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The Social Innovation Camp was held at the Young Foundation at the weekend, 4th-6th April. Software developers and social innovators came together to look at a set of social problems and were given 48 hours to solve them. The Young Foundation is a supporter of the Social Innovation Camp, also in collaboration with NESTA, the Office of the Third Sector, Yahoo! Developer Network, Media Guardian and Madgex. I The Social Innovation Camp aims to find ways that easy-to-build web 2.0 tools can be used to develop solutions to social challenges. Ideas for developmentMore than 70 ideas were submitted for an amazing range of web tools to change the world over the course of February and March 2008. The ideas that were eventually developed at the Social Innovation Camp were:
WinnerAfter some deliberation, they awarded £2,000 to Enabled by Design as the winners and £1,000 to the runners up, Prison Visits. The judges said: " We were genuinely so impressed by every single one of the projects that came out of Social Innovation Camp and we’re looking forward to hearing about what the teams are going to be doing next with all the hard work they’ve put in so far". Guardian coverage -The Guardian covered each project in turn: |
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