Existing OC environments make use of various tools and fea-tures including APIs, chat rooms, wikis, recommender systems (e.g. Amazon review), or visualization techniques (e.g. tag clouds, net-work visualization). Today, researchers have little empirical insights about their affordances for collaboration, knowledge exchange, knowledge creation, and innovation. Innovation scholars regularly treat the technology as a “blackbox” and do not consider the digital environment and the tools and features available within it. How-ever, following recent claims of transformative scholars we need to take turn and acknowledge the constitutive role of technology[31]. Technological features yield novel affordances or constraints which can be transformative and extremely critical for complex problem solving and activating individuals to change and solve problems in areas like healthcare, science, and alike. The concept of affor-dances refers to an action potential, that is, to what an individual or organization with a particular purpose can do with a particular technology or information systems of “tool” in a cyberinfrastruc-ture[17]. Technologies may also yield a constraint as they hold back individuals from accomplishing a particular goal when us-ing a technology or system. Thus, affordances and constraints are distinct from features. Affordances are relational concepts and are different from features.