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Monthly Reports
Voronezh Civic Networking
June, 2000
Organizational activity
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In order to strengthen the project's advertising campaign, the project
officers continued the works under the agreement with Voronezh State Television/
Radio Company on series of regular radio programs communicating the project
"Voronezh Civic Network" activities to the public.
On the 4th and 25th of June, two new programs of the series, prepared
by the project officers, went on the air. The programs informed local communities
of the status of works on the project.
The radio programs brought us many new visitors, whom we can offer
the real help. Among them is Regional Juvenile School of Adaptive Special
Physical Education of Invalids. Specially for this school, the project
officers have prepared the information on foundations and institutions,
providing charitable help to organizations, working in this field. Project
officers are providing consultations on grant writing.
Besides, like other project participants, this organization now has
its own page on the server "Voronezh Civic Network ". The personal mail
box, so necessary for exchange of experience and techniques of work with
related foreign organizations, was opened as well. Specially for invalid
children, we organized an additional training session at the Central Public
Access Point facility. One of the radio programs was devoted to this school's
activities with the purpose of attracting public attention to such socially
- significant problem as social adaptation of disabled children.
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The project officers carried out a meeting with Uhin Vladimir - the executive
director of the Population Social Protection Foundation at Voronezh
city administration. The plans of joint activities within the framework
of the project were discussed.
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In June we completed organizational works for the Municipal philosophy
club concerning publication of an interactive phylosophical -publicistic
magazine "Globus".
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As a result of the meeting with the rector of Voronezh baptist seminary
doctor Shennon, the agreement was reached on granting the information for
the publication on the civic network.
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In accordance with librarians' recommendations, the project officers organized
the constant advisory service in business hours of the public access point,
functioning at the Regional Juvenile Library. Now, the attendees of the
Internet class at the Regional Juvenile Library can receive qualified consultations
on work with informational resources of a network. In July it was planned
to carry out a special training session for the librarians serving the
Internet class.
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The detailed announcement of interactive discussions on most significant
and interesting problems of our city and region, a new direction in the
project work, was published on the server "Voronezh Civic Network".
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Project officers carried out a meeting in order to discuss obtained results
and further plans.
Formation of the informational -technical infrastructure
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The preparatory works for allocating and lining of the allocated channel
to the office building of the Regional Foundation "Mass Media Defense Center",
Central Black Soil Region of Russia, Voronezh were completed. There we
will arrange another public access point for the Black Soil Region mass
media.
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The following users were connected to the Central Public Access Point by
allocated channels of communication:
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Secondary school # 55
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Voronezh Eletctrical technical school
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Collecting and processing of materials for the server "Voronezh Civic Network"
(http://vcn.vorstu.ac.ru) continued
in June. Such sections as "Regional news", "Regional media publications",
" News of public life", "The bulletin board" were updated daily. The new
pages were placed in following sections "Public organizations ", " About
the project". The new interactive section - "Invitation to conversation
" was opened. Two personal pages were put together.
Central Public Access Center activities
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As before, we spent a lot of our time and effort on the visitors of the
Central Public Access Point. The complete spectrum of services offered
to the community within the framework of the project was available free-of-charge
for the civic networkers.
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The additional training session for a group, consisting of 10 children,
from Regional Juvenile School of Adaptive Special Physical Education of
the Invalids was organized.
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Two group training sessions, each consisting of 32 persons were also scheduled
and held in June.
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In accordance with the our visitor's recommendations, the project officers
put together an instruction manual on how to work with browsers, and methodological
recommendations on information search in Internet, its storage and processing.
Instruction manuals are distributed to the trainees. Use of manuals improved
training sessions very much by helping to address all trainees needs more
effectively.
Vladislav Yurasov,
PI of VCN
e-mail: [email protected]
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