London Regional ICT champion

From the UK Riders email list:-

“What happens when you get a bunch of hackers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them?

We’re going to find out in London between 4th-6th April 2008 when Social Innovation Camp will bring together some of the best of the UK and Europe’s web developers and designers with people at the sharp end of social problems. The aim is to find ways that easy-to-build web 2.0 tools can be used to develop solutions to social challenges.”

The rough model for the event is Barcamp mashed up with a mini-netsquared.

Event organiser Dan McQuillan says “It seem to me that, since riders generally bridge the gap between techies and vol. sector orgs, there’s likely to be some good ideas for Social Innovation Camp lurking amongst list members.”