Social Innovation Camp brings together software developers and designers with people who understand a social problem to help build web and mobile solutions to social challenges.

They think the web and related technologies hold huge potential to create change in many different ways: how people hold those in positions of power accountable; who they rely on to provide the services they need to live healthy, happy lives; or how they make a difference to something that affects them.

But for any of this to happen, we have to understand what people really need and start building the technology that can help – which is what Social Innovation Camp is all about.

Through unusual, creative events they bring together talented software developers and designers with social innovators to prototype effective web-based solutions to real social problems.

I’m an Associate, working with the team around learning and impact and currently working with Internews in the US to measure the impact of Social Innovation Camp as an innovation intervention for their organisational culture. I’m also in their pool of mentors and have supported projects like MyPolice.