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The first Social Innovation Camp took place on 4–6 April 2008 at the Young Foundation offices in London. Thanks to Paul Miller and Anna Maybank I was able to do participant observation throughout the event (I also ended up being interviewed by David Wilcox). In return I promised to write a summary of my findings. This post contains a summary of materials relating to the event available in the internet.

I addition to the references listed here I have one and half hour of video and five hours of audio recording, two hundred pictures and several pages of observation notes from the event. I am still working on this summary so please be patient if the page looks bit funny. Please let me know if I have missed something essential!

The report will be published later on in this blog.

Websites and services setup by the organizers

The organizers setup a number internet-based tools the participants could use in order to collaborate before, during and after the event.

• Backnetwork service for Social Innovation Camp attendees (by invitation only)
• Facebook group “The Social Innovation Camp“
• Social Innovation Camp website
• Social Innovation Camp wiki
• Twitter “sicamp” channel

The projects

The six projects developed during the weekend had been chosen on 14 March out of around 70 proposals. Some of the projects were able launch a live website during the event.

• Barcode Wikipedia (aka WIBI.it): live website
• Enabled by Design (the eventual winner): live website
• On The Up! (renamed from Personal Development Reports)
• RateMyPrison (renamed from Prison Visits, the runner up)
• C.V. Lifeline (renamed from Rate My CV): live website
  
• StuffShare

In addition, there was one breakaway project that emerged during the weekend.

• Glue

Photos

There are nearly nearly 300 photos in Flickr tagged with the event tag “sicamp08″. The photos were taken both by participants and organizers.

Videos

David Wilcox and the People Speak team produced throughout the weekend a number video clips that were made available in net.

• David Wilcox went around with his cameraphone recording 32 mini-interviews that were uploaded to Qik service in real time: 4 April (Getting started at SIC, SIC, Getting together SIC, SIC, SIC in the pub, Robert Castelo at SIC), 5 April (SIC, Ian at SIC, Aleksi Aaltonen at SIC, Peter Brownell at SIC, SIC, Cassie Robinson at SIC, Intro from Paul Miller, Enabled by design, Paul Birch at SIC, Enabled by design at SIC, Barcode Wikipedia at SIC, Get people out of the org, Filming at SIC, Christian Kreutz, Paul Miller at SIC, Personal learning at SIC, Prison visits at SIC, Personal learning at SIC), and 6 April (Just before SIC finals, Barcode wikipedia, Introducing SIC final session, Christian introduces…, Personal learning - final presentation, Barcode wikipedia, CV lifeline1, CV lifeline1).
• The People Speak “Sicamp 2008“documentary in YouTube
• YouTube videos tagged with “sicamp” and “sicamp08” mostly produced by The People Speak team
• Seth Reynolds and Tom Taylor present StuffShare in Show and Tell closing session captured by Premasagar Rose on 6 April 2008

Articles by Guardian Unlimited blogger Bobbie Johnson at Digital Content blog

The Guardian was the media sponsor for the event. Their blogger Bobbie Johnson wrote on 5 and 6 April together nine articles from the event for the Guardian Unlimited blog Digital Content: Kicking off, Coding and barcoding, Future me, Designer - solve my problem!, Help me work!, I’ve got it, you want it, Breakaway, Show and tell, and And the winner is…

Articles by David Wilcox at Socialreporter blog

• “Social Innovation Camp: imitations, please” on 9 April
• “Videos from Social Innovation Camp“on April
• “Help design personal learning environments” on 5 April

Articles by Paul Miller at his personal blog

Paul Miller was one of the organizer of the Camp.

• “Social Innovation Camp - thanks!” on 7 April
• “Geek hunting for Social Innovation Camp” on 20 March
• “Social Innovation Camp - The Ideas” on 18 March
• “Got an itch?” on 12 February

Miscellaneous blog commentary

This is a definitely non-comprehensive list…

• “Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement” at crisscrossed blog by Christian Kreutz on 28 April
• “Social Innovation Camp - The Movie!” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 27 April
• “Lightweight Structures for Social Innovation Startups” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 23 April
• “Barcode wikipedia” at memespring blog by Richard Pope on 21 April
• “It isn’t that easy (is it?)” at Policy and Performance blog by Ingrid Kohler on 17 April
• “Collaboration for change: Reflections on the Social Innovation Camp” at crisscrossed blog by Christian Kreutz on 16 April
• “Enabled by Design wins SI Camp” at Launchpad on 15 April
• “Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp” at crisscrossed blog by Christian Kreutz on 14 April
• “Games for Good” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 13 April
• “Social Innovation Camp” at Dharmafly blog by Premasagar Rose on 11 April
• “Social Innovation Camp: speed-startups for social impact” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 9 April
• “Social Innovation (Camp) on Speed” at OpenBusiness blog by Christian Ahlert on 8 April
• “Virtual Clusters” at NESTA Connect blog by Roland Harwood on 8 April 2008
• “Accelerating Social Innovation: lessons from SiCamp” at NESTA Connect blog by Roland Harwood on 8 April
• “The Social Innovation Camp London is over- winners announced” at Yahoo Developer Network blog on 7 April
• “Teamwork, quick” at Digital Arts blog by Huey Nhan on 7 April
• “Enabled by Design” at mulogy blog by Matt Collins on 7 April
• “On The Up!” at The Late Breakfast Society blog by Mike Amos-Simpson on 6 April
• “Live from Social Innovation Camp, the laboratory of buzz” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 5 April
• “Social innovation camp - day one” at Whitehall Webby blog by Jeremy Gould on 5 April
• “From the frontline… Social Innovation Camp” at Sociability blog by Andy Gibson on 5 April
• “Socia Innovation camp” at The Fair Tracing Project blog by Ian Brown on 5 April
• “Social Innovation Camp - Brief” at The Late Breakfast Society blog by Mike Amos-Simpson on 3 April
• “Negative Soft Skills” at The Late Breakfast Society blog by Mike Amos-Simpson on 2 April
• “Identifying Soft Skills forthe Social Innovation Camp” at The Late Breakfast Society blog by Mike Amos-Simpson on 31 March
• “Too much technology, too much innovation” at Sociability blog by Andy Gibson on 30 March
• “Steal this Idea, part 1: Partner Up” at Sociability blog by Andy Gibson on 25 March
• “FutureGov proud to support the Social Innovation Camp” at FutureGov blog by Dominic Campbell on 23 March
• “The Unbearable Lightness of Mashups” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 20 March
• “Ideas to be developed at the Social Innovation Camp 4-6 April 2008” at Launchpad by Jonathan Wong on 20 March
• “Social Innovation Camp” at Philatrophy 2173 by Lucy Bernholtz on 19 March
• “Mashing up for social action: they need our votes” at Design for Civil Society blog by David Wilcox on 19 March
• “Socia Innovation Camp projecs announced” at Design for Civil Society blog by David Wilcox on 19 March
• “Social Innovation Camp 2008” at The Late Breakfast Society blog by Mike Amos-Simpson on 18 March
• “Update; ideas that will be developed at the social innovation camp” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 17 March
• “Social Compost: Liberate Your Peelings!” at Dharmafly blog by Premasagar Rose on 14 March
• “Over The Air - event for mobile dev” at OpenBusiness blog by Christian Ahlert on 13 March
• “Social Innovation Camp - 1 Day left to submit ideas” at OpenBusiness blog by Christian Ahlert on 13 March
• “How any groups can become a Freeschool” at Design for Civil Society blog by David Wilcox on 12 March
• “RSS to Newsletter Maker - A pitch to the Social Innovation Camp” at Tim’s Blog by TimDavies on 3 March
• “Living from day to day” at Sociability blog by Andy Gibson on 1 March
• “Social Innovation Camp” at Sociability blog by Andy Gibson on 20 February
• “Social Innovation Campers” at NESTA Connect blog by Roland Harwood on 16 February
• “Announcing the first Social Innovation Camp, 4th - 6th April 2008” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 11 February
• “Not yet a revolution” at internet.artizans blog by Dan McQuillan on 1 February
• “Technology and social innovation” at Launchpad on 28 January

• Posts with tag “sicamp” and “sicamp08“at WordPress.com
• Posts with tag “social innovation camp” at ReadWriteWeb

Podcasts

• Guardian Tech Weekly podcast Xbox and Social Innovation Camp by Aleks Krotoski

Supporting organizations

These websites are listed here as a reference. They do not necessarily contain any material about the event.

• Cabinet Office, Office of the Third Sector
• The Guardian
• Magdex
• NESTA
• Yahoo Developer Network
• The Young Foundation

This post was updated on 29 April 2008.