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The world of citizen labs.An emerging civic technology?
Artur Serra
Smart City Casablanca.
May 17-18th, 2017.
“Labs”: The new meme
“Empowering everyone to innovate”
More than 170 living labs in 5 continents.
http://openlivinglabs.eu
FablabsMore than 1.000 in 97 countries in 2017
http://fabfoundation.org/
Are citizen labs a civic technology?
Some research questions
• What kind of innovations do they produce?
• Are they putting citizens in the center?
• Do they have technologies for engagament of users?
1. What kind of technology?
“A type of social and col.laborative innovationin which innovators, users and communitiesco-create knowledge and solutions for a widerange of social needs and at a scale that wasunimaginable before the rise of ICT and theInternet”.
Social Digital Innovation (DSI)
https://digitalsocial.eu/
What DSI is about?
Francesca Bria. Final Report. DSI Project. 2015 https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/dsireport.pdf
Systemic innovation
The main innovation can be… the civic lab in itself
2. How do theymanage it?
• What is the governance of thesetechnologies?
• What is their business models of sustainability?
• What are their ethical codes of conduct?
The current Innovation Systems
An elitist and minoritysystem…
…supplyingInnovationsfor amassivemarket of consumers
?
3. What is the impact?
• How to evaluate it?
• Are they really producing systemic changes?. Whatsystems are they changing?
• Are they really empowering the citizens to innovate?
InnovaFP
Program:
62 vocational
Training institutes
248 professors
624 students
180 companies
315 projects
223.700 euros
What are our KPIs, Key Performance Indicators?
Still we don’t finish it. There are under construction!
4. What is the vision/theorysupporting this kind of technology?.
Is this a simply learning by doing sum of actions, or can a theory of the cívic Technology and new innovationsystems emerge?
“The Collaboratory” hypothesis
Is it possible to create a universal innovationsystem for every citizen, upon Internet?
What a universal system is about?.
See some European examples.
European universal healtcare systems
Covering 100% of population
IntermediateClinics
Primary Health Centers
SpeciallizedHospitals
Collaboratories: A universal innovation system at different levels
Xarxa de Labs d’Innovació locals.
(Majoria Punts TiC, Telecentres, Fablabs,)
Xarxa de Labs de Segon Nivell
(Labs avançats de servei comarcal
o per territori)
Xarxa Labs altament
Especialitzats(Labs en Univ., CERCA, …
The Med as a collaboratory: Next meeting in Istanbul, 3-4 July 2017
UNDP Egypt