the world of citizen labs

The world of citizen labs.An emerging civic technology?

Artur Serra

artur.serra@i2cat.net

Smart City Casablanca.

May 17-18th, 2017.

“Labs”: The new meme

“Empowering everyone to innovate”

More than 170 living labs in 5 continents.

http://openlivinglabs.eu

FablabsMore than 1.000 in 97 countries in 2017

http://fabfoundation.org/

Are citizen labs a civic technology?

Some research questions

• What kind of innovations do they produce?

• Are they putting citizens in the center?

• Do they have technologies for engagament of users?

1. What kind of technology?

“A type of social and col.laborative innovationin which innovators, users and communitiesco-create knowledge and solutions for a widerange of social needs and at a scale that wasunimaginable before the rise of ICT and theInternet”.

Social Digital Innovation (DSI)

https://digitalsocial.eu/

What DSI is about?

Francesca Bria. Final Report. DSI Project. 2015 https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/dsireport.pdf

Systemic innovation

The main innovation can be… the civic lab in itself

2. How do theymanage it?

• What is the governance of thesetechnologies?

• What is their business models of sustainability?

• What are their ethical codes of conduct?

The current Innovation Systems

An elitist and minoritysystem…

…supplyingInnovationsfor amassivemarket of consumers

?

3. What is the impact?

• How to evaluate it?

• Are they really producing systemic changes?. Whatsystems are they changing?

• Are they really empowering the citizens to innovate?

InnovaFP

Program:

62 vocational

Training institutes

248 professors

624 students

180 companies

315 projects

223.700 euros

What are our KPIs, Key Performance Indicators?

Still we don’t finish it. There are under construction!

4. What is the vision/theorysupporting this kind of technology?.

Is this a simply learning by doing sum of actions, or can a theory of the cívic Technology and new innovationsystems emerge?

“The Collaboratory” hypothesis

Is it possible to create a universal innovationsystem for every citizen, upon Internet?

What a universal system is about?.

See some European examples.

European universal healtcare systems

Covering 100% of population

IntermediateClinics

Primary Health Centers

SpeciallizedHospitals

Collaboratories: A universal innovation system at different levels

Xarxa de Labs d’Innovació locals.

(Majoria Punts TiC, Telecentres, Fablabs,)

Xarxa de Labs de Segon Nivell

(Labs avançats de servei comarcal

o per territori)

Xarxa Labs altament

Especialitzats(Labs en Univ., CERCA, …

The Med as a collaboratory: Next meeting in Istanbul, 3-4 July 2017

UNDP Egypt

artur.serra@i2cat.net

Smart City Casablanca, May 17-18, 2017

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