Citilab is a citizen laboratory for social and digital innovation in Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona. Explore and disseminate the digital impact on creative thinking, design and innovation that arise from digital culture . Citilab is a mix between a training center, a research center and an incubator of business and social initiatives.
Since this initiative was born, in 1997, and later it opened its headquarters on November 23, 2007, Citilab has promoted its activity as a digital center of citizen innovation for the dissemination and promotion of the Knowledge Society . His basic methods of work are those of the living labs: design thinking, computational thinking and user-centered co-creation . In Citilab, Internet is considered a means to innovate in a more collaborative and integrating way with the citizen in the center of the process.
. In more recent times, scientist have harnessed the power of the public not only to collect data on a larger scale than perhaps would otherwise be possible, but also to analyse data gathered by professional researchers. Such data analysis projects include Zooniverse’s Galaxy Zoo and Cell Slider projects, whilst WheelMap, Wide Noise and the Opal Tree Health Survey focus on data collection.
Earlier this week the UK Conservative party promised to offer a £1m cash prize to a person or team that creates an online platform that can be used to solve “common problems”. The prize – which the party says will
After a tsunami caused a nuclear disaster in Japan, a radiation detection network starting aggregating and publishing data. The result, Safecast, shows how citizen science and open data are changing our understanding of the world.
Semantic Web A mesh of information linked up in such a way as to be easily processed by machines, on a global scale. The Semantic Web extends the Web by using standards, markup languages, and related processing tools.
number of social bookmarking sites for news have emerged. CommonMedia, my network, launched CommonTimes, a social bookmarking site dedicated to news and the blogosphere
Media companies are of two minds about Internet video-sharing site YouTube, which rocketed to fame by letting users share homemade videos along with copyrighted clips from movies, TV shows and music videos.
Citizen media sites focused on tiny communities give journalists a role as content shepherds, whipping the chaos of reader-generated content into a manageable morass.
This dream of a global photo album, compiled in real time by amateur and professional shooters, hasn't quite materialized, but photo-sharing services such as Flickr and Buzznet are giving us glimpses into that future.