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10 Internet Use by Nongovernmental Organizations: Tendencies and Prospects
10 Internet Use by Nongovernmental Organizations: Tendencies and Prospects
Pages 59-72
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The Internet forms its own virtual environment where people look for new forms of communication. The goal of the research carried out at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University is to trace interrelations between the nongovernmental sector and new communication technologies and to discover characteristics and differences of the new electronic information environment in comparison with the conventional one.
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Many American and European radio stations broadcast not only at conventional radio frequencies but on-line also. Every fifth inhabitant of the planet could have access to the resources concentrated in the global computer networks, including Russian ecological databases.
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INTERNET-JOURNALISM Public organizations and movements began to develop the new information field as users of mass media sites present on the Russian Internet. Moreover, active members of these movements became authors.
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Public organizations work better at the regional level. They are well informed about ecological problems of the region, they establish relations with local authorities, and they can watch the problems with their own eyes.
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For easier access of journalists to data obtained by NGOs, their press services publish bulletins and press releases. The SEU was the first with its own server on the Internet network: "Internet for ecological movement, www:server Ecoline." In 1996 it began providing information about the public ecological movement.
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It is a department of public relations. Journalists know it as an original source of fast, reliable, and interesting ecological information, while many members of SEU and other public organizations appreciate the opportunity to publish local ecologically essential information.
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Both lists publish short reports, conference announcements, and scientific and ecological news. They often distribute information received from international ecological servers.
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The first issue is devoted to a review of the present state of northwest Russian and Finnish ecological movements. The newspaper publishes opinions of representatives of the state nature protection departments and public organizations.
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Both the Bulletin and the news agency Kislotny Dozhd publish information on the activity of the local club Ekolog (Ecologist)
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It includes materials concerning resource status, economies based on raw material resources, role of transnational corporations, their influence on different aspects of social development, and a search for indicators of sustainable development. The bulletin is meant for professors and students of the humanities, active green workers, and people engaged in sustainable development.
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Ecological action on protection of the river was announced by the Far East Public Nature Protection Committee, established nine years ago. It includes ecologists, physicians, lawyers, and representatives of local authorities of Primorye and Khabarovsk territories, Chita Oblast, and the Jewish Autonomous Region.
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ECOLOGICAL ELECTRONIC BULLETINS Electronic mass media analysis shows that only a few organizations can afford to design and support then own servers. In order to make access to information obtained by NGOs easier for journalists, press services of the organizations publish bulletins and press releases and distribute them by electronic mail.
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For many public organizations, searching for money to pay for access to computer networks has become a serious obstacle. As a rule, NGOs try either to find allies in research institutes and colleges, which receive special funds for electronic communication facilities, or appeal to businessmen.
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Public movements can improve their effectiveness in sustainable development activity. The informational level of every NGO participant can increase due to new possibilities of obtaining information.
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