<<April 17, 2005>>
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Prof. Stuart A. Umpleby
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
School of Business
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Dear Stuart:
(1) Many, many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
Yes, I remember your name and the day when I visited the PLATO Lab at the
University of Illinois.
It was certainly long, long time ago, and I am very delighted to hear from you
again.
(2) I downloaded the abstracts of chapters of your forthcoming book (filename:
Abstracts05.doc), and I am now taking the liberty of attaching it to this list
distribution.
(3) In it, I found your chapter entitled ÒBuilding Global University System.Ó
I greatly appreciate that you intend to write about what I have been doing in
the past three decades — BTW, the word ÒGlobal University SystemÓ is the
trade mark of our GLOSAS/USA. You may put me as your co-author so that
your chapter title would become legitimate. I would also be very happy to
contribute my experiences according to your instructions and inquiries.
(4) You may visit the following web site to get general scheme of our GUS
project;
(a)
Takeshi Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_II_Intercultur/Utsumi%20Creating%20GUS/Creating_GUS/GUS_web/Creating%20GUS-D12.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F231019
(b)
Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_IV_Global_Collaboration/Utsumi,%20Tak/GCEPG_D10_Web/GCEPG_D10.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1D121E09
(c)
Incidentally these are in the following book;
Global Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis -
Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Bk_outline-D13.html
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2D252E09
(d)
In the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
ÒInterview with Takeshi UtsumiÓ by Parker Rossman
(5) In the book of the above Item (4)-(c), you can also find the following
chapters;
(a) In
Part I of the book;
Marco Antonio R. Dias, Former Director of Higher Education at UNESCO
"Objectives and Institutionalization of the Global University System"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_I_Greetings/Marco%20Antonio%20Dias/Marco_web/DiasD8.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A10D61C49
(b) In
Part III of the book;
W. R. Klemm, Texas A&M University
"Academic Administration Issues for the Global University System"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_III_Global_E-Learning/Klemm,%20W.%20R./GUS%20Organization/KlemmD6_web/KlemmD6.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R1FC25C49
(5) As for the planned future direction of our GUS, pls retrieve my following
paper;
(a)
ÒGlobal University System with Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace
Gaming ProjectÓ
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/2005-03,%20ELeGI/ELeGI%20conf.html
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T198618CA
This paper was submitted to the 1st Annual Conference on
ELeGI in Vico Equense, Italy, from March 14th to 16th.
(b)
"Globally Collaborative Experiential Learning"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/2005-05,%20KUT_Lithuania%20/GCEL_D3.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L13F234EA
This paper was submitted to the Conference on ÒKnowledge
Society Challenges for e-LearningÓ at the Kaunas University of Technology in
Kanaus, Lithuania on May 26-27.
As mentioned in them, the peace gaming can be a powerful demonstration of GRID
networking technology and globally distributed computer simulation system.
The similar system can also be used for joint research and development on
various subjects by youngsters around the world, as fostering their creativity,
and hence promoting mutual understanding among them, also. This is, in a
sense, to form globally collaborative innovation networks with creativity of
youngsters around the world, which will be under the auspices of the
GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program of the University of Tampere,
Finland.
Pls
visit Slides #14 and 15 in the Section A-3-A at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/2004-10,%20Addis%20Ababa,%20Ethiopia/Int_Sympo.html
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K11552129
This will also be a paradigm shift of research and development in global scale,
out of the so-called isolated, academic "Ivory Tower" approach.
Senator
Fulbright once said ÒLearning together and working together are the first steps
toward global peace.Ó
(6) This is based on the following principles;
(a)
The principle of packet-switching technology (the basis of the Internet) is
ÒSharing,Ó
(b) The principle of GRID networking technology (which concept I initiate three
decades ago) is ÒCollaboration.Ó
Both of which principles are essential toward building
global peace. BTW, your abstract mentioned about both of them.
In other words, we hope to attain our aim as proliferating
the use of Internet and GRID technologies around the world with e-learning and
e-healthcare/telemedicine.
(7) Our European colleagues are now forging ahead on the application of GRID to
e-learning — see the followings;
(a)
On ELeGI project:
a. Project Overview of European Learning GRID Infrastructure (ELeGI)
b. D8 –
SEES Specifications and Feasibility Analysis (pdf, 4.9 MB)
They are Section 4-a and b at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/2005-03,%20ELeGI/ELeGI%20conf.html
(b) On NOMADIC:
See following list distributions at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-new/
1. (04/09/05) GLORIAD for broadband
Internet ring around the northern hemisphere of globe
2. (04/03/05) Paper on Global
University from Pari Center for New Learning in Italy
3. (03/28/05) Trip to attend ELeGI
conference in Italy and NOMADIC project
The ÒKnowledge Management over a Digital Communication Space (Proposal acronym:
NOMADIC)Ó is the outgrowth of the ELeGI project, and is for the consortium of 9
prominent European organizations, such as Sistemas Avanzados de Tecnolog’a,
Centro di Ricerca in Matematica Pura ed Applicata, European Medical Association,
Telef—nica Investigaci—n y Desarrollo, Qualphone Italia, Telespazio, Eutelis
Italia, University of Tampere, and Hellenic Open University.
Both projects will explore the frontier of applying the most advanced web and
GRID networking technologies to e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine,
particularly for the under-served people of remote/rural areas.
The NOMADIC project proposal was recently submitted from the University of Rome
to the EC, which included our following project to be administered by the
University of Tampere;
(a)
Global University System (GUS), and
(b) Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG).
(8) You may also be interested in reading my following book draft (particularly
Chapters 1, 2 and 3);
"Electronic
Global University System and Services"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html
The front half of the Item (4)-(b) above, and Chapter 1 of this draft tell you
my saga of extending Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to various Asian
countries, particularly to Japan, and de-regulating the Japanese telecom
policies for the use of email, and of the de-monopolization and privatization
of Japanese telecom industries. This has been emulated in many of other
countries since then, and enabled more than 1 billion email users around the
world nowadays. A stupid fellow (like me) could change the world, as said
in Figure 3 of the Item (4)-(b) above. I would like to have youngsters
around the world follow my step with the globally collaborative innovation
networks mentioned above.
(9) In your abstract, you mentioned of ÒGlobal Brain.Ó
In 1981, I coined the phrase "Global Neural Computer Network" in
which each participating game player, with his/her own desktop computer,
database and sub-model, would correspond to a neuron, router to synapses, with
the Internet serving as nerves in a global brain.
This is now called GRID networking technology, which concept I initiated three
decades ago — see;
McLeod,
J., "Power (?) Grid!," Simulation in the Service of Society,
Simulation, September 2000
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Peace%20Gaming/S3-Sept_2000/S3-Sept_2000.htm
I believe that GRID
technology along with web, multicasting videoconferencing, etc., over broadband
Internet will drastically alter conventional education in the very near future.
We would like to make our GUS project accelerate this change in right
direction.
(10) You may also retrieve my following list distributions, which are about the
conferences on the global university;
(a)
(04/03/05) Paper on Global University from Pari Center for New Learning in
Italy
(b) (04/05/05) Conference on Emerging Global University in Philadelphia in June
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-new/2005q2/date.html
(11) I also read the following abstract at the very beginning of your book
abstract;
Igor
N. Dubina
ÒCreativity Management and the Problem of Optimal Investment in CreativityÓ
You may suggest him
the following chapter in Part III of our aforementioned book;
Kaisa
Kautto-Koivula and Marita Huhtaniemi, Nokia Ventures Organization
"Evolution Towards Human-Centric Knowledge Society. Can Societies Learn
from Global Corporations?"
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/UNESCO_Chair_Book/Manuscripts/Part_III_Global_E-Learning/Kautto-Koivula/Kautto_web/KauttoD5_web/KauttoD5.htm
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z17D56259
Pls remind him to read
the very last sentence of her chapter saying ÒThe biggest barrier for new
development of Human-Centric Knowledge Society is our Industrial Age mindset!Ó
As I said in my slide #2 of the Section A-3-A of the following URL, there is no
economic theory for the creativity which is based on IN-tangible matters;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/2004-10,%20Addis%20Ababa,%20Ethiopia/Int_Sympo.htm
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K11552129
As Dubina says Òcreativity is disruptive by its nature,Ó which resembles with
ÒCreative Destruction,Ó famous words by Joseph Schumpeter.
BTW, do you know Mr. Kelvin, then a graduate student at your alma mater, the
University of Illinois? Around 1992, he invented the Voice Over IP (VoIP)
(i.e., Internet telephony). Around that time, Dick Cogger of Cornell
University invented CUSeeMe multi-party videoconferencing system through
Internet with the NSF fund (US$800,000 for 3 years), but alas, it did not have
audio. Do you know who combined both? Elementary school children of
SchoolNet (funded by the NSF fund) in San Diego, CA made it!! As you see
in Chapter 2 of my book draft mentioned in the Item (8) above, we used
both during our ÒGlobal Lecture Hall (GLH)Ó multipoint-to-multipoint,
multimedia, interactive videoconferences around the world, including Apple
Computer in Cupertino, CA -- which now have its feature as iSight. The
Internet telephony also is now proliferating and even threatening big
conventional telephony companies — see;
(a)
The new telephony
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/13/new.telephony.ap/index.html
(b) Let your laptop do the dialing
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/13/voip.skype.ap/index.html
ÒNever doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only
thing that ever has.Ó Margaret Mead
The globally collaborative innovation networks with creativity of youngsters
around the world, which was mentioned in the Item (5) above, is to have them
emulate these world changes.
(12) How to have a creative society?
Pls refer to the following;
Eger,
John;
The Creative Comminuty: Forging the links between art culture commerce &
community
(filename: CreativeCommBroFINAL.pdf_2.pdf) -- pls download it at the
archive of this list at the URL mentioned at the top of this msg.
(13) See also the Slides #14 and 15 mentioned in the Item (5) above.
(14) I hope that the above info will give some help to your chapter writing.
Pls feel free to call me at <718-939-0928> if you have any further
questions.
Looking forward to meeting with you again somewhere sometime soon,
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From:
Stuart Umpleby
<umpleby@gwu.edu>
Date: Fri, 15
Apr 2005 11:13:17 -0400
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: request
for book
Dear
Dr. Utsumi, I believe I met you many years ago when I was a graduate student
working in the PLATO Lab at the University of Illinois. In 1970 I
attended a futures research conference in Kyoto. Perhaps I met you there.
Lately I have been writing about the Global University
system. See "recent publications" at the link below. From
a student I have learned about your book, Global Peace through the Global
University System. Is it possible to down load it from a website? I
would like to refer to it in future articles.
Many thanks and best wishes, Stuart Umpleby
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Stuart Umpleby, Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
Monroe Hall 403, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052
www.gwu.edu/~umpleby <http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby>
, tel. 202-994-1642, fax 202-994-3081
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