Anthology of Peer/Sharing Economy; Behavioral and Crowdsourcing websites (EU)

CAPS examples

Projects and initiatives addressing societal problems through network effect, in line with “Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation”:

http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/projects-and-initiatives-driving-sustainable-behaviours

Driving sustainable behaviours and lifestyles by creating awareness about sutainability impacts of consumers' choice, e.g. as for energy, environment or health

·       The Eatery: providing customised nutritional advice based on actual eating and sharing/comparing eating habits over social networks

·       Opower, blending behavioural science and data analysis to use less electricity

·       patientslikeme, for sharing medical experiences and problems among patients

·       SPREAD, sustainable Lifestyles 2050

·       EUREAPA tool (OPEN, One Planet Economy Network)

·       Nike+ FuelBand: tracks physical activity through a wearable accelerometer and syncs up with a motivational web and mobile experience

·       Urban Eco Map: create people awareness to take eco-conscious decisions at local level

·       BeAware Boosting Energy Awareness

·       Ecosearch, a search portal supporting the environment

·       Friends of the Earth: an environmental Shopping Guide (iPhone app)

Supporting more efficient and worldwide-scale Collaborative Consumption: lending, exchange, swapping and bartering made to operate at scale, across geographic boundaries:

·       COMMUNIA: The Digital Public Domain as Foundations for an Open Culture

·       AIRBNB: renting rooms or places from other people

·       Freecycle: grassroots and nonprofit movement of people who are giving stuff for free

·       J. Rifkin: enabling a grid for distributed production and sharing of renewable energy

·       Avego, a ride-share app for smart phones that turns your daily commute into a public bus route

·       FundingCircle: lending/borrowing money directly between people and business

·       Zopa: lending/borrowing money directly between people

·       Whipcar, Buzzcar: peer-to-peer car rental

·       Zilok: Rental of objects between professionals or individuals

·       Sutton bookshare: Lend and borrow books with your neighbours

·       Thecube: Hiring workspace and desk space

·       LetslinkUK: exchange all kinds of goods and services directly between people

·       Landshare: connecting growers with people with land to share

Getting facts/evidence from citizens for better decision making (at personal or institutional levels)

·       Eyeonearth: collecting environmental information from social networks

·       NHS evidence: enabling access to authoritative clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice

·       Safecast: collecting data about radiation through individual devices

·       NESTA Alliance for useful evidence, embedding evidence in the decision making process

·       Crowdmap (based on Ushahidi), to collect and map information from cellphones, news and the web

·       Localmind: to send questions and receive answers about what is going on—right now—at places you care about

·       safer-streets, to allow people to upload pictures of (or report about) of accidents

·       SocialSensor - Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience

·       EVERYAWARE: Enhance environmental awareness and promote behavioural change through social information technologies

·       SENSEI - Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future

Using collective awareness of environmental and social situations to drive better policies or to create new models for economy, society and democracy:

·       United Nations Global Compact strategic policy initiative

·       OECD Better Life Initiative

·       2050 Pathway simulator

·       JUMO: to get involved in high-quality non-profit organisations

·       Personal Democracy Forum: how technology is changing politics

·       Theyworkforyou: monitoring the activity of UK politicians

·       La quadrature du net: to monitor the behaviour of MEPs in issues related to ICT and copyright

·       AVAAZ: connecting citizens to drive sustainable political decisions

·       planetaryskin: developing risk and resource management decision services to address resource scarcity, land-water-food-energy-climate issues

Developing alternative collaborative approaches to problem solving, to improve public services, urban environments, democracy, Internet, based on open data:

·       Kickstarter: open-source crowdfunding platform for startups

·       OPENGENIUS: an open source crowdfunding platform for scientific research

·       Crowdcube: crowdfunding community dedicated to business

·       Evoke: serious games to develop and refine ideas to change the world

·       ICLEI, Local governments for sustainability

·       SUNSET: exploiting social networks to manage urban mobility in a sustainable manner

·       WeKnowIt , developing techniques for extracting and exploiting "Collective Intelligence"

·       Code for America, helps governments work better for everyone with the people and the power of the web

·       Challenge.gov: prizes so that the public and government can solve problems together

·       Peertopatent : assist patent offices in improving patent quality by gathering public input in a structured manner

·       Apps for Good, an Award competition to create apps to change the world

·       Reroute.it: Better Transportation Choices

·       London datastore, freeing London’s data

·       Birmingham civic dashboard

·       who owns my neighbourhood: take responsibility for land, buildings and activities in your neighbourhood

·       social innovation camp UK, putting together software developers and social innovators to solve a set of social problems

Connecting citizens, doing things together, mindfully of privacy and inclusion needs:

·       Glancee: discovers what friends or interests you have in common, combining fb and Wikipedia

·       Diaspora, a distributed social network giving people ownership over their data

·       Thimbl - A Free Open Source Distributed Micro-blogging, alternative to twitter

Related initiatives providing key technology elements ensuring free access and connecting people:

·       Open Garden, a protocol optimizing communications between wireless devices, enabling people to become an extension of the internet, promoting innovation

·       Commotion Wireless, developing a secure and reliable platform to ensure their communications cannot be controlled or cut off by authoritarian regimes

·       Freedombox, enabling private conversations online

·       FrontlineSMS enables instantaneous two-way communication on a large scale

·       Arduino, an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software

Studies/Conferences/Think-Tanks on ICT and Sustainability

·       Individual Life Footprint (ILF) and Universal Wiki (Global Awareness) Scenarios from the COST Foresight 2030, Bruges, 2009

·       ICT for a Global Sustainable Future, conference organised by the PARADISO FP7 Accompanying Measure (see also its reference document)

·       Stiglitz/Sen Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

·       Oxford Internet Institute Study on "Towards a Future Internet: Interrelations between Technological, Social and Economic aspects"

·       Future Internet and Society initiatives launched under FIRE

·       Project CONSENT: Consumer Sentiment regarding Privacy of User Generated Content

·       Informatics and Sustainability Research

·       EcoSocial Forum: a platform for the Ecosocial Market Economy

·       IPTS report on Nudging Lifestyles

·       Federated Social Web Europe

·       FuturICT FET Flagship proposal

·       SocioPatterns, uncovering fundamental patterns in social dynamics and coordinated human activity

·       Discussion on 'global humanities' at interdisciplines

·       Internet of Things European Research Cluster" (IERC)

·       Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems

·       Greening Europe Forum of Friends of Europe

·       Project CONVERGE: exploring the concept of equity in the light of biological planetary limits