crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (02/12/89)
NetNews #4 from ICC in Moscow...
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INFORMATIQUE at the service of international
dialogue
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I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O M P U T E R
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101813, Moscow, Center, proyezd Serova, 4
USSR; tel: (095) 924-0787; 921-0902 telex:
411630 San Francisco/Moscow Teleport Net:
"icc" At: Dr. Sergei Kurdumov, President
Dr. Alexander Yegorov, General Director Mr.
Valerie Maister, ICC-USA Department
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ICC-USA: P.O. Box 4028 San Rafael, CA 94913
(415) 472-3493; telex: 4937174(MC UI) fax:
415/499-0967 San Francisco/Moscow Teleport
Net: "ewexchange" At: Mr. Simon Furman,
General Manager of East/West Exchange
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San Francisco/ Moscow TELEPORT: 3278
Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA
94115 Tel. (415) 931-8500 telex:
9103804097 TELEPORT fax: 415/931-2885;
sfmt: "jschatz" At: Joel Schatz,
President, Chairman of the Board
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The International Computer Club was established in Moscow at
the December of last year as an international non-governmental
organization and to function on an independent basis, now start
to create structure of the Club. In ICC now works about 15
different Sections such as: Sections for Telecommunications,
Computer Educations, Computer Games, CAD/CAM, Computers and
Knowledge, Computers in Medicine, Computers in Agriculture and
so on. For current moment Club have as a members and
co-founders about 2000 different Soviet organizations, firms,
cooperatives, enterprises, all Soviet major Banks as a
co-founders and also different foreign companies and firms from
all of the world. The main idea of ICC Sections, covering all
of the directions in the Soviet developing economic, governed
by the principles proclaimed in the United Nations
Charter,desirous under the motto "Informatique at the Service
of International Dialogue", to:
- create conditions for further social progress,
strengthen peace and
mutually understanding through uniting the efforts of
organizations and individuals of different countries in
expanding and deepening the international ties, mutually
information and trust in modern computer and communication
technologies,
- develop international ties between different
countries on
the basis of tapping the potential of modern computer means
and communication technologies,
- eradicate all forms of information discrimination on
any ground,
- develop information technologies in economically
least developed
countries,
- widely disseminate basic computer literacy and
culture,
- introduce computer technology in all areas of human
activity,
where this is economically feasible and socially relewant,
- promote computer knowledge, particularly among modern
youth,
- introduce principles of computer aesthetics and modes
of work
with information technologies that are most safe for human
health,
In connection with this ICC Section for TELEINFORMATIQUE
presenting one of the most important Projects:
T E L E H U M A N I S M
SETTING UP ICC TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE FOR ARMENIA
BACKGROUND
The Armenian rescue effort requairest international management
and coordination with the help of the latest
technologies in telecommunications and information
processing. It is considered that the effective use
of the various resources shipped to Armenia from all over
the world becomes more and more dependent upon the
parallel flow of information and the monitoring of the
situation. The Armenian Government is faced with the
tremendous task of collecting and processing information
on virtually every aspect of life in stricken areas. It has
therefore welcomed the proposal of the International
Computer Club to share this burden by undertaking a number
of definite projects including the provision of
International Telecommunication services. All these projects
are being implemented in close cooperation with the Armenian
Government and the Computing Center of the Planning
Agency of Armenia. Setting up of the ICC
Telecommunication Service for Armenia is of the primary
importance and is looked at as an essential condition for
networking stand-alone data banks is system which will
be able to give a clear picture of the situation. The
reliability of this system linking Armenia through ICC-Moscow
to the whole world, as an international crisis management
tool, has to be total. All the population of the Global
Village will benefit from it because it is high time that
the Global Village has got such a tool, tested and ready.
The ICC appeals to the citizens of the Global Village to
contribute intellectually to the concept of such a system.
For these purposes ICC announces a series of international
meetings to be convened by ICC with a view of
elaborating the concept of the telecommunication
service that would be most appropriate under the
situation and specifying steps and resources necessary
for its practical implementation. ICC hopes to bring
together at these meetings computer specialists from
the USSR and other countries as well as representatives
of Armenia and the Armenian community abroad. ICC
hereby extends an open invitation to computer companies,
governmental and non-governmental organizations, individual
scholars and specialists to take part in the proposed
meetings. For immediate personal invitation and travel details
please contact ICC Headquarters in Moscow through San
Francisco TELEPORT E-mail system on "icc" , telex 411630
Znanie, telephone 921-09-02. The first meeting will take
place in Moscow for two days from the 28th of February till
the 1st of March 1989. The second meeting is planned in
San Francisco between 15th and 20th of March 1989 where at
this time will be the delegation of the USSR National Center
for Automated Data Exchanges which is a member of the ICC
and which ICC has specially requested to represent its
interests in this matter. This delegation in the United
States may be contacted through the Innovation Computer
Corporation in Boston and SFMT in San Francisco. The main
Telecommunication Conference will be called from April, 3 to
April, 8 in Moscow. To arrange for a meeting beforehand please
contact the Organizing Committee through SFMT E-Mail system:
Oleg Smirnov - Chairman, Director of the NCADE, "osmirnov";
Vladimir Serdiuk - Deputy of Chairman and software, "vserdiuk";
Alexander Ostapenko - hardware, "vserdiuk" Veter Teremetsky -
lines, modems and coordination, "veter" Valerie Maister - USA
Department and ICC Board of Directors, "icc" Joel Schatz - San
Francisco/Moscow Teleport, President, "jschatz" Simon Furman -
ICC Representative in USA, General Manager, "ewexchange" John
Draper - Programmers and Volunteers, "prognetussr". Alexander
Treskin - Press Agency "NEWS", coordinator of Section for
Teleinformatique, "salex"
PURPOSES of the serial of international conferences and
consultations in ICC. Start to initialize the International
Project - "TELEHUMANIZM" and the creation of computer network
complex for Armenia is to establish efficient control of the
precesses of forming and implementation economic and social
programs of rehabilitating areas damaged as a result of
earthquake disaster.
TASKS
- discussing the concept of establishing computer
communication lines among Armenia and foreign Armenian
Relief Societies;
- determining the principles of creating republican computer
communicational Armenian infrastructure for enabling the
coordination among the regional organizations participants
of the international charitable foundations;
- discusing the technical details of developing new
communication technologies for Armenia (pack-radio
connection, satellite connection, modems, intellectual
interfaces of the information processing);
- working out recommendations of of using the Armenian
language in communicating through computer networks and in
teaching Armenian language with the help of new information
technologies.
- the determinative of the economic structural legislative
grounds of the international cooperation within the
framework of "TELEHUMANISM" Project.
PARTICIPANTS (from Soviet side):
International Computer Club, Moscow co-founders:
All-Union Society "ZNANIE" APN (Press Agency "News") Main
Computing Center of the Ministry for Railway Stations,
and Members:
National Center for Automated Data Exchanges, Moscow
Cooperative "INFOTEL", Moscow International Center for
Science and Technical Information, Moscow Main Computing
Center of Ministry for Civil Aviation of the USSR,
Secretariat of SEV (Mutually Aid Economic Council)
Institute of Mathematic
And also: Constant Representation of Armenia Government in
Government of the USSR, Moscow Initiative youth
science-technical group "POISK" (SEARCH), Moscow-Yerevan,
Armenia Government, Yerevan
AEROFLOT,
Central Committee of Komsomol of Armenia, Yerevan, Main
Computing Center of State Planing Commission of Armenia
Ministry for Civil Aviation of the USSR
ICC Board of Directors, Organizing Committee, and Armenia
Government will be very appreciate if you will resent this
NetNews to all of the possible recipients.
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John Draper here:
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for those that might be interested. Please don't flame me for the
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ALL the words in English, and probably used a Russian-English
dictionary.
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