Here's a message from Iain Hamilton at Highlands & Islands Enterprise about the Social Innovation Camp:
Opportunity to work with UK's leading software developers to create a
business/social start-up.
NESTA (National Endowment Science Technology and the Arts) run an annual
event called the Social Innovation Camp. This is for anyone who has an
idea to deal with a social issue, or health and wellbeing, and offers
the opportunity to work with some of the UK's leading software
developers to turn 6 back of the envelope ideas into business/social
start-ups in under 48 hours, complete with working software.
Technical skills are not a requirement for this process.
The Social Innovation Camp will run from 17th - 19th June, in Edinburgh
(Some expenses will be paid). Ideas that use the web to create social
change need to be submitted for consideration by NESTA by Friday 20th
May 2011. If selected, you will be invited to attend the Edinburgh
workshop to try and make the idea a reality.
To get a better idea of what is involved and how you can participate,
NESTA will deliver two short workshops, lasting approximately 1 hour, on
10th May at 4.30pm and 7.30pm in:
The Ironworks
122b Academy Street
Inverness
IV1 1LX
If you would be interested in attending on 10th May, could you please
e-mail: iain.hamilton@hient.co.uk
Full details of the programme are available here (Link) - where
you can also find examples of successful ideas from past years.
