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Quarterly Reports
Samara Civic Networking
2-nd Quarter Report
1. Name of principal investigator.
Boris Chertkov.
2. Title of proposal.
Samara Civic Network
3. Report period (time period covered by report).
April - June of 2000
4. Names and institutions of collaborators, if any (US and/or Russia).
Show the names of every person or organization, which take part in project
or intend to participate or finance the project additionally.
Samara State Technical University (further SSTU) is a member of the
consortium.
Historical-eco-cultural Association "Povolzje"(further HecA) is a member
of the consortium.
Samara Regional Administration is a member of the consortium.
Samara State University (further SSU) is a member of the consortium.
Russian Engineering Academy, Middle Volga Branch is a member of the
consortium.
Samara City Administration, International Department is a member of
the consortium
Samara Municipal Nayanova University is a member of the consortium.
The Federation of children's organizations of Samara area is SCN user,
it develops resources for youth and children's Non-Goverment Organizations
(NGOs) at SCN server.
The Samara lawyers club is SCN user, it develops materials for a legal
consulting service for NGOs at SCN server.;
Charitable fund "Fund of Toglyatty" - partner of HECA "Povolzje" (Program
of support NGOs of Samara area), provides attraction of Toglyatty's NGOs
to development of SCN.
The club of the leaders of NGOs of Samara region provides attractionof
Samara's NGOs to development of SCN
The Open society Institute plans the organization of the microgrants
contests for the involving of the users to SCN.
Board of Directors consists of the representatives of the cosortuim
members.
The following committees are created in the "Samara Civic Network"
Board of Directors:
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Executive committee -
Boris Z. Chertkov (principal investigator),
Sergey Dudkin (technical director),
Sergey Agapov (director of humanitarian part of the project),
Valentina Pestrikova (information recourses for NGO, organization of
users)
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Commitee of users -
Bondarenko N. O. (president of the club of the leaders of NGOs of Samara)
Trofimycheva S. (Federation of children's organizations of Samara area)
Gavrilov N. A (President of the Samara lawyers club)
Jerugin U. V. (President of Assembly of nations of Russia Samara Branch),
Active workers of NGO.
5. Purposes and objectives of project
Development of Samara Civic Network
6. Accomplishments during report period :
Á) meetings and communications pertaining to output (with full
address):
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With representative of US State Department (Management Systems International
- MSI) David A. Cohen (Senior Associate), he was informed about the consortium
SCN activity and about the project "Russuan Civic Network".
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The trust "Know How" (Great Britain) representative Martin Harris and Annie
Feltham were informed about the consortium SCN activity and about the project
"Russuan Civic Network
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In the framework of project the agreement was signed with Open Society
Institute and Eurasia Foundation about the SCN participation in the project
"The virtual mirror of the third sector of Russia". S. A. Agapov took part
in the meeting devoted to this project on 22 April, 2000. The cunsultaions
were carried out on the Internet media development with the editorial staff
of lenta.ru, ytro.ru, gazeta.ru, vesti.ru
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The problem of the optical wire installation and the connection of the
SCN to the optical wire was discussed with I. V. Borodulin - the representative
of the "Samtelecom" Ltd.
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And the same problem was discussed with the director of the Samara-Internet.
b) Activities in Samara or other locations pertaining to output
(description, diagrams for technical issues):
The following managment activities have been realised:
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Permanent contacts were keeping between all project participants and with
foundation "Friends and partners".
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Current management of the technical and humanitarian parts of the project
was curried out.
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Controlling of the right using of obtained funds and equipment in accordance
with project purposes was curried out.
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Work for selection and connecting of NGO was accomplished.
In the framework of technical part of the project "Samara Civic Networks"
the following work was carried out during report period:
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The mirror of the information resource "The Nations of Russia in Samara
region" was renewed at the SCN server, the number of the visitors achieved
the 5945 (1999 - six months of 2000) http://www.civnet.samara.ru/infcent/mirror/proekt/index.htm
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The new site with the chat "Internet magazine "Ethnic Environment of the
multinational region"" http://www.civnet.samara.ru/infcent/mirror/proekt/journal/index.htm
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New structure and design of the section "Information agency of the third
sectors of the Samara region" was developed and completed.
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Structure and design of the site "Information agency of non-profit sector"
was developed and completed.
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Structure and design of the site "Non-profit organisations of the Samara
region" was developed and completed in the frameworks of the information
resource "Information agency of non-profit sector".
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The material collecting for the home pages of the NPO was carried out (21
organisations).
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The new section of the "Russia nations" "German" was started and developed
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The new articles were prepared for the Internet magazine "Ethnic Environment
of the multinational region".
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The material collecting, the texts preparation and design development were
accomplished for the site "Guidebook for forced migrants" (15 printed pages
or 320 standard pages).
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The support was providing for all existing resources
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An open public class was working on a base of Samara State Technical University
daily from 4-00 p.m till 8 p.m. . Staff supported the normal work, carried
out the consultations on current questions about Internet Network.
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The mailing list was functioning for SCN users.
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Access nod of civic network was operating in full working regime through
the commutating lines.
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8 nonprofit organization and 2 private persons were connected to nod through
the commutating lines. The general number of users achieved 35 NPO. The
whole time spent by users in the Internet was about 3000 hours.
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During report period the current exploitation of the equipment and software
was supported, stable network functioning and debugging was provided. Technical
staff provided the current support of remote access nod, Internet connections,
Web-server, e-mail service.
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In the second quarter the work of volunteers involving was continued for
HecA "Povolzje" projects. The volunteer from SSACA started with the work
on the information database creation for the Society of wheelchair disabled
people "Desnitsa"
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The work towards the development of IDB for Samara Regional Federation
of Children's Organisations and training on computer work were started.
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5 volunteers worked in HecA "Povolzje" on the IDB and information resource
creation for SCN and supported the work of the open class.
c) Progress towards achieving purpose and objectives:
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in general the results of the project accomplishment can be considered
as successful. The most of objectives and tasks formulated in the beginning
of the project are successfully completed. Samara Civic network does make
its endowment into the development of the third sector.
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The technical infrastructure and informational space of the network functionates
well.
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The active process of the NPO connection is carried out through the commuting
telephone lines. The expertise is accumulated on the interconnection with
users. The resources prepared jointly with users are published at server.
The technical support service was organised.
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Web server has been created and works well for civicl network. A number
on information resources published on the sever were prepared in the framework
of the project. Those resources can be interesting both for civil network
users and for all Internet users. The information about third sector, about
history, culture, ethnography of the region is published at the server.
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Now SCN server is the largest resource of the Samara region.
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The training course was carried out for the Society of wheelchair disabled
"Desnitsa" in its building. 6 sessions were carried out each consisted
of 3 hours
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Users graduated from the training courses now are actively creating their
own resources with the describing of non profit organisations activity.
d. Issues and problems:
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Two open public classes and several access points on the base of non-profit
organisations are working for network users . Staff supported the normal
work, carried out the consultations on current questions about Internet
Network.
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SCN Internet connection is provided. The interaction with the regional
non-profit Internet providers is supported.
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The reserve block of the telephone numbers is operating successfully for
access of users with independent Internet connection.
e. Training activities and number of individuals trained:
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In second quarter two training courses were continued for leaders, staff
and members of NPO "General computer competence" and "Internet from zero"
(every course of 12 hours).
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In second quarter the representative of 6 organisations were studied in
training courses (15 persons, 5 men and 10 women).
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The training course was carried out for the Society of wheelchair disabled
organization "Desnitsa" in its building. 6 sessions were carried out each
of 3 hours (8 persons, 1 man and 7 women).
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The technical staff of SCN made 135 individual internal consultations on
network operation during report period for connected users, among them
8 - with visit of new users, 37 e-mail consultations, 51 phone ones.
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64 services were provided on the base of HecA "Povolzje" (registered) on
the computer techniques lending, Internet access etc. (about 120 hours).
In May-June the following users were studied in the base of HecA "Povolzje":
volunteers, students of SACA and Samara computer college (7 persons, 7
women) 40 days 4 hours daily (160 h).
f. Number of men and number of women participating in specific activities:
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64 services were provided on the base of HecA "Povolzje" (registered) on
the computer techniques lending, Internet access etc. (about 120 hours).
In May-June the following users were studied in the base of HecA "Povolzje":
volunteers, students of SACA and Samara computer college (7 persons, 7
women) 40 days 4 hours daily (160 h).
7. Activities to be conducted during the next quarterly report
period).
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Continuing the work with non-profit organisation, selection of the organisation
ready to participate in project actively.
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Continuing the contacts with city and region administrations, establishing
the interaction mechanism between authorities and civic network.
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Getting the city phone numbers, connecting them to remote access server
for extending SCN segment.
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Continuing connecting of non-profit organisations through commuting line
and probably through dedicated ones, providing them with e-mails addresses
and the cyberspace for home pages.
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Training and consultations for non-profit organisation on computer technologies,
Internet service, in particular, on e-mail and World Wide Web. Consultation
on creation and design of homepages for non-profit organisations.
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Publishing at SCN server the information materials prepared by non-profit
organisations - SCN users.
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Attracting new grants for further SCN development.
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Creation of the automated course about Internet using for local community
users.
PI of SCN:
Boris Chertkov e-mail: chert@star.sstu.samara.ru
Sergey Agapov e-mail: povolzje@ssu.samara.ru
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