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This server
has been supporting the United States Peace Corps in Ukraine, where Volunteers
(PCVs), in collaboration with Ukrainians, have been developing the following
websites (click on any to view or just remember the /[word] to access later as
easy extensions for this http://co.net site). The /participate conferencing
system is no longer available on this server. Minnesota Returned PCVs (MnRPCV) &Ukrainian exchange
students & faculty will redesign CoNet. The following are listed in the
order developed, except for the first three links, the most current of these
websites:
/becoolgogreen about AustinMN Coalition
for Environmental Sustainability (aces*), co-sponsor of CoNet redesign;
* click on http://becoolgogreen.pbwiki.com/ for
acesÕinteractive calendar & agenda to be integrated above in Feb 2009
/friends, Friends of Ukraine (FoU), affiliate
of National Peace Corps Association, provided a
grant for /sisters below;
/sisters, in Jan-Jun 2009** by Riverland Community College, Kherson National Technical U, MnRPCV,
FoU & aces;
** click on FoUapproved.doc to download to see changes to occur
here by mid-2009
/ukraine about PCVs, their sites here, past
& current projects, and resources globally;
/mykolayiv developed by Ukrainian
students about their PCVs-led summer school;
/kherson designed by a Ukrainian student
about business courses taught by PCVs;
/nikita, /bonsai
& /fruit in Russian & English, about
Nikita Botanical Gardens;
/travel about tourism especially in southern
Ukraine for a travel agency here;
/trade about trade zone business development
seminars, involving a PC grant;
/health under construction (as a PCV
secondary project) for Ukrainian doctors;
/energy about wind power development, closing
of Chernobyl nuclear power, etc.
/cshi about Crimea State Humanitarian Institute
(CSHI)
/crimea about Crimea (tourism, communities,
trade, energy)
/dialog in 2007 about war, energy, the
economy, and other issues of the 2007-08 political campaigns
/harry, a 2010 memoir in-process ABOUT your host, Chandler
Harrison ("Harry") Stevens :
Harry (a.k.a. Harrison of Kherson -- & of Yalta -- or as
"Lighthorse") helped Hormel
Institute at the University of Minnesota to launch CoNet and the Southern Minnesota Internet Group (smig.net) in
1993-99. He then entered the Peace
Corps in February1999 and served in Ukraine through April 2001, after which he
organized Friends of Ukraine. After his post-Katrina Crisis Corps
service in Alabama in September-October 2005, he similarly organized Friends of USA, which is
composed mainly of Returned PCVs (RPCVs) who joined in that PC Response effort,
the first ever to help in a disaster within the United States rather than in a
developing country elsewhere.
Harry applied his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Georgia Tech, 1956)
and Ph.D. in Economics (MIT, 1967) degrees to becoming a management consultant
in computers (1956- ), an Air Force Officer at the Pentagon computer center
(1957-60), a politician (1962-1970) in Massachusetts, a professor (1969-74) at
RPI and MIT, and an entrepreneur (1970-1999) in founding Participation Systems
Incorporated (1970-1986) and then in co-founding Eventures Limited (1987-1999),
which developed Participate/Parti,
the first commercial computer conferencing software (1980-2002) and media
dialog systems, credited with supporting the biggest upset Congressional
election in 1970 (Father Robert Drinan) and in conducting a Crimean energy dialog on
TV, on radio and in newspapers in Ukraine in 2001.
Dr. Stevens is a husband to one (Joann
Orcutt Stevens), a father to two (Emily
Joan Stevens and Maria Stevens
Bollinger), a grandfather to one (Dexter Michael Stevens Skahill) and a
co-moderator of Yahoo Groups for Sister Colleges in the US
& Ukraine, Friends
of USA, and Save
Our Democracy (SOD -- open to all to please join).
Click to join
saveourdemocracy
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Last
update: 4 December 2008 |