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Turning ideas in action at mypublicservices

Taken from David Wilcox's playlist from yesterday's MyPublicServices event, Denise Stephens from Enabled by Design and Carrie Bishop from FutureGov talk about their projects and the role of Social Innovation Camp and other initiatives in shaping social innovation in public services.

A big congratulations to all involved in the event, especially Patient Opinion for making it happen.

If the coverage on the BBC technology site is anything to go by, you may want to remember this event as the day social innovation hit the big time.

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Anna Maybank, Social Innovation Camp

Here's a video of my recent interview Anna Maybank, Director of Social Innovation Camp, for the upcoming for PDF Europe event.

Anna explains the what, why, how and where next for Social Innovation Camp.

You can also read my blog post in full over on the FutureGov blog.

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The Social Innovation Camp road to Central Eastern Europe

As those of you who follow me over on Twitter will already know from my incessant Twitpic-ing, but this week I'm over in the first Social Innovation Camp being run outside of the UK.

Social Innovtion Camp Central Eastern Europe is a slightly longer event giving people just under an extra day to make their ideas a reality. It involves entries from 7 countries with over 15 countries represented overall.

So far so good with lots of energy, ideas and hard work.

You can catch all the action on Twitterfall and if you're interested I'm working on and rooting for 'Help the Elderly', renamed 'Have a Go Heroes' during the first day of the camp.

Fingers crossed for the final presentation and prizes on Friday morning.

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Social Innovation Camp Scotland 2009

For those of you yet to hear of Social Innovation Camp 1. where have you been? ;) 2. here's a short video showing what goes on at a Social Innovation Camp weekend.

Having been to two camps to work with pals on a couple of ideas now (Enabled by Design and accesscity) I can't talk highly enough of the team's work in supporting social change from the bottom up.

Since taking part in these camps, we (FutureGov) have also taken the mini camp edition into government, working with Barnet Council to show how the format can be used as a quick fire way of crowdsourcing innovation from service users. And again I must say it worked really well.

So onwards to the next one - I'll be helping out over in Bratislava at the Eastern European edition in September so look out for that one!

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