By Fabrizio Sestini. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Europe 2016. For more information and details on our next event, visit www.crowdsourcingweek.com.

1. The views expressed here are the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission
Collective Awareness &
Digital Social Innovation in EU
Fabrizio Sestini
DG CONNECT E3 - Next Generation Internet

2. What is "Digital Social Innovation"?
• Innovation: application of new ideas to obtain
systemic change
• Social: innovation made through people, for the
people
• Digital: social innovation enabled by
hyperconnectivity (i.e. based on network effects,
crowdsourcing, …)

3. An example of DSI policy:
Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability
and Social Innovation
“Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.”
Ryunosuke Satoro
Next call: ICT11, deadline April 2017
Harnessing ICT networks, network effects and
collective intelligence
Creating awareness of sustainability challenges - and
of bottom-up collaborative solutions grounded on real
communities of people
Supporting new economic models beyond GDP
Based on open data, open source and open hardware
participatory innovation paradigms
Requiring participation of at least two non-ICT partners
Appealing to new grassroots actors: social
entrepreneurs, students, hackers, civil society
organisations
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/collectiveawareness

4. 4
CAPS projects
& areas

5. Why is DSI important?
• For society
• delivering public services for and by the citizens
• For the environment
• collaborative solutions to reduce pollution,
crowdmap issues (traffic, etc.)
• For the economy
• enabling new economic models (sharing or
collective economy)
• For the Internet itself
• driving different technological priorities for its
decentralised development (e.g. Next Generation
Internet)

6. Key aspects of DSI
• Participatory
• Innovation by the people
• Open
• To new ideas and to new actors
• Bottom-up
• Leveraging on people's creativity
• Decentralised
• To give people a choice
• Multidisciplinary
• Innovation happens at the crossroads

7. What Makes an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem ?
Source: https://salon.thefamily.co/what-makes-an-entrepreneurial-ecosystem-815f4e049804#.no4hkzg43
And Robert Madelin's report "Opportunity Now? Europe’s Mission to Innovate", EPSC strategic notes, July 2016

8. Towards Trusted Innovation
People
PlanetProfit
Sustainable
bearableequitable
viable
Source: Robert Madelin's report "Opportunity Now? Europe’s Mission to Innovate", EPSC strategic notes, July 2016

9. Next call: Horizon 2020 - WP2017
• CAPS (ICT11):
• demonstrating new forms of bottom-up innovation and social
collaboration exploiting digital hyper-connectivity and collaborative
tools based on open data, open knowledge and open source and
hardware:
• New innovation models for economy and society
• Solutions for sustainable lifestyles such as collaborative
consumption and production, smart reuse and low carbon
approaches
• Emerging ethics of digital innovation, such as social
entrepreneurship, direct democracy and digital rights

10. Digital social innovation @ DG Connect
THANK YOU!
CAPS: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/collective-awareness
DSI: https://capssi.eu/
Consultation on Next Generation Internet:
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/NGI
About NGI: http://ec.europa.eu/futurium/en/next-generation-internet
fabrizio.sestini@ec.europa.eu