Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre

数字公民中心（CDC）将应对数字公民的新挑战，采取包容性、参与性的方法来设计和评估支持城市、农村和沿海社区“智能”、“数据丰富”生活的新技术和服务。该中心工作的核心将是孵化可持续的“数字社会创新”（DSI），以确保数字技术支持不同的最终用户社区，并在中心生命周期之外产生长期的社会价值和影响。我们的技术创新将由学术、工业、公共和第三部门合作伙伴共同创造，公民支持共同创造和交付研究。通过这些活动，CDC将以以前难以实现的方式，大规模孵化用户主导的社会创新和对数字经济（DE）的可持续影响。CDC将建立在纽卡斯尔和诺森比亚大学之间的大量联合遗产和DE资助研究的基础上，发展我们非常成功的数字经济社会包容（SIDE）中心，我们的博士培训数字公民中心和数字经济研究中心（DERC）所展示的工作轨迹。CDC是对最近的研究的回应，这些研究挑战了智能城市环境及其居民的简化概念，并强调了新兴算法和自动化未来的风险。该中心将利用我们开创性的参与式设计和共同创意研究，我们在数字参与式平台和数据驱动技术方面的专业知识，为DE提供新型创新，赋予公民权力。疾病预防控制中心将重点关注我们之前工作中产生的四个关键公民挑战领域：“健康公民”解决如何使用共享的个人数据和公开可用的大规模数据，可以告知公民对个人健康和福祉，健康不平等以及更广泛的环境和社区福祉的自我意识；《安全公民》批判性地审视了在线和离线安全，包括围绕算法社会正义的问题，以及新数据技术在支持公平、安全和公平社会中的作用；“互联公民”探索下一代公民主导的数字公共服务，通过新的可持续（公开管理的）数字平台支持和维持社区中的公民参与和行动，并参与更广泛的社会政治问题；《不老公民》调查了技术增强终身学习的机会，代际接触的机会，以及支持整个生命过程中成长的技术。疾控中心试点项目将在英格兰东北部的城市、农村和沿海地区展开，嵌入具有不同社会经济状况和需求的社区。推动我们解决这些挑战的计划是我们的“参与公民委托框架”。这一框架将支持公民积极参与共同创造的研究和批判性探究。该框架将使用以设计为主导的“启动机制”（例如参与式设计研讨会、黑客马拉松、社区活动、公民实验室、开放式创新和联合生产平台实验）来支持共同创造研究活动。我们的“创新研究员”（博士后研究员）将在疾控中心参与一个为期24个月的社会创新项目。他们将试点DSI项目，作为高度跨学科、多方利益相关者团队的一部分，包括学者和最终用户（如社区团体、非政府组织、慈善机构、政府和行业合作伙伴）。这些试点的结果将是进一步发展合作投标（研究委员会/创新英国/慈善机构/行业资助），风险资本推介，分拆和/或社会企业。这样，该中心将成为未来以创新为重点的环境评价活动的催化剂。

The Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) will address emerging challenges of digital citizenship, taking an inclusive, participatory approach to the design and evaluation of new technologies and services that support 'smart', 'data-rich' living in urban, rural and coastal communities. Core to the Centre's work will be the incubation of sustainable 'Digital Social Innovations' (DSI) that will ensure digital technologies support diverse end-user communities and will have long-lasting social value and impact beyond the life of the Centre. Our technological innovations will be co-created between academic, industrial, public and third sector partners, with citizens supporting co-creation and delivery of research. Through these activities, CDC will incubate user-led social innovation and sustainable impact for the Digital Economy (DE), at scale, in ways that have previously been difficult to achieve.The CDC will build on a substantial joint legacy and critical mass of DE funded research between Newcastle and Northumbria universities, developing the trajectory of work demonstrated in our highly successful Social Inclusion for the Digital Economy (SIDE) hub, our Digital Civics Centre for Doctoral Training and our Digital Economy Research Centre (DERC). The CDC is a response to recent research that has challenged simplified notions of the smart urban environment and its inhabitants, and highlighted the risks of emerging algorithmic and automated futures. The Centre will leverage our pioneering participatory design and co-creative research, our expertise in digital participatory platforms and data-driven technologies, to deliver new kinds of innovation for the DE, that empowers citizens.The CDC will focus on four critical Citizen Challenge areas arising from our prior work: 'The Well Citizen' addresses how use of shared personal data, and publicly available large-scale data, can inform citizens' self-awareness of personal health and wellbeing, of health inequalities, and of broader environmental and community wellbeing; 'The Safe Citizen' critically examines online and offline safety, including issues around algorithmic social justice and the role of new data technologies in supporting fair, secure and equitable societies;'The Connected Citizen' explores next-generation citizen-led digital public services, which can support and sustain civic engagement and action in communities, and engagement in wider socio-political issues through new sustainable (openly managed) digital platforms; and 'The Ageless Citizen' investigates opportunities for technology-enhanced lifelong learning and opportunities for intergenerational engagement and technologies to support growth across an entire lifecourse. CDC pilot projects will be spread across the urban, rural and costal geography of the North East of England, embedded in communities with diverse socio-economic profiles and needs.Driving our programme to address these challenges is our 'Engaged Citizen Commissioning Framework'. This framework will support citizens' active engagement in the co-creation of research and critical inquiry. The framework will use design-led 'initiation mechanisms' (e.g. participatory design workshops, hackathons, community events, citizen labs, open innovation and co-production platform experiments) to support the co-creation of research activities. Our 'Innovation Fellows' (postdoctoral researchers) will engage in a 24-month social innovation programme within the CDC. They will pilot DSI projects as part of highly interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder teams, including academics and end-users (e.g. Community Groups, NGO's, Charities, Government, and Industry partners). The outcome of these pilots will be the development of further collaborative bids (Research Council / Innovate UK / Charity / Industry funded), venture capital pitches, spin-outs and/or social enterprises. In this way the Centre will act as a catalyst for future innovation-focused DE activity.