Quarterly Reports
Chelyabinsk Civic Networking
1. Name of principal investigator.
Dmitry V. Latukhin
2. Title of proposal.
Chelyabinsk Civic Network
3. Report period (time period covered by report).
December 1999 - March 2000
4. Names and institutions of collaborators, if any (US and/or Russia).
Show the names of every person or organization, which take part in project
or intend to participate or finance the project additionally.
Southern Ural State University (SUSU)
Division of WAN Technologies / Ural Regional Center of FREEnet
The Chelyabinsk Scientific Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of
Sciences
5. Purpose and objectives of proposal
Launching and development of Chelyabinsk Civic Network
6. Accomplishments during report period :
a. meetings and communications pertaining to output (with full address):
The following meetings took place:
� with Tatyana Popova, leader of organization "Volunteers of hospice";
� with Ayrat Badriev, coordinator of project on creating Center of
Tatar Culture in Chelyabinsk.
The discussed questions concerned the launching web sites of these
organizations and Internet skill training for their staff.
� Marina Moiseeva, a research worker of Distance Education Laboratory,
(Moscow Institute of General Secondary Education) has visited networking
center in SUSU. We discussed the creation on-line version of a course for
educators - developers of new learning materials in Internet and about
the Internet.
b. activities in Chelyabinsk or other locations pertaining to output
(description, diagrams for technical issues)
c. progress towards achieving purpose and objectives :
1. Information system for local community continues to develop. Two
new mailing lists were opened:
- CCN (Chelyabinsk Civic Network) Mailing List
For NGO in Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk region the subscription is realized
through: [email protected].
During the work with this list there were refreshed the contacts with
many organizations and initiative groups of people. At present moment the
list has 22 subscribers, such organizations as "Pravosoznanie", "Unity
and Law", "Memorial", "Women of the 90-th", "Movement for Nuclear Safety",
"Agency of Information Cooperation", "Techa", "Association of Social Societies",
"Woman Network in Ural Region", Center of Social Partnership", etc.
More than 40 messages about fund raising, actions and events were sent
during the period of February- March. There was held also on-line conversation
about training individuals who wants to maintain web pages of the NGO.
- Grant List
Subscription is realized from the page http://www.susu.ac.ru/misc/lists.html
and through [email protected], administrator -
Eugenia Lebed [email protected]>.
The list serves sharing information about projects and grants concerning
to education and scientific research.
2. E-mail access was opened for organization of parents of kids with
disabilities "Our children".
3. CCN center staff in cooperation with Project Harmony carried out
several consultations for preparing and submitting proposals for mini grant
competition. About 20 proposals were applied from Chelyabinsk.
4. Because CCN center has modernized its networking equipment to Cisco
3600 and 4500 routers we have returned access server Cisco 2509 to Moscow
office of Friends and Partners Foundation.
5. Upgrading of one computer that was received from the foundation in
1998 was made.
d. issues and problems:
e. training activities and number of individuals trained:
f. number of men and number of women participating in specific activities:
During the period of January and February there were held three lessons
with disabled children (center "Childhood"). The theme was "Creating of
web site with translation in English".
In center "Internet for everyone" there was held a set of lectures and
practical works for teachers of schools and high education institutions
from Chelyabinsk and Chelyabinsk region. The subjects are: "Internet technologies
in education", "Method of projects. Telecommunication educational projects".
A total amount of trained people is 68 individuals; the amount of expanded
time is equal to 86 hours.
Two times a week, beginning since March 15, we are carrying out training
NGO staff. The main tasks for the group are following: getting basic skills
of work with e-mail, mailing lists and networking resources for noncommercial
organizations well as experience in creating web pages.
The group consists of 14 individuals (11 women and 3 men) from noncommercial
organizations, two newspapers and a youth news agency, the Chelyabinsk
picture gallery. Four 2-hours studies were held for two weeks.
Dmitry Latukhin,
PI of CCN
e-mail: [email protected]
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