I've gone a couple of times to Social Innovation camps, here in the UK (http://www.sicamp.org/ http://www.sicamp.org/). For those who don't know, it's a get-tog

I've gone a couple of times to Social Innovation camps, here in the UK (http://www.sicamp.org/ http://www.sicamp.org/). For those who don't know, it's a get-together where hackers gather with social problem experts, such as youth offending teams (YOTs) and people who work for charities, etc. It felt good to work on projects like that. Everyone was so excited about making change. As an example, a few months back I worked on one trying to reduce youth offending by providing a really usable sms gateway for young offenders to get in touch with local experts on certain problems. The problem I've seen, is that it's not always easy to get people to follow up on them after the excitement of collaborative change has passed. Once people are working from their desks again, personal success seems to be once again the key motivator. I don't know how to solve this.