Digital Social Innovation CrowdweekCopenhagen 14.10.2014

Peter Baeck, Principal Researcher, Nesta

peter.baeck@nesta.org.uk@PeterBaeck

About NestaA £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

ResearchOn how innovation happens and the impacts

SkillsSupporting innovation in all sectors, from design, finance, evidence and scale

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

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

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

ReportSept. Final

Study Report

July: 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

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 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.

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 data

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.

Open Data

FruitflyIn Wienna the city has opened up more than160 datasets which has lead to the development of more than 109 apps for the city. One of these is the “Fruit Fly” an app that offers users a visual map that captures data on all fruit trees on public ground in Vienna. Colour coded pins are used to illustrate different types of fruit. Crowdsourced data is also used to index which fruit is ripe or in season. The result is a quirky app that citizens or visitors of Vienna can use to navigate their way towards a free but healthy snack

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

Lessons Learned.

Lessons learned….

858 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

Supporting DSI to grow

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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Materials on Digital Social Innovation

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