Digital Social Innovation

Crowdmapping organisations and activities across Europe

Peter Baeck, Principal Researcher, Nestapeter.baeck@nesta.org.uk

Follow us on twitter @Digi_Siwww.digitalsocial.eu

Three overarching objectives

Defining

DSI?

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

Delivered by a European Partnership

Sept: First AG Meeting + Open

Workshop at Open Knowledge

Conference

November: Second Open

Workshop

July Second Interim

Study Report

DSI Challenge

Prize design

Sept. Post-workshop

Report

Sept. Final Study

Report

Sept: Third AG Meeting

February: DSI Policy

Workshop and second AG Meeting

December : First Interim Study Report

Inception Report

Digitalsocial

.eu liveCrowdsourcing 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

‘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?

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

The broader context for digital social innovation

in the EU

Horizons 2020: Joint Open R&I Programmes

EU 2020Digital 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+sustainability+inclusion)

• Leveraging European talent by fully engaging (new) stakeholders

• Taking advantage of the network effect

Governments/business/ competition

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

Centrally controlled

Distributed

Communities/society/ collaboration

Collaboration/ social values

Competition/ economic interests

Grassroots, distributed

Crowdsourcing

Federated Social Networks

(Diaspora, …)

Centralised, top-down

Collective awareness platforms(collective

intelligence)

Smart Cities

Social web entreprene

urs

FI-PPP

Commercial social networks/ markets

(FB, Apple, Android, …)

Startup Europe

Venture Capital

(Digital) Social

Innovation

(Digital) Innovation

Innovation?

Learning from practice

Long shortlist of 100+ examples of organisations

working on DSI.

Case studied 39 of these

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 NetworksInnovative 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

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

ZooniverseZooniverse 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 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

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

Open Corporatesscraping, 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.

Digitalsocial.euEngaging the European DSI

community and mapping networks

www.digitalsocial.eu Crowdmapping the European

DSI community

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

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 projectMake Sense

Freecoin Smart Santander

Open Data Wiki Progress Open

Corporates

UshahidiOHM Festival

Cell Slider Vienna Open

Crisis-commons CKAN City SDK

Open Knowledge

Patients Like Me

Goteo

Desis Network

Avaaz

Communia P2P FoundationGit Hub

Liquid Feedback

Zooniverse (Cellslider)

Peerby

OuishareLandshare

Open MinistryOpen Knowledge Foundation

My SocietyYour Priorities

ProvenanceMeiraha

Open Hardware

Safecast

Rasberry PiFablab Amsterdam IoT Council

ArduinoSmart Citizen KitFairphone Makerfaire

Open Access Awareness networksNew ways of making

Participatory mechanisms

Sharing economy

“NestaCharity

Based in UK”

“Make Things do

Stuff”

“Open HardwareMobile Apps3D PrintingOpen SourceSensors & IoT”

“Nominet Trust Mozilla”

Who are

you?

Creating a digitalsocial.eu profile

technologyProjects

Collaborators?32 41

Join the Network

Data Collection and Mapping

Your network

Linking Research to other Social Innovation Trends

Collaboration/ social values

Competition/ economic interests

Bottom-up distributed

Top-down centralised

Safecast

Patients like me

Wiki Progress

Open Corporates

Ushahidi Crisis-commons

EveryawareProvenance

Freecoin

Goteo

Peerby

Ouishare

Desis Network

LandshareP2P 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.netCommons 4EU

Tor project Cell slider

CKAN

CommuniaOpen Knowledge

Foundation

Smart Santander

Vienna OpenCity SDKGit Hub

A bottom-up collaborative ecology

Awareness networks

Sharing economy

Open Access

Participatory mechanisms

New ways of making

Open Hardware

Open DataOpen Networks

Open Knowledge

Collaboration/ social values

Competition/ economic interests

Bottom-up distributed

Top-down centralised

Safecast

Patients like me

Wiki Progress

Open Corporates

Ushahidi Crisis-commons

EveryawareProvenance

Zooniverse (Cellslider)

Confine

opengarden.netCommons 4EU

Tor project Cell slider

CKAN

CommuniaOpen Knowledge

Foundation

Smart Santander

Vienna OpenCity SDK

Freecoin

Goteo

Peerby

Ouishare

Desis Network

LandshareP2P Foundation

OHM Festival

Fairphone

Fablab Amsterdam

IoT Council

Arduino

Makerfaire

Smart Citizen Kit

Avaaz

Liquid Feedback

Open Ministry

Your Priorities

Meiraha

Make Sense

My SocietyRasberry Pi

Git Hub

A bottom-up collaborative ecology

Awareness networks

Sharing economy

Open Access

Participatory mechanisms

New ways of making

Open Hardware

Open DataOpen Networks

Open Knowledge

448 organisation, their projects and networks mapped to date.What have we learned?

Engaging and mapping a diverse community under one term (DSI) is hard and takes time

More DSI practice happening in west and Southern Europe

Are we reaching out to and engaging the right networks?

The majority of practice is focusing on Open Knowledge and Open Data. Little activity around Open Hardware

DSI is driven by new comers to the social innovation field.

….?

Next Steps

Map 800 - 1000 organisations

Analyse data and identify strong and weak DSI networks

Identify key network nodes

Feed insights from network analysis in to final recommendations to the EUCMake digitalsocial.eu a long term resource for the DSI community

Materials on Digital Social Innovation

11 DSI Trends

Keep in touch:

www.digitalsocial.eu

contact@digitalsocial.eu

@Digi_Si @PeterBaeck

www.digitalsocial.euTrends

1st interim study report

10 DSI innovators to watch

We are using Your Priorities to source policy ideas for digital social innovation…