DSI – Workshop on digital technology to support social innovation

Submission deadline (extended): NEW deadline! You now have until October 8th to submit your paper

The advent of the Web 2.0 enabled the growth of user-generated content, virtual communities and new forms of collaboration over the internet. Since then, multiple platforms, such as the CAPS platforms , have emerged tapping into collective knowledge for fostering awareness, collaboration and innovation.

The aim of this workshop is to collect the lessons learned from different platforms and settings, and understand the requirements and challenges for building and using digital platforms to effectively engage broad participation in the social innovation process. The workshop offers a forum to reflect on the result of experiments, pilots and tests of such platforms in order to pave the way forward for digital social innovation in the Next Generation Internet. Our intended output is a concrete set of findings, important research questions and digital social innovation opportunities.

We welcome researchers, companies and policy makers to submit theirs articles or simply join us for the round-table discussion about the future of Digital Social Innovation.

For this workshop, we will be accepting scientific contributions around the thematics of digital technology to support social innovation from design to practice. We will be accepting papers ranging from 6-14 pages covering original research findings. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (Springer LNCS), presented at the workshop and serve as a basis for a round-table discussion.

DSI is organized in collaboration between the SOCRATIC,  MAKE-IT and OPEN4CITIZENS CAPS projects.

We will be accepting papers covering research findings on the following (but not limited to) topics:

• Digital innovation methodologies
• User requirements and psychological aspects regarding ICT-enabled innovation platforms
• Design of digital collaborative platforms for innovation
• Digital collaborative platforms for innovation
• Pilots and Experiments of Collaborative Ideation, Innovation and Production
• Community building strategies for outreaching and motivating users in digital collaborative platforms
• Open democracy, participation and policy making
• Case explorations of digital social innovation in different settings

All submissions must be based on original scientific contribution and must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Proceedings template. Papers should be 6-14 pages.

They must be submitted via Easychair through the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsi2017

All submissions must be based on original scientific contribution and must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference.Papers should be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS Proceedings template. Papers should be 6-14 pages.

They must be submitted via Easychair through the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsi2017

Submission deadline: October 8th

Acceptance notification: October 20th

Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Accepted articles will be published in the workshop proceedings (Springer LNCS).

• October 8th: Submission deadline (extended): NEW deadline! You now have until October 8th to submit your paper
• October 13th: Acceptance notification
• November 05th: Final camera-ready submission deadline
• November 22th: Workshop

The workshop will be held in conjunction with 4th International Conference on Internet Science  INSCI 2017. It will take place at the the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH)’s Conference Centre, which is located 12 km from the centre of the city of Thessaloniki, in Greece, and 8 km from the airport.

See more details at the INSCI conference website.

Jacqueline Floch (SINTEF) is a senior scientist at SINTEF Digital. After several years working with model-driven software engineering and system architectures, she now focuses on applying ICT in innovative ways towards a smarter and inclusive society. She has experience within participatory design, end-user development and software evaluation. User participation and user empowerment are key issues in her current activities. She is currently contributing to methodology development in the H2020 project SOCRATIC about developing and piloting a platform for social innovation.

Thomas Vilarihno (SINTEF) is a research scientist at SINTEF Digital working both with social computing and computer supported collaborative systems. His experiences in the field cover requirements engineering, user-centred design, system development and software evaluation. His experience regarding social innovation spans his volunteering activities in diverse international volunteer organizations and the design of the SOCRATIC methodology and platform for supporting collaborative social innovation.

Yolanda Rueda (Cibervoluntarios): Social entrepreneur, founder and current President of the Cibervoluntarios Foundation, organization chosen by Google.org as one of the 50 organizations that are changing the world. Yolanda previously co-founded the Campus Party (www.campus-party.org) and the ICT consultancy company Futura Networks (www.futuranetworks.com). In 2011 and 2012 Yolanda was named as one of the Top 100 women leaders in Spain. In 2013, the Procom Association recognized her as one of “The Influentials” for her 2.0 advocacy and leadership. Yolanda has a degree in Journalism, with masters in Management and Administration of Foundations and other non-profit entities and Marketing. The Cibervoluntarios Foundation will pilot the SOCRATIC methodology and platform.

Ines Dinant (Farapi): Anthropologist in Farapi Kooperatiba Elkartea. She has a wide experience and knowledge related to the business sector, research and the application of innovative processes. Her extensive career working in different countries and with different companies allowed her to acquire deep knowledge into different work methodologies and work processes.  She is working on using anthropology applied to human-centred design for the development of the SOCRATIC methodology and UX of the platform.  

Grazia Concilio (Politecnico de Milano): Born in 1967. She is an engineer and an associate professor in Urban Planning and Design; PhD in “Economic evaluation for Sustainability” from the University of Naples Federico II. She carried out research activity at the RWTH in Aachen, Germany (1995), at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria (1998) and at the Concordia University of Montreal, Canada, (2002); she is reviewer for many international journals and member (in charge of LL new applications) of ENoLL (European Network of open Living Lab). Component of several research projects; responsible for a CNR research program (2001; the pilot of this project has been included as Territorial Living Lab in Enoll) and coordinator of a project funded by the Puglia Regional Operative Programme (2007-2008) and aiming at developing an e-governance platform for the management of Natural Parks (the project ended with the submission of Torre Guaceto Living Lab). She has been responsible for POLIMI of the Periphèria, MyNeighborhood|MyCity, and Open4Citiziens projects and responsible for DAStU of the SMART CAMPUS Project. She is also responsible for POLIMI of an ERASMUS+ project on Community Planning (2015-2017).

David Langley (TNO): works at TNO, the largest applied research institute in the Netherlands, in the field of internet, innovation and strategy, and he is also Associate Research Fellow at the department of Innovation Management and Strategy at the University of Groningen. He is columnist for the Dutch Financial Times writing about the societal implications of internet technologies. He is acting chair of the European Alliance for IoT Innovation (AIOTI), Ecosystems working group. Working in the area of internet innovations since 1991, he has set up and led research projects in a wide variety of industries, including telecoms, energy, banking and the public sector. He is the inventor of an award-winning method to predict the adoption of innovative products and services at an early stage of their development. He received his PhD in 2009 and his scientific research has been published in leading journals, including Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Interactive Marketing and Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Massimo Menichinelli (IAAC): is a designer who researches and develops open, collaborative, and co-design projects and the systems that enable them since 2005. He uses design tools and processes in order to help companies, organizations, cities and local communities to develop open and collaborative processes, business, services, places and projects such as Open Design, Fab Lab and User-driven Open and Social Innovation initiatives. Massimo has given lectures and workshops in various countries including Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Mexico, Colombia, South Korea and Singapore so far. He worked on the development of the Aalto FabLab, co-organized the first Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki and co-founded the Open Design Working Group at the Open Knowledge Foundation. He lectured on Digital Fabrication and Open Design at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) and Open Design at SUPSI (Lugano, Switzerland) and in the Fab Academy (Opendot and WeMake, Italy). He has recently developed the MUSE Fab Lab (Trento, Italy) and facilitated the development of the Opendot makerspace/Fab Lab (Milan, Italy). He worked also as a Director at Make In Italy Italian Fablab & Makers Foundation CDB where he researched and facilitated Fab Labs and Makers in Italy. He works now as a project manager for research projects at IAAC | Fab City Research Lab (previously known as Fab Lab Barcelona), especially in the MAKE-IT Horizon 2020 European project and as project manager of Fablabs.io, the official and open source platform for the global Fab Lab Network. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architecture – Department of Media – Media Lab Helsinki.

Supporting Projects

SOCRATIC (http://www.socratic.eu/ ) is a collaborative project funded as part of the Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) initiative in Horizon 2020 (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/collective-awareness). The aim of SOCRATIC is to facilitate a platform so citizens and/or organisations can collaboratively identify specific innovative solutions for achieving the desired Global Sustainability Development Goals, as defined by the United Nations. The SOCRATIC pilots focus on three specific goals: “Ensuring healthy lives and promote well- being for all at all ages (UN ́s Goal 3)”, “Ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (UN’s Goal 4)”, and “Promoting sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all (UN’s Goal 8)”.

MAKE-IT (http://make-it.io/ ) is also part of the CAPS initiative in Horizon 2020. Virtually everybody with Internet access can create digital content composed of virtual bits and make it available to everyone else instantly, no matter who they are or where they live. Now, the same thing is happening to manufacturing as the access to tools like 3D printers and laser cutters is increasing. As a result, these intangible goods or virtual bits which can be shared globally, can be turned to physical objects or atoms which manifest themselves locally. This is making the interface between the virtual world and the physical world blur if not disappear. As a shorthand term, this transformation from bits to atoms is being called the Maker movement. The overall objective of the MAKE-IT project is to understand the role of CAPS in enabling the growth and governance of the Maker movement, particularly in relation to using and creating social innovations and achieving sustainability.

OPEN4CITIZENS (http://open4citizens.eu): There is a clear gap between the opportunities offered by the abundance of open data and the citizens’ capability to imagine new ways of using such data. OPEN4CITIZENS works to reduce such gap. It involves citizens into a co-design process (hackathons), together with IT experts, public administrations, interest groups and start-up companies, in order to develop new services to improve urban quality and certain aspects of their everyday life. The aim of the project is to raise citizens’ awareness about the opportunity offered by open data and create a new culture of innovation in public services. In each of the five pilot locations (Copenhagen, Karlstad, Rotterdam, Milano and Barcelona) the project will also create physical or virtual locations (OpenDataLab) that will become the reference point for all citizens and interest groups that want to propose innovative applications based on open data.

The workshop will be structured in two sessions, where:

• The first session will be dedicated to the presentation of scientific contributions related to the workshop topics;
• The second session will consist on a brainstorming activity and round-table discussion about the future of Digital Social Innovation platforms using as starting points the findings of the different submitted articles.

Tuesday, 22 November 2017 – Room AIOLOS, CERTH Premises

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Jacqueline.Floch[at]sintef.no .