The more people observe the emergency, the less likely they will decide that they will decide to help the victims. This psychological phenomenon is considered very stable and is associated with a number of factors, for example, with diffusion of responsibility. In what it is and why this is the case of our correspondent Ayia Renault . The “outsider effect” is also called “Jenoveza syndrome”. A resident of New York Kitty Jenoveze died in March 1964 at the hands of a serial killer.

The IT volunteer Diana helped several organizations last week: she updated the logo for the organization “Crystal People” and created a poster for the charitable event of the club of volunteers and “Professions shops”. The authors of both tasks - Asya Voronkova and Natalya Voitenko - left excellent reviews to the work of Diana, who deservedly becomes the “hero of the week” in gratitude from the greenhouse of social technologies.

From June 17 to June 19, 2016, the IX International Practical Conference “White Nights of Fandraizing” was held in Moscow. The speakers at the conference talked about their experience in collecting funds for projects, got acquainted with the experience of colleagues, learned about new trends and instruments in fundraising, received tips on working in crisis, established contacts and partnerships with experts and colleagues from different regions.

On June 19, 2016, Mitap Golsovs of Social Technologies was held in Ulyanovsk on the topic “PR-technology in non-profit projects”. The meeting was played by Pasha Andreev , a project manager, first deputy chairman in the Youth Initiative Center. Pasha shared his knowledge about PR strategies, which can be used in work on a non-profit project. Public relations, or PR, is the management of public opinion, building relations between the company and state bodies or commercial structures.

On June 25, 2016, the Chatbots Community event (Russian-speaking community of developers, united by the themes of chatbots, messengers and artificial intelligence) in Mitap + Hakaton format will host the Digital October . The topic is “AI for brands”. The prize fund of Hakaton will be more than 200 thousand rubles.

In May 2013, in St. Petersburg, IT sphere activists organized the All-Russian Union of IT workers , which is engaged in the informing and protection of workers of the rights of employees of the IT industry. What caused the creation of the trade union, what problems IT specialists face and what disputes have already been won. How was the IT trade union formed?

One of the areas of application of chatbots is the creation of images of people who have passed away. Experiments in this area are conducted by an American startup with Russian roots LUKA . The application, originally conceived as a chat boot for ordering tables in restaurants, added two new options this year.

On June 11-12, 2016, in St. Petersburg , Transparency International-Russia held the first “anti-corruption hacaton” . The participants in the event worked on projects that in the future should help process and visualize data on the income and property of public officials. Projects were selected in the nominations "Best Software Project" and "Best Visualization". The authors received grants in the amount of 65,000 rubles and 15,000 rubles, respectively.

The Chief of Childhood Foundation prepared and launched the first online course in Russia to develop and implement mentoring programs for orphans 7 keys of effective mentoring. The course was created for specialists of non-profit organizations interested in the systemic development of mentoring for orphans and children who find themselves in a difficult life situation. The course consists of 9 modules. Each module is attached to additional materials that listeners can use in practical work.

On June 21, 2016, Penza hosted Mitap Greenhouses of Social Technologies “What is Social Entrepreneurship?” Marina Tarasova and Alexander Lezhenikov , representatives of the Center for Innovation of the Social Sphere (CISS) and the School of Social Entrepreneurship , introduced students, NPO employees and activists with social business projects of the school and answered questions from mitap participants. Who is a social entrepreneur?

On June 16, 2016, with the support of the Impact Hub Moscow, Mitap was held “How to create its own geoinformation project?” With Maxim Dubinin, CEO Nextgis and the creator of the information resource about the GIS-Lab geoinformation systems. At the meeting, online demonstration of NEXTGIS products was held, which allow you to organize a geoproject of any complexity for a distributed team.