When: 6.30pm, Friday 4th – 4pm Sunday, 6th April 2008
Where: The Young Foundation, Bethnal Green
What:
We want to connect people with ideas to people with the resources to make things happen.
From the ideas we’ve had submitted to the Social Innovation Camp, our advisory board will be selecting between 5 and 10 to be developed at our weekend event, 4th-6th April. There’ll be space to explore ideas which evolve beyond this as well.
We’ll be hosting about 75 people for 48 hours to come and work with us.
It’s an ambitious goal, but at the end of the weekend we want to see new relationships which can grow to become projects to enact real change. A couple of months down the line, it would be great to see socially-oriented, innovative start-ups using the social web which can point to the Social Innovation Camp as the place where it all started.
How it will work
The Camp is inspired by the Barcamp concept bringing developers together for one weekend to encourage creative collaboration on common problems. This is an ‘unconference’ – a creative and inclusive version of the traditional conference format where receiving information in a top-down fashion from a selected couple of speakers is replaced with a big creative conversion between a diverse group of people all gathered in the same place to discuss and create interesting innovations.
We’ve just released the programme for the weekend:
- Pitching your tent: what happens before the Social Innovation Camp
- Building your camp fire: programme for the weekend with lots of hack time, creative conversations and new collaborations
- Packing up and going home: what happens after the Social Innovation Camp experience
