Got an idea that uses technology to create social change?

The Social Innovation Camp Central and Eastern Europe (SICCEE) brings together talented software developers/designers and social innovators from the non-profit, commercial and public sector. Over the course of 48 hours, teams will build effective web-based solutions to real social problems.  But, they need to make sure those teams have all the geek-power they can!

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This past weekend, geeks, innovators, thinkers, and enthusiasts came together at the Young Foundation in London, UK, to bring to life 7 projects in just 48 hours.  Social Innovation Camp had 115 projects that were narrowed down to 7 for the camp.  And the winners?

SICamp Winners

Social Innovation Camp is back and looking for your ideas for web-based tools that could change something important. SICamps bring software developers and social innovators together for an action-packed weekend, 48 hours to take new ideas and put them into working parts.

Submissions are due by 7 November, so enter yours soon!

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Many NGOs are good at forming strategic alliances to achieve their objectives (they're usually also good at competing each other nearly to death, often at the same time, but I'll keep that for a different post maybe). Yet, at the level of web technology, this usually seems to be limited to the level of exchanging tips and tricks, perhaps some RSS feeds, and referring each other to providers and vendors.

Two major developments are changing that situation now:

I am receiving some interesting reactions on the launch of my idea to start developing a social networking platform for all players in the development cooperation sector.