<<October 15, 2006>>
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Chris Uwaje, (Fncs, Fiap) <uwajenet@yahoo.de>
Charles U. Eke <bychief@yahoo.com>
Alfred Sallia Fawundu <asfawundu@gamil.com>
Mr. Philip Nwabuoku <philipnwabuoku@aol.com>
Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>
Aiah A. Gbakima, Ph.D. <aiah_gbakima2000@yahoo.com>
Ms. Mieko Ikegame <ikegame@un.org>
Abebe Kebede <gutaye@ncat.edu>
Dear Chris, Charles, Alfred and Philip:
(1) It was my great pleasure to have met with you yesterday at the Chemists
Club in Manhattan. I was pleased that the mtg was very fruitful.
Dear
Chris:
I was very
much delighted to meet with you again since we met at the Abia State University
Teaching Hospital in Nigeria in June of 2004. Pls convey my best personal
regards to Prof. Dennis Oji there when you go back.
Dear Philip:
(2) When I distributed hard copy materials, I was sorry that one set was short
for you. The followings are the documents of the same so that you can
access them via Internet;
(a)
Section V-A-4 of <http://tinyurl.com/b475v>
(b) Press Release "New Distance-Learning
University Slated for Altai" <http://tinyurl.com/mtpng>
Dear Alfred:
(3) I am very glad to know that you will be in Freetown, Sierra Leone from
January 1st 2007.
(4) Prof. Gbakima of the University of Sierra Leone has given the executive
summary of our project of creating GUS/Sierra Leone (see Item (2)-(a) above,
which was prepared by Linda as following the original made by Chris) to the
following persons of the UNDP in Freetown and we are waiting their response;
(a)
Nancy Asanga, Country Director
(b) Bengt Ljunggren, Senior Advisor
Dear Chris, Charles, Alfred and Philip:
(5) Pls retrieve the following previous list distribution;
(10/12/06)
Creating GUS/Turkey
http://tinyurl.com/ya8ugv
As you see in it, my wife and I are invited to TOBB Economics and Technology
University in Ankara, Turkey so that we will leave on 10/16th and be back on
10/26th.
Attached to this msg is a file <GUS_Turkey.pdf><http://makeashorterlink.com/?W668228FD>,
which is my slide presentation at the workshop at the TOBB university on
10/19th, for your reference.
Pls see Slide #21 for the list of Working Groups for creating GUS/Altai Mir in
Siberia, which model you may follow — see also the following previous
lists in <http://tinyurl.com/ungk7>;
(a) (08/23/06) Creating GUS/Altai Mir in Siberia, Russia
(b) (09/21/06) (1)
Fact-finding and assessment trip to create GUS_Altai Mir in Siberia and (2)
Proposed direction for the Working Group on Infrastructure
(c) (09/23/06)
Planning activity of
the working group ÇGlobal Collaborative Research and DevelopmentÈ of GUS/Altai
Mir
(d) (09/26/06) GUS/Alti Mir; Working Group on Community Development
(e) (10/01/06) (1) Super Course, (2) Working group
on "Global E-Healthcare/Telemedicine" of GUS/Altai Mir
(6) As discussed yesterday, letÕs try to hold a workshop to create GUS/Sierra
Leone in Freetown next spring if fund will be available.
Dear Alfred:
(7) Pls let me know your two alternative convenient dates after 10/26th so that
I can visit you to discuss further on the fund raising.
Dear Ms. Ikegame:
(8) I thank you again for your lunch on 9/26th.
Pls let me know the date (after 10/26th) of my visit to the person whom you
will introduce me, and who is in charge of African affairs in the UN.
Dear Chris, Charles, Alfred and Philip:
(9) As discussed, the workshop in Sierra Leone is to have stakeholders from the
countries of The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) <http://www.ecowas.int/> so that they would
create their own GUS in their countries — see;
Concept
Paper
on
the Creation of Global University System (GUS)
in Ghana and later in Countries of ECOWAS
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F20323F2D
The
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
<http://www.ecowas.int/>
This was prepared for the meeting of the Director-General of Kofi Annan Center
in Ghana with the high official of the ECOWAS — with my hope that each of
the ECOWAS would create their GUS.
Dear E-Colleagues:
(10) There is a similar movement with a planned workshop in Ethiopia in the
next November — see ATTACHMENT I below.
Dear
Abebe:
Many thanks for your msg of 10/7th. I took the liberty of attaching your
msgs. I would be very happy if we can be of any help to your project.
LetÕs work together after I come back from Turkey on 10/26th.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: <gutaye@ncat.edu>
Date: Sat, 7
Oct 2006 19:04:23 -0400
To: "Takeshi
Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re:
Reference materials
Greeat
idea,
Can we begin with a forum annoucement that sounds like the one posted at
http://www.physics.ncat.edu/~michael/adla/index3.html
This is a working document. After we develop this document we can invite your
contacts to participate. Once the contacts are established we apply for grants
at NSF. The idea is very simple, create two consortia of universties
One in Ethiopia, the other here in the US. And drive the curricula via what an
electronic campus (International Open University of Africa) or International
Open Colege of Ethiopia. It will be a big organization but since this is global
we can dream a lot.
Thank you for the information below. I see clearly the opportunities here.
Abebe
Dear Abebe:
(1) Many thanks for your msg.
(2) I would think that the first thing is to find out the need of the
participants, and then to set up facilitator network and learner support
system.
For this, I would suggest that you organize a planning workshop in Ethiopia.
(3) From my previous trip to Ethiopia, I have contacts at the following
organizations there;
(a) Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa,
(b) Admas College, Addis Ababa,
(c) Amhara Region
Education Bureau, Bahir Dar, Amhara Region
(d) Bahir Dar
University, Bahir Dar,
(e) Debub University, Awassa,
(f) Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, Addis Ababa,
(g) Gondar College of Medical Science, Gondar,
(h) University of Gondar, Gondar,
(i) Infra Net Technology, Addis Ababa,
(j) National
Meteorological Services Agency, Addis Ababa,
(k) UNESCO, Addis Ababa
(4) Pls visit the Section V-A-4 of <http://tinyurl.com/b475v> for
an example for creating GUS/Sierra Leone.
Pls also visit the Section V-C-1 of <http://tinyurl.com/b475v> for
an example for creating GUS/Altai Mir in Siberia - I just came back from
Novosibirsk and Gorno-Altaysk in Siberia for the fact-finding and assessment
trip of this project, which was funded by the US Agency for International
Development (USAID) through the Eurasia Foundation.
Pls feel free to utilize any part of them for constructing your concept paper
for fund raising - we can work on it together.
(5) My wife and I are invited to universities in Turkey from 10/16th to 30th
for creating GUS/Turkey.
Looking forward to receiving your next response soon,
Best, Tak
On 10/2/06 8:43 AM, "gutaye@ncat.edu" wrote:
Hello
Profess Utsumi
Thank you for the great links. I am very pleased with motivation of creating
such a system. I am very interested in developing a virtual college/university
that uses partially or fully curricula of major universites, deliver these
curriculula using multi media and internet to developing countries. Of curse
the collaborating univesities will decide on customizing the curricula
according to the needs of the paarticipants.
I envision for example a cosortium of universities in a developing country
(example Ethiopia) as clients of a cosortium of universties here in the
US (Columbia, Cornell, MIT, Duke, UNC etc)
The potential curriculua include information technology, health care,
agriculture, and very high end institutes to support high end research in these
countries.
My group and your croup can collaborate to write planning grants to establish
the consortia oron both sides of the Atlantic.
I do believe such project is fundable via USAID, NSF, and similar agencies in
other coutries.
Sincerely,
Abebe Kebede
Dear
Prof. Kebede:
(1) You may be interested in visiting the following papers;
Takeshi
Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System"
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F231019
(2) This is in the 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;
"Interview with Takeshi Utsumi" by Parker Rossman
(3) My recent paper is;
Globally
Collaborative Innovation Network with Global University System
http://tinyurl.com/fuwg6
Pls enjoy reading them.
Best, Tak
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Chris Uwaje,
(Fncs, Fiap)
Group Chief Consultant
Member of the National Inter-Ministerial Committee on Software Development
Chief Executive Officer
Connect Technologies Limited
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Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: +234-1-264-2825
+234-1-2660552, 7732391
Cel: +234-803-312-3922
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www.connecttechnologies.com.ng
www.nigerianitexpert.com
Charles U. Eke
Founder / CEO
Infotex Systems, Inc.
1045 Woodland Ave.
Plainfield, NJ 07060
908.405.7441
Tel: (908) 722-1093
cel: 908.884.7333 or 908.405.7441
Fax: (908) 754-5042
bychief@yahoo.com
ceke@infotexsystems.com
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http://www.ddn-africa.org/
Alfred Sallia Fawundu
Officer in Charge
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
646-226-6723 (6223 ?)
asfawundu@gamil.com
Alfred.s.fawundu@undp.org
www.undp.org.ng
Mr. Philip Nwabuoku
philipnwabuoku@aol.com
Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
Mobile Assessment and Media Systems (MAMAS)
LCDN Coordinator, Global University System (GUS)
6533 Seaview Ave. NW #211A
Seattle, WA 98117-6046
206-393-8576
lindahi@earthlink.net
http://www.discoverytel.com/
Aiah A. Gbakima, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor & Principal
University of Sierra Leone
Private Mail bag
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Tel: +232-22-226859/226594
Cell: +232-76-880-758/+232-033-599-835
aiah_gbakima2000@yahoo.com
Ms. Mieko Ikegame
Senior Programme Coordinator
Office of the Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor on Africa (OSAA)
United Nations Room S-760 D
New York, NY 10017
212-963-1937
Fax: 212-963-3892
ikegame@un.org
http://www.un.org/esa/africa
Abebe Kebede
Associate Professor of Physics
North Carolina A&T State University
1601 East Market Street
Greensboro, NC 27411
Tel: 336-256-2039
Fax: 336-256-0815
gutaye@ncat.edu
http://hoth.ncat.edu/~michael/
http://www.physics.ncat.edu/~michael/adla/index3.html
-- about conf.in Nov. 2007 in Addis Ababa.
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