What did we lead to open data led to us? The Economist analyzes the “Open Data Revolution” : successes, problems and their possible solutions. Six years ago, America became a country that made all government data open, not counting personal information and data related to national security. Since then, more than 200,000 data sets have been published on the official website Data.gov . More than 70 other countries also made their data open.

June 16, 2016 at 19:30 in the Impact Hub Moscow office will be a mitap on the topic "How to launch your geoinformation project?" With Maxim Dubinin , CEO Nextgis and the creator of the information resource about the GIS-Lab geoinformation systems. The meeting participants in practice will learn to work with geodatic for design work. GIS-Lab is an informal expert community, the participants of which create public projects, analyze open data and translate specialized literature.

Content: The material was updated in December 2021. “Bot” (reduction from “robot”) is a program that imitates human activities. The chatbot imitates the interlocutor in the chat. Who and for what came up with a chatbot? And why are they becoming more popular? The first experiments on creating such programs began half a century ago. One of the successful examples of giving interaction with the machine of the illusion of human communication is Eliza .

On June 4 and 5, 2016, in St. Petersburg, the greenhouse of social technologies conducted Crowdlab -Hakaton Kraudsourcing applications for solving public problems. Representatives of successful projects talked about their experience of creating and supporting online communities using crowdsourcing, and participants worked on their projects to present the results to the independent jury. The best project of Hakaton received financing in the amount of 70 thousand rubles for revision.