The document summarizes the SOMUS project which studied citizen participation and social media. The project included several sub-projects like using social media for climate change discussion with high school students and increasing immigrant participation. It discusses tools and methods used for open collaboration in the project. It also summarizes some of the case studies from the project including developing a climate change website and an online service to promote immigrant civic participation.

1. Citizen participation and social media Final seminar of the Somus project 27.1.2011

2. SOMUS in short Caj Södergård VTT

7. Open collaboration? Tools, methods & learnings Somus seminar 27.1.2011 Teemu Ropponen

9. Somus - openness since day 1 We started finding researchers and planning SOMUS openly on Jaiku. This was a bottom-up approach.

10. TOOLS AND PRACTICES FOR OPEN COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION

11. Artefact & backchannel in one

12. Collaboration tools in Somus Somus applied openness in nearly all types of research tasks.

16. THANKS! Teemu Ropponen Teemu.ropponen@aalto.fi +358 40 525 5153

17. Online Participation Design & Society Somus seminar 27.1.2011 Auli Harju, University of Tampere Pirjo Näkki, VTT

26. Citizens’ Self-organization in the real-time web Somus seminar 27.1.2011 Kari A. Hintikka, University of Jyväskylä

29. Open Data Somus seminar 27.1.2011 Petri Kola

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31. apps4finland.fi

32. julkinendata.fi

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