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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Social Innovation Camp: I've got it, you want it

Got stuff that you don't use all the time? Need to briefly use something that's hard to find or expensive to buy? Meet Stuffshare.

The initial concept described it as Freecycle meets Street Car, and that's a pretty accurate representation of what they want to achieve. There are two sides of the equation: the lenders and the borrowers. If you're interested in lending, then list all the useful things you own (a power drill, for example). If you need to borrow something, then search the listings or ask around and see if you can find it. Crucially, you can build a group of people you know and trust so that you can only share items with people who you're convinced are going to give them back. Like many of the other projects, they've decided on a mocked up version of the site for the presentation later on, although they say that there's been a lot of work done on the back end systems. Let's see how it pans out...

The Guardian is media sponsor of Social Innovation Camp

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