Digital Social Innovation

SI LiveLisbon 13.11.2014

Peter Baeck, Principal Researcher, Nesta

peter.baeck@nesta.org.uk@PeterBaeck

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

December: 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

‘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

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

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 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 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

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

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 Data

Open

Corporatesscraping, opening up

big data sets

Through open data and 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.

Example – Goldman Sachs

has 1,475 subsidiaries

registered in the U.S. and 739

in the Caymans alone.

Digitalsocial.eu

Engaging the European DSI community and

mapping networks

www.digitalsocial.euCrowdmapping 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

Lessons Learned.

Lessons learned…. 918 organisations and their projects mapped

Most DSI projects are driven by new types of SI organisations.

Significant skills gap to do ‘digital’ in the social innovation community

Most open data activity least on open hardware and networks

Less activity in Eastern EU

Most activity is small scale , but rapidly evolving field, with lots of interest & potential & challenges

SupportinDSI to grow

Policy goals

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

Making it easier to grow and spread digital SI (egpublic 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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