This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated. If you have 10 minutes of free time and the desire to contribute to the development of scientific thought, visit the website of the new project of the Zooniverse community and provide assistance to scientists in the study of satellite images of tropical cyclones. The largest civilian scientific project Zooniverse continues to attract Internet users to participate in the study of natural phenomena.

It is great when civil applications informing society about various aspects of life, arise from the supply of power, “from above”. The fact itself pleases, but are they realized well, and most importantly, for what? One of the controversial examples is the interactive map of the Moscow Water, showing the quality of Moscow tap water. Data on the state of tap water tied to a particular street and even to a particular house, it would seem, are intended for ordinary users, residents of this house.

This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated. The author of the idea: Andrey Fedenev Task: our power of all branches is significantly lacking transparency and competence. This application intends to solve both of these problems with one shot (no matter how ambiguous it sounds). It would be interesting to find out what kind of brains of people who adopt “fateful” laws or with the same success slow down them in their offices?

This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated. Various providers block sites with completely harmless content, which affects the capabilities (and rights) of users who are blocked by the path to free receipt and exchange of information. One of the latest examples is the temporary termination of the YouTube service in Volgograd. The blocked resource has few options to start a “new” life and one of them is to move to an anonymous or decentralized network.

This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated. Task: Operational accounting of the victims from an emergency directly at the scene, the instant publication of their unsatisfied urgent needs on their own website and social networks for the information of philanthropists, maintaining online reports on conducted humanitarian operations and cash reserves of humanitarian aid.

This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated.

This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated. Climatologists ask volunteers to help classify satellite pictures of tropical cycles taken over the past 30 years. Scientists cannot do without volunteers, since the models of cyclone behavior are much better analysis only with the participation of a person.