Monthly Reports
Chelyabinsk Civic Networking (CCN)
April, 2000
Sometimes you can see certain passiveness among staff of local NGO.
Enlivening comes only when next grant competition is announced or they
are offered to get something interesting and free of charge at the same
time, e.g. studying. The last thing is especially actual as long as networking
skill level of the most of these persons is still insufficient.
Just these two points were basic ones for our activity in April. First
of all CCN mailing list continued its work. The list serves for sharing
news of foundations, resource centers, etc. At present it has 25 subscribers,
as organizations so individuals, who often forwarded received information
farther all over the Ural region.
I guest CCN list is more full and open as well as cover larger audience
than it makes by some organizations in Chelyabinsk such as Association
of social societies and others that have status =of information centers.
In the middle of Mart we launched free courses for NGO people who wish
to learn using Internet services and Web design. The classes were also
in April. They are held in center "Internet for Everyone", twice
a week. Now 12-14 students attend these studies and they look very interested.
The main "suppliers" of students are "Women of 90th", "Sodeystvie", independent
newspapers and youth information agencies. The center has 12 computers
so the theory goes with practice very well. The courses will operate till
the end of May.
One of important field of our activity is involving people with disabilities
in networking community.
In April CCN center provided free dial-up connections for Natalia Potapova
(she has got also a modem), Pavel Popov and Dasha Zhukova that was taught
by our specialist.
Dmitry Latukhin
Project Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
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