Activity report for 1999(PDF) - Soros Foundation Moldova
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the Cisco Network Academy educational program. This<br />
event would both increase the level of training of<br />
<strong>Moldova</strong>n specialists in the field, and give the opportunity<br />
to access international certification programs.<br />
In <strong>1999</strong> the DNT Association carried out the following<br />
projects:<br />
OurNet – the first virtual community in <strong>Moldova</strong>. It<br />
includes the following components:<br />
<strong>Moldova</strong> Internet Resources – a Yahoo type directory<br />
of <strong>Moldova</strong>n Internet, which gives the opportunity to<br />
surf various categories (computers, education, arts,<br />
etc.) in order to find the corresponding pages.<br />
OurNet hosting – offers free hosting <strong>for</strong> personal<br />
Web pages. The total number of fixed registries on<br />
OurNet hosting was 1500 and respectively, 140 in catalog.<br />
Web Design School – offers virtual web design<br />
courses.<br />
OurNet <strong>Moldova</strong> News. The most interesting news<br />
from and about <strong>Moldova</strong> were selected by the<br />
Independent Journalism Center, translated in three languages<br />
and placed on OurNet page (http://news.ournet.md)<br />
daily.<br />
According to the site statistics, the news website is<br />
one of the most frequently visited sites both by local<br />
and <strong>for</strong>eign users. On average 2,800 web surfers visit<br />
this site on a daily basis. Since the beginning of the<br />
project, 450,000 visitors have been registered.<br />
Privatization Link<br />
This project was submitted by John C. HARPER,<br />
International Business and Technical Consulting Inc.,<br />
The World Bank and the Department of Privatization<br />
and State Property Administration<br />
Its goal was to restructure and develop the www<br />
server of the Privatization Department (www.privatization.md).<br />
The server is well structured and contains<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation about <strong>Moldova</strong>n enterprises subject to privatization<br />
in accordance with international standards.<br />
Privatization Link is completed and is updated weekly<br />
during the year, depending on the frequency the<br />
Privatization Department releases in<strong>for</strong>mation. This<br />
page has about 40 daily visitors.<br />
Computerization of the Parliament’s Analytic<br />
In<strong>for</strong>mation Center.<br />
A website of the Parliament of the Republic of<br />
<strong>Moldova</strong> (http://www.parliament.md) was created in<br />
<strong>1999</strong>.<br />
During the project implementation the Parliament’s<br />
Analytic In<strong>for</strong>mation Center collaborated with Robert<br />
Schuman <strong>Foundation</strong> from Paris, which agreed to support<br />
the development of the project and to extend the<br />
computerized parliamentary network. One of the conditions<br />
put <strong>for</strong>ward by the French foundation was to present<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation on the parliamentary activity in the<br />
field of European integration on the Parliament’s web<br />
<strong>1999</strong> ACTIVITY REPORT<br />
site in French as well. This fact does not interfere with<br />
the project itself. On the contrary, it has an additional,<br />
complementary character and creates conditions <strong>for</strong><br />
further project development.<br />
Theatre + WWW<br />
The web site includes www pages <strong>for</strong> every theater<br />
of <strong>Moldova</strong> with theatre history and background, repertoire,<br />
plans <strong>for</strong> tours and a database of a Who is Who<br />
type, about actors, producers, script-writers, etc. It is<br />
under construction.<br />
Free E-mail Software<br />
The Bat! e-mail software was acquired <strong>for</strong> the educational<br />
system. Its subsequent target was free distribution<br />
to organizations benefiting from Internet connection<br />
from the DNT Association including universities,<br />
schools and NGOs. Anyone, who wishes to use this<br />
software, can access it at http://www.DNT.md/support/downloads/.<br />
All DNT clients may use it as an email<br />
software because its main characteristic is closely<br />
related to mail.md.<br />
$ 2,000<br />
Summer School in Computer Science – 99<br />
Center of New In<strong>for</strong>mation Technologies (CNIT)<br />
Between August 9-22, <strong>1999</strong> the CNIT organized a<br />
summer school in computer science – 99. This summer<br />
school was attended by students from secondary school<br />
institutions who got high scores at nation-wide contests<br />
in mathematics and computer science. Nine<br />
groups of students were offered multilevel theoretical<br />
and practical courses.<br />
$ 9,995<br />
Internet point of presence – E-mail <strong>for</strong> Bælfli,<br />
SUB<br />
An Internet point of presence was created within<br />
the A.Russo State University in Bælfli. The creation of<br />
this server in the city of Bælfli allowed users from the<br />
University, as well as schools in the town to “locally”<br />
access E-mai.<br />
School # 32 on the WEB.<br />
Internet connection of the school through a leased<br />
telephone line aims to familiarize students with the<br />
Internet network, establish and maintain business relations<br />
with other national and international academic<br />
institutions and implement new technologies in the<br />
educational process. The project also included the<br />
development of the electronic version of the school<br />
newspaper and placing it on the WEB.<br />
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