Annual Report - On-Line Partners
| The true strength of the Internet is not in
its ability to deliver infinite amounts of
information to a passive audience; rather, it
lies in its potential to create real communities
where people actively correspond with each other
to achieve a concrete purpose. The On-Line
Partners Program (OLP) represents an effort to
tap into this potential of the Internet by
promoting academic links, expanding educational
resources, and facilitating cooperation between
scholars and students in Central/Eastern Europe
with their counterparts in North America and
Western Europe. OLP is building a global academic community by facilitating matches between Eastern and Western scholars and students, thereby creating a vital, living network to advance social science scholarship and cooperation. CEP coordinates the work of individuals with common interests and periodically provides partners with useful updates. By using e-mail and accessing the Internet, CEP On-Line Partners are able to share information across social science disciplines, trade syllabi, offer suggestions on articles and papers in progress, and direct each other to useful resources. Through this multiplex exchange of ideas, advice and information, OLP reduces the isolation experienced at universities from Slovakia to Kazakhstan.
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