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        %h1 Funding opportunities for Digital Social Innovation in Europe 
        %h2 3rd December 2013
        
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          Digital Social Innovation has been attracting a lot of
          attention lately. The term is a relatively new one, and as
          such it is contested, but broadly it can be defined as...

          *‘a type of social and collaborative innovation in which
          innovators, users and communities collaborate using digital
          technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide
          range of social needs and at a scale that was unimaginable
          before the rise of Internet-enabled platforms’*

          And in addition to our research work to
          [map digital social innovation](http://digitialsocial.eu),
          the last month has seen three exciting new opportunities for
          European Commission funding:

          * The second CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms) call,
            priority ICT10 of Horizon 2020, was officially presented
            and discussed on November 7th  at the [ICT 2013 in
            Vilnius](http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-2013). You
            can find the presentation and excerpt from the draft of
            H202 Workprogramme draft
            [here](http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2013/item-display.cfm?id=11634).

            Also in Vilnius, more details were given about
            [CHEST](http://www.chest-project.eu/), the CAPS project
            which will award 2.5 M€ of seed funding to [Digital Social
            Innovation](http://digitalsocial.eu/) activities in the
            coming months.

          * Seed funding for projects towards SMEs and new
            organisations using FI-PPP services, under the objective
            ICT 1.8 in Call ICT-FI. The language gets a bit
            technical,but have a look at the [call for
            proposals](http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/netinnovation/call3_en.html). Be
            quick though – the deadline is December 10th this year.

          * Finally, the project
            [CONFINE](http://confine-project.eu/open-call-2/) is
            launching its second Open Call (with a budget of 750 k€)
            on "Connected communities: A future internet, built by the
            people for the people".

          Remember, one of the best ways to make yourself visible to
          funders of Digital Social Innovation and potential
          collaborators is to map your activities on
          [digitalsocial.eu](http://digitalsocial.eu).
          
          Participate!

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        %p.author <NAME>
        %p.author-role Policy Advisor
        %p.author-company= link_to "Nesta", "http://www.nesta.org.uk"
          
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        %h1 What we learned about Digital Social Innovation at the Open Knowledge Conference
        %h2 29th October 2013
        
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          Six months into our research project on Digital Social
          Innovation (DSI) we are in the midst of preparing our first
          interim study report, which we will publish in the next
          couple of months. On September 16th we convened our first
          Advisory Group of experts on different aspects of digital
          social innovation for the first time to discuss and
          challenge our work to date. Alongside this we also [ran
          three sessions](http://okcon.org/more-open-topics/dsi/) at
          the recent Open Knowledge Conference<commit_msg>New blog post.<commit_after>#blog
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        %h1 100 inspiring digital social innovations
        %h2 4th December 2013
        
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          ![Nominet Trust 100](/assets/blog/nominet-trust-100.png)

          **[Research from the Nominet
          Trust](http://www.socialtech.org.uk/) shows the potential in
          Digital Social Innovation and why we need to understand how
          to support this exciting new type of social innovation to
          grow across Europe.**

          Digital Social Innovation has been attracting a lot of
          attention lately. The term is a relatively new one, and as
          such it is contested, but broadly it means…

          > ‘a type of social and collaborative innovation in which
          > innovators, users and communities collaborate using digital
          > technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide
          > range of social needs and at a scale that was unimaginable
          > before the rise of Internet-enabled platforms’

          Little research has been done to date to understand the
          potential for digital technologies to achieve social impact?
          This is one of the big questions that we have been trying to
          answer in [our research project into Digital Social
          Innovation](http://digitalsocial.eu/).

          Mapping the field of new types of Digital Social Innovation,
          is exciting, but also a big and challenging task. Luckily,
          we are not alone. This week our friends at the Nominet Trust
          [launched findings from their NT100
          project](http://www.socialtech.org.uk/), which has sought to
          identify ‘the 100 most inspiring social tech solutions from
          around the world’.

          The Social Tech website is an inspiring resource for anyone
          interested in understanding the potential of digital
          technologies to achieve social impact in as diverse fields
          as economic empowerment, education and health. In the spirit
          of ‘proudly found elsewhere; we will ‘copy’ and add
          organisations who aren’t on it already to our
          [digitalsocial.eu network map of organisations involved in
          supporting or delivering DSI activities](http://digitalsocial.eu/).

          How to support Digital Social Innovation to grow
          ------------------------------------------------

          However, looking at the case studies we have identified as
          part of our work and the many NT100 examples can both be an
          inspiring as well as a slightly frustrating exercise.
          Inspiring, because these great examples show the massive
          potential in tech for good. Frustrating, because, bar a
          couple of exceptions such as [Github](http://github.com/),
          [Arduino](http://arduino.cc/) and [Patients Like
          Me](http://www.patientslikeme.com/), the majority of these
          initiatives are relatively small scale and sit on the
          periphery of the mainstream.

          What conditions foster and then scale the work of
          organisations like [Your
          Priorities](https://www.yrpri.org/home/world) and [Open
          Ministry](http://openministry.info/) on crowdsourcing
          legislation? Or [Tyze](http://tyze.com/) on creating online
          personal networks for people with care needs?  Or
          [Zooniverses](https://www.zooniverse.org/) pioneering work
          on citizen science?

          Entrepreneurship will play its part, but we are also keen to
          understand the policies, strategies and funding mechanisms
          the EU, national regional and local government might apply
          to support digital social innovation in Europe, so we go
          from inspiring stories to mass market adoption. This is the
          focus for our next phase of research, which we will begin in
          December.

          In the meantime, what do you think are the most successful
          tools policy makers and funders could apply to support DSI?
          Let us know in the comments below.
          
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      .title
        %h1 Funding opportunities for Digital Social Innovation in Europe 
        %h2 3rd December 2013
        
      .blog-content
        :markdown
          Digital Social Innovation has been attracting a lot of
          attention lately. The term is a relatively new one, and as
          such it is contested, but broadly it can be defined as...

          *‘a type of social and collaborative innovation in which
          innovators, users and communities collaborate using digital
          technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide
          range of social needs and at a scale that was unimaginable
          before the rise of Internet-enabled platforms’*

          And in addition to our research work to
          [map digital social innovation](http://digitialsocial.eu),
          the last month has seen three exciting new opportunities for
          European Commission funding:

          * The second CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms) call,
            priority ICT10 of Horizon 2020, was officially presented
            and discussed on November 7th  at the [ICT 2013 in
            Vilnius](http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/ict-2013). You
            can find the presentation and excerpt from the draft of
            H202 Workprogramme draft
            [here](http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2013/item-display.cfm?id=11634).

            Also in Vilnius, more details were given about
            [CHEST](http://www.chest-project.eu/), the CAPS project
            which will award 2.5 M€ of seed funding to [Digital Social
            Innovation](http://digitalsocial.eu/) activities in the
            coming months.

          * Seed funding for projects towards SMEs and new
            organisations using FI-PPP services, under the objective
            ICT 1.8 in Call ICT-FI. The language gets a bit
            technical,but have a look at the [call for
            proposals](http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/netinnovation/call3_en.html). Be
            quick though – the deadline is December 10th this year.

          * Finally, the project
            [CONFINE](http://confine-project.eu/open-call-2/) is
            launching its second Open Call (with a budget of 750 k€)
            on "Connected communities: A future internet, built by the
            people for the people".

          Remember, one of the best ways to make yourself visible to
          funders of Digital Social Innovation and potential
          collaborators is to map your activities on
          [digitalsocial.eu](http://digitalsocial.eu).
          
          Participate!

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        %p.author <NAME>
        %p.author-role Senior Project Lead
        %p.author-company= link_to "Nesta", "http://www.nesta.org.uk"
          
    .blog-post.clearfix
  
      .title
        %h1 What we learned about Digital Social Innovation at the Open Knowledge Conference
        %h2 29th October 2013
        
      .blog-content
        :markdown
      
          Six months into our research project on Digital Social
          Innovation (DSI) we are in the midst of preparing our first
          interim study report, which we will publish in the next
          couple of months. On September 16th we convened our first
          Advisory Group of experts on different aspects of digital
          social innovation for the first time to discuss and
          challenge our work to date. Alongside this we also [ran
          three sessions](http://okcon.org/more-open-topics/dsi/) at
          the recent Open Knowledge Conference
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