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Quarterly Reports
Voronezh Civic Neworking
2-nd Quarter Report, 2000
1. Name of principal investigator.
Vladislav G. Yurasov
2. Title of proposal.
Voronezh Civic Network
3. Report period (time period covered by report).
April - June 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 Center of New Information Technology
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Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center", Central Black Soil Region
of Russia
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Voronezh Regional Juvenile Library
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Voronezh State Television/Radio Company
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Municipal Information Center on Educational Management
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Regional Clinical Treatment-Diagnostic Center
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Magazine "Podiyom" , state cultural institution
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Voronezh Regional Educational Advising Center
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Labor Security and Medicine Center
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Regional Children's Library
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Editorial office of newspaper "Molodoi Kommynar"
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Voronezh Regional Branch of the All-Russian Child Support Foundation "Russian
Child Support Foundation"
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Social Security Foundation
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Radio company "Russian Radio"
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City Philosophy Club
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Russian Christian Democratic Party
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International Charity Center "Grace"
5. Purpose and objectives of proposal
Establishment and development of Voronezh Civic Network
6. Accomplishments during report period :
a. meetings and communications pertaining to output (with full
address):
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Valentina Kolyshkina - the chief of the Department of Recreational Activities
of Committee on Culture of Regional Council, K. Marxa Str., 20
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Vladimir Uhin - the executive director of the Social Security Foundation
of the population, Krasnoznamenaya Str., 10.
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OlesyaTiutina - the chairman of the public organization "United Democratic
Center", Tsurupy Str., 34
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Nina Kubaneva - the chairman of the public union "Sodruzhestvo"
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Ponomareva T. - the chairman of the public organization "Women for democracy
", Tsurupy Str., 34
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Alexandr Pliasov - the chief of the Labor Security and Medicine Centre.
Moscovskyi prospect, 4/120
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Elena Kosheleva - director of Voronezh Regional Educational Advising Center,
Kukolkina Str., 3-203
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Yulia Dylko - correspondent of the newspaper "Molodoi Kommunar ", Liziukova
Str., 2
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Evgenia Merkulova - correspondent of "Russian Radio ", Plehanovskaya Str.,
9
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Sergey Synorov - correspondent of Voronezh State Television/Radio Company,
ë. Marxa, Str., 114
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Larisa Zimina - Children's school of arts, Shilovo, Teploenergetikov Str.,
15/76
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Alexandr Ushakov - City public movement " Native Voronezh "
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Elena Halzova - the director's assistant on public relations, Juvenile
School of Adaptive Physical Education of invalids, Plehanovskaya Str.,
18
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Alla Togusheva - chairman of Voronezh Regional Public Organization Russian
- Indian club " White Lotus", Nikitinskaya Str., 32
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Ludmila Kolyhalina - director of Voronezh Regional Branch of the All-Russian
Child Support Foundation" Russian Child Support Foundation", Lenin Sqr.,
5/7
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Vladimir Ternovoy - general director of joint-stock company "Experiment",
ë. Marxa Str., 70
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Elizaveta Hvan - Publishing House "Voronezh", Prospect Revolutsii, 39
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Irina Yurieva - joint-stock company "Garant -Voronezh", ë..Marxa Str, 59
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Sergey Demjyanov - the director of the investment company "Active", Svobody
Str., 73/ 214
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Alla Grishaeva - a methodist of Regional Children's Library, Teatralnaya
Str., 19
b. activities in Voronezh or other locations pertaining to output
(description, diagrams for technical issues) :
The project officers carried out the following activities in order to
ensure the project's development:
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Daily project management activities along with great amount of work on
expanding contacts with various organizations and individuals, interested
in the project.
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Constant maintenance of interaction with all participants of the project
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Monthly seminars for the project participants and officers, discussing
project administration issues and plans for futures work.
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The agreement was reached with Voronezh State Television/Radio Company
to make a series of regular radio programs communicating the project activities
to the public. Three radio programs have been made during the report period.
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The following preparatory works for opening of the public access point
at the Regional Juvenile Library were carried out: installation of an access
server, installation of networking tools, organization of a local network
in the library, calibration of modems.
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On 14th of April the presentation of the public access point at the library
was carried out. The wide coverage of this event in media has been provided
by the project officers. On 26th of May the project officers held an "Open
lesson" at the Internet - class at the Regional Juvenile Library. In accordance
with the librarians' recommendations, the project officers organized the
advisory service in business hours of the public access point, functioning
at the Regional Juvenile Library.
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Technical maintenance and administration of the Central Public Access Point
and the entire set of services based on it, including: the sub-project
"Web - workshop", full-time advisory service, and Internet - class with
ten workstations connected to the Internet.
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Continuation of work on formation and support of the server " Voronezh
Civic Network " (http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru).
The following sections were updated daily: "Regional News", "Regional Media
Publications", "News of Public Life ", "The Bulletin Board". A new section,
"Civic sector" was introduced. The map of the server was designed and the
"Guest book " began functioning. The server was registered in two more
catalogs: HI (http://www.hi.ru) and @RUS
(http://www.atrus.ru). We put together
announcements of interactive discussions on most crucial problems of our
city and region, and most interesting aspects of our city life ("Interactive
page" - http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru/win/interact).
Six new personal pages were designed and published, and old ones were maintained
and updated.
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The preparatory works for connecting of the Central Public Access Point
to the main digital channel were carried out. Two physical lines were installed
for this purpose on the segment, connecting Voronezh Intertown Telephone/Telegraph
Station and the Territorial Unit of System Channels "Rosstelecom". Besides
connecting, additional software for work in digital channel was installed
and customized. The preparatory technical work for inserting of a digital
flow to the multiplexer "Rosstelecom" in Voronezh and Moscow was fulfilled.
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The preparatory works for connecting users to the Central Public Access
Point were completed. Four non profit organizations were connected to the
Central Public Access Point by allocated channels of communication.
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The preparatory works for allocating and lining of the non-switchable channel
to the office building of the Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center",
Central Black Soil Region of Russia were completed. There, the public access
point for the Black Soil Region mass media will be arranged.
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The project officers, responsible for maintenance of hardware and software,
rendered technical help and regular consultations to the project participants
and organizations, connected to the civic network, on administration and
maintenance of the network.
c. progress towards achieving purpose and objectives :
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Establishment of interaction with organizations interested in the project;
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Formation and management of the civic network technical infrastructure;
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Connection of the Civic Network to main digital channel;
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Arrangement of a number of well-functioning public access points;
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Formation and further development of the Voronezh Civic Network;
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The following tasks have been practically completed: extension of access
of Voronezh citizens to resources of global network; granting to Voronezh
non profit organizations an opportunity to publish materials; providing
assistance to local communities in design of their own web publications;
information support to existing and newly-formed non profit organizations
in their activities; providing access to information resources to low-paid
and unemployed persons.
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Establishment of cooperation with offices of non-electronic means of mass
media on a regular basis;
d. issues and problems :
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Dramatic raise in the number of visitors of the Central Public Access Point
Facility clearly revealed the necessity of funding for purchase of more
workstations and Internet class computer upgrade.
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Absence of technical means necessary to connect the public access points
to the Central Public Access Point (OCTAL CABLE KIT).
e. training activities and number of individuals trained:
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Training sessions were carried out in accordance with the schedule. We
did two training cycles for two groups of approximately 30-32 persons every
month. Eighty nine persons have received training during the report period.
All training sessions were followed by seminars aimed to discuss with each
group the new possibilities, presented to the community within the framework
of the project.
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The additional training session for a group, consisting of 10 children,
from Regional Juvenile School of Adaptive Special Physical Education of
the Invalids was organized.
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In accordance with our visitors' recommendations, we designed and published
a number of instruction brochures, including: a terminological dictionary,
an instruction manual on how to work with browsers, and methodical recommendations
on information search, its storage, processing and use.
f. number of men and number of women participating in specific activities
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Presentation of the public access point - 5 men; 23 women;
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Training: April - 14 men; 20 women;
May - 8 men; 15 women;
June - 15 men; 17 women;
7. Activities to be conducted during the next quarterly report period
(summary only).
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Continuation of cooperation with mass media for the purpose of establishing
new contacts and maintain the already established contacts with various
public institutions, organizations and individuals, interested in the project.
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Arrangement of seminars, conferences, discussions, and meetings communicating
the project activities to the public.
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Providing support to the civic network technical infrastructure.
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Opening of new public access points.
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Administration and maintenance of the Central Public Access Point.
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Administration of the web-server "Voronezh Civic Network" (information
update and technical maintenance).
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Regular collection of the information for updating resources of the Voronezh
Civic Network.
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Providing consultations and methodological support to local communities
on networking.
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Arrangement of training sessions.
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Arrangement and direction of interactive discussions on most crucial problems
of our city and region, and most interesting aspects of the city life on
the server "Voronezh Civic Network".
Vladislav Yurasov,
PI of VCN
e-mail: yurasov@cc.vorstu.ac.ru
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