Paul Miller

I still don’t really know why the Social Innovation Camp format works, but it does. Last weekend we had another great event up in Edinburgh with six teams of fantastic people all trying to take back-of-the-envelope ideas through to working prototypes that could become new social ventures. The things that struck me this time about [...]

If you’d like to come along to Social Innovation Camp this weekend in Edinburgh, here are the ideas that we’ll be working on: 1.) invisibleRamps When a building isn’t accessible it’s pretty easy to see what the problem is, even if you’re able-bodied: no lifts, no ramps for wheelchairs and lots of stairs. But there [...]

  It’s the final few days to get your idea in for Social Innovation Camp. The Camp itself will be 17-19th June in Edinburgh. The last time we were up in Scotland we found the team behind MyPolice which has gone on to be a great example of how smart people can use digital tools [...]

During a recent trip to New York and San Francisco, a few people said they thought that the movie The Social Network was having an effect on the number of people who wanted to start a startup. Now, on the face of it, The Social Network isn’t a positive film. It’s mainly set in the [...]

Films Moon – Duncan Jones’s debut is just stunning. I’ve watched it again on DVD now and there are so many clever bits you don’t notice first time around. Also best original soundtrack for quite some time by Stourbridge’s finest Clint Mansell. It’s been adopted as favourite coding music at Everything HQ. Anvil – this [...]

More details on the Social Innovation Camp site and I’ve got a piece in today’s Independent that includes some of the thinking behind what we do.

So I’m up in Glasgow using electrical tape to direct people around the Saltire Centre. It’s Social Innovation Camp 3 and the teams arrived last night to start building six new social start-ups in the space of 48 hours. It’s all looking good so far. There’s a great buzz and people are running around Glasgow [...]

So we’re half-way through the call for ideas for Social Innovation Camp 3. What’s your idea for a website that could change the world? Now’s the time to submit it.

[This is a slightly adapted version of a short talk I gave at MASS LBP on 10 March 2009 in Toronto, Canada] It feels a bit unfashionable in tumultuous times like these but there’s something you should know about me before we start. I’m an optimist – a practical optimist in that I like making [...]

So it’s a big day for Social Innovation Camp. Not only is it our meetup this evening, but we’re also announcing the next weekend event which is going to be in Glasgow on the weekend of 19-21 June. There’s also lots about Social Innovation Camp in the Guardian today – in particular a great piece [...]