Evaluation of Project Activity - Chelyabinsk Civic Network

1. How many public access points (PAP) were opened?

One. Its address is SUSU, building 3b, room 254 (87, Lenin prospekt)

One more in Regional scientific library located in Chelyabinsk downtown for year.

The group consists from two people:

Consultant of Internet For Everyone center: Elena Mitlosh

Everything what connected with user work in the center: answers on their questions, ways of usage of X Windows workstations, user registry, etc.

"Hot line": Andrey Sizikov

Calls, email requests, mailing list with FAQs.
He works in close working contacts with system administrators.

Access through 12 modem entries: PPP/SLIP and UUCP connections.
28.8-128 kbps dedicated lines inside of the city Infrared 10 Mbps Ethernet systems.

7 US Robotics Courier modems installed on dial-in lines, one modem is fixed;
PCs are used as MS Windows 95 workstation;
UMAX scanner is a part of graphical workstation;
Ultra 5 workstation is for experiments with Web uploading technology and as system administrator workstation;
Access server Cisco 2509 is planned to use for opening second PAP.

Organizations		Present Number	Prospective number in the nearest future	Type of access to your net
				public access points	own connection
NGO	libraries	3	4		+
	museums	-	1		+
	organizations for region development
	other (specify): Social foundation "Take care of youself", Social movement "For nuclear safety", Chelyabinsk-Fribourg Society, Association of soldier mothers, Ecological movement "Techa", Youth intellectual center, Social association "Kamenny poyas"	7	15-20		+
Education Organizations	schools	56	70-75		+
	universities	7	8	10	+
	other (specify): colleges	5		1	+
Government Organizations	health service	9	10		+
	police	1	1		+
	other (specify): courts military registration & enslistment office archieves	4 2 1 1	7-10		+
Private Sector of Economy	small business	3	5-10		+
	large business
	other (specify):
Mass Media	telephone companies
	telecommunication co.
	other (specify):
Local Administration	region government	5	5		+
	city government	4	5		+
	other (specify):	8	10		+
Women's Organizations		3			+
Private Persons	7	20-25 volunteers			+
TOTAL:	119	174197

5. The possible funding sources are listed below. Mark off all possible ways of funding and organizations which take part in support of your project.

Organizations	Size of Funding *	Prospective Size of Funding ***	Percent Ratio
NGO		2,000	6,9
Government		-	-
Local Administration		4,000	13,8
Grants	approx. $15,000*	10,000	34,5
Own funds	approx. $9,000***	11,000	37,9
Payment for Services		2,000	6,9
Private Donations		-

** Without grant received from Friends and Partners Foundation for work on the project in 1999-1999.

** In addition of the grant we used indirectly means of NATO grant - for purchasing backbone router and proxy-server. The sum is approximately $10,000. Besides some funds were received from Russian Foundation for Basic Research partly for local dedicated line payment. IREX allocated $1200 for salary of consultant of Internet For Everyone center.

*** SUSU equipped the center by 6 PCs, printer and Ethernet cards (cost is almost $9,000).

**** Reference data for 1999-2000 without next direct grant of Friends and Partners Foundation.

6. Prepare a brief description of Grand Opening Ceremony ( by March, 27, 1999) ...Text - 1,5 -2 pages (in Russian and English); 2-3 pictures (if possible)

The text was sent before

1. Separate town, town's region
2. Several adjoining regions
3. Other (specify):

All districts of the city except of Metallurgichesky one because of its remoteness and low quality of telephone lines

1. Full activity (describe it)
2. We provide all kinds of services, but for limited number of users
3. We provide the services to everybody, but the number of services is limited
4. Services promised by project are not realized
5. Functionality of services are differ from those of primarily marked

CCN project is implemented in close connection with infrastructure of regional segment of scientific-educational network FREEnet. So it uses some telecommunications and network equipment of the center in Chelyabinsk. That is why CCN users are mostly scientific, educational, budgetary and social institutions and their staff. Number of companies and individuals is very small. All of them have access via CCN only if they collaborate with the center as volunteers. In opposite case we would have passed the traffic through commercial link.

Level of network service is defined, first of all, by access to the Internet. One may say that organizations working in on-line (PPP/SLIP connections) have full set of services though, in principle, we could not provide absolutely every kind of service. You can always find couple Full of kinds that are not provided by any ISP. Therefore I stop on the following formulation: "We provide the services to everybody, but the number of services is limited". For example, 2/3 of schools has only e-mail otherwise 10 existing modem entries (four of them were launched due to the grant) would be always busy. At present necessity of dial-in lines is higher in two times.

As a whole, from my point of view, the project proves to be correct its name. There is continuous stream of visitors at our office who would like to be CCN users. Today is that time when people have real need in Internet - the need that was grown for several last years.

Activity Directions	Yes	No	Sometimes (in details)
Access lines	+
Support, upgrade, update of equipment and software		+
Training of staff		+
Taxes		+
Staff			We should prepared webmasters
Travels		+
Data purchased			There are difficulties with purchasing cheap software abroad

10. The main goal of civic networking is the development of local community. To what extent objectives listed below were the aim of your civic networking? And what impact did they make upon your community? (Comments are necessary).

Objectives	Project goal	Main goal	Not Primary goal	It is not a goal of project	Made a little impact
1. To improve provision of social services via Internet			+
2. To extend interest in local cultural activities	+
3. To increase the local population's participation in political life	+
4. To increase the employment of local population		+
5. To promote the economical development of your town, region, country					+
6. To provide telecommunication services		+
7. To improve the quality of health services					+
8. To increase the efficiency of interaction between local government and local population		+
9. To promote cultural enrichment	+
10. To extend educational opportunities	+
11. To help coordination between regional information services				+
12. To establish contacts and partnership relations with other regions	+	+

During work on the project that was written in summer of 1997 and started in May 1998 its main directions were saved though some its accents were changed. So the most emphasis is made to those goals and objectives which have given practical results recently. These are: extending number of the network users, working contacts with NGO, sharing information about their activity in community, increasing law level and involving people in the city events, education and culture. The further plans will be determined by organizations - CCN members that are working and will be working on the project and its information resources.

Insufficient support - only verbal support because of extreme insufficiency in means.

This quantity could be evaluate only roughly because data about students, teachers and scholars using CCN service can be collected hardly. Let's assume that every organization has 10 users of the network in average and approximately 2,000-3,000 people in universities. Then we have 3,000-4,000 users for the city of 1,100,000 population.

Some college and bachelor, master degree

HTML guide and technical reccomendations on Web hosting maintenance and security are developed

Samara	samara.friends-partners.ru
Chelyabinsk	chelyabinsk.friends-partners.ru
Sergiev-Posad	StPosad.friends-partners.ru

In the beginning of 1999 we registered domain 'ccn.org.ru' (from "Chelyabinsk Civic Network") which reflects very well core of the project. Two Web servers are in the domain:

http://www.ccn.org.ru/ - common information about CCN project

http://openweb.ccn.org.ru/ - Internet For Everyone Center, Web pages of its users

1. humanitarian part of project (preparing material for server)
2. opening of additional PAP
3. preparing materials for general project "Russian Civic Networks"
4. collaboration with local administration
5. collaboration with local organizations
6. support of technical group

Humanitarian part of project (preparing material for server), preparing materials for general project "Russian Civic Networks", collaboration with local organizations

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