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FAO National Committees on internet
Improving Dissemination of Agricultural
Information on Regional Level
Regional Pilot Project of FAO SEUR with
Czech Republic Trust Fund
Date: 28 November - 03 December, 1999
Place: Agricultural University Gödöllő, Hungary
Global aspects
Based on a suggestion of the Czech FAO National Committee
in May 1999, FAO SEUR decided to promote the establishment of web pages for the National
FAO Committees in Central and Eastern European member countries. Currently four of the
Central European Countries have a FAO National Committee that will be the first
co-operation partners. The aim of web sites FAO National Committees is to improve the
information dissemination from FAO National Committees (FAO NCs) and to help the
communication among them and FAO.
The Regional Pilot Project
The establishment of the FAO NC web-pages shall be
supported by a Regional Pilot Project of FAO SEUR.
The goals of the project:
- capacity building on national level,
- to set up structurally uniform Internet pages for each
participating FAO NCs, which will serve as information channel about their work and for
better communication with the WAICENT related information resources;
- to demonstrate advantages of using Internet on national
basis and promote this trend in whole region of Central and Eastern Europe.
The implementation steps of the project:
- proposal for structure of FAO NC Internet pages (task for
WAICENT, FAO SEUR and Czech FAO NC)
- preparation of contents (task for FAO NCs' Representatives)
- preparation of the mandate for FAO NC Internet pages (Aim,
target group, data owner, etc.)
- one week working seminar in Budapest, where Internet pages
will be created and filled in with information (task for team of web-designers under
co-ordination of FAO SEUR and FAO NCs)
- maintenance and updating of Internet pages (task for
national FAO NC Representatives and web designers)
This project will be implemented in co-operation of
WAICENT, FAO SEUR, FAO NC Representatives and Project Co-ordinators and web experts from
four participating countries. Representing the Central European Region, namely Poland,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary.
Czech Republic
- Vojtech Havránek - Co-ordinator of Regional Pilot
Project, FAO NC Representative
- Karel Knetl - NGO Representative
- Radek Zapotocky – webdesigner, Ministry of
Agriculture
Hungary
- Bakk Katalin - FAO NC Representative
- Kulcsar Ferenc - Ministry of Agriculture
- Laszlo Papocsi - project manager, GAK Kht
- Oszkar Szeles - Gak Kht
Poland
- Margaret Piotrowska - FAO NC Representative
- Jacek Dobrowolski - webdesigner, Ministry of Agriculture
Slovakia
- Barbara Hellebrandtová - FAO NC Representative
- Lucia Povodová - Ministry of Agriculture
- Juraj Gogora - webdesigner, ISTIA Nitra
Moldova
- Valeriu Spinu - Ministry of Agriculture
FAO
- Kafkas Caprazli FAO - WAICENT, Information Systems Officer
- Michal Demes - FAO SEUR, Information Systems Officer
- Ildiko Pocza - FAO SEUR, Library Assistant
One week working seminar is planned to take place in
Gödöllő, November - December 1999. Czech Republic Trust Fund and financial support from
WAICENT will cover expenses of this seminar.
Perspectives of the Pilot Project
In the forthcoming years the CEE member countries are
expected to join in the following order:
- Baltic Region: Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia
- Caucasian Region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
- Balkan Region:
a) Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Albania
b) Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia, FYR Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Participants of SEUR CEE Capacity Building Workshops, and
authors of AgroWeb CEE pages can be used as national trainers of decision-makers for new
Information Technologies. They can also create, publish and maintain the FAO National
Committee pages as an integrative part of Ministry of Agriculture homepages.
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