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tors are and what policies and strategic approaches can best support
its growth.
The EU Commission has commissioned a study to explore and
assess the emerging landscape. The study is led by Nesta and
delivered in partnership with Esade Business School (Spain), Waag
Society (NL), Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (Fr), FutureEverything
(UK) and Swirrl (UK).
Ultimately the study aims to generate lessons on what digital social
innovation is, who the digital social innovators are, how they
are using digital tools to achieve a social impact and finally what
policies can be introduced to support DSI further in the EU.
At the heart of the programme sits digitalsocial.eu which aims to
create a pan-European network of organisations and people that
use the internet for social good, maximizing its network effect.
The site will show the working connections between the various
digital social innovators and will enable both practitioners and policymakers
to understand what services, standards or digital projects
are being developed. In time, the site will be an open
database of case studies and potential funding opportunities.
Alongside digitalsocial.eu we will be publishing three study reports
throughout the project that focus on:
1. A Typology and overall framework of digital social innovation,
developed through case study analysis
2. A network analysis of the organisations and people in the
field
3. Recommendations for how different levels of policies from
city to national and EU level can best support digital social innovation
across Europe