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So I wrote a post just a wee while ago to let you know about Social Innovation Camp.
Quick post just to let you know;
Social Innovation Camp are holding two pre events in Edinburgh and Glasgow next week.
Visit the Pony on bathstreet in Glasgow on the 17th, 6-8pm to meet them.
Visit the Melting Pot in Edinburgh on the 16th, 6-8pm to meet them.
They’ve already held some great events in Scotland so far to drum up support and get your creative mind thinking around the theme of Social Isolation. There is only 10 days to submit an idea, so hurry up and do it.
I haphazardly entered an idea over 2 years ago and it grew into this: MyPolice. I never expected to go any further past submitting an idea, but let me tell you, it was worth it!
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Social Innovation Camp
Guess what?
Social Innovation Camp is coming to Scotland in June, and it’s your chance to submit ideas and take part in a fantastic weekend of people building, designing, thinking up new ideas that use the web to do something good, this year around the theme of Social Isolation. Here’s what they say;
“From 17th-19th June 2011 at Informatics Ventures in Edinburgh, 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.
They’ll have just 48 hours to build some web-based solutions to a set of social problems – from back-of-the-envelope idea to working prototype, complete with software. But first off, we start with a call for ideas: we want to find the most exciting ideas for how the web could change stuff that really matters.”
You can find out more on the official website, and how to submit an idea. It was two years ago when I was about to graduate I put one of those back of the napkin ideas in for entry.
MyPolice at Social Innovation Camp
It ended up winning the weekend and receiving a level 1 award from FirstPort which gave it legs and funding to introduce the concept to the policing world. The idea was MyPolice, an online feedback tool for the public to talk to the police. Simple but now we’ve finished our first pilot and we’re moving onto phase 2 of the build.
So if you’re thinking, ‘nah, I’ll take part next time’, don’t! Submit an idea, even if it is a one liner, and get yourself along to the Informatics Forum to take part. It is a fantastic event and a great, no strings attached space to be creative and build some potentially life changing software/service/product.
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Create:Debate
I’ve been putting together a final show for the Masters in Design Innovation I have just about finished. On Monday I handed in my thesis and this Monday I will be presenting the work to examiners. It has been a really tough year balancing everything and I’m really happy to invite you all to Create Debate: A design Innovation symposium at the Glasgow School of Art. You can sign up here.
Presentations;
Professor Irene Mcara Mcwilliams will open with an introduction
Professor Mike Press, Associate Dean of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, will discuss ‘Design as an affirmation of values’
Jim Fleming, Director at Wider Aspect Innovation ltd, will discuss Some learnings on Innovation Best Practice
David Hicks, Managing Director of Border Crossing will discuss ‘The new economic context – from resources to resourcefulness’
Stuart Bailey, Product Design tutor at the Glasgow School of art will discuss changes in design education
Innovative Idea Generation:mixing user value,design and higher education by Joe Slavick
Intergeneration and technology by Basako Okay
Listening to locals: A user centered approach to rural retailing by Laura Franzini
Brand DNA – Does employing social media tactics enhance or risk brand development by Amy Marsh
Effective Collaboration in Multi-disciplinary Teams by Angela Fernandez Orviz
Follow Me!: Mapping the city with user generated contents by Heji Jeong
Improving connections in textile recycling by Sara Pateraki
Embedding design in the public sector and changing our thinking by Sarah Drummond
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Bethnal Green ventures
Got an idea that’s sort of social innovation? Think you can make a difference?
The folks over at social innovation camp are starting a new project called Bethnal Green ventures. They say,
“Social Innovation Camp is all about taking a back-of-the-envelope idea and working out how to make it real. We’ve learnt a huge amount about what makes an idea fly or flounder as we’ve watched projects develop after Social Innovation Camp and now we want to build a new way of helping people grow an idea that one stage further: from prototype idea to social start-up.
Bethnal Green Ventures Nightschool is the first step in doing that.”
Over a year ago I took part in social innovation camp, and won it with a fantastic bunch of people and the project Mypolice. It’s been such slow going with the project and we’ve had some great highs so far with it and some incredible lows. Something like Bethnal Green ventures could have really helped us in the stage from great idea to getting funding to launching.
So if you’re in London, give them a shout.
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