Dear Madam/Sir,

As a student affiliated with Academia Istropolitana Nova, I would like to introduce you to a research on influence of computer networking on performance of environmental NGOs. The research title is "Networking as the Way of Enhancement of Environmental NGOs Performance". The objective of the research is both to find out about the influence networking have on NGOs performance and to create outline of policies for its better use. From the data collected we also aim to issue a directory of networking NGOs and their facilities (listing their addresses, e-mail addresses, Internet URLs, hardware and software facilities). Therefore, we would like to present you a questionnaire we constructed for these purposes. We would be grateful if you could spend some time with filling up the answers and send the questionnaire back to us by March 15. It will help us greatly with elaborating the best research from which, perhaps, you also may benefit. May we thank you beforehand - your co-operation is strongly appreciated.

Anara Otogonova - Academia Istropolitana Nova , Prostredna 13, P.O.Box 19, 90021 Svaty Jur Email: otogonova@ainova.sk

Questionnaire for Environmental NGO   General Questions   1. Where is your organisation/organisation centre located (city/town/village)?  2. How many branches does your organisation have (apart of the centre)?  3. Year of official registration   4. How many active members are there in your organisation?  5. In which areas is your organisation active?     Performance Questions   6. How would you evaluate the overall performance of your organisation?     excellent very good good fair poor    7. How many projects have you been involved in since 1990 ?     1990   1991   1992   1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998      8. How many have been successfully completed?     1990   1991   1992   1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998      9. How many are still under work?  10. How many failed?     11. If any failed, why?     12. How many grants have you been awarded since 1990?      1990   1991   1992   1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998      13. Do you use computers in your work?  Yes 386 486 Pentium   No      14. If yes, are you connected to Internet?  Yes No   If yes, indicate the Name of Internet Provider:     15. If you are not connected to Internet, do you plan for it?  Yes No   16. If you are connected to Internet, which connection do you have?  Dial-up Direct line      17. If you are connected to Internet, since when?  18. How often do you use Internet services for your work?      Everyday Occasionally Regularly Seldom Often Never    19. Which Internet services do you use for your work?       WWW Chats E-mail Online conferences Discussion groups Others  Newsgroups      20. If you use WWW-page, please, indicate your favourite WEB pages:  21. For what reasons do you use Internet services?      Information search Communication Information distribution Others     22. Do you co-operate with other organisations?  Yes  No   23. If yes, please, indicate appropriate options:  Other Slovak environmental   Slovak governmental organisations   Slovak private companies   NGOs from other countries(Czech Republic,D)   Others (specify)    24. How:      Common projects Others  Share of information      25. How do you disseminate your results into public?    Internet Radio Publications Other Newspapers Television Meetings 26. Do you employ staff responsible for computers and/or network maintenance?  Yes No   27. Do you maintain your own homepage?  Yes No   28. If yes, what type of information is presented on your WWW-page :     background of organisation newsletter (journal, bulletin, other periodical)  publications  annual report  calendar of events  press releases seminars (programs) other      Facilities Questions   29. Which operation system do you use on your computers?    Windows 3.x Windows NT Other  Windows 95 Macintosh      30. Do you use MS Office? If yes, which version?  Yes   No   31. If using Internet, which browser do you use?     Netscape Internet Explorer Other     32. If using e-mail, which e-mail client do you use?     Pegasus-Mail Microsoft Outlook  Outlook Express Eudora Netscape Communicator Mail  Other     33. Do you have CD-ROM?   Yes No   34. Do you have multimedia-equipped computers?  Yes No   Contact Question:     Organisation full name:    Address:     Name of contact person:      Telephone:     Fax:    E-mail:      Internet:       Final results of our project will be available on Academia Istropolitana WWW-page and in our library.