<<March 9, 2006>>
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Hans Zimmermann <hans.zimmermann@ties.itu.int>
Mr. Jim Miller <jimmsl@aol.com>
Dr. Edward A. Friedman <FRIEDMAN@STEVENS-TECH.EDU>
Dear Hans:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
Yes, it was certainly a longtime ago when we met at the IIC conference in Tampa, FL on 9/25-28/00.
(2) I am very delighted to receive your msg with information about very interesting following conferences;
(3) “Telecommunications in the Service of Humanitarian Assistance” which was appeared in the International Civil Defense Journal, Vol.XI - No.1 - April, 1998, p.p. 20-24, said;
In disaster relief and telehealthcare fields, it is well known that email was the first means to report the occurrences of Kobe earthquake and terrorist attack of the World Trade Center in New York to the outside world, thus helping to save many lives.
(4) My list distribution of April 8, 2000 said <http://www.friends-partners.org/utsumi/gu-l/early-2000/4-8-a.html>;
See more about the devastating Kobe earthquake in ATTACHMENT II below, which is a copy of my list distribution of February 22, 1995.
(5) These will then solidly affirm the words by Dr. Pekka Tarjanne in his invitation letter;
Dear Ed:
(6) You may be interested in attending ISCRAM-2006 at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, your next town, which will be chaired by Prof. Murray Turoff, my longtime friend.
Dear Hans:
(7) Ed’s school has strong team on wireless broadband Internet, and is now getting to work with various African countries (e.g., Ghana, Zambia, etc.) — his school has already connected with Beijing Institute of Technology as providing several courses with face-to-fact mode as well as e-learning mode.
(8) Your conference in Tampere sounds very interesting.
The ultimate goal of our GUS is to interconnect GUS in developing countries with broadband Internet through Virtual Private Network (VPN), each of which GUS is to be a consortium of higher learning and healthcare institutions in their countries which are also to be interconnected with broadband Internet.
Such a broadband Internet network can be enacted with the combined use of optical fiber network and gigabit satellite, e.g., GLORAID (*) and WINDS (**), and then the Local Community Development Network (LCDN) (***) with the use of broadband wireless Internet unit (e.g., WiMax, spread spectrum, etc.).
If such a broadband Internet network was in place at the outbreak of devastating tsunami around the Indian Ocean, it could have been tremendous help to millions of people, not only mere the viewpoint of monitoring but also emergency medical care and education, etc.
Pls feel free to contact me if you consider that my background would be qualified for the ICEC-2006.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
> From: Hans Zimmermann <hans.zimmermann@ties.itu.ch>
> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:12:57 +0100
> To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Subject: A conference and some questions
>
> Dear Professor Utsumi,
>
> it is quite some time since we met in IIC events. I was at that time
> working for the United Nations, where I was responsible for the
> coordination of ICT, in particular telecommunications, for humanitarian
> assistance. Meanwhile I retired from this organization but I am still very
> much involved with the subject in various functions with professional and
> academic institutions such as TIEMS and IARU.
>
> I am contacting you today on two issues:
>
> You and your colleagues might be interested in the forthcoming Conference
> International o Emergency Communications (ICEC-2006) in Finland. The
> following announcement is been circulated:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> International Conference on Emergency Telecommunications (ICEC-2006),
> Tampere Hall, Tampere, Finland, 19-20 June 2006. Conveners are the Finnish
> Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of the Interior, and the Finnish
> Telecommunications Regulatory Authority. Subject of ICEC-2006 is the
> "Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for
> Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations", the international treaty
> facilitating the use of telecommunications in international response to
> disasters, which entered into force in 2005. Details at URL
> <http://www.icec2006.com/>www.icec2006.com,
> contact <mailto:marjut.kurkela@hermia.fi>marjut.kurkela@hermia.fi.
> Parallel events are GAREC-2006, details at
> URL <http://www.iaru.org/emergency>http://www.iaru.org/emergency, and a
> meeting of the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET)
> convened by the United Nations
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> As an adviser to the organizing committee, I am presently preparing some
> input documents and trying to identify speakers, panelists and experts for
> the Conference. While the subject of the Conference is rather restricted
> and might not be directly within the scope of your work, the educational
> aspect is definitely relevant to the further work on the "Tampere
> Convention". Your expertise in this field would be very valuable for our work.
>
> On a second issue: I ma also working with ISCRAM. For details the web site
> <http://www.iscram.org/> refers. For the forthcoming ISCRAM-2006
> conference in Newark, NJ, I am preparing an input on the need of training
> in the context of using modern telecommunications technology in disaster
> preparedness and response. The increasing availability of personal mobile
> communications services offers a wide range of opportunities (examples are
> alerts over cellular systems and the use of advanced features existing in
> mobile phones), but applying them to emergency management requires
> continuous education of the subscribers. Again, I am not sure to what
> extent this topic falls within the scope of your work, but with your
> extensive experience in related educational issues you might be able to
> provide some guidance on the matter.
>
> I would be very glad to hear your views on the above. I would also be
> grateful if you could bring the ICEC-2006 conference in Tampere to the
> attention of colleagues who might be interested in the topic.
>
> Mith many thanks in advance and kind regards
>
> Hans Zimmermann
>
>
> ******************************************************************************
> Hans Zimmermann
> Senior Adviser to the Organizing Committee,
> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
> ICEC-2006, Tampere, Finland, 19-20 June 2006
> <<http://www.icec2006.com/>www.ICEC2006.com >
> ******************************************************************************
ATTACHMENT II
February 22, 1995 <<08:16:15>>
Jim and CAADE members:
(1) Attached is a post from Jim Miller.
Jim:
Thanks for your eloquent statement.
(2) My comments are in << >>.
Best, Tak
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 95 23:26:33 EST
Sender: gu-mmoa@solar.rtd.utk.edu
From: JIMMSL@aol.com
To: utsumi@solar.rtd.utk.edu
Subject: Re: Proposal preparation
Tak and CAADE Members,
Tak,
Thank you for your illuminating comments on my questions and comments. As
always, your humility underscores your ability to express yourself clearly
regardless of the syntax.
<<Thanks.>>
We have all been under considerable pressure to produce a proposal to secure
resources to pursue our goal of affordable, accessible education for all who
desire it. Your efforts and those who wrote numerous drafts, prepared
budgets, called each other at all hours of the night, and "worried" the
result through are to be very much commended. These are the ones who rise
above "doing things the right way" and are fixing their vision on "doing the
right thing." You, Robert, Bill, Ken, Janet, David, Gerald, Ross, Ernie,
Don, and Tom all deserve our appreciation for the time, intellect, and
dedication you exhibited in getting us and the proposal together. Whether
this particular request is granted is less important over the long term than
the collegial spirit we have achieved and I believe will be sustained. Thank
you all.
I hope we can continue to work together as enthusiastically as we have so
far. The need for demonstrated and sustainable integration of methodology,
pedagogy, and technology is vital to our world. The huge surges of Mankind
towards seeking of information and knowledge as demonstrated by the rise of
new open societies and the use of networks to communicate is the wonder of
our age. Our professed role is to be stewards of this integration and
evolution so that expenses and delays are minimized and that our assets are
well spent. However, we are true pioneers and explorers who will muddle on
and take a few risks and hopefully build a positive future.
I recently shared with Tak a message from a Japanese teacher with whom I had
established a relationship using tele-video tools. After the Kobe quake, I
sent email offering help if needed. Because we had seen each other and
communicated in realtime, I felt a real bond and need to reach out. The
reply was fortunately that he and all his students were well. But he added
that other teachers were not so fortunate. He said, "My students came to me
whether they could ask their classmates to raise money for those damaged by
the earthquake. I hear from one of my colleagues that the whole class were
killed in the hard-hit area and their home-room teacher has been visiting
their destroyed houses to dig up her former students. Very sad." Knowing
the culture of the Japanese, I understand that there is a very deep meaning
in these words and I believe that such sharing and caring is the true value
of all our work to promote education and cross cultural contact.
Our goal is not so tragic, unless we fail. The access to knowledge with
integrity (which Tak so well defines) is a wisdom which we have the ability
to collectively share.
Thank you all again for the effort. There is no success without "U".
<<Jim:
I am so glad to hear of the effective consequences brought by your successful ShareView connection between our colleague's students in Osaka/Kobe area with students in Seattle through POTS just a few weeks prior to the devastating Kobe earthquake -- now death tolls is over 5,400!!
ShareView through POTS/INMARSAT (see below) could have been used for emergency medical care.
One of very sad story I read in a Japanese newspaper;
A husband trapped in a fallen house shouted to his wife who could escape safely to be outside their house a step before him, "I am all right, go to help others." By the time his wife came back, fire was spread so quickly to engulf their house that she could only hear her husband's cry for help with agony, without being able to do anything but just to watch him burned to death.
Obviously, telephone lines were completely destroyed and jammed. Then, Japanese telephone companies set up almost 7 to 8 portable dish antennas which could access INMARSAT for domestic and overseas calls.
This is exactly the same way our CAADE (particularly its van) projects are configured, i.e., our van project can be used even for emergency situation.
I was sorry that our van project budget ($250,000 over Jim's and Janet's figure of $125,000) was not included in our budget, because two-way VSAT dish antennas at K-12 schools were tried to be included, -- though we did not discuss it at our mtg at UTK and I have never tried to use it.
At this emergency and natural catastrophe, email played a major role for information on missing persons, where about, offer of help for students, etc., from around the world.
I was very satisfied with this as recalling my effort spent a decade ago on the de-regulation for its use, against formidable Japanese government's bureaucracies.>>
<<Best, Tak>>
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Hans Zimmermann
Senior Adviser to the Organizing Committee,
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
ICEC-2006, Tampere, Finland, 19-20 June 2006
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http://www.icec2006.com/
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