In order to make a consistent selection of top OSM providers per country, we used three sources of data: Alexa country ranks, Similarweb country ranks within the “Social Media” category, and APPlyzer ranking data collected from the Apple and Google app stores. A fourth source, Apptopia, was used...
Migration is a top political priority for the European Union (EU). Data on international migrant stocks and flows are essential for effective migration management. In this report, we estimated the number of expatriates in 17 EU countries based on the number of Facebook Network users who are clas...
The most important factors for successful e-participation identified in the comparison of 22 case studies are: a close and clear link of e-participation processes to a concrete formal decision-making process; the participatory process and the contribution of its outputs to the overall decision-m...
Collaborative Economy became the buzzword used to refer to all kinds of online platform based business models in the recent years. Yet there is no consensus on a working definition for these platforms and robust evidence is lacking on their costs and benefits to society – a precondition for good...
In 2013, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) launched the Gender Equality Index (GEI). The need for the Gender Equality Index was initially introduced by the European Commission in the Roadmap for equality between women and men 2006–10.The EIGE was assigned the task of constructing...
The Commission has highlighted the need to take gender equality (GE) into account in all its policies and has committed itself to implementing gender mainstreaming (GM) as an integral part of policymaking, including through impact assessment and evaluation processes. It also expressed the expect...
This report is the fourth deliverable of the AVROSS study (Accelerating Transition to Virtual Research Organisation in Social Science, AVROSS) aimed at delivering “A study on requirements and options for accelerating the transition from traditional research to virtual research organisations thro...
This report examines the regulation of harmful or otherwise inappropriate content, particularly minors’ access to such content, and the regulation of content by self-regulatory means by the media industry.The primary case studies concern the providers of connectivity and content hosting on the I...