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    These are the slides from a talk I gave at the WIRE2017 Conference in Košice, Slovakia, on 29th June 2017 (http://wire2017.eu). They give an introduction to digital social innovation (DSI) in different social areas, an overview of Nesta's work on DSI, some examples of DSI in the context of regional development and a brief overview of challenges for the growth of DSI. If you have any questions, please email matt.stokes@nesta.org.uk.

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    These are the slides from a talk I gave at the WIRE2017 Conference in Košice, Slovakia, on 29th June 2017 (http://wire2017.eu). They give an introduction to digital social innovation (DSI) in different social areas, an overview of Nesta's work on DSI, some examples of DSI in the context of regional development and a brief overview of challenges for the growth of DSI. If you have any questions, please email matt.stokes@nesta.org.uk.

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    Digital social innovation

    Harnessing the power of people and technology to


    tackle social challenges
    Matt Stokes, Researcher, Nesta
    @nesta_uk | @DSI4EU | @stokes_matt
    matt.stokes@nesta.org.uk
    Digital social innovation

    Harnessing the power of people About Nesta


    and technology to tackle social What is DSI?
    challenges What does DSI look like?
    Our work on DSI
    The DSI landscape in Europe
    The potential of DSI for social
    impact and regional
    development
    What next for DSI?
    About Nesta
    We are an innovation foundation.
    We back new ideas to tackle the
    big challenges of our time.
    Research and Programmes and
    analysis funding

    Skills and Investments


    capacity
    What is digital social
    innovation (DSI)?
    Lots of money for
    digital innovation
    but to what end?
    Digital innovation
    can also help us
    tackle big social
    challenges
    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 and speed that was
    unimaginable before the rise of
    the Internet.

    (Bria et al, 2015)


    A type of social and collaborative Digital social innovation harnesses
    innovation in which innovators, the power of people and
    users and communities technology to tackle social
    collaborate using digital challenges.
    technologies to co-create
    knowledge and solutions for a
    wide range of social needs and at
    a scale and speed that was
    unimaginable before the rise of
    the Internet.

    (Bria et al, 2015)


    What does DSI look like?
    Democracy
    Accountability and transparency
    Housing
    Healthcare
    Environment
    Our work on DSI
    digitalsocial.eu
    digitalsocial.eu Events and
    platform communications

    Research and policy Toolkit and guide


    bit.ly/DSINext
    Futures
    Research

    ShareLab Policy
    Fund influence

    Open Data
    Challenge Mapping
    Prize DSI

    Matched digitalsocial.eu
    crowdfunding Practice
    pilot research

    Toolkits
    The DSI landscape in
    Europe
    The potential of DSI for
    social impact and regional
    development
    Regional development issue Example DSI initiative

    Employment eSkills for Jobs (BG), FairCrowdWork (DE)

    Lifelong learning Hack your future (NL)

    Digital inclusion Biblionet (RO), FRSI (PL)

    Local manufacturing Precious Plastic (NL)

    Rural connectivity Guifi.net (ES), MAZI(GR)

    Local economic growth Brixton Pound (GB)

    Access to finance Goteo (ES)

    Transport FutureGov Rural Transport Pilot (GB)


    What next for DSI?
    What needs to happen to help -More funding, especially for
    DSI reach impact at a scale which intermediaries
    matches the social challenges we -More support for digital skills
    face today? -Better connectedness between
    stakeholders
    -Adoption by public sector
    -Adoption by civil society
    -Investment in infrastructure and
    digital inclusion
    -Better impact measurement
    -New business and growth models
    Digital social innovation
    Thank you!

    Matt Stokes, Researcher, Nesta


    @nesta_uk | @DSI4EU | @stokes_matt
    matt.stokes@nesta.org.uk

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