10/17/2012 Russian Internet Week-Week of the Russian Internet 2012 The three-day RIW program combines the most important Runet segments: electronic trade, VEB analyst, security, advertising, digital marketing. A separate block of the program, which will take place on October 18, is CrowdCon - the first crowdsourcing conference. During the day, under CrowdCon, various types of crowdsourcing technologies will be discussed ...

On June 13, 2017, at 19:30, with the support of the Blagosphere Center, the Mitap of the Greenhouses of Social Technologies “Good luck and Kraudfunding failures: from the first person” will be held. Participants will get acquainted with the experience of conducting campaigns, receive recommendations for communicating with sponsors and on the promotion of the project.

People began to use online tools to solve problems. They not only arrange a collection of signatures, but also think over more complex ways of involving citizens: remotely collect groups of volunteers, urge readers to tell their stories and write appeals to officials, attract attention of the media and public organizations. This was told by the director of the online platform for accommodating the Change.org petitions in East Europe and Central Asia Dmitry Savelov .

June 1, 2017 in Krasnoyarsk launched the website of the project “ Disgraf. Dysgraphia correction service. " It helps with the help of a series of online tests and exercises to determine the presence of a written violation in children. This is a site with test tasks, for children from 6 to 14 years old. Tasks allow you to identify the presence of dysgraphia in a child. Tests can be held at home with parents, at additional classes at school with teachers or when working with a speech therapist.

In 2005, Boston Dynamics introduced its first Bigdog robot (Big Dog). For demonstrations of the possibilities of a robot dog, they kicked his feet. In 2016, an advanced Atlas robot appeared. He was already beaten with a hockey club and a pipe. The network reacted to mockery of the robot by a series of angry memes. Frightened by the retribution of the next robot, they no longer beat, on the contrary, they attached the wheels to it, probably to be easier to escape from brutal leather creatures.

The first film festival in Russia dedicated to the history of urbanism will be held on Strelka from June 5 to 14, 2017.

At the tenth international conference "White Nights of Fandraizing" , which took place from May 22 to 25, 2017 in St. Petersburg, more than 600 people from Russia and abroad participated. The conference organizers shared the results of the largest event in the field of charity. Representatives of 372 public organizations from Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Germany, Georgia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Finland gathered at the conference.

Almost seven years have passed since my friends and I launched the first crisis crowdsourcing project “Assistance Map” in Russia. And still, almost every time, when some cataclysm occurs in Russia, someone will ask: “Well, will you launch a“ help card ”?” This happened this week, when a hurricane in Moscow led to tragic consequences - victims, injured, damage to property and infrastructures. “Assistance card” did not appear this week.