Call for volunteers: Join us for the Social Innovation Camp weekend, 17th-19th June 2011!

[Glen Mehn]

Social Innovation Camp have spent the last 10 weeks scouring the country to find the most promising back-of-the-envelope ideas that use web and mobile-based technology to solve a social problem.

 

They had a huge 97 ideas submitted to Social Innovation Camp June 2011 and the judges have chosen just six of the best to help build over one weekend, from 17^th-19^th June 2011 at the Informatics Ventures Forum, Edinburgh.

 

And here they are:

 

1.) invisibleRamps - a site for people with cognitive and psychological disabilities – from colour-blindness to autism – to suggest ways to make buildings, public spaces and workplaces more accessible

 

2.) Homeshare - A site that matches older people who have a spare room with unpaid interns who need somewhere to stay for the duration of their internships

 

3.) Bubble - a mobile game for tracking and encouraging social contact between people

 

4.) Foodini - a mobile app and website providing real-time information on local food deals

 

5.) Lend-a-hand - a messaging tool for carers to ask family, friends and neighbours for help with quick-and-easy every-day tasks where a little bit of brief help goes a long way

 

6.) Volunteer Impact - inspired by the happiness-tracking app, Mappiness, this is a tool for volunteers to self-measure the impact volunteering has on their personal well-being

 

Now they’re looking for people with technical and creative talent to come and help turn these early-stage ideas into real working prototypes – all in just 48 hours.

 

They’re looking for developers, designers and people who understand the problems we’re trying to solve.

 

Where: Informatics Ventures Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, Midlothi...

 

When: 7pm, Friday 17th June to 4pm, Sunday 19^th June 2011.

 

Sign up here to get involved!

 

 

 

 

 

[Arvind Salwan]

Brilliant. Brilliant. Brilliant. Good luck with this in June. Here's an ask. Can some of the 'best of the best' from this feature at Social Media Week, 19-23 September? Be good to share some of this with the rest of the world... no, seriously! #SMUGla