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- What is the present state (activity) of your project? (Your comments - about 1 page)
Full activity (describe it)
We provide all kinds of services, but for limited number of users (What kinds of services, what kind of users?)
We provide the services to everybody, but the number of services is limited. (What kinds of services, what kind of users?)
Services promised by project are not realized
Have you charged services (describe them please).
Sergiev Posad Civic Networks provide Internet access to many organizations, public men, government officials. We signed a number of agreements about joined scientific and technical activity towards using of Internet technologies in information exchange.
We provides such kinds of services as Internet access and e-mail for all interested persons and organizations.
Besides free services we provide charged services to organizations (using dedicated lines) and to everyone in Internet-cafe
We provide the limited number of services, we are not able to serve all users because of following :
- the limited number of telephone lines in Sergiev Posad
- the lack of computers in PAP
- population�s low standard of knowledge about computer technologies and Internet
- 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:
- To improve provision of social services via Internet
- To extend interest for local cultural activities
- To increase the local population�s participation in political life
- To increase the employment of local population
- To promote the economical development of your town, region, country
- To provide telecommunication services
- To improve the quality of health services
- To increase the efficiency of interaction between local government and local population
- To promote cultural enrichment
- To extend educational opportunities
- To help coordination between regional information services
- To establish contacts and partnership relations with other regions
Due to civic networking the providing of social services through Internet improved significantly, the interest to local culture increased. Local population takes part in city's political life more actively. Unemployed people got the ability to search job with the help of civic networks. Small business in Sergiev Posad develops rapidly. The historical and cultural and ethnographical center � "Craftsmen City" was founded in Sergiev Posad. The information about this great project was published on the pages of our server.
Sergiev Posad has several colleges and universities. Working together with Education Department we try to cover all educational institutions by our services (Internet access, e-mail, etc). Together with Chamber of Commerce we create now "Intranet", for this purpose we form united cable net connected to our server. Due to satellite antenna the speed of received signal will raise to 2 Mbt/sec.
On 7 October the conference of Sergiev Posad Creative League will be held. FSP is going to present two projects: 1)"Sergiev Posad civic networking as a tool of population's cultural enrichment, 2) "Craftsmen City"
- Give the statistics on web-server:
- The number of web site hits per month? Number of hits from the very beginning?
- The most visited pages
- 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?
- How many organizations and private person have published the information at your server? What kind of information?
Our main web-server was modified, we changed our design several times, that is why we lost the statistic data. But we know that we have about 200-600 hits per month. Other our sites ( www.sergievposad.ru, www.POOL-7.ru, www.rusmir.divo.ru ) we indexed more hits. The most visited pages are � information about city's life, newspaper "Vpered", newspaper "Vse dlya vas", "Craftsmen City".
We published information about almost all enterprises and organizations of Sergiev Posad and region. Many of them have their own sites.
Not so far ago we announced a new site http://sergievposad.net .
10. What is the average educational level of user?
- secondary or high school 20 %
- some college 50 %
- bachelor, master degree 30 %
- other (specify)
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).
Our Coordinating Council consists of head managers of organizations connected to Sergiev Posad Civic Networking: Vladimir N. Panamarev, Chamber of Commerce Director; Galina I. Subbota, Chief Editor of newspaper "Sergiev Posad Week"; Igor R. Borisov, Reporter of newspaper "Vpered"; Natalia E. Tolstaya, Humanitarian Institute Chancellor, Vyacheslav G. Soukhov, Phsical and Mathematical School Director, Nikolay N. Chernyshov, Deputy Head of Region Administration.
- 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).
We have published only telephone guide, because there are some difficulties with dissemination of information about structure and list of Administration officials. This information is for official use.
How did you use or going to use mass media for promotion of civnet idea? (Comments please).
The Chief Editors of two local newspapers are involved to Coordinating Council of Civic Networking. Newspapers publish a material about Internet resources routinely. Local TV shows the work of Public Access Points, interview net users.
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?
Limited technical resources could not allow providing Internet services to medical organizations of our region. But now we developed a training program for medical personnel. We have the opportunity to train them in Internet-cafe in 2001.
How do you work with organizations of disabled people, with citizens having some complex diseases? (Comments please)
- Providing of equipment or software
- Technical support
- Training, consultations
The lack of computers and limited technical resources could not allow providing Internet services to disabled people. We plan this work in 2001 on the assumption of grant financing.
- What kind of work was carried on with local and regional youth/child organization in the framework of RCNP project?
Foundation for Social Programs has its structure a youth organization "Bogorodskiye Medvedi". This organization is connected to Internet.
- 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).
We collaborate with ecological organization "Biosphere and Biopolicy". We plan to work in cooperation with other ecological movements and organizations of our region.
- 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.
Sergiev Posad Chamber of Commerce is a cofounder of SPCN, it has a site on SPCN server. Besides this we provide the opportunity to use Internet and e-mail for many businessmen. Together with Sergiev Posad Chamber of Commerce we created organization "Cultural and Business Center".
- Give the total number of training activities (workshops, consultations, programs), show the name of each activity.
Brief characteristic of trained people :
The name of activity
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Total number of people
trained |
Men |
Women |
Children |
Middle or high school |
Some college
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Bachelor,
Master degree |
Additional comments |
26 of September, 1999 � workshop "Internet as a tool assisting to leaders of public organizations" |
16 |
7 |
9 |
- |
2 |
1 |
13 |
Workshop in Sergiev Posad |
12 0f December, 1999 � meeting in Stambul (Turkey) of working group "Migrant's Integration and Repatriation Movememnt" |
20 |
12 |
8 |
- |
- |
- |
20 |
Information about the results of this meeting is published on site www.migrant.ru |
24-27of February,2000 in London there was held a meeting of members "E-initiative" charitable organization |
12 |
9 |
3 |
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One of the discussed question was fund raising for SPCN |
24 of June, 2000 there was held a workshop "The participation of scientific and industrial associations in economic development of Sergiev Posad city |
42 |
28 |
14 |
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TOTAL
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90 |
56 |
34 |
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The main goal and objectives of workshops were assistance in effective realization of information potential with the help of civic networking for:
- Realization of PR campaign plans
- Training course on PR work basics
- Dissemination of information in mass media, among organizations and persons, in Russia and abroad
- Assistance in establishment of cultural relations with same organizations in the world
- Other
20. Give the project geographical coverage (in the form of map, if possible)
- Separate town, town�s region
- Several adjoining regions
- Other (specify)
Sergiev Posad is a regional center. Public access points are evenly distributed territorially. The settlement GAES is situated in 25 km from Sergiev Posad and there is a PAP there in office of "Bogorodskiye Medvedi" organization. We plan to create in remote settlement 3-4 such PAP in 2001-2002.
- 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.
Together with Chamber of Commerce we start to realize this program. This program is intended for 3 years, we need financing about $ 50,000, City Administration promised to allocate the part of those funds.
- 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?
It is difficult to enumerate all volunteers because of great number. These are the students from Internet � caf�, students of physics and mathematics school, etc.
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.
This point of survey I am going to fill a little later.
Victor Nemov,
PI of Sergiev Posad Civic Networking
e-mail: [email protected]
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