Socio-economic Impact of Social Computing: Proceedings of a validation and policy options workshop

JRC IPTS Study by Yves Punie (Editor), EUR Number: 23531 EN. This report presents the major outcomes of a validation and policy options workshop on social computing, held at IPTS in Seville, on 26-27 February 2008. It points to a number of relevant issues (including methodological and conceptual ones) that need to be taken into account in a study of the socio-economic impacts of social computing. It argues that there is little room for direct policy interventions in social computing but that framework conditions and impacts at sector-level (e.g. education, government) need to be considered.

The link address is: http://ipts.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/pub.cfm?id=1887