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included in the recommendations of the offsite meeting, and eventually an
official policy document on the subject was adopted.
Together with the Siberian Federal University, we launched a «Foresight»
project («Foresight» – Study of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)). The Yakut
people are the main participants of this study aimed at defining a possible
future of the peoples of the republic on the basis of expert assessments of social
and economic spheres, utilizing the method of long-term regional development
forecasting. Its main peculiarity is the focus on the development of practical
measures for rapid achievement of the selected strategic objectives that guide
the medium and long term development of the republic.
A programme for the preservation and development of the Yukaghir language
and culture in digital media and cyberspace for 2011-2014 was launched. The
results achieved during the first six months of 2011 include five educational
DVD-based courses on the Yukaghir language, a basis for the web-portal of
the indigenous small peoples of the North, www.arctic-megapedia.ru , where
materials on the language and culture of Yukaghirs are already available.
Measures are being taken to further develop the ways for operational
communication, interaction and bringing people together.
Modern information technology shortens the distance, helps to overcome
the language barrier and does indeed change the world. Within the NEFU
Development Programme, a number of steps are being taken to advance
information and communication technologies.The main goal is to build
an IT system to support research and education process and achieve full
automatization of university work.
A Wi-Fi network provides a wireless Internet access to students within the
University buildings and will soon be extended to cover the entire campus.
The biggest university building of the Natural Sciences Department offers
free Wi-Fi mobile working areas which are also helpful to our guests – foreign
students from Norway, Finland, Sweden, who come here in the framework
of the North-North exchange programmes, and South Korean students, who
participate in the NEFU Summer School.
The University works to integrate cutting-edge technologies. There is a wellknown
expert estimate of ten information technologies that will change the
world. Cloud Computing technology comes first among them: it enables small
computers to process information using the potential of big datacenters located
across the world.
In this area, we explore ways to use cloud computing to build an innovative
platform for a virtual electronic university – “the Yakutsk INTER-University.”
A student may enter a service cloud anytime and anywhere provided that he
has an Internet connection. Any lecture room or classroom can turn into a
laboratory or a computer classroom.
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