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Mike S. Wenger, D. Phil. <mike@wengerandwenger.com>

Professor Juro Nakagawa <jm-naka@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp>

Mr. Marutei Tsurunen <marutei_tsurunen@sangiin.go.jp>

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D. <kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>

John M. Eger <jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>


Dear E-Colleagues:

(1) This distribution is related to the following previous one;

(03/07/06) Invitation: Why is Finland the Most Competitive Economy in the World?, Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6:30 p.m., Embassy of Finland
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C240623CC

Dear Mike:

(2) Many thanks for your excellent brief report about this gathering (ATTACHMENT I).  I am glad to know that you had a fruitful and pleasant attendance.

About the "Senior Policy Decision Makers" course, did they say if they used a computer simulation model of Finnish socio-economy?

I read the “Finland as a Knowledge Economy Elements of Success and Lessons Learned Overview” with great interest.  Thanks for this URL.
<http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/201645/Finland_ES.pdf>

This gathering sounded very interesting, -- I should have attended it by myself.

Dear E-Colleagues:

(3) I strongly suggest you to read it through — about 20 pages.

Dear Prof. Nakagawa:

(4) I wonder if you would be interested in translating it into Japanese to publish in some journals — Japan is quoted as the one which did not turn crisis into an opportunity for major reform in early 1990s, compared with Korea.
About a quarter century ago (while Japan was in the midst of industrial age), I tried to bring up software industry in Japan, but in vain, because of Japanese culture on idolatry and neglecting intangible commodity.

If affirmative, pls let me know so that I will try to get its translation right for you.

Dear Mr. Tsurunen:

(5) It was some years ago when I visited you at your office at the kind introduction of Tapio Varis.

You are originally from Finland, and now a Japanese citizen and even be one of Senators at the Japanese parliament.

We may consult you when we translate this write-up into Japanese.

Dear Kaisa:

(6) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II), in response to my previous list distribution of the Item (1) above.

I am very delighted to know that your book project is going smoothly.

You may obtain the full book of the Item (2) above, and elaborate further on the sociological and cultural aspects of creative knowledge economy in your book, -- as listing key elements how creativity/innovation has been fostered in Finland as digging deeper those subjects mentioned in the “Lessens to be learned” in the Overview of the Item (2) above.

My following paper may give you some hints;
(a) Section 4 of;
Utsumi, T. (2005); "Global E-Learning for Global Peace with Global University System," Paper for the forthcoming publication "Communication and Learning in the Multicultural World," University of Tampere, Finland, (Edited by Pekka Ruohotie), to celebrate the 60th birthday of the GUS Acting President Tapio Varis in June 2006; December 29, 2005
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W29E26D9C

and/or

(b)
"Global University System with Globally Collaborative Innovation Network"; Paper to be presented at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunizia, November 14-18, 2005
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W155410BB

Pls make sure to contact John Eger, since he has many eloquently written essays about how to build smart community with New Creative Economy — for example, attached to this msg is a pdf file <CreativeCommBroFINAL.pdf_2 copy.pdf> on “The Creative Community: Forging the links between art culture commerce & community” <http://makeashorterlink.com/?B600128DC>.

Another excellent paper of his is;
John M. Eger, San Diego State University
"Athens in the Information Age"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?N38D25259

(7) In the “Lessons to be learned” in this Overview, the famous words “Creative Destruction” of Joseph Schumpeter was mentioned.

As said to you before, it would be our current task how to overcome the big challenge to transform (or destruct) Industrial Age mindset to Creative Knowledge Age, which could be said a silent social revolution in global scale — as mentioned above, Japan failed on this because of their traditional culture inherited from ancient China.

I wholeheartedly agree with your last two para’s.

(8) I would very much look forward to reading your book — in English.

Keep in touch.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I


From: Mike Wenger <mike@wengerandwenger.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:27:37 -0500
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Mike Wenger <mike@wengerandwenger.com>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (03/07/06) Invitation: Why is Finland the Most Competitive Economy in the World?, Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6:30 p.m., Embassy of Finland
Tak

Brief report on session at Finnish Embassy on March 9

1.  Thanks for tell me about this.  A very interesting evening and the Ambassador was a superb host.    About 70 - 80 people attended.

2.  The study is quite good.  There are, of course, questions about whether the Finnish example is generalizable, but the authors did a nice job of digging into those aspects which provide general lessons rather than fret about overall generalizability.   For example, Prof Dahlman did not just say, "Education is important for transforming the Finnish economy."  He explicated details about the Finnish education system, it's impact, and implications.

3.  You would, of course, have enjoyed hearing the importance of their "Senior Policy Decision Makers" course -- a very serious 3 week simulation of the Finnish Economy taken by all leading policy makers including government, legislators, business, banking, and union.  I certainly wish we had a similar widely-taken course for the U.S.A.

4.  Summary of the study is at:

http://extsearch.worldbank.org/servlet/SiteSearchServlet?q=Finland%20as%20a%20Knowledge%20Economy
  
 es   
   Finland as a Knowledge Economy Overview <http://info.worldbank.org/etools/library/latestversion.asp?201645>  
  ... Finland as a Knowledge Economy Elements of Success and Lessons Learned Overview
Edited by Carl J. Dahlman Jorma Routti Pekka Ylä-Anttila This is a ...
 http://info.worldbank.org/etools/library/latestversion.asp?201645 - -  

5.  I did meet Peter Knight.  He passess on his regards.

Thanks again,

Mike

ATTACHMENT II


> From: Kaisa Kautto-Koivula <kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>
> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:38:49 +0200
> To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Cc: <marita.huhtaniemi@welho.com>
> Subject: RE: [gu-new] (03/07/06) Invitation: Why is Finland the Most
> Competitive Economy in the World?, Thursday, March 9, 2006, 6:30 p.m., Embassy
> of Finland
>
> Dear Tak,
>
> I enjoyed again your inspiring words in this email concerning the topic of
> Finland as a forerunner of Competitive Economy in the world. I also noticed
> that you emphasized the role of Creativity .."I wonder how Finland is
> fostering CREATIVITY and its transformation into competitive economy ....".
> Again very good discovery!
>
> Creativity connected always to human mind is one of the biggest determinants
> for understanding the future challenges and opportunities both in global
> economy as well as in societies and our personal daily life. But how to move
> to this Creative Age is a big challenge for us who have got industrial age
> mindset and the economy that is emphasizing more effectiveness and
> efficiency?
>
> As I mentioned you almost two years ago I am preparing with my ex-colleague
> Marita a book that was titled first "The Evolution towards Human-Centric
> Knowledge Age". We have worked with that topic heavily now over two years
> and we are getting near the ending phase of this writing process (hopefully)
> in the few next weeks. (We will publish the book - or books, there will be
> probably two books Part I and Part II - first in Finnish and if the reaction
> is positive enough then we are ready to translate it to other languages).
>
> What we have discovered is that the transition period we are now living is
> much deeper and revolutionary than we thought when we started this process.
> We will need a lot of wisdom and a plenty of wise persons to help across
> this deep paradigm gap from Industrial Age to Creative Knowledge Age. To the
> new Age where we hope that the focus will be really Human-centricity.  
>
> The world history of the last 200-300 years has shown us so many times that
> these deep paradigm shifts (caused by many reasons, including economics) to
> new age will bring big challenges, especially in societies. It is important
> to be able to recognize these challenges earlier enough and be proactive for
> preventing them to grow up too big troubles - that could in the worst cases
> threaten even our peace.
>
> I deeply hope we are wise enough in this paradigm shift from Industrial age
> to Human-Centric Creative Knowledge Age. We owe that to our children.
>
> Your work is valuable in this process.
>
> Best regards
> Kaisa

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Mike S. Wenger, D. Phil.
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Professor Juro Nakagawa
International Marketing and Business Intelligence
Faculty of Business Administration
Graduate School of Business Management
Tokyo Keizai University
1-7-34 Minami-cho
Kokubunji-shi
Tokyo 185-8502
Japan
+81-42-328-7930
Fax: +81-42-328-7774
jm-naka@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp

Mr. Marutei Tsurunen
Sangiin-giin-kaikan, Room 235
2-1-1, Nagata-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8962
03-3508-8235 (direct)
Fax: 03-5512-2235
marutei_tsurunen@sangiin.go.jp

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 229
FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-614-5608--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +3358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611
tapio.varis@uta.fi
tapio.varis@hamk.fi
tapio.varis@helsinki.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
www.ecml-eu.org -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/
and
Principal Research Specialist
Unesco-Unevoc International Centre for Technical and Vocational
Education and Training
Bonn, Germany
t.varis@unevoc.unesco.org
www.unevoc.unesco.org

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D.
Docent, New Learning Environments
Tampere University
Finland
Mobile: +358 400 403 632
kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi

John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Chair of Communication and Public Policy
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive, PFSA 160
San Diego, CA 92182-4522
619-594-6933
619-594-6910
Fax: 619-594-4488
jeger@mail.sdsu.edu
http://www.smartcommunities.org/
http://www.smartcommunities.org/guidebook.html
http://www.iicom.org/intermedia/july2001/eger.htm

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