Exploring the Future Potential of AI-Enabled Smartphone Processors
ICT Impact on Families and Communities
1. ICT impact on family and
community: reflections from
personal experiences
Social Impact of ICT workshop
Brussels, 30th June 2009
David Osimo - Tech4i2 ltd.
2. Main points
• a theoretically robust, scientific view
reflections on daily practice of the web
• does ICT matter for family and community?
stories from INCA award
• how does ICT matter? Bridging or bonding
social capital in Twitter
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3. Does ICT matter? Let’s see
what people build
• INCA award: stimulating users to build
“socially useful applications”
• one month, 20K Euros prize: 35 working
applications submitted
• 15 out of 35 deal with interpersonal and
family relations
www.inca-award.be
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11. Wrapping up a practice-based
view on family/community
• ICT matters and increases both bridging and
bonding social capital
• borders between the two are blurred but
these remain key categories for analysis
• robust quantitative evidence arrives too late
to be policy-relevant
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