Eta set' svyazala nekommercheskie organizatsii etogo goroda i obespechila takim obrazom obmen regional'noj informatsiej. Podpischiki etoj seti - iz kolledzhej i universitetov, nauchno-issledovatel'skih institutov, meditsinskih i pravitel'stvennyh uchrezhdenij, shkol i drugih obrazovatel'nyh uchrezhdenij, razlichnyh obschestvennyh organihzatsij. Oni poluchayut svobodnyj dostup k Internetu pri pomoschi WWW i email. ""Osnovnaya tsel' razvitiya Civil Network - predostavlenie kak mozhno bol'shego kolichestva istochnikov informatsii Interneta dlya bol'shego kolichestva nekommercheskih organizatsij, deyatel'nost' kotoryh napravlena na sluzhenie interesam nauki, obrazovaniya, kul'tury, sluzhb zdravohraneniya, gosudarstvennogo upravleniya i na drugie gumannye tseli.""

Open from 10 am to 9 pm, 7 days a week, this cafe provides free public Internet access at approximately hour long intervals on 10 computers to any Moscow resident. A May 7, 1997 New York Times article describes this cafe and those who are using it.

This program, funded by Open Socieity Institute (OSI), is designed to "(a) provide 32 provincial universities in the Russian Federation with a fully equipped computing center and multi-media lab with complete access to the Internet (b) to administer content based program initiatives for the university and non-university communities". This highly informative site provides detailed information on this beneficial program, a list and map of the universities that are participating, press releases and last but not least, "Russia from Coast to Coast" which is the newsletter of the UIC.