Citilab is a citizen laboratory for social and digital innovation in Cornellà de Llobregat, Barcelona. Explore and disseminate the digital impact on creative thinking, design and innovation that arise from digital culture . Citilab is a mix between a training center, a research center and an incubator of business and social initiatives.
Since this initiative was born, in 1997, and later it opened its headquarters on November 23, 2007, Citilab has promoted its activity as a digital center of citizen innovation for the dissemination and promotion of the Knowledge Society . His basic methods of work are those of the living labs: design thinking, computational thinking and user-centered co-creation . In Citilab, Internet is considered a means to innovate in a more collaborative and integrating way with the citizen in the center of the process.
Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected over 1,800 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows, providing them with living stipends, professional support, and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries.