Information and Call for Sponsorship
for prospective Sponsors and Foundations for support of activity
on creation of WWW Information Resources about Historical and Cultural
Heritage of Ukraine
Background
Initiative group including leading Ukrainian specialists in Internet
and Information Technologies, History, Culture and Art as well as interested
companies declare their intentions to start realization of
initiative Project
Internet Pavilion - Program of development of WWW
(World Wide Web) Information Resources about Historical and Cultural Heritage
of Ukraine and establishing special network of devoted WWW Servers
that will be realized in the frame of International initiative on creation
Central Park of Global Information Infrastructure and organizing World
Internet Exhibition of 1996.
Program Goals
- Development of WWW (World Wide Web) Information Resources about Historical
and Cultural Heritage of Ukraine and establishing special network of devoted
WWW Servers
- Engagement participation in this initiative leading groups of specialists
from correspondent knowledge areas and applied researches by creation special
development environment and integration framework on the base of Internet
WWW technology.
Achievement of the main goals will be provided by tight cooperation
of many interested and contributing participants and coordinating activity
of two devoted activity centers:
- NTUU "Kiev Polytechnic Institute", PINGroup (Polytech InterNet
Group) - technical and technological support of Hypermedia Information
Resources development, maintaining main WWW Server and network
- Informatics Department of Kiev Pechersk Lavra Museum - coordinating
and development of historical and cultural information resources
The Program will integrate Education, Research and Creative Work of
devoted specialists from different areas and will serve for manifestation
of initiative and self-expression of creative people.
The new Paradigm of Education and Living in the Information Age will
be realized in the Program
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More Detailed Information about the Project
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Structure of Program and main activities
- Establishing two main WWW Servers of the Project's network backbone:
www.lavra.kiev.ua in Kiev Pechersk Lavra Museum (KPLM) and
technology oriented www.park.kiev.ua in NTUU "KPI"
- Development and pilot implementation of the new technologies of WWW-documents
development and creation of environment for collaborative work of different
categories of specialists. Implementation of new technologies (Java, VRML,
Animated images) for hypermedia documents presentation including audio,
video, interactive videoconferencing
- Creation of two Demo Center in KPI and KPLM that will serve for wide
dissemination of Internet Technologies and GII and involving devoted non-technical
specialists in creation of WWW Internet resources representing outstanding
cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine
- Initiating founding formal and ono-formal groups of specialists from
subjects areas for cooperative participation in the project's activities
- Support of Ukrainian language on WWW Servers and Clients by means of
development and implementation WWW multilingual support in cooperation
with corresponding Standardization Boadies and Software Vendors
Call for Sponsorship and Declaration of Interest
Sponsors of this Program/Project will have opportunity to contribute
to the most ambitious and lively initiative Project that going to integrate
initiatives of wide circles of specialists, researches and artists and
participate in creation of elements of Information Society in Ukraine.
Supporting this Initiative your Company or Foundation will benefit in
many ways:
- Your organization will be mentioned as sponsor on the Server and in
any papers, Televisions and Radio news about this initiative
- Your organization get on-line advertisements and logo displayed at
all Project's Homepages
- Your organization will be able to place additional information about
itself in special webpages, including sales information
- Your organization will have regular information about Project activity
and results including new products and technologies developed
- Products vendors will have a good polygon for testing and evaluation
their products receiving detailed reports and bugs eliminating solutions
- Your organization will get active support and free webpage design
- Your organization will have opportunity for training its people on
the base of this Projects and associated initiatives including visiting
training and real practice
- Your organization can choose particular criteria for aiding its sponsorship
- Your organization support will NOT contribute to the so called "brain
drain" of the most active and creative specialists, as this Project
give the possibility for creative work and contribution to the boardless
Cyberspace without needs to relocate personality itself
- Your organization will be contributing to ongoing Information Age world
wide that extend virtual living space as for developed countries and for
countries with technology emerging economics
- For International and World-wide Organization, you will contribute
to extending virtual living space of the most developed societies to the
Ancient Slavic World with it's rich historical and cultural heritage and
intellectual potentiality
Project Homepages:
http://www.park.kiev.ua
Contact Information:
Yuri Demchenko: +380 (44) 441-1465
demch@cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua
http://cad.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/~demch/