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Emergence by Design (MD)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

MD research aspires to satisfy two kinds of objective. The first is to develop the foundations of a theory of innovation dynamics that concatenates design and emergence. The second is to design a set of processes, enabled in part by new ICT, that can help to mobilize civil society to construct a socially sustainable future. These processes will assist the managers of online communities of netwo ...
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The Innovation Society, Sustainability, and ICT (INSITE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2014,

Our society is organized around a positive feedback dynamic that produces innovation cascades. In these cascades, new artifacts are inextricably linked with transformations in social organization and the generation of new "needs" for individual and society. Besides desired effects, these cascades produce disruptive changes in the environment and in society itself, ultimately leading to sustainabi ...
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Policy Gadgets Mashing Underlying Group Knowledge in Web 2.0 Media (PADGETS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Today the ever growing visibility of the web as a medium that exhibits the potential to attract and maintain society's involvement coupled with the need for a more citizen-centric and socially-rooted policy making, calls for novel tools with the capability to analyze society's input and forecast the possible impact of policies. Thus, more citizen-centric governance arises more pressing than ever. ...
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Bridging Communities for Next Generation Policy-Making (CROSSOVER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

In an increasingly interdependent, unstable and complex world, as the financial crisis has shown, policy-makers lack the tools to anticipate emerging problems and the impact of possible solutions. At the same time, citizens are becoming more vocal in monitoring and influencing policy decisions. Emerging ICT tools for governance and policy modelling show great opportunities for decision-making in a ...
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GoldenWorkers (Goldenworkers)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Description The main goal of Goldenworkers is to identify emerging technologies and socio-economic trends, new models of extending professional active life and novel application scenarios in the area of ICT for active ageing at work, leading to the definition of a beyond of the state-of-the-art research agenda, fully embraced by research and ...
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CROSSROAD - A Participative Roadmap for ICT Research in Electronic Governance and Policy Modelling (CROSSROAD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Governments struggle to regulate an increasingly interdependent and complex world, as the financial crisis has shown. At the same time, citizens are becoming more vocal in monitoring and influencing policy decisions. Future scenarios are likely to show greater complexity and citizens' involvement. Current ICT tools for collaborative governance and policy modelling start to show great opportunities ...
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