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

Social Innovation camp: Inside story

This one's interesting: a system to look at how to make life more manageable for the families of prisoners (it's often very difficult for people thrown into turmoil by the imprisonment of a family member to understand how the system works).

At first I wasn't quite sure what the underlying plan was... but basically they're trying to come up with a technically-mediated way of doing things like contacting prisoners more easily, arranging prison visits, finding information out about how to visit somebody in prison, car sharing, public transportation and so on.

In comparison to the other groups so far, it looks like they've got a very definite workflow and a list of things they want to achieve, but - again - not yet ventured into the build itself. Though judging by some of the chat around the table, there are people talking proper developese, so I reckon they'll be OK.

The Guardian is media sponsor of Social Innovation Camp

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