Apps 4 The Nation Mashup Camps

Imagine Innovation are in the final stages of setting up to run a set of three Apps 4 The Nation Mashup Camps in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. These camps are being run on an Innovation Framework designed and created by Imagine Innovation to assist Government at all levels in running these events themselves.

The Framework is a self-funding model which provides ample budget for any type of camp, it uses a one size fits all methodology which shrinks and grows depending on the size of the camps. Subject matter is irrelevant so the model fits whether you’re cutting code or cutting policy. Imagine Innovation have licensed this Framework under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Australia and are happy to provide the model to any Australian Government body interested in running camps after an application in writing has been approved by Imagine. Likewise we are happy to run the model for you until you get used the agile pace and structure of the Framework.

We are running this program as a Not For Profit model, and have setup the appropriate Company structure to ensure that any profit made is used to fund Scholarships for attendance, development of Government applications to completion (dependent on size) and providing VC for applications which are of a commercial nature. Obviously there is a voting method for the allocation of these funds which will be made available live on the internet for the people to decide where the funds go.

Whilst the Public Sphere events have been a huge success not everyone is comfortable with running a mainly Barcamp styled event, so we’ve created a Framework that creates a safe sustainable environment to foster innovation across Government in a way that encourages APS participation by making the experience an enjoyable and rewarding one.

The recent events which were crowd sourced for NZ worked extremely well, however they did not foster or actively drive a change in culture in the APS from the ground up. This Framework is designed to drive change in Culture from the bottom up, through the APS at a grass roots level.

We as a people have spent 50 years fostering this culture in the APS it is in our duty of care, to ensure that the change to a more innovative and risk embracing culture is as painless as possible.

What we need!

We need somebody to fund the beginning of what we like to think of as a revolution of sorts, we already have the budget done, the venues and all logistics tentatively booked. As we are a self-funded startup ourselves we simply do not have the cash resources to run the first round of events without assistance.

The type of revolution we are planning involves all the community experts from all the technology platforms (be they open source or proprietary), the current innovative devs and business models in Government and full support of the Social Networking Community and their associates. The Framework itself funds further camps once the first seed is planted, so it is potentially perpetual and can exist for as long as it needs to in order to foster the change in culture the APS so desperately needs.

Ideally we would like this to be funded initially by the big API and technology providers, but if necessary we are willing to open up a donation style ticket model, whereby the whole thing is driven by a charity model which we are more than happy to administer.

So if you’re one of the big API or Technology providers or are interested in the charity model and willing to support it, ping us either through email or another source.

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