The idea of Social Innovation Camp comes from the UK, where along with the increase of use of social web tools, now the SICamp gurus started thinking of using these tools for practical purposes, to help people solve social problems through the digital tools.

Social innovation begins with people. It is not any more solely dependent on governments, institutions or corporations, who were in charge of delivering social goods from top-down who treated people as passive recipients of what they were suggested to.

Thanks to the web, forming a group and organising coordinated action became really easy. With the many-to-many information flow, the cost of communication and collaboration has become extremely low.

This translates into that people, rather than governments or institutions can do things to help themselves.

If the social innovation, solution to a social problems begins with individuals, the web must be a feature of new ideas for social change, built for an era where the old structures and ways of organising simply don’t fit any more.

Idea of organizing Social Innovation Camp Caucasus came from a Camp in Bratislava, Slovakia (September, 2009), which made us believe that 48 hours are enough to make the idea real if there are people who believe in it and also have different skills to contribute to the idea.
Learn more about Social Innovation Camp.

Get the feeling of SICamp in Bratislava from the film:

SICEE video from Kryscina on Vimeo.

And a film about Social Innovation Camp in London, April 4-6, 2008