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WHAT NEXT FOR DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION LESSONS FROM THE DSI4EU PROJECT

Rimini 23.05.2017

PETER BAECK, HEAD OF COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY RESEARCH,

NESTA

@PETERBAECK

@DSI4EU

Investments In early stage companies, social enterprises

Innovation Skills Capacity building for innovation via tools,

training, networks,

Innovation Lab Supporting innovation in governments, local

authorities and civil society globally

Research & Analysis Understanding how innovation happens

Policy

&

Events

NESTA’S WORK ON THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY

Research

Futures

Practice

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Understanding DSI across Europe

Barriers to growth of DSI

Recommendations

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Understanding DSI

across Europe

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• There is a huge amount

of DSI activity going on in

Europe. We

crowdmapped almost

1,888 organisations and

over 1,060 projects

working on DSI

• Most activity in Southern

and Western Europe.

• Activity clustered in

cities.

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Barriers to growth of DSI Funding and investment

Digital and business skills

Adoption by civil society and public sector

Citizen engagement

Impact measurement

Financial sustainability

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Funding and investment

Funding and investment in DSI is insufficient

Finance is geographically unequal across Europe

Lack of pipelines and “funding gap”

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Skills

Structural shortage

of digital skills

Difficulty accessing

and developing

business and

support skills

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Adoption by the public sector

Limited engagement in DSI from public sector, despite growth in e-government

Complex procurement processes make public sector inaccessible to DSI initiatives

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Adoption by civil society

Digital skills and

leadership

preventing growth

of DSI

Not all DSI is

complex

technology!

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Engagement

Lack of market and

user research

“Build it and they

will come” mindset

Digital inclusion

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Impact measurement Impact measurement very undeveloped in DSI

No one-size-fits-all approach to measuring impact

Many practitioners unable or unwilling to measure impact

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Planning for growth Insufficient understanding of routes to growth

Business models for DSI are still developing

Are market-based models always needed?

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recommendations Support DSI through funding mechanisms

Invest in intermediaries and support infrastructure

Invest in and enable DSI approaches within existing CSOs

Enable peer learning and the spread of best practice

Conduct further research into the supporting conditions and models for growth and sustainability of DSI

Use public procurement to advance DSI

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CONTACT: PETER.BAECK@NESTA.ORG.UK @PETERBAECK