Brussels, 29th June 2016
Unleashing social change through ICT-enabled social innovation Gianluca Misuraca Senior Scientist, JRC-IPTS European Commission The views expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the European Commission
Addressing the social challenges of the EU…
'Jobs, Growth, Fairness & Democratic Change'
Day 2- Edinburgh The mindmap shown in figure 6 highlights that a key topic of conversation at this session was the issue of who does social innovation, and in particular, that this could be people working in groups or as individuals, as well as people in all sectors. What was driving social innovation; questions of who decides similarly to day 1- and points about different ways in which social innovation could take place were also made.
Social Investment Package SIP - COM(2013)83 'Towards Social Investment for Growth and The corresponding wordCohesion’ cloud is shown in figure 7.
Figure 6 - Mindmap from day 2 in Edinburgh- “wh we mean by social innovation?”
Social Innovation promoting Social Investment through exploiting the transformational nature of ICTs! 2
IESI Research https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/iesi JRC/EMPL ´Policy-Research´- ICT-Enabled Social Innovation in Support to the implementation of the EU Social Investment Package (IESI) To contribute expanding the knowledge of how ICT-enabled social innovation can support the implementation of social policy Providing a deeper understanding of how EU Member States can make better use of ICT-enabled social innovation to implement actions suggested by the SIP Building evidence-based knowledge by providing results of a structured analysis of ICT-enabled social innovation initiatives implemented in EU Member States Developing a methodological framework of analysis of the impacts generated by ICT-enabled social innovation initiatives `promoting/embodying´ social investment
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In search of evidence‌
Refinement & Consolidation
Conceptualisation
Year 1
2014 Mapping & Analysis
Year 2
2015 Mapping & Thematic Analyses
Validation & Recommendations
Year 3
2016 Mapping & Case study Analyses
i-FRAME (Methodological framework of analysis of social and economic impacts)
30th Nov. 2016 1st WS 2014
2nd WS 2015
3rd WS 2015
4th WS 2016
5th WS 2016
Experts and Stakeholders' Consultation (i.e. peer-reviews, workshops, events, communitybuilding) 2014
2015
2016 4
Analytical Framework Mapping initiatives against their ICT-enabled social innovation potential and governance level/type of service integration Pervasive
Stakeholders Role Public Sector
Inter-sectoral
Private Sector Inter-governmental Third Sector
ICT-ENABLED INNOVATION POTENTIAL
Functionalist Social Innovation Incremental
Public
Sector
Sustained
Social
Servic
Trasformative Social Innovation Disruptive
e Prov ision
Intra-governmental
Isolated
Multi-Sector
Radical
Type of Integration: Funding; Administrative; Organisational; Delivery system 5
LEVEL OF GOVERNANCE OF SERVICE
of mapping, 280 initiatives have been collected as part of the IESI invento initiatives represent all EU28 Member States and some countries that are conside the field under analysis, as well as all the categories of PSSGI.
IESI Mapping & Analysis
IESI Inventory 2015
Figure 1: Inventory 2015 (n=420 280)
initiatives cross EU28+
Source: own elaboration 6
IESI Knowledge Map 2015 210 initiatives across EU28+
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Elements of Social Innovation (Misuraca et. al, 2015, Bekkerset al., 2013)
Marrying ICTs and social innovation 120.0% 100.0%
Need-driven/outcomeoriented production
80.0% 60.0% 40.0% 20.0% 0.0%
ICT-enabled innovation potential (Misuraca, et al. 2015)
Open process of cocreation/collaborative innovation networks Fundamental change in the relationships between stakeholders Public value allocation and/ or re-allocation
ICT-enabled innovation & EU Social Protection Systems
Analysis of 14 in-depth Case Studies in different welfare systems & PSSGI cross EU 9
Some Key findings
ICTs play an important role in modernising Social Protection Systems, enhancing social services quality and equal opportunity/fair access ICTs can support the process of social services delivery reform due to the potential opportunities for open collaboration and participation ICTs help in fully digitalising the processes and improve payment mechanisms, allowing savings on operational costs and benefits' provision ICTs can higher effectiveness of intervention and reduce social services fragmentation and duplication across organisations and countries ICTs can contribute in making social services more proactive and closer to the point of need through effective identification and targeting of beneficiaries ICTs can be used as a vehicle to increase accountability, and to transform and extend the reach of service delivery to the underserved 10
Input to policy-making
On 8th March 2016, the Commission put forward a first, preliminary outline of the European Pillar of Social Rights It identifies essential principles common to euro area Member States, focusing on needs and challenges in employment and social policies The Commission is engaging in a public debate on the future of work and the future of welfare systems to shape the content and role of the Pillar to move towards a deeper and fairer EMU 30th June 2016, 3rd Hearing on the Future of Welfare Systems… You can contribute at: http://ec.europa.eu/priorities/deeper-and-fairereconomic-and-monetary-union/towards-european-pillar-social-rights_en 11
In search of further evidence
http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/iesisurvey
Award 2016
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