The face of Volgograd on the Internet or how competitions are held

    The city of Volgograd has an official website: www.volgadmin.ru
    This site is the face of the city on the Web, it solves serious information problems. The site presents a huge amount of information.

    The site design should embody the great historical past of the city, show its life and prospects, be convenient for citizens and for the city administration.
    Website design is important for citizens.

    The administration of Volgograd in early autumn 2008 announced a competition for the best new design of the Volgograd information and reference portal volgadmin.ru.

    It would seem that such a serious issue should be discussed with the public of the city, problems should be identified and formulated, which the new site design is designed to solve. There was no public discussion on this subject.

    The competition was not held through a public procurement system or municipal order, that is, there were no formal criteria and a transparent selection procedure. Who selects and how? Unclear.

    The jury was again not announced, which is generally nonsense for such events.
    The official announcement of the competition and its conditions can be found here: www.volgadmin.ru/ru2/Information/Claims.aspx?ids=8

    Among other things, the announcement informs that:
    1st prize - 18 thousand rubles,
    Prize winner of the competition, which the 1st prize is awarded, it also receives the right to
    conclude an agreement with Municipal Institution “GIC” (city information center) for the development of html-templates for the main and thematic pages of the new version of the portal.

    You need to understand that the price of a municipal contract for the design of the portal will not be 18 thousand rubles, but tens or hundreds of times more.

    What is MU GIC? This is a municipal institution, which since 1999 has been coordinating the entire information policy of the city.

    In mid-2008, its permanent director of the State Information Center, Elena Mikhailovna Ogol, was relieved of her post by the head of the city, and a certain Yury Anatolyevich Folomeev was appointed in her place.
    Mentioned by Elena Ogol and her work as the director of the GIC are given here: yandex.ru/yandsearch?text=%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%86+%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%BB % D1% 8C & stpar2 =% 2Fh1% 2Ftm693% 2Fs2 & stpar1 =% 2Fu0
    If summarized and summarized, then Elena Mikhailovna worked a lot and well at her post, enjoyed serious authority, was an arbitrator in many matters and a completely unbiased figure.

    And here is information about the new director on the GIC website: gic.volgadmin.ru/structure.htm

    Who is Yuri Folomeev? Where does this man come from?
    A few simple queries on Yandex make it possible to establish that until very recently he was managing one of the Volgograd web studios.
    Mechanical Frog Studio.
    www.volgograd.ru/catalog/m_frog.org
    pulset.ru/usl/find13_1u.php?id=81090&typeusl=18

    The jury of the annual contest of sites “Electronic Volgograd”, which traditionally includes the director of the State Information Center and its employees, will look strange. Will Yury Folomeev be represented on both sides - both as a participant and as a judge?

    Back to the competition. The results are summed up and officially published:
    www.volgadmin.ru/ru2/Information/Claims2.aspx

    Anyone who wishes can evaluate the winning design work on their own. In my opinion, the level of design of the work of the winners is extremely low. No thinking over the real application of design for website design, no sensible navigation. Try to imagine how the information that is available on volgadmin.ru now will be placed on any of these designs?

    Let's take a look at the winners.
    The first place was taken by a certain IP Popov Alexey Alekseevich. Who is this?

    I allowed myself an experiment that can still be repeated (I think that after the tenth call, the studio will take precautions).
    I called the Mfrog studio, which until mid-2008 was headed by the current director of the Municipal Research Center of Civil Engineering, conducting the competition, and introduced myself as a customer. After short negotiations, I agreed to cooperate and requested a contract.
    The contractor is listed as IP Popov Alexey Alekseevich.

    Was the competition accidentally announced shortly after the emergence of a new director?
    Is the strange form of the contest random?
    Why did so few professionals take part in the competition?
    Are the winners honestly chosen?

    And it wouldn’t be so offensive if the work of a certain studio close to the newly appointed head of the Municipal Center for Science and Technology was deservedly taken first place.

    But this primitive will now be the face of Volgograd in the global information network.
    You can’t explain to Russian citizens and foreigners who want to get an idea of ​​the city that such a design is simply a consequence of a more than strange contest.
    Indeed, the subsequent development and development of the official website of the city of Volgograd at all times will now be carried out at the expense of the city budget by a company actually belonging to the head of the Volgograd State Research Center of the City of Yuriy Yury Folomeev.

    Draw your own conclusions, big or small money will be spent on a new design. We don’t know yet. Only recently, there was a report on television about the wonderful mayor of the city of N, who stole several million rubles from the creation of the city site. Can history repeat itself in Volgograd ?!

    Or maybe on such an important issue as the official city information site, it is worthwhile to find out the opinion of citizens? It is not in vain that a format for public hearings was conceived that was held on development projects for significant urban areas.
    Even a simple discussion on the Internet based on the same volgadmin.ru or any of the portals, the forum - and that would be better.

    Yes, by the way, the composition of the commission is not known to anyone. On the sidelines they say that the "best" design was personally chosen by the head of Volgograd Roman Grebennikov.

    So what do you think about this?

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