NESTA is leading a pioneering research on Digital Social Innovation (DSI) funded by the European Commission. Insights from the research will help formulating advices to the  Commission on how best support grassroots innovation to grow and increase its impact. In the context of the research, the definition of DSI is ‘a type of social and collaborative innovation in which innovators, users and communities collaborate using digital technologies to co-create knowledge and solutions for a wide range of social needs and at a scale that was unimaginable before the rise of the Internet’.