Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:23:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subscribers to CivilSoc may be interested to hear a few words from
Vladivostok, where I am attending the 3rd New Media for a New World
conference. The conference is organized by the Vladivostok News, Vlad's
first English language daily, with support from USAID's Media Development
Project, the Art Pattison Communications Exchange Porject, Internews, the
Russian American Press and Information Center, Vladivostok Novosti and
others. It is being held at the Far Eastern State University, which has
just gotten a full Internet connection thanks to the Soros Foundation
project to connect 30 Russian universities. (FESU is the 3rd university
to get wired; the first two were in Yaroslavl and Novosibirsk.)
Connectivity is growing rapidly in Russia and it is more and more
accessible. Of course, at the universities it is free to students,
faculty and staff. But it is also becoming rather inexpensive for the
general public. One Internet service provider in Vlad announced yesterday
that his service offers an hour of access to the Web for something like
$2.50/hr. Not bad.
We also learned that there are now more than 400 Internet nodes in Russia.
The Vladivostok News site, which just went up, is worth a visit. Its URL
is
www.vladnews.ru
Holt Ruffin
CCSI
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