Social Innovation Camp (SICamp) came to Scotland this past weekend with the help of 4iP and MyPolice.org was the winner in an incredibly tight competition between six superb ideas that would all make people’s lives better.
You can find out more about MyPolice.org in the original pitch while the main site is further developed. The basic premise is “Patient Opinion for the Police”, or:
Recently after a friends flat was broken into I’ve had the experience of losing confidence in the police and not being kept informed about what is happening on the case. Let’s have police feedback and case updates on the web. Let’s get police telling and showing us what they’re doing. Let’s use new technologies to report crimes. Let us know what’s happening in our community and where our police officers are.
The idea came from Glasgow School of Art final year student Sarah Drummond and was co-developed with 38minuter and programmer Kate Ho, Jen Davies, fellow GSA Grad James Brown, FutureGov’s Carrie Bishop, Olivier Raynault, and Estonia’s Tony Bowden.
During the weekend, Kate from the winning team outlined the importance of Twitter not only to keep those participating tuned in to what other teams were up to throughout the nooks and crannies of the generously gifted Saltire Centre, but also for those watching from afar, unable to attend the whole weekend. She also provides some overview of the other five superb ideas. If you are so inclined you can wind your way back through a weekend of Tweets showing the development of the products. You might also be entertained by the images from the weekend.
4iP were proud sponsors of this third SICamp, and wish all six teams well in the further development of their ideas. Ideas that make people’s lives better, and every one of them with potential for a sustainable business model, SICamp was a great fit for us. The teams would also be welcome to blog about their ideas here to see if they can be improved yet more by the wisdom of this particular crowd, or even to pimp for some funding or support in kind from the community.
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