Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is an emerging field, and little known about innovators, organisations, and activities which support them and the use of digital tools for social change. There has been a recent big effort by the European Commission to sustain platforms and initiatives related to social innovation through the usage of open data, open source programmes, hackathon initiatives, and more in general educational programmes because it is critical to develop a culture of innovation, not only inside schools, colleges or universities, but also within communities and educators, as local realities are drivers of change for real needs. One of the growing sectors for DSI is referred to open data. Despite the fact that data-driven business intelligence has been implemented with success to address business innovation, open data have not revealed yet their full potential in solving social problems, even though there are numerous initiatives brought up at local level. In particular, E-learning youth platform for civic monitoring and open data learning and making [Public Makers] wants to tackle a number of elements to build up the basis of DS: -Ways of thinking: Creativity and innovation/Critical thinking/problem solving/decision making/Learning to learn/meta-cognition -Ways of working: Communication/Collaboration (teamwork) -Tools for working: Open data Information literacy/ ICT literacy -Living in the world: Citizenship—local and global/Life and career/Personal & social responsibility—including cultural awareness and competence. Public Makers aims at empowering young people in open data learning with a focus on DSI, supporting them in being more active at social level, enabling them to be social changers through the usage of digital tools and open data, promoting open data hackathon as a tool for networking, knowledge sharing, and inspiring moments, as well as to develop investigations at local level and make data as a service. Overall, the project wants to raise awareness on open data tools/possibilities and create resources for youth to access to the opportunities created by open data policies (especially for active citizenship and youth). The project aims to: - Create webinars focused on youth NGOs/NPOs to train and promote open data and giving concrete tools to address open data work for youth workers and learn concrete techniques (QGIS) creating a final EDUCATIONAL OPEN DATA CAPACITY-BUILDING HANDBOOK FOR NGOs - Incubate/support local projects in open-data investigation and aggregation through blended educational training, concretely supporting youth in build transversal digital competencies, encouraging to understand how democracies work, how public money is invested, or how to get deeper in local issues (environment, immigration, cultural investments etc.) and how citizens can influence decision-making. Two ad-hoc trainings will be dedicated respectively to youth workers and for youth (open data hackathon) which lead to a COMPLETE TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN OPEN-DATA. - Create an E-LEARNING PLATFORM (O3) with interactive online tools to guide in a simplified way youth in learning how to deploy an open-data investigation project Public Makers aims to broaden target group ICT competences creating sustainable and needs-focused learning patterns, enabling youth NGOs/informal youth/young citizens to act at local level through open data interpretation and management. The project partners, combining their different expertise, want to ultimately empower different strata of society in becoming their own watchdogs of democracy. Core of the project is an e-learning platform for “public makers”, used also as e-laboratory to store and incubate local open-data investigative projects while assessing acquired competences. A transnational approach can give strength to those organisations creating projects not just at local level, but making youth workers access to digital tools that can enhance their work with young people, as well as to develop innovative transnational approaches to concrete answer to local and European needs, sharing good practices and reaching common working standards.
Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is an emerging field, and little is known about innovators, organisations, and activities that support them and the use of digital tools for social change. There has been a recent big effort by the European Commission to sustain platforms and initiatives related to social innovation through the usage of open data, open-source programmes, hackathon initiatives, and more in general education programmes because it is critical to developing a culture of innovation, not only inside schools, colleges or universities but also within communities and educators, as local realities are drivers of change for real needs. One of the growing sectors for DSI is referred to as open data. Despite the fact that data-driven business intelligence has been implemented with success to address business innovation, open data have not revealed yet their full potential in solving social problems, even though there are numerous initiatives brought up at the local level. In particular, the E-learning youth platform for civic monitoring and open data learning and making [Public Makers] tackle a number of elements to build up the basis of DS: -Ways of thinking: Creativity and innovation/Critical thinking/problem solving/decision making/Learning to learn -Ways of working: Communication/Collaboration -Tools for working: Open data Information literacy/ ICT literacy -Living in the world: Citizenship—local and global/Life and career/Personal & social responsibility Public Makers aims at empowering young people in open data learning with a focus on DSI, supporting them in being more active at the social level, enabling them to be social changes through the usage of digital tools and open data, promoting open data hackathon as a tool for networking, knowledge sharing, and inspiring moments, as well as to develop investigations at the local level and make data as a service. Overall, the project wants to raise awareness on open data tools/possibilities and create resources for youth to access the opportunities created by open data policies (especially for active citizenship and youth). The project offers the possibilities to: - Promote open data with concrete tools to address open data work for youth workers and learn concrete techniques (QGIS) through an EDUCATIONAL OPEN DATA CAPACITY-BUILDING HANDBOOK FOR NGOs that contain the Public Makers framework and the proposed methodology to be reused by different organisations, even schools or institutions. - Incubate/support local projects in open-data investigation and aggregation through blended educational training, concretely supporting youth in building transversal digital competencies, encouraging them to understand how democracies work, how public money is invested, or how to get deeper into local issues (environment, immigration, cultural investments etc.) and how citizens can influence decision-making which leads to a COMPLETE E-TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN OPEN-DATA (activities and scenario) - access an E-LEARNING PLATFORM with interactive online tools to guide in a simplified way youth in learning all the basics regarding open data and how to use it. The core of the project is the e-learning platform which contains learning materials, webinars, existing resources and toolkits freely accessible. On this platform can be found a self-assessment questionnaire to self-assess the user's knowledge about open data. The "Courses" section is also gathering the training materials developed for trainers/youth organisations, educational materials targeting young people, guidelines and instructions as well as additional toolkits regarding democratic participation and the organisation of a hackathon with open data thematic. Following the 4 areas of our framework (Ways of thinking; Ways of working; Tools for work; Living in your community), we developed materials for young people that are in form of lessons, videos, articles, webinars, graphical content and contain a final quiz to get Open Badges after completion. The platform also offers to join a Public Makers Telegram group running as a Public Makers Community for users to ask questions and exchange around the thematic of open data. We are also providing videos/teasers for each unit to engage with youth and to enhance the learning/communication purposes of Public Makers. Public Makers aims to broaden target group ICT competencies creating sustainable and needs-focused learning patterns, enabling youth NGOs/informal youth/young citizens to act at the local level through open data interpretation and management. The project partners, combining their different expertise, want to ultimately empower different strata of society in becoming their own watchdogs of democracy.