Subject: IREX EXPANDS INTERNET ACCESS IN EURASIA
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 15 1999 - 17:25:51 EDT
IREX EXPANDS INTERNET ACCESS IN EURASIA
WASHINGTON, DC- The International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) is
expanding its innovative Internet programs in Eurasia to continue improving
local user access to this increasingly important global communications
resource. IREX has received grants from the United States Information
Agency (USIA) to administer the second stage of the Internet Access and
Training Program (IATP) in three regions of Eurasia: the Western New
Independent States, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. The goal of IATP is to
promote and support democracy, public-private sector partnerships, and
civil society by linking the communities of Eurasia to the global
information infrastructure.
IATP provides a unique opportunity for alumni of US government exchange and
training programs and other target audiences to receive free and open
Internet access and training in the use of electronic mail and the
Internet, helping to foster continued information sharing, network
building, communication, and collaboration with their American and Eurasian
counterparts. As a subcontractor to IREX, the International Education and
Resource Network (I*EARN) will provide training-of-trainer courses and
workshops to students and educators.
Initially launched in 1995, IATP has expanded operations in its second
stage into 10 countries of Eurasia including Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova,
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and
Uzbekistan. IATP seeks to empower end-users by providing opportunities for
them to publish information on the World Wide Web, develop Internet-based
resources, obtain useful on-line information, and create sustainable
non-commercial Internet networks. Offering an array of services, IATP helps
to increase local capacity of individuals and
institutions to use Internet applications creatively as educational and
professional tools.
Since 1993 IREX has been active in establishing non-commercial Internet
access throughout the former Soviet region. In the past three years, IREX
has established 64 public access Internet sites for non-commercial use,
which have served over 35,000 individual users.
For more information about IATP, please contact Jennifer Ragland at
<mailto:jragland@irex.org> or visit the IREX website at
<http://www.irex.org/programs/iatp/>.
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