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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ChiC (Creating high impact for CAPS)

Teaser

Summary

The issues being addressed within the CAPS (Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and social innovation) initiative, which ChIC is providing coordination and support to, are some of societyâ€™s biggest challenges: environmental preservation, reducing inequalities, fostering inclusion, putting in place sustainable economic models and what can be used to help people especially at the grass roots level, become engaged to solve these or related problems of direct interest to them. In order to help people make the most of this opportunity, a move needs to be made away from the current centralization of power by a small number of large tech companies and enable a much broader group of people and organisations to develop and share innovative digital solutions. Across Europe, a growing movement of people and organisations are exploring opportunities within the CAPS and the broader Digital Social Innovation (DSI) context, developing bottom-up solutions leveraging on participation, collaboration, decentralization, openness, multi-disciplinarity. However, this movement is still at a relatively small scale, because of the little public and private investment, the limited experience in large-scale take-up of collective solutions, and the relative lack of skills of DSI actors (civil society) compared to commercial stakeholders. In this perspective, the growth and sustainability of digital social innovations becomes a central concern which need to be addressed in order to make sure its potential to change and disrupt the European society at all levels can be realised.

The importance of CAPS driven efforts to the society is seen in how social innovation processes can be used to contribute to the most important challenges that Europe is facing today by reinventing public services, often providing lower-cost models of addressing social needs, by supporting communities and how people live and collaborate together and by promoting business in ways that are better aligned with human needs. At the core, is how to put technologies at the service of social good and the human at the centre of Internet of the future in a way that can effect change for the common good of all.

The overall objectives of the ChiC project are to support the various ongroing CAPS projects and ensure that the programme as a whole can grow as a unique and disruptive initiative. It is important to note that ChiC activities are geared both at promoting the outcomes and work of the project itself, but also at assisting and coordinating the efforts at the CAPS community level, serving all ongoing projects in amplifying their reach and increasing their impact. In addition, another core objective is providing support within the broader DSI context and embracing the Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative, which was launched by the EC a few months after the start of ChiC and that fosters the development of an Internet for people.

Work performed

The ChiC project in Y1 has resulted in: targeted community building and stakeholdersâ€™ engagement activities, such as one-to-one interviews with all ongoing projects, the organization of the 1st edition of the DSI Fair (Rome, February 2017), 2 CAPSSI Community Workshops (Bratislava, September 2016 and Volos, July 2017), 1 dedicated policy workshop of which the outcome is the DSI Manifesto (Rimini, May 2016), the contribution and participation in 13 external events, an intense and continuous communication and promotional set of activities, including animation of the CAPS Twitter channel (@CAPSSI4EU), the creation and management of the CAPS portal (www.capssi.eu), the creation of the CAPSSI Community platform, the publication of 3 CAPSSI Bytes newsletters and multiple dissemination outreaches as viewed through press releases, social media activities, radio and TV interviews, the collection of best practices and outputs document (displayed on the CAPSSI web portal by end of August 2017 and in its soon to be downloadable e-book format by the end of July), roadmapping and policy-driven coordination across the CAPS and broader DSI context, in coordination with DSI4EU, for the creation of the DSI Manifesto as an instrument to give voice to the CAPS and pushing it forward, which entailed coordination with other related EC, and not only, initiatives such as NGI, IoT, FIRE, DSI4EU, DSI4AU, and SIC.

Final results

The expected impact of the CAPS/DSI initiative is to become a societal force for change and disruption in which great opportunities and ideas for social development and improvement in education, social services, environment, poverty reduction, gender equality, social integration, sustainable development, knowledge sharing and access to services can flourish leaving a long lasting impact. The increasing number of innovative and diverse players, including industry, academic local communities, grassroots activists, hackers, social entrepreneurs, students, citizens, creative industries and civil society organizations such as policy makers and public authorities represent all sectors of society. This inclusiveness is needed in order to effect change starting from the grassroots level on up.

A set of policy making guideliness such as the DSI Manifesto, which covers financial support, promotion of pilots, the development of digital skills and multi-disciplinarity, democracy and decentralisation models, and openess of data and digital platforms is being presented to policy makers to drive the development of the European Digital Single Market to fulfill first and foremost societal and sustainability challenges (rather than short-lived economic interests), with the help and engagement of all citizens.

In terms of socio-economic impact, there are many initiatives and success stories in areas of the environment, technology, mobility, agriculture, food, gamification, economy, physical disabilities, etc., in which communities and individuals have benefited from ideas from one of the many CAPS/DSI initiatives. This has in turn created a sustainable development for the entire society involving citizen engagement.

Progress beyond the state of the art, is seen in one of the main ideas at the foundation of ChiC and that the current transition towards the NGI initiative should be turned into a concrete opportunity for all CAPS/DSI players. To build an Internet of the future centred on humans and reflecting the European social and ethical values of freedom, openness and interoperability, CAPS or CAPS-like efforts must be put at the foundation of it. This shall empower CAPS value creation for durable stakeholder engagement increasing the impact of DSI-focused efforts within H2020 and beyond until 2025, and strengthen liaisons to related EC initiatives, as well as selected national and international activities the ChiC is fostering and managing thanks to the uniquely positioned and extremely qualified consortium, in which all partners combine a strong CAPS experience with prominent involvement in a number of directly related domains such as Internet Science, IoT, NGI, FIRE, 5G PPP, Big Data.