1. Smart cities applications, crowd sourcing, citizen science
2. Participatory urban interaction design
3. Local hybrid communities over user-owned wireless networks
4. Complementary currencies and local economies

fyi Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ FRSC NetLab Network INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:35:48 +0300 From: Anna Satsiou <satsioua@gmail.com> To: everyone-expanded@internet-science.eu Subject: [EINS Expanded] 3rd EINS Summer School Report Dear all, We are happy to announce the success of the 3rd Summer School titled “From Smart Cities to Engaged Citizens” organized by the Network of Excellence in Internet Science from 13th-18th of July in the city of Volos in Greece. The topic of this summer school was chosen to investigate an interdisciplinary approach on the design of ICT tools and urban interventions that can support a range of local citizen initiatives in contemporary cities including the following: 1. Smart cities applications, crowd sourcing, citizen science 2. Participatory urban interaction design 3. Local hybrid communities over user-owned wireless networks 4. Complementary currencies and local economies The summer school attracted 39 participants from around the world (both inside and outside EINS network) coming from various different disciplines (computer science, networking, urban planning, civil engineering, environmental engineering, economics, law, sociology, business and management, media and interface design, etc), that cooperated in order to propose smart applications for the city of Volos, under the guidance of experienced researchers and businesspeople. Each day was divided in a plenary morning session where prominent lecturers (from IBM, Yahoo!, Oxford Univ. etc) presented key concepts and ideas for each design space and an afternoon session where the different groups gathered to work on their selected application/assignment, supervised by both lecturers and tutors with hands-on experience on the topic. 5 basic groups have been formed working on projects related to the improvement of Volos economy through the use of complementary currencies, provision of cultural information for tourists using augmented reality and web application tools, building of a real-time map of the social heartbeat of Volos with the use of crowdsourcing tools, motivation of citizens to interact and get involved in the city’s matters through urban interventions and local wireless networks, etc. The group projects have been presented the last day of the summer school at a panel including representatives from the city's local authorities. The presentations and the progress of the groups in such a short duration (3 days) impressed the audience, while an e-book is currently under progress including the summer school material and groups’ results. More information, documents, videos and presentations of lecturers and groups can be found at http://internet-science.eu/summer-school-2014 and http://www.internet-science.eu/summer-school-2014/materials Kind Regards, Anna -- To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everyone-expanded+unsubscribe@internet-science.eu.