Vice-President of ENoLL, Artur Serra, spoke at the Smart City conference in Casablanca, Morocco about citizen labs with the presentation titled "the world of citizen labs: an emerging civic technology?"

1. The world of citizen labs.
An emerging civic technology?
Artur Serra
artur.serra@i2cat.net
Smart City Casablanca.
May 17-18th, 2017.

2. “Labs”: The new meme

3. “Empowering everyone to
innovate”
More than 170 living labs in 5 continents.
http://openlivinglabs.eu

4. Fablabs
More than 1.000 in 97 countries in 2017
http://fabfoundation.org/

7. Are citizen labs a
civic technology?

9. Some research questions

10. • What kind of innovations do they produce?
• Are they putting citizens in the center?
• Do they have technologies for engagament of
users?
1. What kind of technology?

11. “A type of social and col.laborative innovation
in which innovators, users and communities
co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide
range of social needs and at a scale that was
unimaginable before the rise of ICT and the
Internet”.
Social Digital Innovation (DSI)
https://digitalsocial.eu/

12. What DSI is about?
Francesca Bria. Final Report. DSI Project. 2015
https://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/dsireport.pdf

13. Systemic innovation

14. The main innovation can be…
the civic lab in itself

15. 2. How do they
manage it?
• What is the governance of these
technologies?
• What is their business models of
sustainability?
• What are their ethical codes of
conduct?

17. The current Innovation Systems
An elitist and
minority
system…
…supplying
Innovations
for a
massive
market of
consumers
?

18. 3. What is the impact?
• How to evaluate it?
• Are they really producing systemic changes?. What
systems are they changing?
• Are they really empowering the citizens to innovate?

20. InnovaFP
Program:
62 vocational
Training institutes
248 professors
624 students
180 companies
315 projects
223.700 euros

21. What are our KPIs, Key Performance
Indicators?
Still we don’t finish it.
There are under construction!

22. 4. What is the vision/theory
supporting this kind of
technology?.
Is this a simply learning by doing sum of actions, or can a
theory of the cívic Technology and new innovation
systems emerge?

25. “The Collaboratory”
hypothesis
Is it possible to create a universal innovation
system for every citizen, upon Internet?

26. What a universal system
is about?.
See some European examples.

27. European
universal healtcare systems
Covering 100% of population
Intermediate
Clinics
Primary Health Centers
Speciallized
Hospitals

28. Collaboratories:
A universal innovation system at different levels
Xarxa de Labs d’Innovació locals.
(Majoria Punts TiC, Telecentres, Fablabs,)
Xarxa de Labs de Segon Nivell
(Labs avançats de servei comarcal
o per territori)
Xarxa Labs altament
Especialitzats
(Labs en Univ., CERCA, …

29. The Med as a collaboratory:
Next meeting in Istanbul, 3-4 July 2017
UNDP Egypt

30. 
artur.serra@i2cat.net
Smart City Casablanca, May 17-18, 2017
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