Social Innovation Camp brings together ideas, people, and digital tools to build web-based solutions to social problems — from hacking together software to working out how you'd sustain an idea — all in just 48 hours.

Do you have an idea you want to work on? Or maybe a particular technical solution that could be used for good? Social Innovation Camp Internews in Sarajevo is looking for inspiring ideas and committed people. The call for submissions will be closed Wednesday, May 25, 2011.

(This post originally written by Mary Joyce for the Meta-Activism blog. You can see the original post here.)

The Global Digital Activism Data Set is the first attempt to quantitatively study digital activism as a global phenomenon.  It is an all-volunteer project to create an open case study database under a Creative Commons license that will be accessible to scholars and activists around the world.  It currently has 342 cases, with over 1,500 cases waiting to be entered… and that’s our challenge.

I recently wrote this post about a new book called Digital Activism Decoded and followed up with editor Mary Joyce to learn more. Read the full interview below.

About the book:

A new book has recently been published that I thought some of you might be interested in reading. It's all about how we can use technology for political activism. While many books have already been written about the tools and tactics available for activists online, this is the first book to attempt to map the field of digital activism in its entirety.

There's ony one more day to vote for your favorite project proposals from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge!

Every single one of the projects has an element (or many elements, for that matter) of intrige, thoughtfulness, and/or just-plain-cool packed into them and half the fun of voting is simply getting a lay of the land of just what's going on in the world of mobile tech development for good. 

There are numerous services on the web that will help you start your own online petition – often for free. Unfortunately, many of these services are not as effective as they could be. Here are 5 areas in which they could be improved to better serve nonprofits and social change campaigns.