We’ve had a grand total of 115 amazing ideas submitted for this December’s Social Innovation Camp.

And last week, the judges met to face the difficult task of choosing which ones we’d be helping to develop over the Social Innovation Camp weekend, 5th-7th December.

So (drum roll please), the ideas they think have the greatest potential to create real social change are:

• Going Postal

A tool to help people take control of junk mail: Going Postal aims both to stop junk reaching your letter box, as well as offering companies alternative ways to get their advertising out – which is good news for the trees that are used to produce the 550,000 tonnes of paper wasted on unsolicited mail in the UK each year.

• Useful Visitors

What if travelers brought more than cash to the countries they visited? You could harness the skills, talent and knowledge of those visiting other countries – whether they’re on business, visiting relatives or simply tourists. Via the web, universities could find visiting professors, hospitals could find visiting nurses, feeding centres could meet five star chefs and Joe the plumber can fix the drains in an orphanage. It’s a new approach both to international volunteering, as well as tackling the brain drain many countries are suffering as they loose talent and skills to migration.

• AccessCity

The rush hour’s bad enough for those who have only a bag and umbrella to carry around. But how do you negotiate a city’s transport system when you’re not able to keep up with the commuter scrum? AccessCity aims to develop a site to enable a user-generated view of London (in the first instance, but with the ability to be rolled out nationally and beyond) from an accessibility perspective: helping those who are less able to get around – due to physical disabilities or impairments, or if they need to take children with them – and highlighting what needs to be improved to make simple journeys less of a hassle.

• We-need.org

There’s been increasing emphasis on how you give users themselves greater control over the social care they receive in recent years – it’s a huge social and political issue. Visualising Community Need is a project to help people map their own care requirements and use this information to get care providers to better understand the needs of those they are supposed to be serving – turning the system of social care on its head.

• Good Gym

People all over Britain run, jog and lift weights. The Good Gym aims to make it easy for people to channel this energy toward social good. The idea is to get fitness fanatics to incorporate visits to isolated older people or the delivery of useful items to dependent individuals into their exercise routines.

• Vegsy

Etsy, but for vegetables. This idea uses an online market place to bring together people who grow food in their home, allotment, small holding or farm with people who want to buy locally produced, natural, wholesome foods – just like Etsy has done with handmade craft goods. So there’s less air miles in our food and we know exactly what we’re eating and where it’s coming from.

But that’s not all. There were four more ideas that our judges just couldn’t decide on. So we’re putting them to a public vote – check out how here. And the ideas you can choose from are:

• Footsie

A collaborative tool to help large businesses develop a carbon-reduction strategy through a game experience of pledges and prediction markets by engaging staff in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating how companies become more environmentally friendly.

• One Click Organisations

One Click Organisations takes the hassle out of forming a legal structure for social entrepreneurs. Users wanting to set up a new organisation should be able to simply choose from an options menu and One Click Organisations will take care of the rest – maintaining a constitution, an official register of members and officers plus an electronic platform for proposing and voting on resolutions.

• Prepare to die

Decisions surrounding death are a hugely difficult social issue to tackle. This project wants to address this taboo subject and assist people in making and communicating decisions about what they’d like to happen to their body when they die: especially in relation to organ donation – something which has recently hit the headlines in the UK.

• Carbon Co-op

Household renewable energy technologies are often too expensive for ordinary people to invest in. Carbon Co-op is all about helping people club together as a co-operative to buy themselves and their neighbourhoods new technologies to generate their own power supply.

You’ve got until midnight on Sunday, 23rd November to cast your vote (and add a comment as to how you’ve voted and why!). Remember: we’re after ideas which use technology that’s not just for geeks and enable people-power to create real social change.

The next step is to find the people who can come and help build these projects. We’re looking for talented individuals to provide technical and creative input for the Social Innovation Camp weekend, 5th-7th December 2008. Tell us what you’d like to work on and how you can help here.

So how did the judges make their decision? We wanted to try and share some of what we learnt through our selection process, as well as why we chose some ideas and not others. Our thoughts and feedback will be up online very shortly – watch this space….

But this shouldn’t be the end of the road for any of the ideas submitted to Social Innovation Camp. We’ve been amazed – again – by the creativity, knowledge, skills and innovative thinking that’s been unlocked here.

We’ve given these ideas a platform, but Social Innovation Camp can’t provide all of them with the support they need. All of the ideas that were submitted to us openly will remain online here. What can you do to help them become a reality?