1. Name of principal investigator.

2. Title of proposal.

3. Report period (time period covered by report).

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.

• Voronezh State Technical University
• Regional Center of New Information Technology
• Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center", Central Black Soil Region of Russia
• Municipal Institution “Social Adaptation of Youth and Adolescents”
• Voronezh Regional Juvenile Library
• Voronezh Regional Educational Advising Center
• Voronezh State Television/Radio Company
• Regional Clinical Treatment-Diagnostic Center
• Regional Juvenile School of Adaptive Special Physical Education of Invalids
• Public Union "Sodruzhestvo"
• “Intellectual Property Protection Society”
• Consulting center "Open planet”
• Regional Association of Boards of Regional Public Self-governance
• North-Don Cossack Union.

5. Purpose and objectives of proposal

6. Accomplishments during report period :

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

• Galina Bugakova - director of the Consulting center "Open planet”

• Svetlana Fedorova –metodist of the Methodist, teacher of the Youth Center, Ploshad’ Detei,1

• Yuriy Vlasenko - vice-president of Voronezh Regional Agricultural Credit Co-operative
• Margarita Goryainova - director of the Opera Studio at the Municipal Children's Performing Arts School ¹ 4.
• Victor Chasovnikov – manager of noncommercial organization “Association of Russian – BÕelorussian friendship”
• Valentina Razumova – deputy director of Voronezh Regional Affiliation of the “All-Russian Childhood Foundation".
• Michail Chaikovskiy. – vice president of Voronezh municipal institution “Intellectual Property Protection Society”, Komissarzhevkoi Str., 7 – 305
• Aleksey Koshelev - deputy director of Voronezh Regional Educational Advising Center, Kukolkina Str., 3 – 203
• Sergey Synorov – news reporter, Voronezh State Television/Radio Company, ë. Marxa, Str., 114

• Nina Kubaneva - the president of the Public Union "Sodruzhestvo"

  
  

  Represantatives of of the Public Union "Sodruzhestvo" in VCN office

• Victor Stepnyak – the president of the Regional Association of Boards of Regional Public Self-governance”
• Tamara Begidova - the director of Juvenile School of Adaptive Physical Education of invalids, Plehanovskaya Str., 18
• Dmitry Hvan – the executive director of International Charity Center “Grace”

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

• Daily project management activities were performed.
• Technical and operational support was provided to PAPs and organizations, connected to civnet.

• Project officers provided technical help and regular consultations to the project participants and organizations, connected to civnet, on networking administration and equipment maintenance.
• Project officers performed technical servicing and administration of the Main Public Access Point and maintained the entire complex 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.

• Continuation of work on formation and support of the server " Voronezh Civic Network " (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru). Design of the main page of the VCN server was changed. The following sections were updated regularly: "Regional News", "The Project Log", "The Bulletin Board".
• We designed and published the following sections and personal web pages:

• Mini web site of the commercial organization Consulting Center "Open planet”, which works on organization of summer programs for students.

• Mini web site of Voronezh Regional Affiliation of the “All-Russian Childhood Foundation"

• Mini web site of the Opera Studio at the Municipal Children's Performing Arts School ¹ 4

• Voronezh Regional Epiletiological center (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru/vec/index.htm)

• We released new personal pages. Among them there are pages of Voronezh poets, artists, musicians and publicists.

• (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru/win/home/labunsky/index.html)
• (vcn.vorstu.ac.ru/win/home/alfeev/main.html)
• http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru/win/home/filatov/index.htm
• http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru/win/home/nesterov/index.html

• Old pages were maintained and updated.
• Great amount of work was carried out on expanding our contacts with various organizations and individuals, interested in the project.Voronezh Civnet. We continued to work with the editorial office of Voronezh State Television and Radio Company. Six radio programs, describing activities of the project, have been prepared by the project officers together with the editorial officers of the Voronezh State TV and Radio Company.

• The project officers have been briefing the regional mass media on the upcoming on-line interview (March 6 in 18.00) of the president Vladimir Putin with journalists from Russian and foreign on-line magazines and newspapers. The project officers offered to use the Main PAP facility to the journalists and citizens of Voronezh in order to send their questions for the president in advance through the site www.strana.ru, thus participating in the first on-line interview of the President.
• The informational materials have been developed about the project and its achievements to be exhibited and distributed at the regional exhibition, which was organized within the framework of the conference of universities and colleges-members of the "Chernozemye" Association (6.03.2001). The photos, taken at the exhibition, are provided with the March report.

3. progress towards achieving purpose and objectives :

• Formation and management of the civic network technical infrastructure

• Arrangement of well-functioning public access points:

• Main PAP
• Voronezh Regional Educational Advising Center
• Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center", Central Black Soil Region of Russia
• Voronezh Regional Juvenile Library
• Adaptive Special Physical Education of Invalids.

• Formation and support of the server " Voronezh Civic Network "
• 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.
• Organization of training courses for Voronezh civnet users.

• Establishment of interaction with organizations interested in the project. Establishment of cooperation with representatives of non-electronic means of mass media on a regular basis.

4. issues and problems :

• Absence of technical means necessary to connect Civnet’s public access points to the Main Public Access Point (OCTAL CABLE KIT).
• Absence of necessary technical equipment prevents many public institutions from opening PAPs on their own basis.

5. training activities and number of individuals trained:

• On the basis of the Main PAP facility, we organized classes for school students of 7-11 grades. The overall number of students in all groups is 40. The classes are conducted throughout the whole academic year. Subjects of classes are "Fundamentals of vector graphics", “Corel Draw, "Fundamentals of image graphics", “Adobe Photoshop”, "Fundamentals of HTML".

• At the Main PAP Facility, we conducted classes according to the following schedule:
 
Monday: 10-12 (1 group 10 trainees), 13-16 (1 group 7 trainees)

Tuesday: 10-13 (1 group 20 trainees)

Wednesday: 13-16 (1 group 7 trainees)

Thursday: 10-12 (1 group 10 trainees), 15-17 (1 group 11 trainees)

Friday: 15-17 (1 group 11 trainees)

Saturday: 10 -18 (6 groups each consisting of 6-7 persons, total –38 trainees)

Sunday: 10- 15 (4 groups each consisting of 6-7 persons, total –25 trainees)

Training in Central Public Access Point

Total, during report period 139 trainees

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

• Scheduled training: 29 men; 110 women

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

• Continuation of cooperation with mass media for the purpose of establishing new contacts and maintaining the already established contacts with various public institutions, organizations and individuals, interested in the project.
• Arrangement of seminars, conferences, discussions, and meetings aimed at communicating the project activities to the public.
• Providing support to the civic network technical infrastructure.
• Opening new public access points.
• Administration and maintenance of the Main PAP facility.
• Regular collection of the information for updating resources on the Voronezh Civic Network. Administration of the web-server "Voronezh Civic Network" (information update and technical maintenance).
• Providing consultations and methodological support to local communities on networking. Arrangement of training sessions.
• 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".
• Attracting new grants for further VCN development.