1. VOLUNTEERS FOR
INNOVATION
TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

2. PRESUPPOSITIONS
Business
Universities
Society
Educational programs
Mainstream
Early hiring/internships
Real problems solving contests

3. WHAT DO BUSINESSES NEED AND
WHAT THEY DO ABOUT IT?
1. Businesses need the best staff.
- They have multiple educational programs including
stipends;
- They offer internships with a possibility of further
employment.
2. Businesses need new ideas for their further
development
- They hold various contests and provide research grants;
- They already use crowdsourcing as a tool for solving
marketing tasks, pinpointing the new areas of application and
sales opportunities.
ARE BUSINESSES ALWAYS HAPPY WITH THE
RESULT AND WHY?

4. WHAT DO UNIVERSITIES WANT
AND WHAT DO THEY DO ABOUT IT?
1. Universities are interested in getting their graduates
employed with higher salaries which affects universities’
ratings
- This requires a finer tuning of specialties by analyzing the
market needs.
2. Universities are interested in professional orientation of
students for better saturation of different chairs.
3. Universities are interested in having folks from
businesses for sharing real life experience via lectures
and seminars.
For some reason, universities are too fond of engaging with governmental bodies instead of analyzing
the need of real businesses.
ARE UNIVERSITIES HAPPY WITH THE RESULT?

5. WHAT DOES YOUTH NEED AND
WHAT DO THEY DO ABOUT IT?
1. Youth wants to get employed and earn plenty of money.
2. Many want to learn new or test existing skills by solving
real life tasks while still being students.
3. Very few refuse having fun and getting gifts for taking
part in contests.
4. Many search for new information to read and/or seek
advanced educational possibilities.
5. Some simply want to be “cool” and different from the
rest.
The majority of youth uses specialized web-sites and/or social networks with limited scope.
IS YOUTH ALWAYS SATISFIED WITH WHAT THEY
GET?

6. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?
Russian internet society
is segregated.
Different communities are
poorly linked, even if they
have mutual interests
Source: Berkman Center For Internet and Society at
Harvard University
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/10/russiaDC

7. SOLUTION
2. Communication
1. Team Ecosystem
3. Offline
communication

8. OUR TEAM
Daria Gavrilova, Yulia Tell, Olga Zhosanou, Alexander Sergey Lourie,
FLEX’ 04 FLEX’ 02 FLEX’ 03 Zagornov, FLEX’ 94
FNM MSU, post- Intel Action Global FLEX’ 01 RUSNANO
grad Communications RUSNANO
Bram Caplan, Lisa Lyhina,
Vladimir Korolev, Alexey Chepiga, Alexander
USBT’ 06 Muskie’ 01
FNM MSU, student FNM MSU, student Kartashev,
Skolkovo Tech VGTRK
Social Networks
Arslan Penjiyev, Karina Khapchaeva, Olga Tomilina,
FLEX’ 03, UGRAD’07 FLEX’ 03 FLEX’ 06
Amazin Kostum

9. COMMUNICATIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE
COMMUNITY PRINCIPLES:
1. All members, including
founders, are equal in rights
and limitations
2. All members commit their time for the
community for free. Any fees may arise only with
materials expenditures (publishing posters/ flyers
and so on)
The basic commitment requires a weekly interaction with the community. Further commitment, i.e. taking part in
webinars and so on – is welcome!

10. IMPLEMENTATION
1. Initial start
a. Community policy
b. Theme rubrication and tagging (for easy access)
2. Regular online activity
a. Contributing publications on everyday basis
b. Webinars with businesses and university representatives.
3. Offline event. To be defined after the AEIF revision.
Currently envisioning:
a. A stand-alone socially important event (like garbage cleaning
run at the Botanic garden or of the same sort).
b. A joint event in the framework of the Smart Russia Forum (Fall
2012).