July 22, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The Ugra delegation made a presentation of the project “Arctic E-memory”.

The project presentation was made while the seminar “Formation of Information Resources for a Personality’s Spiritual and Moral Development  in the Information Community” to be held in the village of Komarovo near Saint Petersburg. The event united over 50 top researchers, experts of IT-industry, people of culture, representatives of governmental authorities, business, civil society institutions from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Leningrad and Moscow Regions, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs.  Daniil Granin, Classic of the Russian literature, traditionally participated in the seminar.

While the seminar participants considered the strategy of the information society development in Russia and regions in the frames of the initiatives, connected with preservation of cultural and spiritual heritage. Special attention was paid to the projects to be devoted to the 65-th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. One of them is the e-presentation of the exhibition “I am writing this letter with tears”.

The exposition includes letters, archives, films about the war from the funds of Anna Akhmatova’s museum in the Fountain House, Institute of Russian Literature “Pushkin House”, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera), People’s Museum, Museum “Nevskaya Zastava”, private archives and school   expositions to be devoted to the war.

Besides, the project “Arctic E-Memory” was proposed for the discussion. The project is aimed at forming the united information space of the world’s northern regions for the common access to the information and data about the exploration, functioning and sustainable development of such territories. The program concept was made by the Ugra Committee for Information Resources.

At the village library  while the round table it was made a discussion to be devoted to the use of information-communication technologies in the contemporary society. Director of the library Elena Tsvetkova said that application of e-catalogues and readers’ cards made it possible to monitor the history of choice of books written by famous people who had lived  in Komarovo. While the discussion Daniil Granin emphasized: “Today due to the active use of computer technologies there is a revolution in all spheres of life including literature”.  Having a  rest abroad,  due to a light  e-book the writer had an access to the greatest classical library and could read his favorite books in a convenient print.

At the end of the stay in the village the guests laid flowers to the graves of the famous countrymen who had lived and had been buried in the Komarovo village: Anna Akhmatova, Dmitri Likhachev, Natalia Bekhtereva, legendary polar explorers Mikhail Somov and Alexei Treshnikov.

The event is held annually in the frames of the agreement on commercial and economic, research-technical, social and cultural  cooperation between Ugra and Saint Petersburg.