This call for abstracts is for a special issue on digital social innovation
and urban planning/governance we aim to submit to Urban Planning (
https://www.cogitatiopress.com
please do not hesitate to get in touch with us if you are interested but
want to learn more about the proposed topic, the journal and the open
access process.
Editors:
Chiara Certoma’ (Ghent University), Antonella Passani (T6-Ecosystems) and
Mark Dyer (University of Waikato)
Extended deadline for Abstracts: *15 July 2019*
Notification of acceptance: 30 August 2019
Submission of special issue proposal: 15 September 2019
Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is defined as “a type of social and
collaborative innovation in which innovators, users and communities
collaborate using digital technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions
for a wide range of social needs and at a scale and speed that was
unimaginable before the rise of the Internet” (Bria et al. 2015). Under
this definition we also encompass the recent alternative labels of
“Connected Technology for Social Good”, “Social Tech” or “Tech4 (social)
Good”.
Living-lab and fab-labs organizers, digital social entrepreneurs, p2p
sharers and digital commoners, hackers, social mappers, co-workers,
open-access/source/data managers, open software (co)creators, DIY and
temporary-user activists, citizen scientists, crowdsourcers and
crowdfunders, etc. advance new ways of organizing and equipping the city
for enhancing many of the essentials of citizens’ life (education and job,
participation and democracy, science and technology, economy and business,
hosing, design and public services) (Caulier-Grice et al., 2012). This
disruptive form of collective agency infiltrate and modify social
organizations and (government, research and business) institutions
(Chesbrough, 2003; Noubel, 2004); and gives raise to inedited social,
economic and political configurations that affect the traditional forms and
function(ing) of urban planning and governance (Certomà et al.2015).
Stepping beyond the dichotomy between the acritical technology-optimism of
the smart innovation perspective (Aitamurto, 2012; Prahalad and Ramaswamy
2004) and the radical criticism advanced by the “wisdom of the crowd”
discontents (Lanier, 2006; Herzog and Hartwig, 2008), we aim to elaborate a
critical appreciation of (1) how traditional urban planning is challenged
by the agency of digital social innovators; and/or (2) what social,
political, environment and economic benefits (if any) DSI is bringing to
traditional urban governance processes (Passani et al. 2015).
Particularly, we invite theoretical analysis and case-based contributes
from scholars and practitioners to explore how digital social innovators
are making or not making or could make) cities “more effective, efficient,
sustainable, or just” than before (Deiglemeier and Miller, 2008).
If interested please send a 250 words abstract with title and 5 keywords to:
chiara.certoma@UGent.be; a.passani@t-6.it; mdyer@waikato.ac.nz
References
Aitamurto T. (2012) Crowdsourcing for Democracy: A New Era in
Policy-Making, Committee for the Future | 1/2012s. Available at :
https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu
Bria, F. et al. (2015), Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for
Europe – DSI Final report for European Commission, NESTA-European Union.
Available at:
50-nesta-dsireport-growing_a_d
Caulier-Grice, J. et al. (2012) Social Innovation Practices and Trends. A
deliverable of the project: “The theoretical, empirical and policy
foundations for building social innovation in Europe” (TEPSIE), European
Commission.
C.Certomà, F. Rizzi and F. Corsini (2015) “Crowdsourcing urban
sustainability. Data, people and technologies in participatory governance”,
Futures, 74 (IF 2.25)
Chesbrough H. (2003) Open Innovation, Boston, MA: HBS Press.
Deiglmeier, P.J.A., Miller, D.T. (2008) Rediscovering social innovation,
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall 2008, Leland Stanford Jr.
University
Lanier J. (2006) Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
Available at:
https://www.edge.org/conversat
Noubel, J.-F. (2004). Collective intelligence, the invisible revolution.
Available at:
http://www.thetransitioner.org
Passani, A. et al. (2015) Collective Awareness Platform for Sustainability
and Social Innovation (CAPS). Understanding them and Analysing their
Impacts, in Lect.Notes Information Syst., Organisation, Vol. 13
Prahalad C.K., Ramaswamy V. (2004) “Co-Creation Experiences: The next
practice in value creation”. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 18 (3) 5-14.
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