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Monthly Reports
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Voronezh Civic Networking
May, 2000
Useful meetings and contacts
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In order to strengthen the project's advertising campaign, the project
officers carried out briefings for the TV and Radio representatives aimed
to attract attention of individuals and public institutions which may be
interested in joining civil network activities. Thus, we reached an agreement
to make a series of radio programs communicating the project "Voronezh
Civic Network" activities to the public. Radio programs will help establish
and facilitate the dialogue between local public officials, public institutions
and individuals. The radio programs will cover politics and legislature,
environment and travels, work and housekeeping, news of business and cultural
life.
On the 21st of May, the first program of the series went on the air.
This radio program was meant to cover the concept of a global networking,
network terminology, and also the goals of "Voronezh Civic Network " project.
Program listeners got acquainted with the main tasks of the project and
the new possibilities that are offered to the community by the project.
The following specialists took part in the program and helped cover
various aspects of the radio presentation: Lubov Grigorieva, the project
coordinator, Galina Koltsova, Tatiana Zhukova, Yelena Molocheva, and Olga
Kruchkova, the project officers and specialists of the Regional Center
of New Information Technologies. Sergey Synorov, the reporter from Voronezh
State Television/ Radio Company and one of the members of the Voronezh
Civic Network, anchored the program.
After the program, we received a large feedback, despite the fact that
the program was broadcast on Sunday morning, when majority of the town's
people went out of town to spend the week-end in the countryside. The project
officers at the Central Public Access Point facility received a number
of calls from public institutions and individuals of various ages which
expressed willingness to attend training sessions and take advantage of
new services that became available due to the project. This first radio
program came out to be a very effective promotional activity that helped
to form the groups of persons willing to attend training sessions and visit
the Central Public Access Point facility for five months forward. We hope,
that the dialogue with the radio listeners will contribute new ideas to
the project and help reveal new trends in project's development.
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Lubov Grigorieva and Vladimir Smirnov, the project officers, carried out
a number of meetings with representatives of public institutions in order
to strengthen the networking community and promote unrestricted discussion
of the city's most urgent and important problems. The following public
institutions have agreed to support the information exchange:
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Russian United Methodist Church,
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Foreign Orthodox Church,
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Azerbaijan Cultural Community,
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Germenevtical Club of Voronezh State University (Department of Systematic
Philosophy),
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Bard Song Club "Parus Nadezdy",
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Humanitarian Center "Grace".
Besides, the project's staff conducted a number of meetings with some of
the foreign visitors of the city, interested in further development of
links with public institutions in Voronezh. Among them were: Dr. Strong,
professor of Jon's Yesli Washington Seminary, and 12 seminarists, the officer
of the USA Library of Congress, students from Costa Rica, Peru and Spain,
studying in Voronezh university and colleges.
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On the 26th of May, Lubov Grigorieva and Tatiana Zhukova, the officers
of the project, carried out Án "Open lesson " at public access point Internet
class in Regional Juvenile Library to train the civic networkers to use
the web as means of dialog and not only as storage and source of information.
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In order to promote the project activities, on the 24th of May Tatiana
Zhukova, the officer of the project, prepared the report for the Scientific
- Practical Conference "State-operated Regional Libraries: Traditions and
Prospects", which took place at the Regional Library named after Nikitin.
Central Public Access Center activities
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As a result of work carried out by technical assistants of the Central
Public Access Point facility, the connection of the Civic Network to main
digital channel was completed. Two physical lines were installed for this
purpose on the segment, connecting Voronezh Intertown Telephone/Telegraph
Station and the Territorial Unit of System Channels "Rosstelecom". Besides
connecting, additional software for work in digital channel was installed
and customized. The preparatory technical work for inserting of a digital
flow to the multiplexer "Rosstelecom" in Voronezh and Moscow was fulfilled.
As a result, the data transfer rate of the main channel Voronezh-Moscow
of the Voronezh Civic Network segment improved approximately 4 times.
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The following users were connected to the Central Public Access Point by
allocated channels of communication:
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Voronezh Regional Clinical Treatment-Diagnostic Center;
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Voronezh Institute of New Information Technologies.
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The Central Public Access Point provided the following services to civic
network users: an access to Internet, operation of personal mail boxes.
Also, CPAP provides consultations on web navigation in order to search
for a particular source of information.
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During this month, the sub-project "Web-workshop" continued to operate
at the Central Public Access Point facility, where civic network users
received consultations on design, publication and update of their materials
on the server. All services of "Web-workshop" are provided free-of-charge
for the civic networkers.
Forming of "Voronezh Civic Network" server
Collection and processing of materials for the server "Voronezh Civic
Network " (http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru)
were continued in May. Some sections were updated daily. Four personal
pages were put together. The map of the server was designed and the "Guest
Book " began functioning. In May, the work for supporting the server was
continued, the server was registered in two more catalogs: HI (www.hi.ru)
and @RUS (www.atrus.ru)
Training
Two group training sessions, each consisting of 23 persons,
were held in May. Free-of-charge training sessions were carried out at
the Central Public Access Point facility. Ten workstations with an access
to Internet were given to the trainees.
Vladislav Yurasov,
PI of VCN
e-mail: [email protected]
[English]
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