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WHAT NEXT FOR DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION LESSONS FROM THE DSI4EU PROJECT
Rimini 23.05.2017
PETER BAECK, HEAD OF COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY RESEARCH,
NESTA
@PETERBAECK
@DSI4EU
Investments In early stage companies, social enterprises
Innovation Skills Capacity building for innovation via tools,
training, networks,
Innovation Lab Supporting innovation in governments, local
authorities and civil society globally
Research & Analysis Understanding how innovation happens
Policy
&
Events
NESTA’S WORK ON THE COLLABORATIVE ECONOMY
Research
Futures
Practice
digitalsocial.eu
Understanding DSI across Europe
Barriers to growth of DSI
Recommendations
@DSI4EU | @PeterBaeck
Understanding DSI
across Europe
@DSI4EU | @PeterBaeck
• There is a huge amount
of DSI activity going on in
Europe. We
crowdmapped almost
1,888 organisations and
over 1,060 projects
working on DSI
• Most activity in Southern
and Western Europe.
• Activity clustered in
cities.
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Barriers to growth of DSI Funding and investment
Digital and business skills
Adoption by civil society and public sector
Citizen engagement
Impact measurement
Financial sustainability
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Funding and investment
Funding and investment in DSI is insufficient
Finance is geographically unequal across Europe
Lack of pipelines and “funding gap”
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Skills
Structural shortage
of digital skills
Difficulty accessing
and developing
business and
support skills
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Adoption by the public sector
Limited engagement in DSI from public sector, despite growth in e-government
Complex procurement processes make public sector inaccessible to DSI initiatives
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Adoption by civil society
Digital skills and
leadership
preventing growth
of DSI
Not all DSI is
complex
technology!
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Engagement
Lack of market and
user research
“Build it and they
will come” mindset
Digital inclusion
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Impact measurement Impact measurement very undeveloped in DSI
No one-size-fits-all approach to measuring impact
Many practitioners unable or unwilling to measure impact
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Planning for growth Insufficient understanding of routes to growth
Business models for DSI are still developing
Are market-based models always needed?
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recommendations Support DSI through funding mechanisms
Invest in intermediaries and support infrastructure
Invest in and enable DSI approaches within existing CSOs
Enable peer learning and the spread of best practice
Conduct further research into the supporting conditions and models for growth and sustainability of DSI
Use public procurement to advance DSI
@DSI4EU | @PeterBaeck
