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This will help us develop recommendations to policy makers and<br />

funders of DSI on range of issues such as what type of networks<br />

they could reach out to, to engage with specific community, what<br />

types of activity they should invest in (where the is weak networks)<br />

etc.<br />

It is important to mention that there is lots of other analysis that<br />

can be made on the data we are capturing. Therefore we are making<br />

all data available as an open data set for anyone to access,<br />

which can be accessed to Digital Social Innovation Open Data (1)<br />

5. How can European Union Organizations be part of this<br />

growing community of Digital Social Innovation<br />

It’s free and super easy to join the community.<br />

Our only requirement is that your organisation and what you are<br />

working on meet the following for criteria.<br />

• Focuses on grass-roots or "bottom-up" communities of<br />

users.<br />

• Uses online/digital tools or methods in a disruptive way<br />

• Makes a positive social impact<br />

• Works in the European Union<br />

• Creates a "network effect" through collaboration online i.e.<br />

the larger number of users a service has, the better it works.<br />

6. How can technology help in the way of participation or<br />

empowering citizens in Europe and why?<br />

The ability of digital technologies to enable entirely new ways of<br />

making commercial products and creating new ways of crowdsourcing,<br />

capturing, releasing and analysing data has long been big<br />

business. Almost no day goes by without a headline story on the<br />

most recent development in personal manufacturing, from the guy<br />

who built a radio controlled lawnmower using an open hardware<br />

kit, to the team who are creating a brainscanner people can 3D<br />

print at home. Googles recent acquisition of Nest Labs for

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