You’ve got just five days left to send us your idea for a web tool to change the world: our competition to get your idea developed at Social Innovation Camp Scotland closes at midnight on Friday 22nd May.

We’re looking for the best ideas that use the web to tackle stuff that matters.

Over one weekend from 19th-21st June 2009, 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 Saltire Centre, Glasgow.

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 this Friday to send us your idea that uses the web to create social change and you could be joining 100 other participants to try and make it a reality.

Find out how it works here and check out all the details of how to enter your idea here.

Need some inspiration? Check out some of our suggestions to get you thinking here and or read about some of the ideas that have already been submitted here.

There’s only one thing that every idea must have in common: that it uses the web to help people do something for themselves.

So get thinking and good luck!

UPDATED - UnLtd award up for grabs for Social Innovation Camp Scotland winner!

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The Social Innovation Camp Scotland tour continues and Edinburgh is next on our list.

For the final time during our call for ideas, we’ll be looking for people and ideas interested in getting involved with Social Innovation Camp Scotland.

If you’re in Edinburgh and you’d like to say hello, here’s what we’re up to:

• 13th May - 7pm Tech Meetup, Informatics Forum, May 13th, Floor 8, Appleton Tower, 11 Crichton Street, Edinburgh
• 14th May - 8.30am We’ll be having breakfast at the Melting Pot, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh - rsvp to katherine(AT)sicamp(DOT)org if you fancy coming along.
• 14th May - 7pm Social Innovation Meetup Edinburgh, at the Informatics Forum, 10 Crighton Street, Edinburgh
• And if you’re in Glasgow and you missed us last time, we’re taking a sneaky trip back on 15th May to hold another breakfast at 9am. You’ll find us on the first floor at the William Harley & CDP Centre, Glasgow Caledonia University. Again, please rsvp to katherine(AT)sicamp(DOT)org if you fancy joining us.

Wondering if you should come along?

If you’re simply interested in who we are and what we do, if you reckon you might like to get involved, if you think you might have an idea to enter into Social Innovation Camp Scotland or if you’re just so keen you can’t wait till the 19th-21st June to meet us, come and say hello!

And please do tell your friends….

As part of our search for the best ideas that use the web to change stuff that matters, we’ve been out and about meeting new people and seeking out great ideas.

Last week, the Social Innovation Camp team was up in Dundee.

The city boasts a thriving gaming industry, responsible for producing around ten per cent of the UK’s digital entertainment industry. The creative industries account for some 200 companies, with a combined annual turnover of more than £100 million.

So we thought we’d go and meet some of the people involved.

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There are just four weeks to go until our call for ideas closes for Social Innovation Camp Scotland.

You’ve got until Friday 22nd May 2009 to send us your idea that uses the web to create social change and you could be joining 100 other participants to try and make it a reality.

And this week we’re really pleased to be able to announce some of our prizes for the weekend.

At the end of each Social Innovation Camp, we run a Show and Tell where everyone pitches what they’ve built in the weekend.

We’ll be awarding some prizes to the ideas we think have shown most promise. And this time around, we’re lucky enough to be supported by our partners Firstport, IfLooksCouldKill and O Street.

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Last week, we were in Edinburgh and Glasgow explaining how Social Innovation Camp works, meeting some great people and rooting out promising ideas.

It was a packed couple of days: Edinburgh Web Design and Development Meetup on Wednesday, breakfast in Glasgow on the Thursday and back to Edinburgh for another breakfast (we like our early mornings) on the Friday.

We met some fantastic people: from Glaswegian developers and Edinburgh Girl Geeks to those working to create social change. Huge thanks to all the people who gave us their time - and let us hijack their events.

And we’re back again next week - this time in Dundee. We’ll be holding our own Meetup from 7pm on Wednesday 29th April and you can sign up to come along here.

Once again, if you’re running an event you think we should be at, or you reckon we should come and have a chat with the people you work with, or even if you’re a bunch of like-minded friends who are interested in getting involved, we’d love to hear from you - drop us a line.

Remember: our call for ideas runs until the 22nd May 2009. Send us your idea that uses the web to create social change and you could be joining 100 other Social Innovation Campers to try and make it a reality.

Interested in getting involved with our next Social Innovation Camp? Want to find out more? Think you’ve got an idea?

Come and say hello!

We’re going on tour during our call for ideas: explaining how Social Innovation Camp works, rooting out the best ideas and meeting new people.

So here’s where we’ll be this week - we’d love to see you there:

• 15th April, 7pm, Edinburgh Web design and development meetup, Minto House Edinburgh
• 16th April, we’re running our own little breakfast, 9-10am, Tinder Box, Unit 4 Ingram Street - rsvp to Katherine if you want to come.
• 16th April, 12.30-1.30pm, Glasgow Coffee Meet, 20-28 Renfield Lane Glasgow
  
• 17th April, 8am, Edinburgh Coffee Morning, 103 George street Edinburgh

If you’re planning ahead, we’ll be in Dundee from 28th-30th April, then back in Edinburgh and Glasgow from 13th-15th May - further details to follow.

If you’re running an event you think we should be at, or you reckon we should come and have a chat with the people you work with, or even if you’re a bunch of like-minded friends who are interested in getting involved, we’d love to hear from you - drop us a line.

Remember: our call for ideas runs until the 22nd May 2009. Send us your idea that uses the web to create social change and you could be joining 100 other Social Innovation Campers to try and make it a reality.

Welcome to our brand new Social Innovation Camp Scotland site!

This is the place to find out everything about the next Social Innovation Camp running from Friday 19th to Sunday 21st June 2009 at the Saltire Centre in Glasgow.

From a Friday evening to a Sunday afternoon, we’ll be bringing together some of the best of the UK’s software developers and designers, together with those at the sharp end of social change. 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’re starting 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 enter your idea when our call opens on the 30th March.

And you can read all about how the Social Innovation Camp works over here.

But if you can’t wait till then, you can always get in touch if you’d like to find out more. Or you can join our mailing list, follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

This the third Social Innovation Camp of its kind - but it’s the first time we’re taking the idea out of London and north of the border. If you’d like to find out more about who we are and what we get up to, all the details are here.

More information about how to get involved and what our plans are for the next few months will be up on this site very soon - watch this space!

In the meantime, we’d like to thank our sponsors for making Social Innovation Camp Scotland possible: