Navigating this interactive map you can visualize DSI initiatives in Rome and Turin.
Zoom and click on the map and icons to see individual initiatives.
Initiatives have been categorized according to their main domain of activity, represented by the symbol shown on the icon. Clicking each icon will reveal further information about the DSI initiative!
DSICity researchers conducted an in-depth qualitative analysis of DSI initiatives in Turin and Rome, grounded in the European context. The online and off-line data collection process was performed via the following steps (in italian):
DSICity interviewed the following digital social innovators:
Open interviews design is based on a Rapid Appraisal Approach with open questions, these allow gaining qualitative information in a fast and succinct way and generate quasi-ethnographic data to compare what social actors practically do with their motivations. Interviews provide key-actors perspectives on DSI socio-political and cultural implications in the selected cities (full interviews – restricted access)
Audio-visual material that is produced internally or externally to a DSI initiative, created with participants or recordings of them, created to be shared publicly or privately, recordings of natural or staged events, and used as a communication/dissemination tool or as data. Collected materials are intended for communication and outreach initiatives (see section Publication).
Discourse analysis of written or spoken statements generates information about the interplay of narratives, visions, imaginaries of DSI communities that crystallize into practices. It makes it possible to identify the structuration and institutionalisation of narratives, to detect affinities between discourse and the emerging coalitions (van den Brink, Metze 2006). This process allows us to adopt a critical, reflexive and deconstructive approach to the analysis of DSI (most notably by involving digital activists, hackers and critical social entrepreneurs in the conversation) (full comparative analysis – restricted access)
