Call for Ideas

The Social Innovation Camp June 2011 call for ideas is now open!

Once again, we’re looking for the best ideas that use technology to change stuff that matters.

Over one weekend from 17th-19th June 2011, we’re bringing together some of the best of the UK’s software developers and designers with those at the sharp end of social problems at the Informatics Ventures Forum in Edinburgh.

Their mission will be to turn six back-of-the-envelope ideas that could change the world into social start-ups in under 48 hours – complete with working software.

You’ve got until Friday 20th May 2011 to send us your idea that uses the web to create social change and you could be joining 80 other participants to try and make it a reality.

Find out how it works here and check out our past success stories here.

So what are we looking for?

Absolutely anyone can enter an idea: if you’re a hacker with an itch to scratch, we want to hear from you – but you don’t have to be technically skilled to get involved.

We’re looking for those of you who simply know about a problem you want to solve, together with software developers and designers, people with business brains and seriously creative minds. And there’s no need for you to be based in Scotland – or even the UK – to enter.

For our fifth Social Innovation Camp, we’re excited to be working with the Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) to help find ideas focused on using web and mobile tools to help tackle social isolation. We’ll be posting more on this later, but you can find further details of how this is going to work here.

Get involved in the call for ideas!

During our call for ideas we’ll be all over the place talking to people who might have an idea we can help them with.

The call for ideas lasts 8 weeks and we’ll be in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen running workshops and events.

Come and join in to find out more about what we do and how you can get involved – we’ll be posting where we’re going to be when, here.

You can also join our mailing list and follow us on Twitter.

So get thinking: you’ve only got until the 2oth of May, 2011 to send us your idea.

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