Social Technology for Social Change
Between the 5th and 7th of December the second Social Innovation Camp will take place in London and hopefully Jiva will be at the event to both contribute and learn from the other attendees.
According to the ‘About’ section of the SI Camp website it is “an experiment in creating social innovations for the digital age” which is something we here at Jiva fully support – in fact its an underlying principal in our work on Beanbag.
The first SI Camp took place in April and was won by (the very impressive and worthy) Enabled by Design and Visiting Prisons however there was one project I was particularly interested in. On the Up (as it became known after the event) was a clever idea about building a kind of online, personal, ‘record of achievement’ or ‘development plan’ based on goals users (particularly young people) set for themselves and activities they undertake to achieve those goals. I have been in touch with one of the leaders of this project after I mentioned it elsewhere and while its currently on hiatus it is hoped that it will start up again. Its my hope that something at least as interesting with an education focus comes up again this time (in fact I have one or two ideas myself).
It is a great idea and something that I think appeals to alot of people in and around the web community so I was really pleased to see that there is going to be another one in the same year thanks to support of the Young Foundation and Nesta.