<<July 11, 2006>>
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Karen Sobel Lojeski, Ph.D. <klojeski@virtualdistance.com>

Gerald (Jerry) Greenberg <ig@wdef.org>

William L. Benzon <bbenzon@mindspring.com>

Dr. Edward A. Friedman <friedman@stevens.edu>

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

Gloria Starr Kins <kinsgroup@aol.com>

Ben Hindley <hinben@sasktel.net>


Dear Karen:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I), in response to my following list distribution;

(07/09/06) Formation of GUS/USA/New York Chapter and World Island Project
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2724236D

(2) I am very delighted to hear of your strong interest in our newly formed GUS/USA/New York Chapter.

Yes, we will count your involvement in this initiative.

(3) I am taking the liberty of distributing your following attachment;
“If the World is Flat How Should We Measure Distance?”
Accepted paper for Global Forum: Business as an Agent of World Change with UN and Academy of Management
http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2301246D

Your paper with your colleagues at Stevens Institute of Technology sounds very interesting.  When it is published, pls let us have its full paper.

(4) BTW, pls visit the slide #4 (and #5) of slide presentation I made during the mtg of the Item (1) above;
(a) Columbia School of  Public Health-070606_with notes.pdf
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2605146D

(b) Columbia School of  Public Health-070606_without notes.pdf
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F5702446D

The slide #4 was taken from Mr. Thomas L. Friedman’s previous article appeared in The New York Times on March 7th, 2004.

(5) You may be interested in reading the Book Review of his “The World Is Flat”;
Book Review on The World Is Flat.doc
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T1902146D

Also, followings are John Eger’s essays which mentioned about Mr. Friedman’s book;
(a) (04/21/06) John Eger's new essay "We Need a National Infrastructure Initiative."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O11D2310D

(b) (03/19/06)-B  John Eger's essay "Freeing Cities From Telco and Cable Monopolies"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O1A123BDC

(c) (12/23/05) Interesting articles by John Eger and Season's Greeting from Bill Runyon to list members
http://makeashorterlink.com/?S1F35299C

(d) (09/17/05) An essay "Defining San Diego's Future in a Flat World" by John Eger dated on August 18, 2005
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2E21236D

(e) (07/31/05) John Eger's new essay dated July 25th, 2005
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2F22136D

(6) Value of creation in digital age increases with relationship, links and connections, and more sharing in global collaboration.  Borderless globalization forces us to have new vision of education with interaction, collaboration and participation among the youngsters around the world.  Commingling of creation is to have new culture.

Our effort with e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine with GUS project are changing the world to make it more FLAT!! -- see the following which hard copy was distributed at the mtg of the Item (1) above;

Global Collaborative Innovation Network
with
Global University System
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G4A02146D


Dear Jerry, Bill, Karen and Ed:

(7) As having Karen’s strong interest in GUS/USA/New York Chapter, it might be wise and necessary to start considering on the organization of the workshop which may be held in the coming fall.

Pls let me know your two alternative dates (preferably in afternoon) in the following few weeks, when we can get together to discuss about this workshop, where, when, and how to raise fund, etc.

The list of prominent speakers Karen listed in the material of the Item (3) above is valuable, and we can discuss how to invite them.

Dear Gloria:

(8) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II) as indicating your strong interest in our project of creating GUS/USA/New York Chapter in conjunction with the World Island Project.

(9) Yes, I would be delighted to have a mtg with you to explain this project.

Pls inform me two alternative dates of your convenience — preferably in the afternoon.

I will bring Jerry Greenberg and Bill Benzon of the World Island Project.

You may then introduce these projects to high echelons of the UN in Manhattan and elsewhere.

Dear Ben:

(10) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III), in response to my following distribution;

(05/26/06) Support for World Island Project
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q2732513D

I am very delighted to hear of your strong interest in our GUS project again.

I visited your web site with great interest.  Congratulations to your substantial accomplishments so far!!

(11) I sincerely thank you for your willingness to create GUS in India, Africa and Canada.

However, as shown in the slide #12 of the Item (4), and as said in the Book Review of the Item (5), the future of e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine is to utilize broadband Internet, more than one-way broadcasting analog satellite without much interactions.

Pls retrieve my following distribution;
[gu-new] (04/24/06) UbuntuNet Alliance for broadband Internet in Africa and current condition in Indonesia and study in Japan
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2CC5636D

And then visit the following web site mentioned in it;
SARUA fibre study: Optical Fibre for Education and Research Networks in Eastern and Southern Africa
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2E041DFC

As you see in it, various African countries are now vigorously deploying optical fiber network even in the vast continent.

(12) Pls visit the following web sites, which hard copy materials were distributed at the mtg of the Item (1) above;
(a) Cover letter by Rector Prof. Eugeny Boyko of Siberian Academy for Public Administration in Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia,
(i) Письмо стр1.jpg <http://makeashorterlink.com/?J1B02146D>

(ii) письмостр2.jpg <http://makeashorterlink.com/?X1C02146D>

(b) Executive summary of GUS/Altai Mir project
http://makeashorterlink.com/?G2D04246D

As you see in the executive summary, we plan to utilize GLORIAD <http://www.gloriad.org/> broadband Internet at 155 Mbps which is to be upgraded to 622 Mbps within this year and then to 2.5 Gbps in the near future.  We expect to have complete interactivity with this, compared with replicating classroom setting by one-way analog video broadcasting.

(13) Should you wish to create GUS in India, Africa and Canada in our approach, we would be very happy to work together with you to construct similar executive summary for your fund raising.  Pls retrieve my following distribution;
(05/31/06) Next Generation Network (NGN)
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q49C1236D

Particularly, pls click the following in this distribution;

Concept Paper
on
the Creation of Global University System (GUS)
in Ghana and later in Countries of ECOWAS
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F20323F2D


This tells you the necessary steps how to create GUS.

Looking forward to receiving your next response soon,

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I


From: Karen Sobel Lojeski <klojeski@virtualdistance.com>
Organization: Virtual Distance International
Reply-To: <klojeski@virtualdistance.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:57:01 -0400
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Regarding NYC Chapter and accepted paper for Global Forum: Business as an Agent of World Change with UN and Academy of Management
Dear Tak:
 
I am very glad that you have started the NYC chapter.  I would like to be a part of that initiative.
 
Also, I wanted to let you know that my colleagues and I have submitted, and had accepted, a paper regarding Virtual Distance and Globalization entitled, “If the World is Flat How do we Measure Distance”.  It will be presented at the Global Forum:  Business as an Agent of World Change presented in conjunction with the UN and the Academy of Management.
 
I have attached the abstract here.
 
I hope that you and yours are well and I look forward to getting announcements about meetings for the NYC chapter.
 
Warm Regards,
 
Karen

Karen Sobel Lojeski, Ph.D.
Karen Sobel Lojeski, Ph.D.
CEO
Virtual Distance International
67 Wall Street
Suite 2211
New York, NY  10005
Office - 212.742.8794
Mobile - 201.889.9188
email -    klojeski@virtualdistance.com

ATTACHMENT II


From: <KinsGroup@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:18:18 EDT
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (07/09/06) Formation of GUS/USA/New York Chapter and World Islan...
This is a really valuable and interesting project. I am off to Washington for two days. Lets get together and update on this new organization you are structuring Gloria Starr Kins

ATTACHMENT III


> Subject: [SPAM] Global University System (GUS)
> From: "Dr. Ben Hindley" <hinben@sasktel.net>
> Date: Sun, July 09, 2006 11:01 pm
> To: jg@wdef.org, daj@utk.edu, jeger@mail.sdsu.edu, alfred kanagaraj
> <alfred_kanagaraj@rediffmail.com>
>
> Dear Sirs:
>
> Reference:
> GUS India
> GUS Africa
> GUS Canada
>
> My name is Dr. Ben Hindley Chief Operations Manager of TCBN India.
> http://www.tcbn-india.org. We are located in Africa, India and Canada
>
> We are interested in joining your organization to be a partner for
> Africa, India and Canada. We are presently stetting up TCBN Institute
> which has over 600 3rd World Development Courses. We are also dealing in
> the Area of TV and Radio Broadcasting and we are presently setting up
> PBS-India.org.
> We are also in the development stages of CABS Community Access
> Broadcasting System for Africa India and Asia.
>
> We are a India Trust that is working in the area of higher learning,
> healthcare and cultural institution in Africa, Canada and India.
>
> Please get back to us on how we can be involved in your Global
> University System. We would like to set up GUS India, GUS Africa, GUS
> Canada, GUS Asia
>
> Thanking you in advance.
>
> Dr. Ben Hindley
> Chief Operations Manager
> TCBN-India, Africa and Canada
> PBS-India
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The center would act for the coordination and brokerage of services
> available from higher learning, healthcare and cultural institutions not
> only in the tri-state around the New York City, but also from similar
> ones in north America to various countries around the world.  BTW, NYC
> is the world treasure trove of those services.  We now start
> contemplating how to form a coalition of those institutions in the
> tri-state areas.
>
> There is now a few Japanese colleagues who started considering to create
> a similar operation center in Japan (GUS/Japan) for Asia and the Pacific
> regions.
>
> The main purpose is to have Japanese youngsters get familiar with
> serving impoverished people in developing countries around the world by
> delivering the contents of those services available not only from Japan
> but also from any other countries through broadband Internet.  This may
> then lead to the creation of globally collaborative innovation network
> for experiential e-learning as well as for creation of new knowledge as
> mentioned in the Item (2)-(c) above.

List of Distribution


Karen Sobel Lojeski, Ph.D.
CEO
Virtual Distance International
67 Wall Street, 22nd Floor, Suite 2211
New York, NY  10005
212.742.8794 - Office
201.889.9188 - Mobile
klojeski@virtualdistance.com

Gerald (Jerry) Greenberg
Chairman/Co-Founder
World Development Endowment Foundation
126 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3D
New York, NY 10011
212-465-8600
Cel: 646-526-6653
Fax: 212-328-30993
ig@wdef.org
http://www.wdef.org/

William L. Benzon
writer, consultant, musician
Associate Director
World Development Endowment Foundation
708 Jersey Avenue, 2A
Jersey City, NJ, 07302
201.217.1010
bbenzon@mindspring.com
http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/

Dr. Edward A. Friedman
Director
Center for Technology Management in Global Development
Professor of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-216-5188
Cel: 917-476-1977
Fax: 201-216-5385
EIES No. 1871
FRIEDMAN@STEVENS-TECH.EDU
friedman@stevens.edu
http://howe.stevens.edu/global

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

Gloria Starr Kins
Chairperson -Media Division
Acting Agency of the Infopoverty Program
Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication (OCCAM)
131 E 66th Street
New York NY 10021-6129
Tel. +01 212 628-1743
Fax +01 212 288-6848
kinsgroup@aol.com

Ben Hindley
ICT Consultant, Distance Education Consultant
President
TeleMED International, Canada
H. Peace and K. Barn (ICT STORE) International Limited
201-502 Tait Crescent
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada, S7H 5L2
(306) 374-0346
hinben@sasktel.net
ict_consulting@yahoo.ca
ab367@sfn.saskatoon.sk.ca
http://www.ictaccessforall.com

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