Digital Social Innovation

Defining a new type of social innovation and crowdmapping organisations and activities across Europe

Participation Practitioners’ Forum

Peter Baeck, Principal Researcher, Nesta peter.baeck@nesta.org.uk Follow us on twitter @Digi_Si www.digitalsocial.eu

About Nesta

A £340m endowment with a mission to help people

and organisations bring great ideas to life.

Investments in early stage companies, social enterprises and social venture intermediaries

Research On how innovation happens and the impacts

Skills Supporting innovation in all sectors, from design, finance, evidence and scale

Programmes Backing and supporting innovations governments, local authorities and challenge areas such as health

‘a type of social and collaborative innovation in which innovators, users and communities co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs and at a scale that was unimaginable before the rise of ICT and the Internet’

What is Digital

Social Innovation

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Why is it so

interesting ?

• Empowers Citizens

• New opportunities for

partnerships and coproduction

between citizens and services

• Creates new opportunities to

collaborate on creating solutions

that have a social impact

• Increases the potential to rapidly

scale social innovations

• Better public value services

• Opportunities to develop and

scale decentralized

digital ecosystems

for the social good

Three overarching objectives

Defining and understanding the potential in Digital Social Innovation

Crowdmapping and engaging organisations working on, supporting and delivering DSI and how they are connected

Developing recommendations for how policy, funding and regulatory measures can be changed to better support DSI

Sept: First AG Meeting + Open

Workshop at Open Knowledge

Conference

October: Second Open

Workshop

June: Second Interim Study

Report

DSI Challenge

Prize design

Sept. Post-workshop

Report

Sept. Final Study

Report

July: Third AG Meeting

February: DSI Policy

Workshop and second AG Meeting

December : First Interim Study Report

Inception Report

Digitalsocial

.eu live Crowdsourcing DSI policy ideas

on the Your Priorities platform

March: Guardian Article 10 DSI innovators to

watch

Oui Share Collaborative Economy Fest

2014: DSI Mapping launch

France

We are here

May 2013

August 2014

Jan 2014

Delivered by a European Partnership

The broader context for digital social

innovation in the EU

Horizons 2020: Joint Open R&I Programmes

EU 2020 Digital Agenda DSI

To be able to fully maximize social innovation and citizens engagement, policy makers should be aware

of the challenges

SMART GROWTH

SUSTAINABLE GROWTH

INCLUSIVE GROWTH

• Innovative Union • Youth on the

move • A Digital agenda

for Europe

• Resource efficient Europe

• An industrial policy for the globalization era

• An agenda for new skills and jobs

• European platform against poverty

• High speed internet

• Single digital market

• Citizens rights/skills

• R&D

• Connected facilities

• …

DSI VISION: • DSI contribute to smart

growth tackling societal

challenges

(innovation+sustainabil

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• Leveraging European

talent by fully engaging

(new) stakeholders

• Taking advantage of the

network effect

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Bottom-up and decentralised (open source, open data, open

hardware, open knowledge) P2P, e-democracy, CAPS, Internet Science,

DSI, web entrepreneurship

Top down and systemic approaches European

Innovation Partnerships, Smart Cities, FI-PPP; Cloud strategy;

challenge.gov, eHealth, eGovernment

Exploit the network effect for the social good

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Grassroots, distributed

Crowdsourcing

Federated Social

Networks (Diaspora, …)

Centralised, top-down

Collective awareness

platforms (collective intelligence)

Smart Cities

Social web

entrepreneurs

FI-PPP

Commercial social networks/

markets (FB, Apple, Android, …)

Startup Europe

Venture Capital

(Digital) Social

Innovation

(Digital) Innovation

Innovation?

Four technological trends in DSI

Open Hardware New ways of making and using open hard-ware solutions and moving towards and Open Source Internet of Things

Open Knowledge Co-production of new knowledge and crowd mobilisation based on open content, open source and open access

Open Networks Innovative combinations of network solutions and infrastructures, e.g. sensor net -works, free interoperable network services, open Wifi, bottom up-broadband, distributed social networks, p2p infrastructure

Open Data Innovative ways to capture, use, analyse, and interpret open data coming from people and from the environment

Learning from practice

Long shortlist of 100+ examples of organisations

working on DSI.

Case studied 39 of these

Type of support or

activity

Networking Events, Fairs,

and Festivals

Running Incubators and

accelerators

Hosting and managing

maker spaces and hacker

spaces

Through research projects

or research networks

Delivering digital social

services

Providing funding and

social investment

Advocacy and advisory or

expert bodies

Organisations working on and supporting DSI across Europe in multiple ways….

Fablab Amsterdam

Nominet Trust

Bethnal Green Ventures

W3C

Tyze

Chaos Communication Camp

Norm Wright, CC

Open Hardware

Open Hardware

Arduino Arduino is a simple

low cost circuit

board that anyone

can turn into an

electrical device

Over 1 million

Arduino boards

have been

produced

Open Hardware

Smart Citizen Kit Smart Citizen Kit seeks to

bring citizens together to

address environmental

challenges

Enables the user to

measure environmental

data and a Wi-Fi antenna

that enables the data to be

shared. Installed at scale in

Barcelona, Amsterdam and

Manchester

CCAC North Library C.C

Open Knowledge

Open Knowledge

Zooniverse

Zooniverse involves large

crowds of citizens in

capturing and analysing big

data sets.

Zooniverse hosts online

citizen science projects

which involve the public in

crowdsourcing academic

research. Large online

communities devote their

free time to projects such

as studying more than 2m

images of cancer cells in the

Cellslider project

Gamification – Genes in Space

Open Knowledge

Patients Like Me

Enables people living with a long-

term health condition to contribute

their personal experience and

knowledge on diseases, condition

details and treatments to a

social network of peers living with

similar conditions.

The network engage more than

220,000 users and cover more than

2,000 conditions

Open Knowledge

Ouishare

A global collaborative

consumption network. It

aims to empower citizens,

public institutions and

companies to build a society

in which every person has

access to the resources and

opportunities they need to

thrive. The network is built

on the belief that an

economy based on sharing,

collaboration and openness

can solve many of the

complex challenges the

world faces.

Open Knowledge

Goteo

Spanish crowdfunding platform,

which allows social entrepreneurs

to launch funding campaigns with

a social purpose under a creative

commons license. Allows for the

contribution of skills and non

financial resources as well as

money.

Open

Networks

Open Networks

Guifi.net Founded in 2000 as a

response to the lack of

internet in rural

Catalonia.

Operates a "mesh

network" where each

person in the network

helps transmit internet to

other nodes in the Guifi

net.

More than 23,000

network nodes.

Open Networks

Tor Tor is a project aimed

at creating software

tools to stop people,

including companies

and governments

tracking web users

browsing habits in

order to maintain

anonymity online

Has over 4 million daily

users

Open Networks

Safecast Uses open hardware,

sensor networks to

capture large open

radiation level data sets.

Used by citizens to map

radiation levels in Japan

after the Fukushima

nuclear disaster.

More than 13 Million

Data Points have been

captured to date.

Open data

Open Data

Ushahidi Crowdsourced data

collection, visualization

and mapping

Free and open source

software for the collection,

visualization and

interactive mapping of

information, Enables users

to operate outside of

traditional communication

barriers to potentially

monitor elections, map

crisis information or curate

local resources.

Open Data

Open

Corporates scraping, opening up

big data sets Through web scraping

Open Corporates make

information about

companies and the

corporate world more

transparent and accessible.

The data is turned in to

searchable maps and

visualisations of complex

corporate structures.

Health,

wellbeing

and

inclusion

Sustainable

economic

models

Energy and

environment

Participative

open

governance

Pioneering

science,

culture and

education

Smart public

services

Open

Networks Confine

Open-garden.net

Everyaware Commons 4EU Tor project

Make Sense

Freecoin Smart Santander

Open Data Wiki Progress

Open Corporates

Ushahidi OHM Festival

Cell Slider Vienna Open

Crisis-commons CKAN City SDK

Open

Knowledge Patients Like Me

Goteo

Desis Network

Avaaz

Communia P2P Foundation Git Hub

Liquid Feedback

Zooniverse (Cellslider)

Peerby

Ouishare Landshare

Open Ministry Open Knowledge Foundation

My Society Your Priorities

Provenance Meiraha

Open

Hardware Safecast

Rasberry Pi Fablab Amsterdam

IoT Council

Arduino Smart Citizen Kit Fairphone Makerfaire

Open Access Awareness networks

New ways of making Participatory mechanisms

Sharing economy

Avoin Ministeriö

(Open Ministry)

The Open Ministry is a

Finnish non-profit, non-

partisan organisation

based in Helsinki, Finland.

It was set up with the aim

of enabling the

crowdsourcing of

legislation, promoting

deliberative and

participatory

democracy and citizens

initiatives.

Five citizen driven law

proposal have reached

support from 50.000

people and have

subsequently been

debated in the Finish

Parliament

Your Priorities

Your Priorities (YPRI) is a

web-based platform

developed by the Icelandic

Citizens Foundation. It

enables groups of people to

develop and prioritize ideas

together. Since 2008, the

Citizens Foundation has

used YPRI to promote

online, democratic debate

worldwide. YPRI is open

source and free of charge

to any group, city or country

around the world. The most

prominent use to date, is its

application in Reykjavik,

Iceland, where the city uses

the platform to source ideas

from citizens to be debated

in the city council on a

monthly basis.

We are using Your

Priorities to source

policy ideas for digital

social innovation…

Digitalsocial.eu

Engaging the European DSI community and

mapping networks

www.digitalsocial.eu Crowdmapping the European

DSI community

Data Collection and Mapping

Join the Network

“Nesta Charity

Based in UK”

“Make Things do

Stuff”

“Open Hardware

Mobile Apps

3D Printing

Open Source

Sensors & IoT”

“Nominet Trust Mozilla”

Who are

you?

Creating a digitalsocial.eu profile

What do you work on?

Projects Collaborators?

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distributed

Top-down

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Safecast

Patients like me

Wiki Progress

Open Corporates

Ushahidi Crisis-commons

Everyaware Provenance

Freecoin

Goteo

Peerby

Ouishare

Desis Network

Landshare P2P Foundation

Avaaz

Liquid Feedback

Open Ministry

Your Priorities

Meiraha

Make Sense

My Society

OHM Festival

Fairphone

Fablab Amsterdam

IoT Council

Arduino

Makerfaire

Smart Citizen Kit

Rasberry Pi

Zooniverse (Cellslider)

Confine

opengarden.net

Commons 4EU Tor project Cell slider

CKAN

Communia

Open Knowledge Foundation

Smart Santander

Vienna Open

City SDK Git Hub

A bottom-up collaborative ecology

Awareness networks

Sharing economy

Open Access

Participatory mechanisms

New ways of making

Open Hardware Open Data Open Networks Open Knowledge

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Bottom-up

distributed

Top-down

centralised

Safecast

Patients like me

Wiki Progress

Open Corporates

Ushahidi Crisis-commons

Everyaware Provenance

Zooniverse (Cellslider)

Confine

opengarden.net

Commons 4EU Tor project Cell slider

CKAN

Communia

Open Knowledge Foundation

Smart Santander

Vienna Open

City SDK

Freecoin

Goteo

Peerby

Ouishare

Desis Network

Landshare P2P Foundation

OHM Festival

Fairphone

Fablab Amsterdam

IoT Council

Arduino

Makerfaire

Smart Citizen Kit

Avaaz

Liquid Feedback

Open Ministry

Your Priorities

Meiraha

Make Sense

My Society Rasberry Pi

Git Hub

A bottom-up collaborative ecology

Awareness networks

Sharing economy

Open Access

Participatory mechanisms

New ways of making

Open Hardware Open Data Open Networks Open Knowledge

Workshop 20 min 1. Split in to groups of 4 – 6 2. Choose a rapporteur

3. Discuss the following two questions in context of your

What are the biggest opportunities for your organisation in Digital Social Innovation

What are the biggest challenges to your organisation making the most of digital social innovation

4. Plenary - rapporteur reports back from each group with the 3 biggest opportunities and the 3 biggest challenges that you identified. 5. Group discussion

Materials on Digital Social Innovation

11 Digital Social Innovation Trends Keep in touch:

www.digitalsocial.eu contact@digitalsocial.eu @Digi_SI

Policy, funding and regulatory measures

to support the further growth of

Digital Social Innovation

Policy goals

Making it easier to create new digital SI (eg regulatory, funding &c)

Making it easier to grow and spread digital SI (eg public procurement, support for evidence generation, common standards)

Increasing the potential value of digital SI (eg making available open data, ubiquitous broadband)

Enabling some of the radical, disruptive innovations emerging from digital SI – new approaches to money, consumption, education, health

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The spread of social

innovation support ...

Parks (Bilbao, Singapore)

Exchanges (SIX &c)

Camps (globally)

Funds (Australia, Hong Kong,France)

Government teams (Colombia to UK)

Incubators (several hundred)

Offices (eg White House)

Mayors (eg Seoul)

Prizes (US, Europe, China..)

Labs (Chile to Netherlands)

Corporate programmes (Vodafone, Danone, HP)

Consultancy units (McKinsey, Deloitte …)

Policy Tools….

DIRECT PROVISION – eg broadband infrastructure

DIRECT COMMISSIONING – eg online health platforms, public procurement

DIRECT FUNDING – eg grant aid, early stage, ongoing etc, challenge prizes

INVESTMENT – eg direct investment, co-funding of funds, wholesale investment;

INFORMATION – provision of information online open data; administrative data

PARTNERSHIPS – PPPs, PFIs, buildings, infrastructure, tech development

TAXES &c (eg recycling money from the big aggregators)

CHARGES (eg for data reuse)

SUBSIDIES (eg for start-ups)

TRADEABLE PERMITS, QUOTAS (eg locally produced media content)

REGULATION (eg opening up public services to competition)

LAW (eg prohibitions on child pornography on the internet, rights of identity)

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Some examples: • Funding provision for incubators,

growth funds, experimental zones • Marketplaces for adoption,

exchange • Common markets • Showcases, testbeds, cities as

laboratories

Who can act? Different levels of

governance …

Exploring policies, funding mechanisms and Regulatory

measures to support Digital Social Innovation

Non-institutional actors are sources of innovation and need systemic synergies to diffuse

Making social impact most important

Mix of access to shared resources, skills, capabilities, and self- governance

frameworks to mobilise collective action

Building communities based on the right mix of motivation and incentives

(financial and non-monetary incentives and outcomes)

Access to knowledge, open infrastructures, and open licensing

schemes (Digital Commons)

Addressing barriers to growth and scale, connect across boundaries.

Reusability of solutions is key to scale without lock-in solutions

New indicators and metrics to assess the impact of DSI

and to know what works and what doesn’t