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IATP News from Western Eurasia
December 18, 2004 - January 6, 2005
UKRAINE
US Congressmen and ECA alumni
pose after the meeting
in the IATP
access site in Lviv
ECA Alumni and American Congressmen Discuss Real Picture of Ukraine
On December 22, the IATP access site in Lviv, Ukraine, organized a meeting
of the ECA Alumni Club with US Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), Adam
Schiff (D-CA), and Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) in collaboration with the Public
Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Ukraine. Natalia Salo (FLEX 01) moderated
the dialogue between the alumni and the congressmen. The event participants
discussed the situation in Ukraine after the country’s second round
of the presidential elections. The American guests expressed their viewpoint
on the development of democracy in Ukraine while exhibiting a non-partisan
position that clearly supported free and unbiased elections in Ukraine.
The alumni shared their opinion on the future prospects of Ukraine’s
development, their desire to promote democracy, and their support for
freedom in the country. This discussion will help the alumni to contribute
to Ukraine’s well-being by inspiring them with the support of the
US Congress.
IATP Ukraine Initiates Discussion of the Political Situation
before the Third Round of Presidential Elections in Ukraine
On December 24, IATP access sites throughout Ukraine hosted alumni of
US government-sponsored exchange programs, journalists, NGO representatives,
and other interested people for a countrywide Internet conference dedicated
to the widely watched situation in Ukraine two days before the third round
of presidential elections. IATP initiated and moderated the productive
discussion that focused on the prevention of a potential east-west separation
and on encouraging mutual understanding between people with different
political preferences. The participants shared their ideas on how alumni
could contribute to uniting people from different regions of Ukraine.
They came to the conclusion that problems and myths borne during the presidential
elections should not separate regions of Ukraine regardless of their political
viewpoints and cultural differences. IATP Ukraine will continue these
dialogues to improve communication vital to the future of Ukraine.
MOLDOVA
Maxim Cataraga (right) receives his
WebTop award
for development of
the website for Natalia Dadiani
High School
IATP-Hosted Websites Win New WebTop Trophies in Moldova
On December 16, four IATP-hosted websites were announced among
the winners of the WebTop 2004 Awards. The awards ceremony was organized
by the Soros Foundation, the Globnet Internet Solutions Provider, the
Moldova Development Gateway Foundation, and the United Nations Development
Program in Moldova. The contest proved extremely competitive, and the
website contestants impressed the audience and the judges. IATP Moldova
repeated its success last year in the category for student websites and
won two first prizes for the websites of Glodeni
High School and Natalia Dadiani
High School. The author of the latter website, former IATP Chisinau
Intern Maxim Cataraga, also
won second place in the same category with his personal website. The website
of Crihana Veche Public
Library also won a special prize in the Rural Web category. The record
number of WebTop awards for IATP Moldova energized its team of talented
Web designers to strive for new achievements in the future.
IATP staff shows participants how to
develop courses
for the DL portal
IATP Opens the World of Online Distance Learning to Lecturers
in Chisinau
On December 27 and 28, IATP staff delivered a presentation on the IATP Distance Learning (DL) portal for nine lecturers at the Institute
of Sciences located in Chisinau, Moldova. The trainer stressed that DL
matches the skills and needs of people otherwise separated by time and
space and allows people to learn without taking them away from their home
and current work place. The participants then practiced development of
their DL courses with the supervision and guidance of IATP staff, who
demonstrated how to test students’ knowledge and how to extract
course statistics within the DL portal. The participants noted the advantages
of distance learning and promised to contribute to the development of
the IATP DL portal with their own courses.