There are only 4 days left to submit ideas to the next Social Innovation Camp. Social Innovation Camp is an organisation that runs unusual, participant-driven events aimed at bringing together software developers and designers with those at the sharp end of social need: social innovators, entrepreneurs and those with direct experience of need themselves. The latter being something that thinkpublic is particularly supportive of.
thinkpublic has lots of connections with Social Innovation Camp. I attended their first weekend event back in April this year, participating in the team that won second prize, Prison Visits, looking at how you can improve the experience for people visiting loved ones in prison. The opportunity to meet with new and interesting people with very different skills, and to experience working towards something as a new team, against a tight deadline, for something that has real social meaning made the experience one I’d recommend in and of itself.
Since then, thinkpublic have also been working with the winners of the last camp, Enabled By Design who aim to make independent living more accessible through the use of clever modern design.
And most exciting of all, they have asked our very own Deborah Szebeko to be a judge at the weekend in December representing social innovation expertise on the panel.
SI Camp’s ‘call for ideas’ closes on 7th November. They’re looking for ideas that use technology to address real social challenges. Only 4 days to go – submit your idea here. It is a great opportunity to get your socially driven ideas off the ground, drawing on expertise that you may not usually have available to you, and done at a pace that things in the ‘ real’ world rarely happen!