EFP Brief No. 147: ERoSC – The Socio-economic Impact of Emerging Social Computing Applications

ERoSC is an exploratory research project that aims at studying the socio-economic impact of emerging social computing applications. The exploratory research scheme of the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s Institute for Prospective Studies (IPTS) is an internal instrument aimed at building up competence in strategically relevant scientific fields. The ERoSC project has been awarded as the IPTS 2007  Exploratory Research project. Its purpose is to identify and discuss current and future socio-economic implications of social computing and to identify policy options for Europe.

EFMN Brief No. 147_ERoSC – Social Computing

Tags: education, entrepreneurs, media, privacy, services, social computing, sustainability

Categories: brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2010

Author : Corina Pascu ">Corina Pascu