The Virtual Human Intection Lab laboratory at Stanford University is engaged in socially oriented experiments with virtual reality (VR). The goal of a group of scientists led by Jeremy Beilenson is to determine whether VR gives a person to better feel the phenomenon from real life, whether this technology can help increase the level of empathy in society. Some laboratory experiments look very strange.

The Waterfront Partnership in the American city of Baltimore implements a large project dedicated to one goal: to make the city harbor suitable for swimming by 2020. According to the river flowing into the harbor in the ocean, until the recent past, hundreds of tons of garbage hit annually. And while the struggle for the cultural behavior of people on the street is still ongoing, the former port employee launched a project that solves the problem of garbage right now.

On February 16, 2017, at 19:30 in St. Petersburg there will be Mitap greenhouses of social technologies “Special projects as a tool for solving the problems of NGOs” . On Mitap, you will learn what creative special projects are and what problems of NGOs can be solved using digital marketing tools. Speaker Mitapa is the head of the NIMAX Media advertising projects Yana Dotsenko .

The Stanford Center for Charity and Civil Society issued seven grants for the development of projects for open data to non -profit organizations and US universities. NPOs received grants under the Markets for Goodford Center, which exists with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation charity foundation . The size of the grants varies from 12 thousand to 100 thousand dollars. 7 projects aimed at facilitating the work of non -profit organizations 1.

On February 19, 2017, in the House of Culture “Do Sam/A” (Moscow) , the “Exchanger” festival will begin, which will last the whole Pancake week - until February 26. The festival will be organized in the Sharing Economy format - all the events included in it will be devoted to the interaction of people, the exchange of things, joint consumption, as well as building good -neighborly relations.

This information is dusting in the archive - suddenly outdated. The authorities of the American city of Santa Monica (California) released the CitySwipe mobile application.