D-CENT publications

D-CENT already has published several research documents. Here’s a short listing of those published so far.

– State of the ArtScreen Shot 2014-08-07 at 10.44.02
This report provides a broad overview of open standards that could be used by the D-CENT project in terms of decentralized and federated social networking, with a particular focus on our two use cases of democratic decision-making and social digital currencies.
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– Project methodology 
This deliverable describes the overall project methodology, including the case for adopting a Lean UX methodology, user centered and design thinking methods that couple social design with technical iterative development focused on addressing a wide variety of community needs.
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– Launch eventIMG_4623_web
The deliverable is a report of the D-CENT event Re-imagining democracy and currency in Europe which launched the project to a wider audience. The event was organised at the 14th of March 2014 in London.
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– Dissemination tools
The deliverable will list a set of material that supports the dissemination of the project.
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– Community requirements and Social DesignScreen Shot 2014-04-23 at 14.21.38
This document outlines the social requirements of the D-CENT project gathered through a mix of UXlean development and participatory action research, including user profiles, user stories from the identified lead users’ community cases, the main set of hypothesis and the current active experiments.
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– Technical requirementsScreen Shot 2014-04-23 at 14.30.27
This document outlines the technical specification of the D-CENT project. The approach of the project is not to work from scratch. Building on work that has gone before it will engage with the tools that the pilot projects in Iceland, Spain, and Finland are already using. D2.1 Socio technical framework on collective intelligence The framework that we present in this document offers a set of concepts, hypotheses, methods and questions that may help to articulate the study and comprehension of collective action and intelligence in network movements.
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– Socio technical framework on collective intelligenceScreen-Shot-2014-04-23-at-14.39.30-220x220
The framework that we present in this document offers a set of concepts, hypotheses, methods and questions that may help to articulate the study and comprehension of collective action and intelligence in network movements.
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– Theoretical framework on knowledge-based economy
This deliverable will advance the state of the art through a critical review of different approaches on the information revolution and of the cognitive economy based on the ground-breaking work on cognitive capitalism and collective intelligence.
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– Field Research and User Requirements Digital social currency pilotsScreen Shot 2014-06-08 at 12.10.18
This report provides a background for building a framework for implementing and federating digital complementary currency experiences, and for improving their social benefits. Enabling communities to manage exchange using alternative digital social currencies as new tools for growing a civic sharing economy, including a strong role for interoperable digital social currencies remains the principal goal.
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