george papadopoulos - collective awareness platforms.pdf

The MED-Dialogue project (611433) is co-funded by the European Community's ICT Programme under FP7

ICT Networking Event Tunis, Tunisia

George Angelos Papadopoulos

Dept. of Computer Science, University of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus

Presentation title: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation Related Objective: ICT-11-2017

Agenda

Introduction: Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation Partner Description: Software Engineering and Internet Technologies (SEIT) Research Laboratory Project Idea: C@RE Citizens T@ke Responsibility

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COLLECTIVE AWARENESS PLATFORMS FOR SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/collectiveawareness

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ICT-11-2017

The initiative "Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation" (CAPS) aims at

–  designing and piloting online platforms creating awareness of sustainability problems, and

–  offering collaborative solutions based on networks (of people, of ideas, of sensors), enabling new forms of social innovation

CAPS are expected to support environmentally aware, grassroots processes and practices to

–  share knowledge, –  achieve changes in lifestyle, production and

consumption patterns, and –  set up more participatory democratic processes


Main Challenges

Capitalize on participatory innovation Develop models and blueprints to produce collective intelligence

–  leveraging on open data, knowledge networks, open hardware and Internet of Things

Demonstrate that innovative combinations of existing or emerging network technologies enable new Digital Social Innovation

–  to cope with emerging sustainability challenges better than with traditional solutions


What for? Such platforms can have very concrete impacts, for instance:

–  in empowering and motivating citizens to make informed decisions as consumers, or

–  in fostering collective environmentally-savvy behavioral changes and a more direct democratic participation

Concrete examples of emerging areas include: –  Open Democracy: enabling citizens' participation in democratic

processes by developing and applying new tools (e.g. voting, online consultation)

–  Open Policy Making: better decision making based on open data –  Collaborative Economy: lending, exchange, swapping made to

operate at scale –  Collaborative Making: developing new ways of manufacturing –  Collaborative Consumption: rethinking consumerism –  New Collaborative approaches to inclusion, agriculture, health,

disaster management


How to build platforms for Collective Awareness and Action?

CAPS is part of the research priorities of the Horizon 2020 research programme of the European Commission There are two topics related to CAPS which will be called for in the upcoming 2016-17 Work Programme:

–  2015: ICT-12b: "Distributed Architectures for Decentralised Data Governance" (submission deadline: 12 April 2016)

–  2016: ICT-11: "Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation"(submission deadline: 25 April 2017)

Please also check the H2020 participant portal for further information (deadlines, topic description, funding schemes)


How to? A key point

The last call for proposals for CAPS was launched in 2014 with a total budget of 43 million euro Nearly 200 proposals were submitted, of which 24 have been selected for funding The new CAPS projects have started in January 2016 To find out about the projects that have been funded under the first calls, please check the ongoing projects


Landscape of topics and current projects


CAPS: Example Projects (1)

Open Democracy: enabling citizens' participation in democratic processes (voting, consultation)

–  D-Cent: Provide civil society with digital tools for democratic participation

Open Policy Making: better decision making based on open data

–  WebCosi: Increasing trust in collectively-generated statistics

Collaborative Economy: lending, exchange, swapping made to operate at scale Collaborative Making: new ways of manufacturing Collaborative Consumption: rethinking consumerism

–  Wikirate: enabling citizens to rate companies on corporate social responsibility


CAPS: Example Projects (2)

Environmental action: applying citizen science and IoT to environmental challenges

–  DecarboNet: foster behavioral change to reduce energy consumption

New Collaborative approaches to inclusion, agriculture, health, disaster management

–  Cap4Access: Collectively removing barriers to inclusion Internet Science, Decentralized architectures, Open Data, Privacy, Social Entrepreneurship

–  Catalyst: Experimenting new collective forms of creativity and collaboration

Accompanying Measures –  CAPS2020: Organization and management of events


ICT-11-2017: Good to know (1)

Opening: 8 December 2016 Submission deadline: 25 April 2017 Budget: 10 M€ (IA: 9 M€, CSA: 1 M€) Size of a project: IA: 1-2 M€, CSA: 0.2-0.8 M€ Work Programme:

–  http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2016_2017/main/h2020-wp1617-leit-ict_en.pdf#page=32

CAPS Website: –  http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/collectiveawareness


ICT-11-2017: Good to know (2)

What the E.U. expects to see in the projects of this call:

–  Involvement of existing and motivated communities of citizens, to drive platform development

–  Combination of existing or emerging network technologies (e.g. distributed social networks, wikis, sensors, blockchains)

–  Inclusion in the consortium of at least two entities, whose main focus of interest is beyond the ICT domain

–  Integration of different platforms, addressing several sustainability challenges at a time, in order to achieve critical mass and measurable global impact

–  Engagement of civil society at large, e.g. through NGOs, local communities, social enterprises, non-profit organizations, students and hackers


Partner description

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES (SEIT) RESEARCH LABORATORY


University of Cyprus

University of Cyprus - Campus


q  Established in 1989, first undergraduate and postgraduate students accepted respectively in 1992 and 1998

q  Over 6200 students in 20 years (first year 486) q  10,000 students by 2020

q  Despite being a fairly new University, it is recognized as a centre of excellence in the Mediterranean region

q  Research is promoted and funded in all departments at both local and international level

q  Currently more than 300 research projects funded by EU q  Successful proposals under FP5, FP6, FP7,

INCO, COST, Interreg, MEDA, etc.

University of Cyprus – Some information


q  Among the first departments to assume operation. In 2003: the department moved to the new campus

q  21(+) academic staff, 500(+) undergraduate and 100(+) graduate students

q  The Department offers a Bachelor degree in Computer Science as well as five Master degrees and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science

q  13 active Research Laboratories in areas such as software engineering and internet technologies, artificial intelligence, computer architecture, data management, and theoretical computer science

q  Since 2000, participated in numerous projects funded by various frameworks of the European Union: q  (FP-IST, EUMEDIS, INCO-DC, SOCRATES, LEONARDO DA VINCI,

INTERREG, MED, etc.) q  Over the last 6 years, involved in more than 130 research projects

funded from both the European Union and the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation with total funding of over 13 million euros

Department of Computer Science


q  Website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit/ q  Main Research Area - Software Engineering: Cloud

Computing, Service Oriented Architectures, Context-Aware Middleware Platforms and Smart and Mobile Computing for the development of pervasive, self-adaptive applications and Smart IoT services

q  Second area - Internet Technologies: ICT-enabled Environments, platforms and tools for implementing Health monitoring and support services, Smart and Personalised services for Elders, Assistive Technologies for people with disabilities, activities related to Technology Enhanced Learning, E-Business, E-Government, developing environments for elders’ social inclusion, active ageing and independent living, Creativity Tools, Recommender Systems and Crowd Sourcing

The SEIT lab


q  George A. Papadopoulos – Professor q  Georgia M. Kapitsaki – PhD Lecturer/Researcher q  Achilleas Achilleos – PhD Lecturer/Researcher q  Aristotelis Dosis – PhD Researcher q  Christos Mettouris – MSc (PhD Candidate),

Researcher q  George Sielis – MSc (PhD Candidate), Researcher q  Marios Komodromos – MSc Candidate, Developer

People


q  WIMS 2015: The 5th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics q  UCC 2015: The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing q  CONTEXT 2015: 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context q  ICEIRD 2014: The 7th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development q  ICSOB 2014: The 5th International Conference on Software Business q  ICTAI 2014: IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence q  DeSE2014: 7th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering q  MEDI 2014: 4th International Conference on Model & Data Engineering q  KICSS 2014: The 9th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems q  BIS 2014: The 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems q  WiMob 2014: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and

Communications q  ECSCW 2013 –European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work q  EC-TEL 2013 –8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning q  MobiWIS 2013: 10th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems q  PROFES 2013: 14th International Conference of Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement q  CSE 2012 - 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. q  EUC 2012: 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing q  WISE 2012: The 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering q  ICWE 2011: 11th International Conference on Web Engineering q  ICSOC 2011: The 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing q  PDP 2011: The 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing q  CIT 2011: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology. q  SCALCOM 2011: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications. q  ECOWS 2010: The 8th IEEE European Conference on Web Services. q  ETAPS 2010: The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software.

Recent international events we organized


q  SEIT was actively involved in the 5th, 6th, 7th Framework and HORIZON 2020, where it participated in multiple EU projects and attracted more than €5.5M in funding

FP7 FP6 FP5

HORIZON 2020

EU projects participation (1)


q  SEIT has also been involved in national projects and other EU funded initiatives, notably AAL (Ambient Assisted Living), ESIS (European Survey in Information Society), but also the Leonardo Da Vinci framework on Vocational Training

EU projects participation (2)


Project idea

C@RE CITIZENS T@KE RESPONSIBILITY


Context

Some of the terms that appear in recent years, are Smart Cities and Social Networks Taking advantage of the rapid development of technology, smart cities are designed to increase the living standards of citizens and to address any problems that may arise This has many intersections with social entrepreneurship and social networks


Excellence: Objectives

–  Integrate existing technologies and platforms to build the «Citizens T@ke REsponsibility (C@RE)», a distributed platform and system that will be designed and developed, and will: •  Be used by citizens to quickly report problems (risk

of accidents) and potential issues •  Be able to detect/sense (potential) hazards, injuries

and problems, and automatically update the necessary authorities, by exploiting distributed clouds of sensors

•  Provide functions for statistical analysis of (anonymous) data to predict and circumvent or limit hazards and accidents

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Excellence: Relation to the work programme

–  Related H2020 objective: ICT-11-2017 –  Type of instrument: IA –  Relation to the call

•  Fostering Collective Behavioral Changes & participatory innovation

•  Leveraging open hardware and Internet of things •  Leveraging on open data and knowledge networks


Excellence: Ambition

•  Fostering Collective Behavioral Changes & participatory innovation –  Citizens through a web or mobile application will be able to directly report any

incident and/or accident that needs to be addressed (water leakage, fire in the park) –  Through the cloud infrastructure and portal services the authorities of a country will

be able to receive reports of problems and react quickly to solve them •  Leveraging open hardware and Internet of things

–  In addition, via the use of smart technology (Internet of Things), the system will provide the ability to integrate intelligent services for automated incident reporting

–  This way, apart from the facts and incidents that will be reported manually by users, sensors (temperature, motion, water flow, etc.) will be used for the fastest possible reporting of problems and accidents

•  Leveraging on open data and knowledge networks –  Another feature of the ecosystem, is the collection of anonymous information for

analysis –  Taking advantage of the results of the analysis, we can map out the areas of the

city where there are the most numerous events and characterize high-risk areas, categorized as to the type of accident


Type of collaboration sought & Contact Info

n We are searching for: ¨  Partners:

¨  Human Psychology, Senior Citizens Education, Public Administration, ICT – specifically in Data Mining

¨  Specifically MPC partners: ¨  Which can apply/evaluate the proposed

environment in a suitably relevant and challenging environment which will bring added value to the EU


Professor George Angelos Papadopoulos [email protected] www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/

Contact Point


Thank you!


http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/seit

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