Social Innovation Camp Philippines scheduled on September 13-15

Blog Watch is supporting Web Geek Philippines “Social Innovation Camp” (SICamp) as a media partner. The camp is an event that brings together software developers and designers with people who understand social problems to help build technology solutions to solves those problems.

WebGeek Philippines is excited to bring Social Innovation Camp to Manila on the 13th to the ­15th of September 2013. They are bringing some of the best of Filipino software developers and designers, to meet those at the sharp end of social problems.

They’ll have only 48 hours to build some web/mobile­-based solutions to a set of social problems – from back­ of­ the ­envelope ideas that could change the world into social start­ups – complete with working software. But first off, we start with a call for ideas: we want to find the most exciting ideas of how the web/mobile could produce change that really matters.

If you want to be one of the persons who have the desire to change the world, you should hurry and join because the deadline of registration is on August 02, 2013. To register. Submit your idea that uses technology in the form of mobile, web, or hardware that can do something about the society. From the submitted ideas we will be selecting only 6 of the best ideas to proceed to the weekend.

The top team from SICamp Philippines will join the top teams from other cities at the end of the year for a final regional camp.

SICampPH Dates

June 10 ­ Call for Ideas

Aug 2 ­ Deadline for ideas submission

Aug 5 ­ Team Building

Sep 13­ to 15 ­ Weekend Eventbout Social Innovation Camp

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. We 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 we bring together talented software developers and designers with social innovators to prototype effective web­based solutions to real social problems.

To learn more about Social Innovation Camp Philippines go to: http://webgeek.ph/sicamp

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