On behalf of IIS the Day of NCOs was attended by Irina Miroshnichenko, manager of the technological support to non-commercial organizations program «infoDonor», Louisa Rizmanova, Director of Department of International Cooperation and Public Relations, and Olga Kopyeva, content-manager.

At the plenary session Olga Golovanova, head of Microsoft programs of corporate responsibility in Russia,  presented the program Microsoft Citizenship, which in its frameworks illustrates  Microsoft projects on cooperation with the educational system, projects for youth (e.g. initiative  YouthSpark) and programs of support to non-commercial sector.

YouthSpark – is a new global initiative of the Microsoft company, which aims at assisting young people in implementation of their potentials in three key directions: education, employment and entrepreneurship. Further Yulia Sarviro, social projects manager of Microsoft in Russia, made a presentation on “ICT use for increasing efficiency of non-commercial organizations”, where «infoDonor» program was also introduced. Program of support to non-commercial organizations «infoDonor» allows NCOs to receive access to software donation programs of known world donors - Microsoft and iSpring Solutions. After the presentation Petr Sofroshkin from the Center of Youth Initiatives Support shared with the audience experience of participation in the «infoDonor» program.

Then one of heads of IT Company Tamara Lysikova made a presentation on social work carried out by the Academy. In the afternoon Microsoft Corp specialists conducted master-classes, where they reported on useful potentials of the new operating system Windows 8.1, and showed how non-commercial organizations can use these resources in their work; shared information on efficient methods of individual and collective work in Office 365 (Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Besides, representative of Wunderman company Igor Denisov, within the framework of section “Social networks. What? Where? What for?”, shared with NCO representatives information on peculiarities of work in different social networks, and on possibilities offered by social networks, which are being implemented by non-commercial organizations.