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Marina V. Tyasto <marinatyasto@yandex.ru>
Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>
John M. Eger <jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Dear Marina:
(1) Thank you
very much indeed for every wonderful things you did during my fact-finding and
assessment stay to create GUS/Altai Mir in Novosibirsk and Altai regions in the
past few weeks.
(2) You asked me the meaning of the
logo of our GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.
(GLOSAS/USA) <http://makeashorterlink.com/?T28E52EDC>.
Pls visit my following previous list distribution;
(03/28/06)
Meaning of GLOSAS/USA logo and conference in Cairo, Egypt in September 11-13,
2006
http://tinyurl.com/nxaqs
(3) You also mentioned about the infinity as the symbol of Buddhism.
You may be interested in the following;
Slide
#6: Mathematical Expression of Religions and Cultures — UtsumiÕs equation
in comparison with EinsteinÕs E=MC2 — my big joke?!
This was mentioned in my following previous list distribution;
(04/05/05)
Conference on Emerging Global University in Philadelphia in June
http://tinyurl.com/kesoy
Or, the slide show only
http://tinyurl.com/eugo3
Dear Linda:
(4) On the way to airport in Novosibirsk in the very early morning of 9/15th,
you were talking with Marina about the Smart Community Development movement.
John Eger is the initiator of the movement — see his following paper;
Athens
In The Information Age
http://tinyurl.com/r78pk
This is the opening chapter of Part III of our 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://makeashorterlink.com/?M2D252E09
In the bottom line of this page, you can find the
following;
ÒInterview with Takeshi UtsumiÓ by Parker Rossman
I gave a copy of this book to each of Linda and Prof. Boyko, the supervisor of
Marina.
Dear John:
(5) Many thanks for your another very interesting essay (ATTACHMENT I).
Dear
E-Colleagues:
His last essay was;
(09/19/06) John Eger's essay on " We Must Redesign
High School, University Curricula to Reflect 21st Century Competition"
http://tinyurl.com/mn622
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
From:
john eger
<jeger@mail.sdsu.edu>
Date: Tue, 19
Sep 2006 15:31:23 -0700
To: "Takeshi
Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re:
fyi
Raising the Bar on IT and Economic Development
By John M. Eger
For
over twenty years tiny Singapore, a nation state of 3.5 million people, has
been working on something called "IT 2000", also called "the
Intelligent Island Project". Now six years after claiming success, they've
launched Phase II of a new plan to use information technology as a catalyst for
a major change of their community. Called "IN 2015", it is a ten-year
master plan "to grow the info com sector" and build a well-connected
society. Singapore wants nothing short than to turn the whole country
into what authors Debra Amidon and Bryan Davis call a KIZ or knowledge
innovation zone. (http://www.inthekzone.com/toc.htm).
After almost two decades of digital communities, smart communities, digital
cities - all efforts to put in place the 21st century information
infrastructure: broadband wired or wireless communications systems connecting
every home, school and office through the worldwide web to millions, now billions,
of other location around the world, and to use IT as a transforming tool -
Amidon and Davis talk about enabling "new forms of enterprise,
collaboration, knowledge sharing and commercialization of ideas' - not only
within communities, but between private, government, NGOs and academic sectors.
After 18 months of research, the authors found hundreds of examples of what can
be called knowledge innovation zones operating in various parts of the globe.
From a review of their research, a few of which are in Latin America, the
authors concluded some organizations like the Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB) (http://www.iadb.org/) must seize the
initiative. Earlier this summer, the IDB invited Debra Amidon and this
author to brief their various country specific executive directors to talk
about a strategy and plan for using IT to create both smart communities and
importantly Knowledge Innovation Zones, in the greater Latin American region.
Earlier, at a major IDB conference entitled "Building Opportunity for the
Majority" attended by former President Clinton among other leaders of the
Latin American community, the IDB stated clearly that information and
communications technologies are critical means of empowerment for all sectors
of society, both for providing access to essential services and enhancing
economic productivity at all levels. The IDB is aggressively exploring ways to
close the digital divide, but importantly, as the President of IDB Luis Alberto
Moreno stated, IDB seeks to develop platforms between the public and private
sectors and express a desire to see Latin American cities develop connected
communities.
"Connected communities", the IDB is well aware, provide a threshold
to developing the Knowledge Innovation Zones, a concept still not well
understood in most communities worldwide. Yet, when innovation becomes
the name of the game, as Amidon has argued, "value is created when
knowledge moves from origin to the point of highest need" and knowledge
multiplies when shared and the more it is shared, the more it grows.
The various KIZ's sprouting up in mainland China, the Middle East and of course
the United States, are proof once again that cities the world over need to
reinvent, renew themselves for this new global knowledge society and economy
that , like a tsunami, are changing the face of the world. All communities need
a strategy and a plan for collaboration, and cooperation among and between
government, industry and academe. All communities need to better understand
what this new economy means for education, life and importantly work in the
21st Century,
John M. Eger is the Van Deerlin Chair in Communications and Public Policy at
San Diego State University, and president of The World Foundation for Smart
Communities.
(http://www.smartcommunities.org/).
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Marina V. Tyasto
Head of International Relations Department
Siberian Academy of the Public Administration
Nizhegorodskaya Street, 6
Novosibirsk, 630102
Russia
Tel/Fax: 7-383-210-12-52 (direct)
Cel: 7-913-920-67-69
marinatyasto@yandex.ru
tyasto@sapa.nsk.su
Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
Mobile Assessment and Media Systems (MAMAS)
1525 NW 57th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98107
206-393-8576
lindahi@earthlink.net
http://www.discoverytel.com/
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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