Karelia Remote Computing Project

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The University of Oulu and Oulu region’s industry donated a fully equipped computer classroom and distance education equipment to Petrozavodsk University’s Kostomuksha distance university. The equipment in the donated computer classroom included 12 computers, a server that functions as the teacher’s computer, a network operating system as well as the necessary data communication and printing equipment. The distance education equipment included IP video conferencing equipment and a video projector. The main goal of the project was to ensure the high-quality utilisation of the distance and multi-use equipment purchased using donated funding, to develop new distance and operational cultures, and the networking of suppliers on both sides of the border. The project was to make the opportunities created by high-speed connections known and to offer the related parties the opportunity to learn the skills necessary for the effective use of high-capacity data communication channels. The diversifi cation of the use of information technology on both sides of the border was also seen as requiring data network and equipment use training. The target group of the project included organisations, companies and entities in Kainuu and northern Ostrobothnia that engage in activities related to Russia as well as the entities engaging in co-operation with Finland in the northern part of Russia’s Karelia; however, the project was mainly targeting entities in Kostomuksha.

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