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Quarterly Reports
Voronezh Civic Networking
1. Name of principal investigator.
Vladislav G. Yurasov
2. Title of proposal.
Voronezh Civic Network
3. Report period (time period covered by report).
January-March, 2000
4. Names and institutions of collaborators, 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.
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Voronezh State Technical University
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Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center", Central Black Soil Region
of Russia
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Voronezh Regional Juveniles Library
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Information-Methodical Center of the City Administration Educational Department
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Regional Clinical Treatment Diagnostic Center
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State Institution of Culture, magazine "Podiyom"
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Voronezh Regional Educational Advising Center
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Voronezh Regional Educational Committee
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Job and Employment Committee
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Regional AIDS Prevention Centre
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Public organization "United Democratic Centre "
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Russian Christian Democratic Party
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Voronezh Regional Branch of the All-Russian Childhood Fund " Russian Childhood
Fund "
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Regional Pediatric Clinical Hospital
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Joint-stock Company "Experiment"
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Russian Literature Faculty of Voronezh State Pedagogical University
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"Memorial", Voronezh City Association for Lore Studies and Enlightenment
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Joint-stock "SÎBIT"
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Union of Composers
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Association "Z"
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Voronezh public organization "Lestnitsa" ("Staires")
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Editorial office of the city newspaper "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" ("Independent
Newspaper")
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Philosophical Faculty of the Voronezh State University
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Editorial office of the city newspaper "Bereg" ("Shore")
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City Philosophical Club
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Literaturnoye Ñafe "Lik" (Literary Cafe "Image")
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Bards Club "Parus Nadezdy" ("Sail of Hope")
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Political Debates Club
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Russian Association "World through the Culture ", Voronezh regional branch
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Editorial office of the city newspaper "Voronezhskiye Vesti" ("Voronezh
News")
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Editorial office of the city newspaper ""Moscowskiy Komsomolets" v Voronezhe"
("Moscow Komsomol" in Voronezh")
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Central Black Soil Regional Department of Registration and Control over
the Observance of the Laws on the Rights of Mass Media
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News agency " Donskoye Agenstvo Novostey" ("Don News Agency")
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Marta Ferroni, a lore student
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Svetlana Stepicheva, a poetess
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Yulia Dylko, a correspondent of the newspaper "Moje" ("It's Mine")
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Marina Korchagina, a correspondent of the newspaper " Molodoy Kommunar"
("Young Communard")
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Vadim Gorshkov, a pupil of the YVK ¹2
5. Purpose and objectives of proposal
Launching and development of Voronezh Civic Network
6. Accomplishments during report period :
a. meetings and communications pertaining to output (with full address):
1. State Institution of Culture, magazine "Podiyom" , 3 Plehanovskaya
Street, Voronezh.
2. Information-Methodical Center of the Educational Department, 1Children's
Square, Voronezh.
3. "Memorial", Voronezh City Association for Lore Studies and Enlightenment,
7 Êomissarzhevskoj Street, Voronezh.
4. Voronezh Regional Branch of the All-Russian Childhood Fund " Russian
Childhood Fund ", room 7, 5 Lenina Square, Voronezh.
5. Voronezh Regional Juveniles Library, 32 Nikitinskaya Street, Voronezh.
6. Ternovoy V. Joint-stock company "Experiment", 70 Karla Marxa street,
Voronezh.
7. Smirnov V., the chairman of the Russian Christian Democratic party,
45/5 Lenin Square, Voronezh.
8. Andreias S.V., Assistant Head Physician of the Regional AIDS Prevention
Center, 109 Moskovskiy prospect, Voronezh.
9. Historian, teacher Ferroni Marta, school N32, 14 Silikatnaya street,
Voronezh.
10. Pisarevskij V. Russian Literature Faculty of the Voronezh State
Pedagogigal University, Lenin Street , 86
11. Glotova Ì., the chief editor of the newspaper "Voronezhskye vesti",
1, Revolutions Prospect, Voronezh.
12. Makeeva L., chief of Central Black Soil Regional Department of
Registration and Control over the Observance of the Laws on the Rights
of Mass Media, 33 Revolutions Prospect, Voronezh.
13. Maltsev S., the executive director of the news agency " Donskoe
Agency of News " , office 506/4 Kytsugina Street, Voronezh.
14. Gryazeva Z. , the editor of the newspaper ""Moscowskiy Komsomolets"
v Voronezhe" ("Moscow Komsomol" in Voronezh"), 114 K. Marx Street, Voronezh.
15. Orlovtseva T., the head of the Department of Arts of Voronezh Regional
Juveniles Library, 32 Nikitinskaya Street, Voronezh.
b. activities in Voronezh or other locations pertaining to output
(description, diagrams for technical issues) :
1. The Presentation of the project was organized where representatives
from 22 organizations were present.
2. The wide advertising of the project was carried out. The information
about the project was distributed through the local press and the television/radio
programs.
The essence of the project and the first steps of its development were
reported at the following seminars and conferences:
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February 7-11, 2000 - the seminar " Quality Election Reporting", organized
by the Òhomson's Foundation for the 12 representatives of the regional
MASS-MEDIA
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on February 17, 2000 - the legal training seminar "Law and MASS-MEDIA:
managing legal safety for the journalists ", where the journalists from
Lipetsk, Belgorod, Ryazan and Voronezh regions were present
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February 23-25, 2000 - the First regional forum of the young journalists
"The Journalist of the ÕÕI century " in Kursk where representatives of
mass media from the 7 Black Soil regions took part
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February 25, 2000 - the seminar of the grants distributing projects accountants,
organized by the experts of the southern branch of the Eurasia Foundation
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March 28, 2000 - the training seminar on rules of access to the information
in courts organized by the Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center",
Central Black Soil Region of Russia together with the representatives of
the Helsinki Human Rights Fund.
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February 24-25,2000 - the scientific - methodical conference " New Educational
Technologies: Global Networks Resources Using " which was held at the Central
Public Access Point.
3. The monthly seminars for the participants and the executors of the project
were organized where the organizational questions and the work plan for
the next month were discussed.
4. Questionnaires among the civil network users were distributed and
that allowed to reveal both the strength of public interest and the preferences
of the organizations in work with global information resources, and the
level of the users' "computer skills". The subject matter of the materials
and the sections of regional information resources, that the participants
of the project would like to produce and to see on the server " Voronezh
Civil Network ", was also revealed with the help of the questionnaires.
5. The preliminary meetings were organized and the arrangements for
granting
the information about existing public organizations and associations,
political parties, religious and national communities and their activities,
the state of health of the population and the ecological situation in the
region, various aspects of school and pre-school education, and regional
culture and science supporting foundations were worked out.
At these meetings, the purposes and objectives of the project were
reported and the WWW-server of the Voronezh Civil Network was demonstrated.
6. The equipment was received and set, and all necessary programme products
were installed.
7. The Central Public Access Point was opened. All quarter, both technical
and administrative support of the Central Public Access Point was provided.
8. During quarter on the basis of Central Public Access Point we provided
the work of Web-studio.
9. The project full-time advisory services consulting on different aspects
of work in Internet were active all quarter at the Central Public Access
Point.
10. During quarter the collection and preparation of materials for server
"Voronezh Civil Network " (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru)
was fulfilled.
11. The conference "The 100 Days of the Voronezh Civil Network: Results
and Prospects" was convened on the 28-th of March at the Central Public
Access Point. The participants of the conference noted that the first results
of the project "Voronezh Civil Network" fully correspond with the purposes
and objectives of the project. The participants of the conference presented
a number of useful proposals, concerning the future prospects of the Voronezh
Civil Network.
12. Preparatory works on opening of the public access points according
to the project in Regional Juveniles Library and Regional Foundation "Mass
Media Defense Center", Central Black Soil Region of Russia were conducted.
c. progress towards achieving purpose and objectives :
1. The functioning of Central Public Access Point.
The Central Public Access Point provides an access to Internet, personal
mail box, the ability of the network publications, experts consultations
and training.
The users can work at 10 workstations. The number of the registered
users within the framework of the project by the end of March came to 50
men, the number of visitings is equal to 310.
2. Forming of "Voronezh Civil Network " server
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The work on forming of "Voronezh Civil Network " server was carried out.
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The trade mark and general design style were developed. The structure of
the server, the contents of its sections according to the wishes of the
civil network users were developed.
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The server has been registered with three search systems: (Rambler, Aport,
List.ru).
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The information support of the server was provided too. During quarter
the collection and preparation of materials for server "Voronezh Civil
Network" (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru) was fulfilled. The following sections were
complemented:
About the project
Purposes and tasks of the project
News of the project (regularly updated)
Russian Civic Networking
Welcome to Voronezh
Historical information
Voronezh during Great Patriotic War
Voronezh at the times of Peter the Great
From "ashes and fires"
Famous people of Voronezh
How Voronezh appeared on maps
Secret of the name
Central Black Soil Region of Russia
Memorable places of region
News of region (updated daily)
The publications of regional press (updated daily)
Civil sector (public organizations)
Voronezh Regional Juveniles Library
Voronezh branch of the International Association " World through
Culture "
Public Institute of the Man
International Humanitarian Centre "Grace"
Defence of Women from Violence Community
Defence and Support of the Invalids "Rainbow"community
Voronezh Regional Association of the Parents of the Disabled
Children "Hope"
Youth Public organization "Russkij most "
Noncommercial organization "Centre of Humanitarian Technologies "
The centre of intellectual communication
Reception room "Dialogue"
Literature Cafe "Lik"
Club "Rovesnik"
The English Club "OMNI"
Author's songs club "Parus Nadezdy"
Musical drawing - room "Debut"
Practical Psychology Club "Art-Psi"
Young Journalists Club " Studencheskij gorodok"
Computer club "Solyaris"
News of public life ( updated daily)
The personal pages (5) (regularly updated)
The guest book
The board of the announcements (updated daily)
d. issues and problems :
1. Discussion of the results of the project at the conference "The 100
Days of the Voronezh Civil Network: Results and Prospects " have shown,
that it is necessary to continue developing the project advertising campaign
as there is a great amount of both individuals and organizations potentially
interested in joining the civil network. In this connection, it was decided
to expand ties with press and telebroadcasting companies and to carry out
an advertising campaings focusing on different aspects of the program.
2. The experimental course showed teaching to be rather a complicated
task as skills in using a computer vary greatly from one student to another.
So it was decided that in future while forming new training groups a clear
differentiation should be made between the students according to their
individual levels of the "computer skills". It was also recommended that
the theoretical course for the beginners be extended and that during the
practical course the users' individual information preferences be considered
too. In accordance with the users' wishes a terminological dictionary,
an instruction manual on how to work with browsers, and methodical recommendations
on information search in Internet, its storage, processing and using will
be compiled. The civil network users expressed genuine gratitude to the
tutors for their patient and understanding treatment of the trainees.
3. Problems with connection of public access points:
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Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center", Central Black Soil Region
of Russia, one of the project public access points, is having difficulties
with registrating documents on receiving of the allocated channel of communication.
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Absence of technical means necessary for connecting the public access points
to the Central Public Access Point (OCTAL CABLE KIT).
e. training activities and number of individuals trained:
The tutors have created a number of training programs aimed to achieve
a variety of purposes addressing leaners of various levels.
During the quarter period, training for 6 groups, consisting of 88
persons were held (30 inJanuary, 32 in February, 26 in March). After training
there were held additional workshops for discussion of abilities given
to civil society within the framework of the existing project. The program
of training and educational organization forms were reconsidered according
to the requests of the first cycle's trainees (January) remarks and recommendations.
f. number of men and number of women participating in specific activities
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Presentation - 19 men; 13 women;
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Training: January - 14 men; 16 women;
February - 10 men; 22 women;
March - 18 men; 8 women;
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The conference - 17 men; 11 women;
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Central Public Access Point visitings (310 visitings) - 180 men, 130 women.
7. Activities to be conducted during the next quarterly report period
(summary only).
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Developing the project advertising campaign focusing on different aspects
of the program.
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Opening of the public access points
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Providing of technical and administrative support of the Central Public
Access Point, the work of web-studio, consulting service
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Training of civil network's users
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Forming of "Voronezh Civic Network " server
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Expanding ties with various public stuctures, organizations and individuals,
interested in joining the project.
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Providing information and methodical support for individuals and organizations
on different aspects of the Voronezh civil network resources using.
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Carrying out seminars, conferences, round table discussions contributing
to the realization of the goals and objectives of the project.
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Organization of regular data reception and display of selected information
items on the server " Voronezh Civic Network ".
Vladislav G. Yurasov,
PI of VCN
e-mail : yurasov@cc.vorstu.ac.ru
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