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Social Impact of ICT workshop Brussels, 30th June 2009 David Osimo - Tech4i2 ltd. ICT impact on family and community: reflections from personal experiences
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Social Impact of ICT workshopBrussels, 30th June 2009
David Osimo - Tech4i2 ltd.
ICT impact on family and community: reflections from
personal experiences
Main points
• a theoretically robust, scientific view reflections on daily practice of the web
• does ICT matter for family and community? stories from INCA award
• how does ICT matter? Bridging or bonding social capital in Twitter
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Does ICT matter? Let’s see what people build
• INCA award: stimulating users to build “socially useful applications”
• one month, 20K Euros prize: 35 working applications submitted
• 15 out of 35 deal with interpersonal and family relations
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www.inca-award.be
7http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~twoddler/
How does ICT matter?
Bridging vs bonding social capital
in Twitter
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Bonding
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Bridging
Wrapping up a practice-based view on family/community
• ICT matters and increases both bridging and bonding social capital
• borders between the two are blurred but these remain key categories for analysis
• robust quantitative evidence arrives too late to be policy-relevant
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