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!

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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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