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8. The main goal of civic networking is the development
of local community. To what extent objectives listed below were the aim
of your civic networking? And what impact did they make upon your community?
(Comments
are necessary).
Project goals:
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To improve provision of social services via Internet
I am afraid that I can't understand what it means.
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To extend interest for local cultural activities
Since 1996 our networking center quite actively lights
up many aspects of cultural life of Chelyabinsk, developing web resources
of theatres, galleries, musical groups, etc. In 1998, during work on RCNP
project we opened real electronic edition � "Chelyabinsk Globe". Its team
consists of professional art critics, writers and students of journalism
department of Southern Ural State University (SUSU, Chelyabinsk). The project
won a minigrant of Project Harmony in 2000. Created web pages were registered
in Russian and foreign search engines and catalogues. We are collaborating
with similar magazines and projects.
Priority: high.
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To increase the local population�s participation in political
life
Everything that happens during work on CCN project,
is directed to creation alternative sources of information for citizens,
getting them freedom in expression of their opinions, providing freedom
for choosing and training of qualified users. All these factors work for
making the community life more active and in political sphere.
Priority: high.
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To increase the employment of local population
Learning the users, sharing information about grant
competitions, training, etc. increase probability for receiving new job,
improving work conditions and salaries.
Priority: middle.
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To promote the economical development of your town, region,
country
Priority: low.
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To provide telecommunication services
Priority: high.
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To improve the quality of health services
Priority: middle.
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To increase the efficiency of interaction between local
government and local population
Priority: middle. But it is quite difficult for implementation
as staff of public reception-rooms of officials of high level answers hardly
even on email messages.
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To promote cultural enrichment
Partly coincides with point 2.
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To extend educational opportunities
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To help coordination between Regional information services
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To establish contacts and partnership relations with other
regions
9. Give the statistics on web-server:
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The number of web site hits per month?
Number of hits from the very beginning?
Usage statistics is given on pages:
http://www.rnoc.urc.ac.ru/WWWstat/OpenWeb.log/
� for site OpenWeb.ccn.org.ru
http://www.rnoc.urc.ac.ru/WWWstat/CCN.log/
� for www.CCN.org.ru
Information about capabilities of the center "Internet for
Everyone" and rules.
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Have you 1)the schedule of public access points functioning?
2)description of their location? 3)description of equipment and services
that can be provided to citizens and organizations?
All the data are presented on http://openweb.ccn.org.ru/.
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How many organizations and private person have published
the information at your server? What kind of information?
There are home pages of two NGO, various culture and art
institutions (theatres, galleries so on) and educational ones (schools,
colleges, universities).
10. What is the average educational level of user?
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secondary or high school - 20% in evaluation
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some college - approx. 15%
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bachelor, master degree - 60%
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other (specify) - 9;5%
11. Have you formed a Board of Directors (Coordinating
Council)? What part does it play in your project? (for example please).
Does this Board of Directors include representatives of local administration?
(
Comments please).
Board of Directors was created on the first stage of the
project. It included some persons from administrations of the city and
of the oblast. The board carried out several meeting last year but in 2000
its activity is much lower. It can be explain by that fact that local authorities
have developed program of computer capability enhancement in education.
So the priorities were changed. Nevertheless SUSU, one of key players in
CCN project, will be work and on new program.
The current organizing activity is accomplished by main
specialists of the networking center Victor Krivoschokov and Dmitry Latukhin
in assistance of leaders of some NGOs.
12. Does your web-server have the information about
structure of local administration, schedule of its operation? What kind
of information about local administration do you provide at your server?
What kind of local, regional problems can be solved with the help of civnet
together with local administration? (Detailed
comments please).
Because local government has more than one official
web sites we put on CCN site links to these pages. How the fact could be
explained? For example, Administration of Chelyabinsk oblast has two competing
divisions that are curators of two different web sites. It gives often
complex situations in relations between local Internet providers that maintain
these sites. For us it is difficult to work by such manner.
13. How did you use or going to use mass media
for promotion of civnet idea? (Comments please).
Several articles were published in the main
local newspapers, TV- and radio programs were recorded during work on the
project. All of them tell about basic goals and key moments of CCN project.
14. How does your civic network take part in the
work of local medical organizations. How can it help to solve medical problems
in the region?
The networking center supplied serious help
for number of medical organizations for getting access to the Internet
in the city. They include hospitals, research institutes, outpatients'
clinics, a sanatorium. One more example is launching radio channel for
such organizations as Mary Bridge-Chelyabinsk Affiliation and Tacoma-Chelyabinsk.
15. How do you work with organizations of disabled people,
with citizens having some complex diseases? (Comments please)
CCN provides free access to Internet for "Our
children" association of parents of kinds with movement disabilities as
well as three individuals who can move only on carriage. All of them have
received their own mail accounts. We have organized technical support,
"first-step" education and have supplied modem and network cards for connections.
16. What kind of work was carried on with local and regional
youth/child organization in the framework of RCNP project?
Almost 70 schools have access to the Internet
via CCN. A half of them has also their own home pages on the web site.
17. What kind of work was carried on with local and regional
ecological organizations? How does civic network help to solve ecological
problems of your region? (Comments please).
Ecological organizations are the most active
participants of CCN. We collaborate very closely, there is exchange by
information about any news and events in this field, about projects, foundations,
etc. CCN mailing lists is a good way for sharing such information.
18. What kind of work was carried on with local and regional
business. Show the forms of collaboration with local business and prospect
of collaboration development.
19. Give the total number of training activities (workshops,
consultations, programs), show the name of each activity.
There were eight courses from September 1999 to June
2000. They include lectures, workshops and practical studies for different
categories of students (the same activity was on the first stage of CCN
project in 1998-1999).
Brief characteristic of trained people:
| The name of activity |
Total num-
ber of
people
trained |
Men |
Women |
Children |
Middle or high education |
Some college |
Bachelor,
Master degree |
Additional comments |
| Express training for teachers
of schools |
11 |
4 |
7 |
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11 |
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| Classes for children with disabilities |
10 |
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10 |
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| Classes for kids at "Our children" |
12 |
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12 |
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http://
openweb.ccn.
org.ru/aybolit |
| Internet technologies for NGO |
14 |
3 |
11 |
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1 |
3 |
10 |
For three months |
| Information technologies in education |
68 |
15 |
53 |
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In collaboration with Project
Harmony |
| Basic course on raster graphics |
6 |
2 |
4 |
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| Internet: Base for your work |
21 |
5 |
16 |
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| Internet: Search engines |
15 |
6 |
9 |
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20. Give the project geographical coverage (in the
form of map, if possible)
In practice, all territory of Chelyabinsk.
21. Tell please about the efforts to reach smaller
villages/communities outside the population areas. This is very important
point, because this is the most prospective direction of RCNP project development.
Expansion of the project in this direction implies existence
of some networking infrastructure around the area. But, as before, communications
are concentrated in large cities.
Anyway our networking center worked hard for involving
and extending the network in Miass (Chelyabinsk oblast). Institute of Mineralogy
that combines scientific organizations, university branches, schools and
NGO, presents our interests there.
Two networking centers have link of 2 MBps. We could connect
up a school in intermediate point of the channel, in Timiryazevsky settlement.
22. Tell please about volunteers' participation in your
project. Give the number of volunteers, the names. What are you doing for
involving more volunteers in the project?
Implementation of any project demands sometimes
large expenses of means, time and people resources. Good help is brought
by our volunteers who work with people with disabilities as well as NGO
and initiative groups. I can call the following names:
Galina Korepanova
Lyudmila Kuztetsova
Pavel Balakin
Mariya Sobol
Anna Il'ina
Konstantin Titov
23. Such conception as "human impact" is the key one for
RCNP project. The important part of RCNP is the participation in the life
of city, regional organizations, citizens and this participation should
lead to positive changes. We would like to hear one or more such human-interest
stories. Please tell the story about people who have benefited from the
project.
Participation in this project became an important event
for different people and organizations. Ludmila Kuznetsova and her colleagues
from "Childhood" Center for disabled persons have learned to use the email
communications and net conferences in their work and created the Center's
web-page. With this, they have facilitated considerably their links with
similar organizations throughout this country and the world. They are now
confident in the importance of their work, and they know how to develop
it further.
In the framework of this project, the web page is being
created dedicated to the work of the Center's Art Studio directed by I.L.Tomm,
where an exhibition of children's works will be presented, as well as methodical
guide of their teacher.
The participation of the Center's children in telecommunication
projects gives them a good opportunity to overcome their communication
problems solitude created by their physical defects (Lenochka Sukodolova,
Anton Sharpilov, Gera Dudkin).
Internet is of crucial importance for disabled people.
It can help not only with communication and getting information, but also
with education and jobs. Natalia Potapova, a very disabled person, having
got access to email, finds friends and colleagues who, like herself, specialize
in Law , as well as materials for her doctoral thesis on surrogate motherhood
in industrialized countries.
Dmitry Latukhin,
Project Coordinator
Email: [email protected]
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