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Monthly Reports
Obninsk Civic Networking
March, 2000
1. In the framework of the OCN it was announced that any citizen of
Obninsk and any not-for-profit organization could get free E-mail address.
2. A team of volunteers has been formed for free-of-charge creation
of Internet pages in the framework of OCN (http:
// picart.okclub.org).
3. An electronic version of Obninsk Institute of Nuclear Power Engineering
student's and teacher's newspaper by name "@tomokhod" (www.atomohod.obninsk.ru)
has been created. The page is updated weekly. A new electronic issue is
placed a day before a printed version is ready.
4. A new Internet a resource is developed. It is devoted to KVN (it
is a Russian abbreviation of Cheery and Smart People Club) movement development
in Obninsk (www.kvn.obninsk.ru).
The official presentation of this page is to be held in April 2000.
5. The site of Obninsk Community Foundation is developed and prepared
to exploitation. The official presentation (opening ceremony) of the site
is expected by the end of April, 2000.
6. The development of a site for not-for-profit partnership "Community"
is under way and should be over soon. The site will be accessible to users
in May, 2000.
7. Students of the "Leadership - Obninsk" program (executor - the organization
by name "Community") are acquainted with OCN opportunities for higher effectiveness
of local self-management and greater openness of local budget process.
The number of student is about 35 persons. Among them there are heads of
local not-for-profit sector. Since February, 7 , seminars were held in
the framework of "Leadership - Obninsk" program. They were devoted to issues
of municipal self-management and budget process.
8. A program of seminars devoted to OCN has been developed for local
municipal officials. The seminars allows us:
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To inform high-rank City officials about OCN, to guide them how to use
OCN to increase the efficiency of their work;
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During seminars the direction of the OCN development will be corrected
due to the process of dialog between the Consortium representatives and
municipal officials. The correction will allow us to update the OCN to
be more convenient for municipal officials.
9. A program of seminars about OCN has been developed for nonprofit organizations.
The members of these organizations:
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Will be trained to work in Internet and OCN,
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Will be oriented to the development of information resources to be placed
at OCN server.
Yuri Koftan,
PI of OCN
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