Social Innovation Camp – 1 Day left to sumbit ideas

What happens when you get a bunch of social innovators and software developers together,
give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? This is the basic idea behind Social Innovation Camp. Admittedly we are bit late blogging about this, but if you have a good idea for web project addressing social needs let them know (OpenBusiness is involved).
In London on the weekend of 4th-6th April 2008, Social Innovation Camp will bring together
some of the best of the UK and Europe’s web developers and designers with people at the
sharp end of social problems.
Our aim is find ways that easy-to-build web 2.0 tools can be used to develop solutions to
social challenges.
How you can join in?
Too many ideas never meet the right people. They get left behind over lunch, in the pub, or
forgotten amongst other demands of work and life.
At the Social Innovation Camp, we want to give your idea a home.
We think the potential for the web to create social change holds some really exciting
opportunities for social businesses. There are some great examples already out there:
Freecycle for your recycling, School of Everything to learn stuff and Fixmystreet for improving
your local neighbourhood.
The Social Innovation Camp weekend is going to be a space to meet people who want to
work with you to turn your idea into a viable venture – be that a non-profit, a commercial
business or something else altogether. They’ll be opportunities to meet social entrepreneurs,
as well as software developers and sponsors to get your idea off the ground. You can enter
your idea through our website at www.sicamp.org.
Sound interesting? You’ve got until 7th March 2008 to send us your idea. Visit our website
www.sicamp.org, join our facebook group and get in touch: ideas@sicamp.org