Lab
Think globally, innovate locally
Collaborative environment where solutions to the challenges of the digital emergency proposed by the Digital Future Society research are developed and tested through in local environment.
Lab connects global and local actors and offers the enabling environment required to tackle similar problems and scale up the best solutions.
The Digital Future Society Lab brings global thinking to local action to test how digital technologies might be put at the service of society.
Methodology
The Lab’s methodology is based on open innovation and consists of three stages: 1) Launching of calls for proposals with the objective of identifying innovative solutions to challenges posed by the digital emergency, 2) Pilot testing of the solution in a real environment with strategic partners from the public and private sector, and 3) Creation of tools, guides and manuals with best practices.
Ongoing
Past Calls
Tech & Tourism
How to achieve more sustainable tourism in Barcelona’s Eixample district? Innovacció 2030
Tech & Accessibility
How to make more accessible public spaces in Barcelona Les Corts district? Innovacció 2030
Tech against disinformation
How can technology help to optimise, speed up, and automate verification processes (fact-checking) to fight disinformation?
Pilots
Guitard Children’s playroom accessibility Innovacció 2030
Nexe Foundation
The pilot aims to transform a children’s playroom into an inclusive recreational facility through testing and validating innovative technology to improve accessibility. Moreover, to promote this space as a reference model of accessibility for other public spaces.
Tech & Accessibility
Sustainable tourism in Eixample Innovacció 2030
Affluences
The pilot measures in real-time the occupation and flows of people passing by in key touristic spaces in the Eixample district. This will provide data to help in decision making process regarding public services and to inform public policies.
Tech & Tourism
Digital platform to verify “deep fakes” videos and images
CERTH
It aims to develop a web portal that allows researchers and journalists to verify content (videos and images) that may be “deep fakes”. The portal will include a repository, a reverse lookup tool, and an image analysis tool.
Tech against disinformation
DisTrack – tracking disinformation in social networks
Polytechnic University of Madrid
Pilot aims to develop an interactive data visualization tool to analyse and track pieces of misinformation circulating on social networks (Twitter), and identify actors participating in the dissemination of the hoax, in order to improve the traceability.
Tech against disinformation
Optimizing energy consumption in cloud computing
Open University of Catalonia
Pilot to test the tool (EFC) in the environment of the virtual campus (140,000 users), and thus verify its usefulness to optimize energy consumption. In addition, consumption information is shown in real time to each user to promote awareness.
Tech & Climate
Enhancing the electric vehicle charging network
Awesense
This project aims at analysing and understanding the use of electrical energy in the network of electric vehicle charging stations in underground parking lots and identifying both opportunities for optimizing energy use and future development opportunities of the charger network.
Tech & Climate
Guidelines
Building a trustworthy digital business: Recommendations for SMEs
(April 2020)
An invitation to think forward and to reconsider business models beyond the data economy as it is known today. In collaboration with ESADE- Institute for Social Innovation.
An open innovation platform for the social challenges of
the future
(May 2020)
Study on the need for a transversal digital tool to collaboratively resolve the great social challenges of the 21st century. (Spanish only)
Future Government. Design criteria for algorithmic
systems
(December 2019)
Recommendations on design criteria for public sector algorithmic systems. In collaboration with iRightsLab .
Only in Spanish