Panel: The policy perspective - digital & social for the future of Europe

Shaping the Future of Digital Social Innovation in Europe

Discussing how digital technologies and the internet are changing how social innovation happens

17 February 2015, 09:00 Charlemagne Building, De Gasperi Room, 170 Rue de la Loi, B-1049-Brussel Organiser: Nesta Op 17 februari bespreekt Marietje Schaake in een panel de resultaten en belangrijkste bevindingen van een studie over digitale sociale innovatie in de context van de digitale agenda. De studie onderzoekt hoe opkomende digitale technolgieen and de digitale economie een samenleving kunnen veranderen door het mobiliseren van collectieve actie, burger participatie, duurzaamheid en sociale innovatie. Meer informatie over dit evenement vindt u hier. Digital technologies and the internet are changing how social innovation happens. Over the last 18 months, the European Commission has funded Nesta, the Waag Society, Esade Business School and the Institute for Research and Innovation to study this new phenomenon, which we call Digital Social Innovation (DSI). The study explores how emerging technologies in the digital economy can transform society by the mobilisation of collective action, enable a more collaborative economy, new ways of making, citizen participation, sustainability and social innovation. On 17 February, we will gather leading European practitioners, funders, academics and policy makers from EU, national, regional and local governments working on Digital Social Innovation to discuss lessons from the research and the future of DSI in Europe. On the website, you can read more about the research and explore the network of DSI organisations that has been developed as part of the research.