Open Data as a New Commons: Empowering Citizens to Make Meaningful Use of a New Resource

Nicola Morelli; Ingrid Mulder; Grazia Concilio; Janice Pedersen; Tomasz Jaskiewicz; Amalia De Götzen; Marc Arguillar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_17

Open Data as a New Commons: Empowering Citizens to Make Meaningful Use of a New Resource

Nicola Morelli, Ingrid Mulder, Grazia Concilio, Janice Pedersen, Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Amalia De Götzen, Marc Arguillar

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Abstract

An increasing computing capability is raising the opportunities to use a large amount of publicly available data for creating new applications and a new generation of public services.

But while it is easy to find some early examples of services concerning control systems (e.g. traffic, meteo, telecommunication) and commercial applications (e.g. profiling systems), few examples are instead available about the use of data as a new resource for empowering citizens, i.e. supporting citizens’ decisions about everyday life, political choices, organization of their movements, information about social, cultural and environmental opportunities around them and government choices. Developing spaces for enabling citizens to harness the opportunities coming from the use of this new resource, offers thus a substantial promise of social innovation.

This means that open data is virtually a new resource that could become a new commons with the engagement of interested and active communities. The condition for open data becoming a new commons is that citizens become aware of the potential of this resource, that they use it for creating new services and that new practices and infrastructures are defined, that would support the use of such resource.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Internet Science
Subtitle of host publication	INSCI 2017 Proceedings
Editors	I. Kompatsiaris, J. Cave, A. Satsiou, G. Carle, A. Passani, E. Kontopoulos, S. Diplaris, D. McMillan
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	212-221
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-70284-1
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-70283-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_17
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	Internet Science: 4th International Conference INSCI 2017 - Thessaloniki, Greece Duration: 22 Nov 2017 → 24 Nov 2017

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science: » Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Volume	10673
ISSN (Electronic)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	Internet Science
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Thessaloniki
Period	22/11/17 → 24/11/17

Keywords

Open data
Social innovation
Commons

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Morelli, N., Mulder, I., Concilio, G., Pedersen, J., Jaskiewicz, T., De Götzen, A., & Arguillar, M. (2017). Open Data as a New Commons: Empowering Citizens to Make Meaningful Use of a New Resource. In I. Kompatsiaris, J. Cave, A. Satsiou, G. Carle, A. Passani, E. Kontopoulos, S. Diplaris, & D. McMillan (Eds.), Internet Science: INSCI 2017 Proceedings (pp. 212-221). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science: » Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI; Vol. 10673). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_17

Morelli, Nicola ; Mulder, Ingrid ; Concilio, Grazia et al. / Open Data as a New Commons : Empowering Citizens to Make Meaningful Use of a New Resource. Internet Science: INSCI 2017 Proceedings. editor / I. Kompatsiaris ; J. Cave ; A. Satsiou ; G. Carle ; A. Passani ; E. Kontopoulos ; S. Diplaris ; D. McMillan. Cham : Springer, 2017. pp. 212-221 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science: » Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI).

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Morelli, N, Mulder, I, Concilio, G, Pedersen, J, Jaskiewicz, T, De Götzen, A & Arguillar, M 2017, Open Data as a New Commons: Empowering Citizens to Make Meaningful Use of a New Resource. in I Kompatsiaris, J Cave, A Satsiou, G Carle, A Passani, E Kontopoulos, S Diplaris & D McMillan (eds), Internet Science: INSCI 2017 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: » Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, vol. 10673, Springer, Cham, pp. 212-221, Internet Science, Thessaloniki, Greece, 22/11/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70284-1_17

Open Data as a New Commons: Empowering Citizens to Make Meaningful Use of a New Resource. / Morelli, Nicola; Mulder, Ingrid; Concilio, Grazia et al.
Internet Science: INSCI 2017 Proceedings. ed. / I. Kompatsiaris; J. Cave; A. Satsiou; G. Carle; A. Passani; E. Kontopoulos; S. Diplaris; D. McMillan. Cham: Springer, 2017. p. 212-221 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science: » Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI; Vol. 10673).

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