Global
The Social Innovation Camp was first created and run in the UK.
Now we helping other people to run their own in other parts of the world: the founding team in London help out, but each version of the Social Innovation Camp is unique.
If you’re interested in running your own, here’s how to start:
1.) Get in touch here. We have a series of publications and templates for running your own Social Innovation Camp. Before you even think seriously about running your own, you need to involve us. So please do get in touch – it’s absolutely the first thing you need to do.
2.) Be really certain you have access to the skills and funding you need to run a Social Innovation Camp. Remember this isn’t a barcamp or an unconference. It’s a method for social innovation and it takes the form of a call for ideas and team building competition followed by a hack-weekend which takes about four months to run properly – it’s a full-time job for 1-2 people during that time. You need to be well-connected to both technical and social change worlds to run one well.
3.) Please steal nicely. Our logo and all the text on this site and in our templates are under our copyright. Please don’t use them without getting in touch first and if you’re already working with us, please do credit us – it’s only polite. Even if you use them in translation. Similarly, please link to this site and include details on your website about us and the history of Social Innovation Camp.
We’ll be linking to other Social Innovation Camps below, but if you’re after further information on one of those or you want to get involved, please contact them directly.
Check out whether there’s going to be one coming to a place near you:
Social Innovation Camp Central and Eastern Europe
The Central and Eastern European Civil Society Forum were the first to run a Social Innovation Camp outside of the UK. They brought the Camp to Bratislava, Slovakia in September 2009.
Social Innovation Camp Australia
The Australian Social Innovation eXchange held their first Social Innovation Camp weekend 5th-7th March 2010.
All the details can be found here: http://www.asix.org.au/sicamp
Social Innovation Camp Caucasus
Led by Open Society Georgia Foundation, a coalition of partners brought Social Innovation Camp to the Caucasus from 8th-10th April 2010.
Anna Keshelashvili managed the programme: annake(AT)gmail(DOT)com.
Social Innovation Camp South Korea
Run by The Hope Institute, Social Innovation Camp South Korea happened from 18th-20th June 2010.
Another Social Innovation Camp ran in South Korea concurrently with Social Innovation Camp Edinburgh from the 17th-19th of June, 2011.
Social Innovation Camp Azerbaijan
Run by Transitions Online, Social Innovation Camp Azerbaijan took place in September 2010.
http://1.syd-az.net/haqqinda/english
Social Innovation Camp Azerbaijan had its second run in Baku, Azerbaijan 22nd July-24th July, 2011.
Watch the excellent promotion video here.
And keep up with the progress of the camp here.
Social Innovation Camp Praha 2010
The Respekt institut ran the first Czech Social Innovation Camp in Prague from 12th-14th November 2010.
They were supported by Vodafone Foundation, HUB Praha and the communication agency Konektor.
For more information visit sicamp.cz, www.facebook.com/sicamp.praha or www.twitter.com/sicamp_praha
You can see a film of their Camp here.
Social Innovation Camp Nigeria
We’re really excited to have had our first global Camp to be run by a Social Innovation Camp UK alumnus – Femi Longe brought his idea, Useful Visitors, to Social Innovation Camp in London, December 2008.
Social Innovation Camp Nigeria was held from 13th-15th January 2011 in Lagos, with the support of the Enterprise Development Services, Pan African University.
Social Innovation Camp Kyrgyzstan – 27th-29th May
The Soros Foundation, Internews, Hoster.kg, and Sun People put on a Social Innovation Camp in the village of Bosteri, Issyk-Kul oblast. The camp brought together over 80 specialists from different regions of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Social Innovation Camp Sarajevo
On 9th-10th July, 2011, Internews and Transitions Online in Sarajevo hosted a Social Innovation Camp. They are at:
Twitter: @SICampIN
FB: http://www.facebook.com/sicampin
Web: http://www.sicamp-internews.org/
Social Innovation Camp Armenia/Mardamej
From 18th-10th November, 2011 in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Internews, USAID, and UNDP partnered with Social Innovation Camp to run Mardemej, the first Social Innovation Camp in Armenia. Our round-up of the event here.
Twitter (hashtag: #mardamej)
Website: http://mardamej.wordpress.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Mardamej
The film: http://vimeo.com/34077296
Social Innovation Camp Brno 2012
Respekt institute will run the second Social Innovation Camp in the Czech Republic in Brno on 16 – 18 th March 2012. During the weekend we will connect 60 people with different skills to develope 6 innovative ideas based on online tools. Jury of Social Innovation Camp Brno 2012 consists of representatives of Era, One World, Transitions Online, Respekt Weekly.
Social Innovation Camp Brno 2012 is supported by Era and Internation Human Rights Documentary Film Festival One World.hello@sicamp.org
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