Following its determined values, DevStat is committed to participating in European H2020 projects putting the focus in R & D + i. In 2018 the company presented a proposal to implement the project “SPACES: Decentralised Social Spaces for Crowd and Data Driven Innovation” pertaining to the Information and Communications Technologies program (Objective: ITC-28-2018: Future Hyper-connected Sociality (c) Support of new Social Media initiatives). The preparation of this proposal was led by INTRASOFT International S.A. company that offers the development of mobile applications, development and testing of applications, content management systems, among others.
Below, we present a brief overview of
the SPACES’ project proposed, which, although it did not exceed the threshold,
generated a very valuable “expertise” for the company:
In recent years, our society has
experienced the proliferation of large online social networks that have evolved
to a keystone of civic bringing about numerous challenges among which data
ownership, control, security and trust. Much of the controversy lies on the
power that social networks can gain by accessing and processing large volumes
of user data, which is exacerbated by improved cloud infrastructures and AI
potential. In addition, the coupling between data and online social network
applications limits the innovation potential of our society. SPACES introduces
an innovative, decentralised, people-lead paradigm for Social Media deployment.
It presents a trustworthy framework composed of a distributed reference architecture and an open-source
technology suite and platform that enables the general public and communities
to create multi-purpose Social Spaces while maintaining control over the use of
their data and information. SPACES will exemplify the new paradigm by
developing a framework for open data-centric decentralised social platforms
decoupling user profiles and data from applications. The SPACES paradigm
provisions two operational levels: a technology level employing decentralised
technologies and architectures, and a business innovation level that will
foster a peer-to-peer trusted ecosystem for data-driven innovation aiming to
maximise the social and economic value of data. SPACES will foster a marketplace
for data assets and data-driven innovation, a co-creation space for tools and
services and a crowdfunding space. SPACES will demonstrate and validate its
framework by means of three use cases addressing users of high, medium and low
media technology literacy, as well as three distinct societal challenges in the
areas of innovative data-driven services, trust-worthy data-journalism and
crowd heritage. SPACES will also employ two developer workshops during its
lifetime, and a large conference and public engagement event at the end.
We would like to underline the
importance of the support received from FEDER and IVACE funds within the
Business R & D Plan 2018, specifically HORIZONTE-CV, to prepare and develop
the proposal of implementation for this project.
PREPARATION OF PROPOSALS FOR CALLS H2020. File number IMAPEA / 2018/54.
On behalf of Devstat, the project has been managed by Florabela Carausu. Technical coordination was ensured by Hans Viggo Sæbø and Michael Colledge, and specific expertise in risk management was ensured by Fabrizio Rotundi and Federico Ceschel.
