Civil Society in Research and Innovation – What's next?

28 January 2015

Vladimír ŠuchaDirector General

Joint Research Centre

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Global networks

Democratisation, participation, transparency,

interactivity

Creation of new virtual communities

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Innovation process

Society

Domain

Individual creative/innovative

idea

Particular Field

Peers

Speed of the process is determined by the public acceptance

Classic policy cycle is a concept only

Source: John Young, Overseas Development Institute

Monitoring and Evaluation

Agenda Setting

DecisionMaking

Policy Implementation

Policy Formulation

Civil Society

Cabinet

Private Sector

Council / Member States

European Parliament

DG JRC News and Social Media Monitoring System

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learning

Traditional News

Media Monitor

NEWS: Social Media Monitor

JRC News and Social Media Monitoring Systems

Traditional News Media

Monitor

Traditional News Media

Monitor

New: SocialMedia

Monitor

New: SocialMedia

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Topic Learning

Topic Learning

• Innovation• Scientific Technologies• Space Technologies• Nano Technologies• Medical Technologies• Information Technologies• Environmental Technologies• Biotech, Robotics, …• Ethics in Science

JRC European Media Monitor:

4,500 Online News Websites: Local, regional, or national context.

200,000+ articles per day.

70+ languages.

Automatically Detects: People, Locations, Sentiment, Topics, Duplicates, Stories & Events.

JRC Social Media Monitor

Facebook:Automatic (every 8 hours)Only Public Pages320 posts per day

Twitter:“Garden hose” stream (1% of all tweets)Science & Research keywords represent 1500 tweets

JRC Terminology Learning Engine

Results - 'Science and Research' Coverage in the Traditional Media

Reporting on science and research is relatively low.0.5 % in Europe vs. 2 % in USA.

The EU languages, which mostly report about Science and Research are English, German, French, Spanish and Italian.

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Top 'Science & Research' Topics and Perception (Traditional Media)

Media Perception of Space Technology

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Citizens sensors – scientific sensors

Citizens science

Citizens – producers of the geographic and environmental data

Just Landed! - real-time geoprocessing based on Twitter

http://blog.blprnt.com/

Mapping extent of forest fire based on Twitter

Twitter analysis and much more

• Exploring Twitter geographies (Milan by Twitter below)

• Testing new indicators of Quality of Life such as Active Citizenship and comparing with official data sources

• Focus on geographic analysis to integrate with official data

Data Mining of Citizen Generated Content(social media, mobile phones, GPS..)

Crowd Sourcing (tasks, time, money, …)

Citizen Science(scientific discovery, policy,

education, community building)

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Asks questions before data is collected

Asks questions after data is generated

Typology of Citizen-generated/contributed content

Involvement of civil society in regional strategiesfor smart specialisation

(examples)Nordland (Norway)

• Design of ad hoc partnerships for entrepreneurial

discovery process and dialogue meetings with

reference groups

Satakunta (Finland)

• Early strategy development involved

more than 2000 citizens

• Handbook on Satakunta 2035

Languedoc-Roussillon (France)

• Large consultation to define priorities bottom-up

• Integration of a wide range of different tools

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Christian FonnesbechCreative Director

New cross-media

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Blossoming landscape of Smart Cities projects

• Importance of integrated

public information for open

innovation and public

participation in research

• Future and Emerging

Technologies and Open Data

Initiatives Technologies

actively support EU R&D

programmes and

developments

Citizen Science @ JRC

But how to ensure interoperability and re-use?

• Many Open Data initiatives

• Many Smart Cities/regions

• Many Spatial Data infrastructures

• Many Research infrastructures

• Many social networks, citizen science project,

crowdsourcing, etc. etc.

• How to link them in a framework allowing interoperability,

transparency, ethical re-use, verifiability of analyses,

reproducibility of results over time ?

More than 20million Tweets and 1

million Flickr images retrieved and

analysed for fires South of France

Spatio-temporal clustering and

analysis shows 80% of fires correctly

detected

Thank youwww.jrc.ec.europa.eu