ChatterBox is a social business in which London activists are preparing from refugees of tutors so that they can teach their language and thus earn a living. More on the topic: Google will double the amount of donations to help refugees in Europe Not only poor people are forced to leave their countries, among them there are teachers, researchers, as well as professional workers.

The information center "Infomet" has compiled a catalog of Russian sites with open data sets. Sources are federal, regional, municipal resources, as well as state and non -state aggregators. More on the topic: Rating of the Infomet project: the most popular open data in Russia Search by catalog can be carried out using tags - keywords allow you to filter the contents of the catalog in terms of level and theme.

Why do you need voting on Facebook? To increase the involvement of the audience, increase coverage. This is an interactive. It is more interesting for people to interact with you than to be passive witnesses, recipients of information. Previously, voting on Facebook could be carried out with regular means, now it is necessary to resort to third -party applications. About how to conduct a voting on FaceDook using the Facebook Poll application, in our video tutorial.

DOT has announced the readiness of its main product - “smart” watches for visually impaired people. Unlike many other technological products for visually impaired people, which are based on the content of content content, DOT “show” messages on the screen using the Braille font (four characters at the same time). More on the topic: be my eyes - become eyes for blind people The gadget connects to the Bluetooth smartphone and thus can receive messages from any of the applications.

The Open City Foundation and the greenhouse of social technologies on the International Open Data Day on March 4 and 5, 2017 held Open & Big Data Hackathon 2017 in St. Petersburg. Project topics corresponded to 17 goals in the field of sustainable development of the UN program. For representatives of non -profit organizations , a workshop for NGOs was held within the framework of Hakaton. Photos of the event on Facebook , VKontakte and Google Photos ; Hakaton event on Facebook .

A schoolboy from Kazakhstan has developed a prototype of a device that can help blind and visually impaired people better navigate in the city and move more safely. The device is a national headdress, a skullcap equipped with a motion sensor. When moving along the street, sensors on a skullcap are captured on the way of a person, after which a signal is given to the vibromotor. Thanks to vibration, a person who does not see obstacles is notified of the danger of a clash.

The national team from Russia was one of the winners of the World Robotics Olympiad (Wro) . Russian schoolchildren and students won in two categories, winning two gold medals and one silver. Projects of robotics were devoted to the topic of garbage processing and waste disposal. Another topic: the inventor sent a robot-bezing walk along the streets of the city The Gold Medal in the creative category was received by the Ocean Waste Collector team from St. Petersburg.

In March 2017, a Fudshering group appeared in Perm in VKontakte - a move of people ready to give food for free. The group became the fifth city community as part of the help project. The greenhouse of social technologies talked with one of the administrators of the groups Timofem Dubrovsky in order to clarify the technical and ethical features of their work.

The Greenpeace of Russia launched a special project #StopMSZ - an information resource, which contains information on a campaign against the construction of garbage plants. On the site 4 main sections The first is the answers to the most frequently asked questions in connection with the campaign - the arguments that activists have to hear from the authorities and business who advocate the construction of plants are detailed in detail.