Night of the Budapest Wholesale Market – SavingFood

Crowdsourcing is a varied and growing phenomenon that makes use of digital technology and the open participation of volunteers. It leverages the so-called “wisdom of the crowd” and empowers people to address social challenges in areas as diverse as education, health care, policy making, privacy, the environment, infrastructure, and more. The impact and reach of such crowd-based endeavours depend mainly[...]

EmpoderaLIVE is a reference event on the social use of technologies to generate social innovation and citizen empowerment, it will take place at the beautiful Teatro Echegaray in Málaga, Spain, on September 27th and 28th. This year the theme in EmpoderaLIVE is the use of technology to involve citizens in the achievement of the Sustainable Developments Goals (#Empodera4SDGs) showcasing new[...]

We will be at the Social Innovation Village at the Web Summit 2018, representing the whole CAPS community. We are delighted to share our projects’ achievements and the DSI Manifesto with the Web Summit participants. It is an exciting opportunity to share ideas, experiences and fall-backs with other digital social innovators from Europe and beyond. We believe the Social Good[...]

ChiC will be represented at the RTO Innovation Summit, taking place in Brussels, next 6-7 of November. The RTO Innovation Summit is organised by Fraunhofer together with nine other European Research and Technology Organisations (RTO). The summit will explore different thematic areas and will provide suggestions for the next European Research Framewrok programme. A ChiC representative will participate and facilitate[...]

CHIC will be presented at the IGF Forum in Paris during the workshop on Community Networks. CHIC will focus to the on-going work at the results of CAPS/DSI activities and how they contribute to Community Networks sustainability. The presentation will focus on future steps, actions and policy recommendations needed to be addressed within the coming years towards the scaling up[...]