:
such as building better health education, mobility and ultimately improving democracy and redesigning socioeconomic models. The value of DSI experiments is difficult to quantify
Silicon valley, which gives them funding often despite their lack of formal university degrees or institution
will create learning capabilities, and absorptive capacity, exploiting the creativity of Europe, building digital literacy, skills and inclusion
A network between communities of users and DSI innovators is essential in order to both develop inno
a kind of learning tool to understand what digital social innovation concretely means •Create better visualisation with the current relational data that can be exported (see here an example of
The objective of this work package is to compile the learning of the project by distilling a set of policy rec
started the Arduino project to enable students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) build all kinds of electronic contraptions using an
This is an example of how student scientists are using Arduino-based hardware to replicate scientific equip
World series of the Robocup Junior (for high school students. When Arduino cofounder Massimo Banzi was approached to make an educa
artists, and students for various projects †and to great effect. Yet other than Arduino†s broad appeal, its success can be attributed to a number of
Education and Culture, Information Society and Media, and Enterprise and Industry during 2007 and 2008, suggests that indirectly, Social
education, environment & sustainability, anti-discrimination, equality & social justice, health, human rights, international development, public
Iterative Learning and Prototyping: Importantly, neither the Your Prior -ities nor the Better Reykjavik websites were Citizen Foundation team†s
University of Tilburg Consolidating and packaging existing practices and assets into a technological framework and reference architecture that enables the
presenting at conferences, to students and in city halls, bringing together city officials and the (coming) devel
Cities, non profit agencies and academic institutions Aim: Participation and democracy; Culture and arts; Other Technology Trends:
-ers from universities, NGOS and SMES established in 10 EU Member States. All members, including organisations
its launch it has gathered a group of students, researchers, professionals and large-scale communities from Spain, Austria, Greece, UK, Germany
of design labs, design schools and design-oriented universities, actively involved in promoting and supporting sustainable change.
universities that work alongside local, regional and global partners to promote and support social change towards sustainability
DESIS Labs are groups of professors, research -ers and students who orient their design and research activities towards
social innovation, while also attempting to grow and expand potentially useful alliances with other potential partners.
universities and can be extensions of already existing entities or new specifically established ones What is the social impact it
-ing Network on Sustainability (Lens), Partnership for Education and Re -search about Responsible Living (PERL) and International Association of
Universities and Colleges of Design, Art and Media (CUMULUS). DESIS also establishes special partnerships with private companies, nonprofit
based in the UK) and conducted by the University of Bath to explore the effectiveness of digital storytelling.
Research project, network, operating web service providing education & training Key facts: 3-year project EU funded with â 2. 1m
Website: http://www. everyaware. eu Short description The Everyaware project aims to empower citizens to engage actively in
Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany The main driver behind Everyaware is the belief that †the current organ
Education and Skills, Science, Culture and Arts, Energy and Environment Technology Trends: Open Networks, Open Hardware, Open Knowledge
providing education & training Key facts: Over 250 individual fabrication projects done in Fablab Amsterdam
added mission of Fablab Amsterdam is to provide education possibilities in digital fabrication. Training in the Fablab is based on doing projects
and learning from peers. A Fablab gives access to individuals to use lab facilities to make almost anything (that does not hurt anyone
Society, by Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits & Atoms, MIT. Waag Society is a nonprofit organisation that focuses
Fablab manager, went through the intensive training from Fab Academy and built up the very first network of Fablab Amsterdam,
-peer project based technical training, local problem solving and small -scale high-tech business incubation as well as grassroots research.
the Center for the Future of Work, Heinz College and Carnegie mellon University); ) found that people make a surprisingly rich set of social
inferences from the networked activity information in Github, such as inferring someone else†s technical goals
asâ a publishing platform, a peer review system, a learning management tool, and a locus for intra-and inter-institutional collaboration
as well as making in education For example the event featured demonstrations on the DIY opportuni -ties in the Arduino open source electronic board and Raspberry Pi.
-ple from local fab labs, research centres, universities, and also individuals who are evangelical about Maker Faires and the whole maker move
and education. The Mini Maker Faires are promoted with the Maker Faire branding while organized based on different local practices.
all of the politicians who attended a specific college A database of parliamentary transcripts linked to the individual speak
made up by a diverse demographic of students, teachers and professors professionals, makers and hackers
location of pharmacies, kindergartens or one-way streets) and newâ e-ser -vices are being added and updated continuously
They purport that the peer-learning aspect could be made even strong -er through the addition of design elements in the process and on the
Technological Literacy: While Finland is networked a highly country, not everyone has the same technical capacity.
In addition large numbers of users are students, teachers and professors 161 Open Knowledge Foundation At a glance
Type of Organisation: Social enterprises, charities and foundations Aim: Participation and democracy, other Technology Trends:
Open Data Training: In addition to building software tools for open data the OKFN also seeks to build the open data skills
data training programmes Challenges: In 2011 the Foundation ran the Open Data Challenge, which was Europe†s biggest open data competition to date,
governments, science, education and culture, while turbo-charging the overall development of all these initiatives
Secondly, collaborative economy needs better exposure and education which Ouishare believes could fasten the adoption of new user practic
Education and skills Tech Trends: Open Knowledge No. of units sold worldwide: Over 2 Million
Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, a team based at the University of Cambridge†s Computer Laboratory.
-graduates applying to study Computer science. Upton has hypothesised that this drop in skills and interest was related to disappearance of open
a new generation of students to pursue computing science scholarship which would become the Rasperrypi
education actors. For instance, the Raspberry Pi supports MIT€ s Scratch platform †meaning kids can gain a deeper knowledge of computer game
-ming (and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education more generally†STEM education henceforth. Yet the impact of Rasp
-berry Pi†s vision seems to have been sensed more widely. Some com -mentators involved in humanitarian
to positive and measurable outcomes as a learning tool for students in developing countries. However as the case of Bolgatanga in the Upper
platforms are combined with other educational materials. In 2013 a Raspberry Pi ICT learning environment was installed at Dachio Primary
and JHS Schools, which included 6 Raspberry Pi†s. These have been net -worked via a switch to a wireless router to facilitate access to RACHEL
feedback from both teachers and pupils regarding this RACHEL material has been encouraging, and students can now access large amounts of
educational content with having to rely on poor and expensive Internet connectivity Furthermore, the charity†s continued success (financial and otherwise
Raspberry Pi aims to promote interest in STEM education evidenced by a series of partnerships and collaborations (including a recent part
-nership with Wolfram research it is used already at Khan academy and supports MIT€ s Scratch platform. It actively encourages collaborative
digital education actors. On November 23rd,2013, Raspberry Pi Foun -dation announced a new partnership with Wolfram research that will
$50 †and, importantly, all of the educational materials are free. After procuring a Raspberry Pi, eager students simply follow instructions to
download information onto an SD card, plug it into the tiny computer and connect to a shared Wi-fi to access Coder through Chrome.
Khan academy. When projects are complete, users can host their own websites via Raspberry Pi or zip them to share with friends
schools and help develop educational material to go with the technology What are the main barriers to innovate
reason Khan academy Lite was developed as an offline version ofâ Khan Academy†s curriculum of free learning materials.
With the Pi, a 64gb SD card to put all the learning materials on (which actually costs about twice
what the Pi you†ll need to run it on does) and a Wi-fi dongle, allowing
MIT Media Lab and Keio University, and is set up as a private nonprofit organisation History & Mission Safecast was founded by Sean Bonner, Joi Ito and Pieter Franken after
one case study of Safecast from researchers at University of Southern California describe how the collaboration around Safecast through
University, Uncorked Studios, and Global Survey Corp, among others What are the main barriers to innovate?
Barcelona, and faculty at IAAC, who initiated the Smart Citizen project is specialized an urbanist in digital fabrication and its implications on
corporations †learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits. It offers a technology that bounces Internet users†and websitesâ€
-opment, and education about online anonymity and privacy History and Mission Tor†s strategic agenda is positioned to meet the privacy needs of the
-veloped by the US University MIT and by the California Internet rights watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
this Tor received support from research partners at the University of Wa -terloo (Canada), the University of Cambridge (United kingdom), Georgia
Institute of technology and many others around the globe. Tor is able to leverage research and academic advancements to develop circumvention
the resourceful geo-coding efforts of Anna Schultz at Tufts University among others What is the role of the organisation
-tion, and high levels of trust built through common graduate academic programmes and preexisting professional networks such as the Interna
Education and skills Technology Trends: Open knowledge Key Facts: More than 878,000 of Community Members Worldwide (as of
developers and educators, who collectively develop, manage and utilise Internet-based †citizen science projects†in order to further science itself
developers and educators primarily coming from universities and public institutions 214 History and mission Zooniverse grew from the original Galaxy Zoo project first launched
Overburdened academic departments very often have neither the time nor the resources to dedicate to processing this backlog of data.
education Smart public services Open Networks Confine Opengarden net Freecoin Everyaware Commons 4eu Tor Project
What are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation How Digital social innovation happens
What are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation? 40 How Digital social innovation happens 45
and education;(5) public services iii Experimental policy tools and actions to enable DSI to scale in Europe
Maria Savona SPRU University of Sussex Peter Corbett Advisory board Code for America, US Sasha Costanza-Choc MIT Department of Comparative Media Studies, US
wealth that resides in new sectors such as energy consumption, mobility, education, welfare and so on we need to be able to solve â€oewicked†problems through innovation
and the social domains they were affecting, such as health, economy, energy governance, education, and public services.
government, Smart public services, Pioneering science, culture & education Cases were clustered then into the following macro DSI areas that capture key dimensions of the phenome
and †from new models of learning, access to knowledge and education, to new ways of improving the quality of the environment, to mass scale behav
-ioural and political changes that empower communities and transition to a low carbon economy. The se
3) participation and open governance,(4) science, culture and education;(5 public services Figure 8: Domains of Activity
Education and skills 152 Health and well-being 98 Neighbourhood regeneration 84 Culture and arts 82
changed the state of education. It brings primary sources into every classroom and allows for more open
and rapid communication between teachers and students. For instance, The Open university, based in the United kingdom, and other models of distance learning have made education much more widely availa
-ble. The same goes for the way scientific research is being done with its culture being influenced through
the ability to globally access and share knowledge, culture, information, and code and to undertake better
collaboration within the research community. A good example of where developments in DSI could lead us
which is born out of collaboration between Arduino and designers in the Master of Advanced Studies in Interaction design at SUSPI in Lugano.
These kinds of projects are able to combine open hardware technologies with new learning methods to ex
-periment with new educational practices, enhanced by the way technology is appropriated and integrated within the learning environment 27
Table 4 Â Health wellbeing and inclusion Sustainable socio -economic models Energy and environment Participative
education Smart public services Open Networks Confine Open -garden. net Everyaware Commons 4eu Tor project
bodies and universities to business and third sector organisations. Below we give a short description of the
Universities and other research-driven organisations such as think thanks, unsurprisingly play a big role in
-nally developed in a university setting. Arduino, the open hardware circuit board was, for example, original -ly developed by students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Italy
Social enterprises, charities and foundations Some of the most well-known DSI services have been developed and delivered by not-for-profits, such as
Education and training 31 Network 29 Event 27 Incubators and Accelerators 26 Advisory or expert body 15
and universities to big charities and public museums support the development of Digital Social Innovations by hosting small-scale workshop spaces often with digital tools and 3d printing
By providing education & training A fundamental requirement for DSI is that innovators with an ambition to use technology for social good
able to able to foster these skills that often are not being provided by traditional education and training
is to help †students use new technologies to design and make products that can make a difference to their
through access to knowledge and education happens when groups and individuals can acquire skills and
capacity-building & constructing informal learning networks •Fab Academy •Institute for network culture
crowdfunding, big data, machine learning, 3d printing, online learning, e-petitions and so on Open networks The ability to build bottom-up networking capabilities in every corner or the world and in people†s everyday
What are we learning about the impact of digital technologies on Social Innovation Analysing network data:
such as building better health education, mobility and ultimately improving democracy and redesigning socioeconomic models. The value of DSI experiments is difficult to quantify
Silicon valley, which gives them funding often despite their lack of formal university degrees or institution
will create learning capabilities, and absorptive capacity, exploiting the creativity of Europe, building digital literacy, skills and inclusion
A network between communities of users and DSI innovators is essential in order to both develop inno
a kind of learning tool to understand what digital social innovation concretely means •Create better visualisation with the current relational data that can be exported (see here an example of
The objective of this work package is to compile the learning of the project by distilling a set of policy rec
started the Arduino project to enable students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) build all kinds of electronic contraptions using an
This is an example of how student scientists are using Arduino-based hardware to replicate scientific equip
World series of the Robocup Junior (for high school students. When Arduino cofounder Massimo Banzi was approached to make an educa
artists, and students for various projects †and to great effect. Yet other than Arduino†s broad appeal, its success can be attributed to a number of
Education and Culture, Information Society and Media, and Enterprise and Industry during 2007 and 2008, suggests that indirectly, Social
education, environment & sustainability, anti-discrimination, equality & social justice, health, human rights, international development, public
Iterative Learning and Prototyping: Importantly, neither the Your Prior -ities nor the Better Reykjavik websites were Citizen Foundation team†s
University of Tilburg Consolidating and packaging existing practices and assets into a technological framework and reference architecture that enables the
presenting at conferences, to students and in city halls, bringing together city officials and the (coming) devel
Cities, non profit agencies and academic institutions Aim: Participation and democracy; Culture and arts; Other Technology Trends:
-ers from universities, NGOS and SMES established in 10 EU Member States. All members, including organisations
its launch it has gathered a group of students, researchers, professionals and large-scale communities from Spain, Austria, Greece, UK, Germany
of design labs, design schools and design-oriented universities, actively involved in promoting and supporting sustainable change.
universities that work alongside local, regional and global partners to promote and support social change towards sustainability
DESIS Labs are groups of professors, research -ers and students who orient their design and research activities towards
social innovation, while also attempting to grow and expand potentially useful alliances with other potential partners.
universities and can be extensions of already existing entities or new specifically established ones What is the social impact it
-ing Network on Sustainability (Lens), Partnership for Education and Re -search about Responsible Living (PERL) and International Association of
Universities and Colleges of Design, Art and Media (CUMULUS). DESIS also establishes special partnerships with private companies, nonprofit
based in the UK) and conducted by the University of Bath to explore the effectiveness of digital storytelling.
Research project, network, operating web service providing education & training Key facts: 3-year project EU funded with â 2. 1m
Website: http://www. everyaware. eu Short description The Everyaware project aims to empower citizens to engage actively in
Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany The main driver behind Everyaware is the belief that †the current organ
Education and Skills, Science, Culture and Arts, Energy and Environment Technology Trends: Open Networks, Open Hardware, Open Knowledge
providing education & training Key facts: Over 250 individual fabrication projects done in Fablab Amsterdam
added mission of Fablab Amsterdam is to provide education possibilities in digital fabrication. Training in the Fablab is based on doing projects
and learning from peers. A Fablab gives access to individuals to use lab facilities to make almost anything (that does not hurt anyone
Society, by Professor Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits & Atoms, MIT. Waag Society is a nonprofit organisation that focuses
Fablab manager, went through the intensive training from Fab Academy and built up the very first network of Fablab Amsterdam,
-peer project based technical training, local problem solving and small -scale high-tech business incubation as well as grassroots research.
the Center for the Future of Work, Heinz College and Carnegie mellon University); ) found that people make a surprisingly rich set of social
inferences from the networked activity information in Github, such as inferring someone else†s technical goals
asâ a publishing platform, a peer review system, a learning management tool, and a locus for intra-and inter-institutional collaboration
as well as making in education For example the event featured demonstrations on the DIY opportuni -ties in the Arduino open source electronic board and Raspberry Pi.
-ple from local fab labs, research centres, universities, and also individuals who are evangelical about Maker Faires and the whole maker move
and education. The Mini Maker Faires are promoted with the Maker Faire branding while organized based on different local practices.
all of the politicians who attended a specific college A database of parliamentary transcripts linked to the individual speak
made up by a diverse demographic of students, teachers and professors professionals, makers and hackers
location of pharmacies, kindergartens or one-way streets) and newâ e-ser -vices are being added and updated continuously
They purport that the peer-learning aspect could be made even strong -er through the addition of design elements in the process and on the
Technological Literacy: While Finland is networked a highly country, not everyone has the same technical capacity.
In addition large numbers of users are students, teachers and professors 161 Open Knowledge Foundation At a glance
Type of Organisation: Social enterprises, charities and foundations Aim: Participation and democracy, other Technology Trends:
Open Data Training: In addition to building software tools for open data the OKFN also seeks to build the open data skills
data training programmes Challenges: In 2011 the Foundation ran the Open Data Challenge, which was Europe†s biggest open data competition to date,
governments, science, education and culture, while turbo-charging the overall development of all these initiatives
Secondly, collaborative economy needs better exposure and education which Ouishare believes could fasten the adoption of new user practic
Education and skills Tech Trends: Open Knowledge No. of units sold worldwide: Over 2 Million
Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft, a team based at the University of Cambridge†s Computer Laboratory.
-graduates applying to study Computer science. Upton has hypothesised that this drop in skills and interest was related to disappearance of open
a new generation of students to pursue computing science scholarship which would become the Rasperrypi
education actors. For instance, the Raspberry Pi supports MIT€ s Scratch platform †meaning kids can gain a deeper knowledge of computer game
-ming (and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education more generally†STEM education henceforth. Yet the impact of Rasp
-berry Pi†s vision seems to have been sensed more widely. Some com -mentators involved in humanitarian
to positive and measurable outcomes as a learning tool for students in developing countries. However as the case of Bolgatanga in the Upper
platforms are combined with other educational materials. In 2013 a Raspberry Pi ICT learning environment was installed at Dachio Primary
and JHS Schools, which included 6 Raspberry Pi†s. These have been net -worked via a switch to a wireless router to facilitate access to RACHEL
feedback from both teachers and pupils regarding this RACHEL material has been encouraging, and students can now access large amounts of
educational content with having to rely on poor and expensive Internet connectivity Furthermore, the charity†s continued success (financial and otherwise
Raspberry Pi aims to promote interest in STEM education evidenced by a series of partnerships and collaborations (including a recent part
-nership with Wolfram research it is used already at Khan academy and supports MIT€ s Scratch platform. It actively encourages collaborative
digital education actors. On November 23rd,2013, Raspberry Pi Foun -dation announced a new partnership with Wolfram research that will
$50 †and, importantly, all of the educational materials are free. After procuring a Raspberry Pi, eager students simply follow instructions to
download information onto an SD card, plug it into the tiny computer and connect to a shared Wi-fi to access Coder through Chrome.
Khan academy. When projects are complete, users can host their own websites via Raspberry Pi or zip them to share with friends
schools and help develop educational material to go with the technology What are the main barriers to innovate
reason Khan academy Lite was developed as an offline version ofâ Khan Academy†s curriculum of free learning materials.
With the Pi, a 64gb SD card to put all the learning materials on (which actually costs about twice
what the Pi you†ll need to run it on does) and a Wi-fi dongle, allowing
MIT Media Lab and Keio University, and is set up as a private nonprofit organisation History & Mission Safecast was founded by Sean Bonner, Joi Ito and Pieter Franken after
one case study of Safecast from researchers at University of Southern California describe how the collaboration around Safecast through
University, Uncorked Studios, and Global Survey Corp, among others What are the main barriers to innovate?
Barcelona, and faculty at IAAC, who initiated the Smart Citizen project is specialized an urbanist in digital fabrication and its implications on
corporations †learning web users location or tracking their browsing habits. It offers a technology that bounces Internet users†and websitesâ€
-opment, and education about online anonymity and privacy History and Mission Tor†s strategic agenda is positioned to meet the privacy needs of the
-veloped by the US University MIT and by the California Internet rights watchdog the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
this Tor received support from research partners at the University of Wa -terloo (Canada), the University of Cambridge (United kingdom), Georgia
Institute of technology and many others around the globe. Tor is able to leverage research and academic advancements to develop circumvention
the resourceful geo-coding efforts of Anna Schultz at Tufts University among others What is the role of the organisation
-tion, and high levels of trust built through common graduate academic programmes and preexisting professional networks such as the Interna
Education and skills Technology Trends: Open knowledge Key Facts: More than 878,000 of Community Members Worldwide (as of
developers and educators, who collectively develop, manage and utilise Internet-based †citizen science projects†in order to further science itself
developers and educators primarily coming from universities and public institutions 214 History and mission Zooniverse grew from the original Galaxy Zoo project first launched
Overburdened academic departments very often have neither the time nor the resources to dedicate to processing this backlog of data.
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