Digital Social Innovation

Digital social innovation brings together people and digital technologies to tackle social and environmental challenges.

Across the world, thousands of people, projects and organisations are using digital technologies to tackle social and environmental challenges in fields ranging from healthcare, education and employment to democratic participation, migration and the environment. These initiatives use a broad range of established and emerging technologies – including collaborative platforms, open data, citizen sensing, digital fabrication, open hardware, blockchain, machine learning, and augmented and virtual reality – to empower citizens to collaborate and deliver social impact. They have the potential to transform the way our public services operate, revitalise civic life and allow citizens to become direct participants in tackling social challenges.

We call this field digital social innovation (DSI), a term which overlaps significantly with other terms including tech for good, social tech and civic tech.

I was responsible for the visual re-design and user experience design of the entire website and data visualisations under the direction of Francesca Bria.