Gareth Rogers, technology lead for D-CENT at Thoughtworks, was interviewed at the CAPS2015, the annual international event on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS). The conference was organised on the 8th of July 2015 in Brussels. Read more +
In an effort to come up with solutions to the societal challenges that policy makers and current solutions are not able to tackle, social innovations are popping up as new types of services and products. In the recent years social innovations have been accelerated with the digital layer, which is proving to be especially effective in bringing people together, offering tools for self-organization and providing a democratic space for everyone to contribute to solving these especially wicked problems.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Historian of technology, author and editor at journals such as the Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique and the Financial Times, and of books such as The Net Delusion: the dark side of Internet freedom, To Save Everything, Click Here, and Le mirage numerique soon out in France. Evgeny Morozov talks about why it is important to go beyond the concept of the Internet in order to understand what Identity means in the current digital world; by politicizing the debate over the future of technology and infrastructures Morozov starts shedding a political and ethical dimension to data use and data sharing.
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Four years after the emergence of the revolutionary networked social movement 15M, the newly formed Spanish political party Podemos is now one of the most innovative, growing political parties in Spain and just over three months ago the grassroots citizen-led coalition Barcelona En Comù won the City Council elections in Barcelona forming a network of new democratic Cities that include also Madrid, Zaragoza, Pamplona and others. Read more +
On August 27th, 2015, Crowd Dialog Europe gathered representatives from 28 European countries to Helsinki to discuss latest trends on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and crowdinnovation. D-CENT participated the event by hosting a workshop discussing new e-democracy tools for cities. Read more +
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
Interview with Dr. Carlo Vercellone, one of the leading theorists of cognitive capitalism and economist at the CNRS Lab of The Sorbonne Economic Centre (Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, CES).
Article by Francesca Bria and Elettra Bianchi Dennerlein. The original article was published at the Nesta website.
The 2015 Web We Want festival edition launched with a Q&A evening session on Thursday the 28th with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Berners-Lee discussed the future of the web and his vision of instituting a successful Bill of Rights for the Web.
During the opening interview, Tim Berners Lee covered a broad range of topics such as limiting the surveillance powers of State Agencies and corporations; providing equal Internet access as basic human right; re-appropriation of data and data control by citizens, privacy and security by design; Net neutrality and copyright reform.
Writer: Marco Sachy, Dyne.org
The experimentation on the Digital Social Currency Pilots in D-CENT can be conceived as an open-source approach to decentralized complementary currency design, which becomes ever more relevant where pilot communities are already actively designing tools for collective engagement and decision making on monetary economic matters affecting their communities.
D-CENT is going to prototype the Freecoin Toolchain as a set of features that are apt to advance the state-of-the-art in two domains of social innovation: complementary currencies governance systems and decentralized trust management systems.
Writer: Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive at Nesta. The original article was published in the Nesta website.
I’ve written quite a few blogs and pieces on digital technology and democracy – most recently on the relevance of new-style political parties. [1]
Here I look at the practical question of how parliaments, assemblies and governments should choose the right methods for greater public engagement in decisions.
