<<April 19, 2006>>
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Marina Tyasto <tyasto@sapa.nsk.su>

Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>

Greg Cole, Ph.D. <gcole@gloriad.org>

Susan S. Witte, Ph.D. <ssw12@columbia.edu>

Jennifer Oxenford <jmacdoug@isc.upenn.edu>

Arif Khan <akhan@oar.net>


Dear Ms. Tyasto:

(1) I sincerely thank you for your letter (*) which Ms. Linda Hawkin Israel kindly forwarded to me, as indicating your enthusiastic willingness to create Global University System in your Altai Mir region (GUS/Altai Mir) in Siberia (**) for e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine.  This infrastructure and model will be in collaboration with Linda’s Mobil Assessment & Media System (MAMAS) project.

(*) I am taking the liberty of attaching it with this list distribution,
<Appeal for GUS in Siberia.pdf>,
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?R17B22BFC>

(**) See map of Altai region in Siberia,
<Russia2006[1].jpg>
<http://makeashorterlink.com/?K29B12BFC>

(2) Global University System (GUS) aims to build a higher level of humanity with mutual understanding across national and cultural boundaries for global peace.  The mission of GUS is to create a worldwide consortium of higher learning and healthcare institutions in remote/rural areas of developing countries with access to broadband Internet technologies.  The aim is to achieve “education and healthcare for all,” anywhere, anytime and at any pace.  Those institutions affiliated with GUS become members of the GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program located at the University of Tampere in Finland.  These institutions will also act as the knowledge center of their community for the eradication of poverty and isolation through the use of advanced Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).  I propose that development of both E-Learning and E-Health/Telemedicine in your region would be similar to our ongoing projects in various developing countries, e.g., Mongolia, China, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, etc.

(3) You may firstly locate high official (say, vice president or dean) of a federal university, and ask him/her to be the Principal Organizer of this project — I to be the Co-Principal Organizer — you can be the local coordinator assisting him/her.
This is because our project later will ask the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistant (ODA) fund which goes only through the government channels.

(4) This federal university is to act as a secretariat of the GUS/Altai Mir which will be a consortium of higher learning and healthcare institutions.  This university would also serve as teachers/medical personnel training centers and also provide the gateway to the outside world.

This university is to interconnect with higher learning and healthcare institutions with broadband Internet, each of which would then be a hub of their Local Community Development Network (LCDN) which will connect the universities with secondary and elementary schools, libraries, hospitals, local government offices and NGOs, etc., by broadband wireless Internet at drastically discounted rates with the use of wireless transmissions. The use of broadband wireless Internet for the LCDN will make their participation feasible, especially for the so-called "last-mile" connectivity.

(5) In order to expedite these mutual efforts, we suggest you to conduct the following steps to realize this project as Ms. Israel might have already told you;
 
1)     My fact-finding and assessment trip in order to formulate a specific agenda for joint activities to explore the following opportunities;
 2)     Planning workshop which would form task force teams.  In the period of six months after this workshop is over, the teams with participatory discussions and consultations will produce a well-developed proposal for GUS/Altai Mir and LCDN projects with the precise action plan and budget for the next design phase of the project, as conducting market survey, feasibility study, system design of infrastructure, design of support system and administration structure, and also constructing business model for maximum effectiveness and sustainability and replication in other locations with the use of wireless broadband Internet.
3)     Design phase project which would produce next deployment phase project proposal for which your government may ask the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistant (ODA) fund.

(6) During my fact-finding and assessment trip, I would like to visit, at least, a half dozen higher learning and healthcare institutions, which would be willing to join in the consortium of GUS/Altai Mir, which visits may take one week or so.

For the global e-learning, I will distribute the following questionnaires during my fact-finding and assessment trip to find out what kind of courses your people wish to have from North America and Europe (one or two courses per each institution as the initial step);
Brief Questionnaires for Importing E-Learning Courses from Developed Countries
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2C232439

After we receive the replies to this questionnaires, we will locate appropriate course providers, who will be invited to the planning workshop where they will meet with facilitators of your universities to discuss how to provide the courses to learners and setting up administrative structure, etc.  Some of those courses may be provided through currently available narrowband Internet at their institutions prior to the deployment of broadband Internet.

As for the global e-healthcare/telemedicine, we are currently working to initiate the followings at a state university teaching hospital in Nigeria, which may be emulated in your Altai Mir region;
(a) Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV/AIDS Transmission,
(b) Creation of a course on nutrition at a school of nursing,
(c) Creation of Continuing Medical Education (CME) program.

The reasons why we have global e-heatlhcare/telemedicine program are;
(a) most of universities have schools of medicine and nursing which often desire to enhance their teaching capabilities, including Continuing Medical Education (CME) for practitioners in remote/rural areas,
(b) telemedicine always be forerunner to e-learning with the use of broadband media, because of its absolute necessity,
(c) since transmission of high resolution images for telemedicine is mostly burst form so that the rest of vacant time slot can be used for e-learning,
(d) e-healthcare/telemedicine has immediate need, especially in remote/rural areas of developing countries,
(e) thus, broadband media would be more readily sustainable with willing donors, etc.

(7) GUS is prepared to support an innovative distance learning and e-health infrastructure in your Altai Mir region, based in the University system and extending out to community learning centers and to schools via LCDN.  GUS will contribute to the social, economic and technical benefits of the country by providing interactive e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine services to the local people.  The economic benefits will be realized through job creation and a broadband network infrastructure.

(8) Referring to Greg Cole’s msg (ATTACHMENT I), your region already has broadband Internet trunk line connecting around the world out of GLORIAD (currently 155 Mbps and soon to be 2.5 Gbps as surpassing any of African countries!!) <http://www.gloriad.org/>.  This means that you do not need to have dish antennas for satellite linkage — satellite approach is anyway getting out of phase in the near future to be replaced with optical fiber networks.

You may then concentrate on the deployment of LCDN — see Figure 1 of Item (4) of ANNEX I.

Your activities would also then be focused on the delivery of contents with advanced multimedia web teaching courses and multicasting videoconferencing, etc., for example;
(a) Susan’s HIV/AIDS education program;
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/draft/lizday/sig/preview.html

(b) Jennifer and Arif’s Megaconference, Jr. 2006;
http://www.megaconferencejr.org/
I would be very much interested to hear of your result by joining in this event — it will be on May 18th.

(8) ANNEX I below is the list of papers about our projects for your reference.

Our paper in the Items (4) and (9)-(c) may be of some interest to you.

(9) Again, we are very delighted to work with you to establish GUS/Altai Mir.  We look forward to implementing the productive relationships for the benefits and betterment of the people in your Altai Mir region and attaining global peace for the benefit of humankind.  Our GUS is a service organization, and we would be very happy to serve you and your consortium members.
 
Looking forward to receiving your response soon,

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I


From: Greg Cole <gcole@gloriad.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:47:18 -0400
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Natasha Bulashova <natasha@gloriad.org>
Subject: Re: Inquiry
Tak, there is very good connectivity (GLORIAD has 155 Mbps across all of Russia currently - this will be upgraded this year - at least to 622 Mbps and perhaps to 2.5 Gbps) to the Novosibirsk universities via GLORIAD today (we see huge traffic flows to/from Novosibirsk today). Should be plenty sufficient for video-conferencing assuming the end point networks (i.e., local networks) are sufficiently provisioned (and not overloaded with local traffic).  Thanks, Greg

ANNX I


I. Our Projects:

(1) We have been working on the following projects for the past three decades;

(a) Global University System (GUS),
(b) Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG),
(c) Globally Collaborative Innovation Network (GCIN).

The GUS is a worldwide initiative to create advanced telecom infrastructure for accessing educational resources across national and cultural boundaries for global peace. The aim is to achieve "education and healthcare for all," anywhere, anytime and at any pace.
 
The GCEPG is to train would-be decision makers in crisis management, conflict resolution, and negotiation techniques with a globally distributed computer simulation system through a grid computer network.
 
The GCIN is an extension of GCEPG and will foster creativity of youngsters around the world.

(2) You may be interested in our recent book at;
  
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://makeashorterlink.com/?M2D252E09
 
In the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
“Interview with Takeshi Utsumi” by Parker Rossman

(3) In its Part I, you can find greetings and encouragements from world-renowned dignitaries of international organizations.

(4) The opening chapter of the Part II is;
  
Takeshi Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F231019
 
Incidentally, this GUS project was initiated at the workshop held at the University of Tampere in August of 1999, with generous fund from the InfoDev of the World Bank, the US National Science Foundation, Soros Foundation, etc. <http://www.uta.fi/%7etitava/EGEDL/>.

(5) In Part IV, you can find my following paper;
Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1D121E09

II. Historical Development and Our Aim for Global Peace:

(6) In the first half of this paper, you can find my saga of extending the predecessor of Internet to various Asian countries, particularly to Japan (*), and my effort of de-regulating the Japanese telecom policies for the use of email and the de-monopolization and privatization of Japanese telecom industries, which have been emulated in most of other countries since then.  I made this effort more than a quarter century ago.  By this effort, there are more than one billion people using email around the world nowadays.
(*) which I started right after I saw the demo of DARPANET (the first packet-switching data telecom network, which is the basis of the current Internet) at Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC in October, 1972

See also Chapter 1 of my book draft (with some Japanese newspaper articles);
“Electronic Global University System and Services”
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E62612919

I then had an honor to receive Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education from Lord Perry himself personally in November of 1994.  Lord Perry established the U.K. Open University which has been emulated in more than 50 countries.  One year senior of the award was Dr. Chavitz, former Minister of Education and UN Ambassador from Colombia, and two year senior was Arthur C. Clarke, the inventor of satellite.

(7) You may be interested in reading two episodes how important to foster friendship during young age, at the end of this my paper; the uncle of my schoolmate was the chief of resistance in Manila, the Philippines, during the Japanese occupation.  His life was saved by the chief of the Japanese Army Police who happed to be his classmate at Yale University.  You can also find my wife’s father’s episode whose life was also saved by his classmate during his high school, who was happened to be the Commanding General of the British Army, at the end of the last WWII.

(8) Our GUS and GCEPG projects are to create an environment for fostering friendship among youngsters across national, oceanic and continental boundaries with the use of “distributed experiential (or the so-called hands-on) learning” with the use of now emerging GRID networking technology and distributed computer simulation system (**) for the creation of new knowledge by them in the Knowledge Age of the 21st Century.  The principle of packet-switching technology (the basis of Internet) is “SHARING” -- we are extending this principle for the sharing of knowledge and even wisdom with GUS project.  The principle of GRID networking technology is “COLLABORATION.”  Those two principles are the key ingredients for attaining global peace — Senator Fulbright once said “Learning together and working together are the first steps toward global peace.”
(**) which concept I initiated in 1972 — see;
McLeod, J., "Power (?) Grid!," Simulation in the Service of Society, Simulation, September 2000
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H241159B9

(9) Albeit rather technical, the following my paper is the direction how to achieve this dream;
(a)
Global University System with Globally Collaborative Innovation Network
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2F412E1B

(b)
"Global e-Learning for Global Peace," Paper for opening speech at the American Society for Cybernetics in Washington, D.C., October 28, 2005, <http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2005/index.htm> (MS/WORD file, 224 KB)
! http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/List%20Distributions/2005/MTI1697_09-24-05/GEL+GP_v3%20copy.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F44621BDB

(c)
Oji, D. E., T. Utsumi and C. Uwaje, "International Centers of Excellence for e-Health in Africa with Global University System in Nigeria," Paper published in the eHealth International Journal, International eHealth Association (IeHA), University of Michigan Health System, September 25, 2005 (MS/WORD file, ! 748 KB)
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Africa/Nigeria/Abia%20Univ.%20Teaching%20Hospital/Paper/GUS+ICETA-v11-RR092405%20copy.htm
Or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V60C217EB
(d)
Utsumi, T. (2005); "Global E-Learning for Global Peace with Global University System," Paper for the forthcoming publication "Communicat! ion 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

III. Financing:

(10) During the Okinawa Summit in July of 2000, Japanese government pledged US$15 billion to close the digital divide in developing countries and for the eradication of poverty and isolation.  During the G8 Summit in Canada in June of 2002, and at the Environment Summit in South Africa in September of 2002, they also pledged another US$2 billion to aid education and healthcare in developing countries, respectively.  I initiated those pledges in late 1990s.  They are now available through the Japan Social Development Fund at the! World Bank, Japan Special Fund at the Inter-American Development Bank, Japan Fund at the Asian Development Bank, etc.  The Japanese government is now doubling their aid particularly to African countries, especially to help their education and healthcare.

GUS projects will combine (1) the Japanese government's Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds and (2) Japanese electronic equipment with (a) the Internet technology and (b) content development of North America and Europe, to help underserved people in rural and remote areas of developing countries by closing the digital divide.

List of Distribution


Marina Tyasto
Director on International Projects and Programs
Siberian Education Consulting Center
Tel/Fax: 7-383-210-12-52
tyasto@sapa.nsk.su

Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
MAMAS E-HealthNet
Executive Director
1525 NW 57th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98107
206-784-0887
lindahi@earthlink.net
http://www.discoverytel.com/

Greg Cole, Ph.D.
Research Director
UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Science
US Principal Investigator
Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building 5100, Mail Stop 6173, Room 212
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173
Phone: 865-241-3702
FAX:  865-576-4368
gcole@gloriad.org
gcole@friends-partners.org
http://www.gloriad.org/
http://www.friends-partners.org/

Susan S. Witte, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Associate Director, Social Intervention Group
Columbia University
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 813
Mail Code 4600
New York, NY 10027-3997
212-851-2394
Fax: 212-851-2126
ssw12@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/sig/
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/draft/lizday/sig/preview.html -- HIV/AIDS education program
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/presentations/connect/cdc/s5_ecomap.html -- same as above.

Jennifer Oxenford
Associate Director, MAGPI
phone: 215.898.0341
cell: 267.322.0036
fax: 215.898.9348
jmacdoug@isc.upenn.edu
jmacdoug@magpi.net
www.magpi.net
215-74MAGPI (215-746-2474)

Arif Khan
Global Internet2 H.323 Services NOC
OARnet - A Division of Ohio Supercomputer Center
800-627-6420 or 614-292-9191
614-292-9087
akhan@oar.net
Ohio Supercomputer Center http://www.osc.edu
OARnet http://www.oar.net
Third Frontier Network http://www.osc.edu/oarnet/tfn/
Internet2 Commons http://commons.internet2.edu

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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA                           *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)          *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education           *
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of                         *
*   Global University System (GUS)                                            *
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