Quarter Reports

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Kazan Civic Networking
1-st Quarter Report

1. Name of principal investigator
Dmitry V. Vokhmianin

2. Title of proposal
"The Kazan Civic Network"

3. Report period (time period covered by report)
January - March 2000

4. Names and institute of collaborator, if any (US and/or Russia). Show the names of every person or organization, who take part in project or intend to participate or finance the project additionally

1. Committee for Protection of Human Rights in Tatarstan (D.Vokhmianin)
2. Kazan State Technical University (KAI) (À.Khamzin)
3. Public youth organization "Management of the future" (Å. Dityatkina)
4. Public organization "Chernobyl" (G. Zhiliaev)
5. Independent commission for the rights of the women (A. Nasirova)
6. Legal clinic of the Tatar institute of assistance to business (Ò. Kurdyukova)
7. Psychological society of Tatarstan (R. Gabdreyevâ)
8. Association of NGO of national republics of Russian Federation (S. Knyazkin)
9. Institute of history of the Academy of sciences of Tatarstan (R. Khakimov)
10. faculty of constitutional and international law of Kazan State University (R. Valeyev)
11. the Centre of training endosurgery and plastic surgery (A. Fedorov)
12. club of acquaintances "Silver rain" (V. Mikhailov)
13. charitable fund "MESSIA" (D. Maryashova)
14. public charitable fund "KOVCHEG" (Ò. Borisova)

5. Purpose and objectives of proposal

The purposes:

1. Development of the Kazan civil network
2. Creation of informational space of the civil initiatives.
3. Active participation in measures spent within the framework of the project "Civil Network of Kazan".
4. Assistance to development of civil movement in Republic of Tatarstan and initiation of joint social important projects of NGOs, bodies of state authority and business, establishment of social partnership.
5. Progress of modern informational technologies in social and civil spheres.
6. Development of informational maintenance in noncommercial and commercial sectors and association of organizations for joint cooperation within the framework of the program the Russian Civil Networks.
7. Expansion of scales of activity of noncommercial and commercial sector by means of modern informational technologies.
8. Informational interaction of non-governmental organizations, bodies of state authority, mass media in sphere of development of noncommercial and commercial sector and formation of a civil society for the joint decision social important, cultural, educational, informational, resource, personnel, methodological and other problems of development of public movement.

The objectives:

1. Distribution of the information about activity of public organizations, positive and negative experience of work, public initiatives, actions and measures, interaction with state structures, MASS-MEDIA, all sectors of society;
2. Assistance to formation and development of institutes of civil society; in particular, creation, strengthening, interaction and association of efforts of non-governmental organizations.
3. Monitoring on problematics of development of public movement with the help of the Internet; monitoring of the legislation of republic. Now it is carried out in the field of NGOs development (analysis of the laws and governmental orders Republic of Tatarstan devoted to NGOs), the analysis of participation of NGOs in legislative sphere also is carried out, the level of interaction of NGOs with bodies of state authority is estimated. The results will be placed in the Civil network. The realization of interrogations by means of the Internet is supposed. The question list now is developed.
4. Creation of services of interactive advices in sphere of development of civil sector; the advices to NGOs on legal, administrative and etc. questions are assumed, for example, preparation of the constituent documents and help at registration of organization, preparation of the leases of a premise, joint activity, cooperation etc., the advices on fundraising, book keeping and reporting, taxation of NGO, interaction from MASS-MEDIA, bodies of state authority etc. are supposed/ All these will be used by means of talk, e-mail, chat.
5. Association of efforts of public organizations for closer interaction on formation of a civil society; the association of efforts assumes: participation in the joint projects, actions and measures, preparation of the joint publications in press, realization of seminars, measures, including, stipulated by the project.
6. Granting to wide audience:

  • News of activity of organizations and private persons participating in the project
  • Results of monitoring of mass media on problems of freedom of a word, development of civil sector in Republic of Tatarstan. Now this monitoring has been finished and its results are being published
  • Searches in bodies of state authority. The searches connected to development of NGO, registration of NGO, infringement of the rights of NGO, infringement of the legislation about NGO, decision of concrete problems of development of NGO are assumed.
  • The information given by noncommercial organizations: about activity NGO, problems, results and achievements of NGO, spent actions and measures, announcements of the actions and measures, reference and application of NGO on all spheres of activity. Besides, accommodation of local news, databases (database about NGO, legislative database), information on significant dates of culture, science, NGO etc., help and news information on Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, geography, population, culture, science, economy, public health services, civil initiatives
  • The methodical literature with the recommendations for work of public organizations. During the realization of the projects and initiatives, as a rule, NGOs develop the various methodical grants and literature. For example, the Committee for Protection of Human Rights in Tatarstan has developed the methodical recommendations for work of NGO with mass media. These recommendations in the next quarter will be placed on the server. The similar work is conducted by others NGO, which will also place their information on the server. In case of absence of the contents of development of NGO in an electronic kind, the bibliography will be placed. In any case the bibliography of the editions of NGO, and also bibliography about activity of NGO, issued by any organizations will be issued.
  • The presentation of activity of noncommercial and commercial organizations in Republic of Tatarstan and other national republics of Russian Federation, in particular, Republic of Bashkortostan, Chuvash Republic, Republic of Mari El, Udmurt Republic etc. For today - 12 organizations were registered on the server. Further, the increase of number of organizations is supposed. While each organization should give not less than one article per week.
  • Publication of analytical materials about a situation of civil sector and status of the regional legislation in the civil network; the publication of results of monitoring of the legislation of Republic of Tatarstan is supposed which is carrying out by Committee for Protection of Human Rights in Tatarstan, faculty of constitutional and international law of the Kazan State University. Accommodation on the server is supposed in the third quarter of realization of the project.


7. Opening places of public access to the network. The opening not less than three places is supposed: premise of Committee for Protection of Human Rights in Tatarstan, premise of KAI, premise of the faculty of law of the Tatar institute of assistance to business.

8. Realization of seminars on training to work in the Internet.
9. Publication of materials of public organizations. The publication of NGO-participants of the project, not less than 12 organizations is supposed.

6. Accomplishments during report period:

a. meetings and communications pertaining to output (with full address):

The arrangement on cooperation with the following organizations is achieved:

1. Public youth organization "Management of the future" (Å. Dityatkina)
2. Public organization "Chernobyl" (G. Zhiliaev)
3. Independent commission for the rights of the women (A. Nasirova)
4. Legal clinic of the Tatar institute of assistance to business (Ò. Kurdyukova)
5. Psychological society Republic of Tatarstan (Ð. Gabdreyevâ)
6. Association of NGO of national republics of Russian Federation (S. Knyazkin)
7. Institute of history of the Academy of sciences of Republic of Tatarstan (R. Khakimov)
8. Faculty of constitutional and international law of Kazan State University (R. Valeyev)
9. Centre of training of endosurgery and plastic surgery (Chief: A. Fedorov, +7 (8432) 38-22-94 address: 420080, Kazan, p.o. 123)
10. club of acquaintances "Silver rain" (Chief: V. Mikhailov, +7 (8432) 92-61-77 address: the Kirov street, 14, office 1)
11. charitable fund "MESSIA" (D. Maryashova)
12. public charitable fund "KOVCHEG" (Ò. Borisova)
Now with the chiefs of organizations the contracts about cooperation are concluding. The next quarter of realization of the project the creation of Council of the Directors of the civil network of Kazan is supposed.

b. activities in Kazan or other locations pertaining to output (description, diagrams for technical issues) :

The server "the Civil network of Kazan", with the realized system of the role account of the visitors, program of online-formation of news-line of cooperating organizations, online-change of clauses of any unit of site for the manager and in the solved sections for the users (given part in a stage of development) is started.

The main objective of development of this software is creation of convenient environment of dialogue for the participants of the program "the Civil network of Kazan", attraction of the new participants by an example of democratic cooperation, and at the same time restriction of distribution of principles of anarchy. Work in environment in strict conformity with the established laws, rules, under the allocated rights for each participant.
The part of a program complex of remote control by the server is created. System of registration of the users now is working. At the registration the user is brought in to the list of the entering users, the manager receives the circular on receipt of the new participant. The manager receives from the server the information on the new participant and, after consideration, confirms or not the registration. The user receives the notice on inclusion in structure of the active participants of the project "the Civil network of Kazan". All operations resulting in change a statuses of a database, can be carried out only by authorized user. Each session of the registered user is fixed in a magazine. The recorded users are brought in base of organizations with the indication of the complete properties of organization. The system is created by a principle of self-learning: the missing words, name of streets, cities etc. are automatically added in a database from approval of the manager.

ADMINISTRATION of SYSTEM
The rights of the manager has the user which userlevel is equal 999.
The page of the manager is formed of the following sections:

  • Magazine of the registered users
  • List of forbidden IP-addresses
  • List of the entering users
  • List of the users
  • Section of approval of new dictionary values
  • Section of the list of the current news
  • Page of editing of the list of the obscene words
  • Page of editing of the news list


The sections are displayed only in that case if they contain any information.

MAGAZINE of the REGISTERED USERS
The manager of system should regularly look through the magazine of system, which contains the messages: about wrong input of the password, wrong input of a login name, discrepancy of IP-address of the user to the address registered for it, attempt of the invalid message in news line etc.
The recording of the magazine contains a login name, date, time, IP-address. The manager if necessary can forbid an input in system from certain IP-address directly from recording of magazine. The magazine should regularly be cleared by pressing the link "To clear the magazine".

THE LIST of FORBIDDEN IP-addresses
The access from some IP-addresses in system can be forbidden by the manager.
Each of the forbidden addresses contains the link "To permit", excluding the address from the list. At the creating of IP-addresses use of patterns is possible. Thus the symbol of '%' designates a chain of symbols, and '_' - one symbol.

REGISTRATION of the ENTERING USERS
The users sending the application for registration, are displayed in the list of the entering users. Concerning them the manager the following decisions can accept: to remove from the list of entering and to register. Either in that case, or in other the user, who sent the application, will receive a message on Email (if the user has specified the address at registration)

THE LIST of the USERS
The manager can look through the list of the users registered in the system and to change their characteristics, having pressed on the link "To change". The manager can change a login name, password (the letter will be sent to the user (if its email-address)), complete login name, Email-address, IP-address, level of access in system for the given user (999 - manager, 998 - designer, 1 - usual user, 0 - input is denied), amount of the messages, which the user can publish per one month in a tape of news. Besides the manager can remove the user (the letter will be sent), to forbid an input from given IP-address, temporarily to forbid an input in system of the given user.

ADDITION to DICTIONARY
Such dictionary fields as city or street suppose to be included by the user of new words in the dictionaries, but thus the added words should strictly be supervised by the manager, as the user can include already exist, or to enter new word with spelling mistakes.
In that case if in the dictionaries of system what or image any words were included in page of the manager section of approval of new dictionary words appears. In a list field located at the left the words requiring for approval, in the right - approved dictionary words are listed. The manager can accept new value, having pressed the button "To keep", to put in conformity available, having chosen the appropriate word in the right list field and having pressed the button "Corresponds". Also manager can correct a spelling, having typed required word in a field of input located under the right list field and having pressed the button "Corresponds". At once after the word is approved, it is brought in to a backup copy of the dictionary.

EDITING of the LIST of the MESSAGES
The manager can look through the list of current news messages to delete them in archive and to change such parameters of the messages as date of the publication of the message, date of closing of action of the messages, language of the message, subject (see section "Subjects of the messages"), text of the message. At change of parameters of the message the page of news line will be automatically reconstructed. As the link to the complete text of the message in news line the text of the message up to the first point is used.

THE LIST of the OBSCENE WORDS
The list of patterns of obscene words is used at the acceptable control of the messages, sent by the user. If the pattern from this table will be found in the message of the user, to the user will be refused in addition of the given message in a tape of news, and in a magazine of system the recording about attempt of addition of the obscene message will be added. In patterns the symbols can be used: '%' - any chain, '_ ' - any symbol.

LINE of NEWS
The addition of news in system is carried out by the registered users from pages of the lists of the current news. The page of the list of the current news is formed, if logining of the registered and approved by the manager user is carries out through page of addition of news. The page of addition of the messages for registration of the new message requires to enter the following parameters:

- Date of end of action of the message (at achievement of this date the message is copied to archive and leaves from the list of the active messages). By default time of life of the message - 1 month
- Language of the message (Russian / English)
- A subject of the message (if the subjects of news are given)
- Text of the message

Automatically to the placed message the date of accommodation of this message and name the one who places this message is added.

With the purpose of not to permit of an overload of the line of news the messages, for each user parameter - amount of the messages per one month - is given. This parameter can be changed by the manager. At exhaustion by the user of this value the further messages in the current month are not accepted.

SUBJECTS of the MESSAGES

Subject of the messages are entered to unload line of news, having broken it on sections on subjects. The subjects are set by the manager. The added subject should have the Russian and English name. If the subjects are given instead of the list of news, in news page the list will be displayed. The user receives access to thematic news tape, going under the link - name of a subject. Those messages, which were added before registration of news, have no a subject and become inaccessible to the user. To make they accessible, it is necessary to determine their subject.

THE LISTS of DISPATCH
The registered user can subscribe for any of subjects of a board of the announcements. For this purpose it should go in news tape and pass to the link "To subscribe". Also it is possible to cancel a subscription. The manager can announce a compulsory subscription to a subject. If the user is signed on a subject and its registration recording contains Email-address, all messages published in this subject will be sent to it on email.

CHANGE of the PASSWORD by the USER
The user can at any moment change the password, going to the link "To change the password" in the left panel of board of the announcements. In the same form it can replace the complete name and email-address.

LANGUAGE DIFFERENTIATIONS
The system is constructed in such way that it will not allow the users who are not having at the order cyrillic fonts to pages, containing cyrillics.
All news tapes consist of two sections: Russian and English. At addition of the message the user establishes language of the message. According to value of this parameter the message will be placed in this or that language area of the messages. The subjects of the messages determined by the manager of system, also have two names: Russian and English.
The visual design of the Web-server is developed with the purpose of definition of an optimum point of a parity of the form and contents, perception and interpretation. The uniform style of the documents is produced. The attributes of CNK (see application) are developed

c. progress towards achieving purpose and objectives :
The work over the distribution of information about the public organizations' activity has begun. Resonance of the project among the public organizations and bodies of state authority of Tatarstan became the first result. In particular, the rising of users and project participants number (12 organizations are present, 20-25 are expected) and the results of seminar "Interaction of state and NGO", in which representatives of State Council and Administration of the President were interested, attested that. Next result of the purposes' realization was an appearance of opportunity for public organizations to put information about themselves, news and other information over their activity. Two places of public access to the Internet are opened, another one is preparing. Information about the project was published in mass media (publication of the informational agency "Tatar-inform").
d. issues and problems :

The seminar "Legal regulation of interaction of the state and NGO. Participation of NGO and public organizations in legislative processes" was carried out, in which have taken part:

  • Valiev Abdulla - president of social-charitable organization of the pensioners and invalids of victims of political reprisals
  • Gatin Abdrakhman - vice-president of social-charitable organization of the pensioners and invalids of victims of political reprisals
  • Belgorodsky Oleg - chief of the resource centre of support of noncommercial organizations
  • Larionov Boris - assistant of the chief of the resource centre of support to NGO
  • Alekseyeva Yelena - representative of Naberezhniye Chelny urban public youth organization "the Public centre of support of author's creativity of youth - "Artel"
  • Zhiliaev Gennady - President of Union "Chernobyl" of Republic of Tatarstan
  • Mingazhetdinova Rimma - assistant of the president of public charitable fund of support to children, orphans and invalids "NAZ"
  • Taisheva Lilia - general director of public charitable organization on preventive maintenance of AIDS "Noviy vek"
  • Kuznetsova Yulia - coordinator on work with mass media of public charitable organization on preventive maintenance of AIDS "Noviy vek"
  • Kotchetkova Svetlana - psychologist of public charitable organization on preventive maintenance of AIDS "Noviy vek"
  • Bikbulatov Rustam - director of public organization "Telephone hotline" of the Moscow area of Kazan
  • Khusainova Sarbina - psychologist of public organization "Telephone hotline" of the Moscow area of Kazan
  • Muratimova Nailya - manager of public organization "Telephone hotline" of the Moscow area of Kazan
  • Dityatkina Yelena - chairman of public youth organization "Management of the future"
  • Knyazkin Sergei - secretary of Association of NGOs under the human rights of national republics of Russian Federation.
  • Pokrovskaya Irina - noncommercial fund on restoration, preservation and use of cultural, architectural-historical monuments of Republic of Tatarstan, crisis centre for the women
  • Zainullin Renat - chairman of public organization of the invalids "Ogni nadezhdi"
  • Ryabova Valentina - public organization All-Russian Society of invalids, "Derbishki" branch
  • Gilmanov Jaudat - president of the Society of the friends of Kazan Zoo
During the work of a seminar information about the present project was given and the participants of a seminar were invited to cooperation.

The information Center is created on the basis of humanitarian department of the Kazan State Technical University, chief - the professor Sabitova D., ph. +7 (8432) 36-71-02
The following users are connected through the KAI to the Internet:
1) public youth organization "Management of the future" (Yelena Dityatkina)
2) public charitable fund "KOVCHEG" (Ò. Borisova)
3) charitable fund "MESSIA" (D. Maryashova)
4) club of acquaintances "the Silver rain" (V. Mikhailov)

The works on deployment of modem pool for the project the CNK are begun.
11 phone lines were activated by the technical service (KAI) and another 8 lines are being activated. At this time in the group of technical support 6 persons work from 10.00 a.m. to 10.00 p.m. every day except weekends.

Preliminary terms of realization of presentation of the network - middle of May, 2000. The invitation of local broadcasting companies GTRK "Tatarstan", TC "ÒÂ-6", TC "Ether", radio "Kazan", radio "Tatarstan", newspapers "Novaya zhizn", "Respublica Tatarstan", "Komsomolskaya pravda v Tatarstane", news agency "Tatar-inform" is supposed.

e. training activities and number of individuals trained:

The active work on training of the NGO representatives, cooperating on the project, to bases of work in the Internet, on the CNK server in the individual order is conducting.

f. number of men and number of women participating in specific activities :

In work of the seminar on participation of NGO in legislative sphere 11 women and 9 men have taken part.

7. Activities to be conducted during the next quarterly report period (summary only).

  • Active filling of the site, continuation of the site designing, opening of new pages and headings
  • Opening of new places of free access the Internet
  • Continuation of work with NGO, attraction of new partner organizations
  • Realization of training seminars for the participants of the project
  • Publication of the information about the project in mass media

Dmitry Vokhmianin,
PI of KCN

e-mail : cnk@kai.ru
 
 
 

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