<<October 3, 2007>>

<<October 3, 2007>>
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Yaman Barlas, Ph.D. <ybarlas@boun.edu.tr>

Bernhard Fabianek <Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu>

Ralph. C. Huntsinger, Prof., Dr. <drralph@ecst.csuchico.edu>

Leslaw Michnowski <kte@psl.org.pl>

Dear GSEEED Project Team Members:

(1) Pls visit the following web site;

Quantitative Policy Analysis of Global Socio-Economic-Energy-Environment Development (GSEEED) Project
http://preview.tinyurl.com/337nrn

Dear Prof. Barlas:

(2) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).

Many thanks also for your letter of commitment. I included it into ANNEX II of the above web site.

(3) Pls visit the following previous list distribution;

(09/24/07) Possible funds of European Union to GUS in periphery countries around Black Sea
http://preview.tinyurl.com/26drd4

As you see in the ATTACHMENT I of this distribution, Bernhard of EU kindly suggested that your Turkey is eligible for the European Union's 7th Framework Programme for R&D (some 53 billion Euro until 2013). You may also be interested in the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE Project (EGEE) <http://www.eu-egee.org/>, which Bernhard indicated.

You may then start considering to work on its proposal as for the GSEEED/Turkey. We would be very delighted to work on it with you together.

(4) Pls visit the following list distributions;

(a) (09/08/07) "Cultural Bridges between Finland and Japan" in Tampere, Finland on 11/9th/07
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2l7l8j

(b) (09/13/07) (1) GSEEED Project, (2) Mini-workshop on creating GUS/Turkey
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2x23g7

As said in them, we will have a ceremony for the signing of the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) by the rectors of the University of Tampere and the TOBB Economic and Technology University (ETU) in Ankara, Turkey at the occasion of this Japan and Finish event, so that Turkish learners can take e-learning courses from the University of Tampere and the Helsinki University of Technology. There will also be the Japanese Ambassador to Finland, Finish Ambassador to Turkey, Turkish Ambassador to Finland, according to Tapio Varis.

We will have a mini-workshop after the ceremony and discuss on the fund raising to the EU for GUS/Turkey activities — I understand that Finland is the President country of the EU now.

(5) BTW, you may also be interested in visiting the web site of the South Eastern European GRID-enabled eInfrastructure Development at <http://www.see-grid.eu/>, which was suggested by Bernhard of EU.

For fund raising, you may start contemplating the joint effort of your GSEEED/Turkey with the GUS/Turkey.

(6) Pls feel free to solicit any interested parties from your contacts with the members of the System Dynamics Society, for which you were once the President.

Anyway, many thanks again for your letter of commitment. Let’s keep in touch.

Dear Ralph:

(7) It was certainly my great pleasure to have spoken with you yesterday and many thanks for your msg of today.

Pls vist ANNEX I of the URL of the Item (1) above for your photo.

Incidentally, I wholeheartedly agree with your motto “COMPUTER SIMULATION IS FUN!!,” since I also had so much joy and fun while engaging in simulations of various subjects in 50s, 60s, and 70s. My enthusiastic motivation for our GSEEED and GCEPG projects is to create an environment for inheriting such joy of simulation to youngsters around the world for their “learning with doing” -- Chinese words say “Acquiring knowledge is a joy, and sharing knowledge is an ultimate joy.”

Pls send me your letter of commitment at your earliest convenience (Pls see ANNEX II of the Item (1) above for reference to others). I hope you would be able to work on the construction of model databank, databases for exchange of variables among simulation models, and the communications algorisms among those models.

(8) Pls, if possible, solicit any interested parties from your contacts in Poland and among members of the McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences (MISS). You mentioned of an institute in Poland which was financed by the Japanese government.

I look forward to meeting with you again soon.

Dear Leslaw:

(9) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II) with kind words.

I have read your following materials with great interest;

(a) China – EU INFORMATION CENTER for Sustainable Development Strategy and Global Dynamic Monitoring
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2plpuq>

(b) Contents of your new book “Vision of Sustainable Development Society”
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2jmrgb>

(10) Should you have a Polish national socio-economic System Dynamics simulation model, you may join in Ralph’s Polish colleagues to work on GSEEED/Poland.

Keep up your good work, and congratulations to your new book!!

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: <ybarlas@boun.edu.tr>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:21:12 +0300
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Requesting letter of commitment

Dear Prof. Utsumi
I am attaching my letter.
As you say, depending on the outcome of the workshop and future funding
prospects, we can see to what extent and in what capacity I can contribute.
We will keep in touch.
thank you and best regards
Yaman Barlas

ATTACHMENT II

From: Leslaw Michnowski <kte@psl.org.pl>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:24:19 +0200
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Ponder Jaroslaw <jaroslaw.ponder@itu.int>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (08/13/08) Japanese ODA fund to Palestine

----- Original Message -----
From: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
To: "gu-new" <gu-new@friends-partners.org>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:36 PM
Subject: [gu-new] (08/13/08) Japanese ODA fund to Palestine
_______________________________________________
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Dear Tak,

I am sending you my new: China-European Union computer simulation CO-REACH
proposal (see attached ppt).

This proposal together with your excellent big GUS program and my previous
initiative (see: World - Grid Type, Continuously Under-development - System
Dynamics, SDS 2006 Nijmegen Conference paper) are essential to stop global
catastrophe and create information bases for sustainable development policy
and sustainable development economy.

(It is impossible to create sustainable development information bases
without your GUS program.)

Please asses it and help - if you approve it - to put it into praxis..

I am informing you additionally about my new book published by Polish
Academy of Sciences:
VISION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (see attachments). In this book I
justify these proposals.

In enclosure I am sending you also part of WSIS-EUC msg about these
proposals,

Regards,

Leslaw

www.psl.org.pl/kte

www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm

http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/Publication/GB-final.pdf (p. 7.6)
http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/search/display.asp?Quest=4220012&lang=en&lang=en

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:24 PM
Subject: WSIS-EUC Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3

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> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:31:10 +0100
> From: leslaw.michnowski@neostrada.pl
> Subject: [WSIS-EUC] EU SDS WSIS follow-up
> To: wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org
> Message-ID: <000a01c73318$7fbbbc30$0a01a8c0@elmamba>
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> information is the key to (sustainability) transformation. (?) When (?)
> information flows are changed, any system will behave differently
>
>
> Meadows et. al., Limits to Growth,
>
>                                                The 30 -Year Update.
>
>
>
> in the new world of infinite information resources, one country's
> creation of wealth based on information can be shared by all.
>
> The value of information increases, the more it is shared.
> Yoshio Utsumi (ITU) - WSIS Tunis 2005
>
>
> This Summit (WSIS) must (?) push forward the outcome
>
> of the World Summit (New York 2005) (?)
>
> The hurdle here is more political than financial.
>
> Kofi Annan - WSIS Tunis 2005
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Europeans,
>
> Nowadays we are in quite new global situation: in the State of Change and
> Risk. We need to change shortsighted economic growth into sustained
> economic
> growth, and change pernicious globalization into fair globalization, that
> allow full and productive employment and decent work for all (2005 Summit
> Outcome).
>
> Particularly, rapid economic growth of world developing countries like
> China
> should be taken under ecohumanistic control. I support the view it is
> impossible without WSIS ? follow up, including global system dynamics ?
> DYNAMIC MONITORING..
>
> To avoid global catastrophe we need also to support firmly authors of new
> EU SDS (Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS) - -
> Renewed Strategy, 10117/06 -
> http://register.consilium.europa.eu/pdf/en/06/st10/st10117.en06.pdf )
>
> As a first step in this direction I propose to convince policy makers that
> they need - for EU SDS realization
> - a new tool: DYNAMIC MONITORING.
> I propose to build in multi stage way,
> continuously under development, commonly accessible, worldwide (net and
> GRID)
> sustainable development information system for:
> - dynamic monitoring,
> - long range forecasting, and
> - measurable evaluation of
> policy, economy, work and other changes
> in the life conditions
>
> My proposals are available on web page:
> World - Grid Type, Continuously Under-development - System Dynamics
> http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2006/proceed/supp/184.ppt
> http://www.systemdynamics.org/conferences/2006/proceed/papers/MICHN184.pdf
> .
>
> For policy corrections especially DYNAMIC MONITORING is essential.
>
> I am looking forward for your opinion.
> Best regards ?
> Leslaw Michnowski
> www.psl.org.pl/kte
> http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:11:35 +0200
> From: leslaw.michnowski@neostrada.pl
> Subject: Re: [WSIS-EUC] WSIS-EUC Digest, Vol 44, Issue 1
> To: wsis-euc@fsfeurope.org
> Message-ID: <000d01c7d8ec$1a68dd70$0a01a8c0@elmamba>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Dear European friends,
>
> I have attended in Warsaw, in April 2007, CO-REACH (China - EU) science
> cooperation meeting. I have proposed to start building China - EU
> INFORMATION CENTER for Sustainable Development Strategy and Global Dynamic
> Monitoring (see attached ppt).
> I propose to treat this proposal as WSIS follow-up and precondition of
> Renewed EU Sustainable Development Strategy (EU SDS, June 2006)
> realization.
> To reject "zero growth" policy and transform, social-Darwinistic,
> pernicious globalization into justice, fair, with human face
> globalization
> we need quite new computer tools for shaping policy and sustained economic
> growth.
> I ask you for assessment of above proposal and - if you approve it - help
> in
> realization.
>
> Regards -
> Leslaw
> http://www.psl.org.pl/kte
> http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm
>
> See also:
>
> Jay W. Forrester: COUNTERINTUITIVE BEHAVIOR OF SOCIAL SYSTEMS -
> http://web.mit.edu/sdg/www/D-4468-2.Counterintuitive.pdf (negation of
> "zero
> growth" strategy - LM)
> Leslaw Michnowski: World Grid System Dynamics - Why do we need it?
> http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/Poster%20Nijmegen.ppt
> http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/Nijmegen-bn.pdf.
> Angela Merkel (in Davos 2007):
> http://www.g-8.de/Content/EN/Reden/2007/01/2007-01-24-rede-bkin-davos.html
> (:zero growth can and will not be the answer", "to give globalization a
> human face")
> Gordon Brown (31 July, UN):
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6924570.stm ("to make
> globalisation a force for justice on a global scale.").

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Yaman Barlas, Ph.D.
Professor, Industrial Engineering Dept.
Bogazici University
34342 Bebek, Istanbul, TURKEY
Tel. +90-212-359 7073
Fax. +90-212-265 1800
ybarlas@boun.edu.tr
http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/~barlas
SESDYN Group: http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/labs/sesdyn/

Bernhard Fabianek
EU – research technical assistance and program development
European Commission
Information Society and Media Directorate-General
GÉANT & eInfrastructures
BU25 4-82
BE-1049 Bruxelles
Belgium
Tel: +32 2 29.69.615
Fax: +32 2 29.93.127
Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu
Bernhard.Fabianek@cec.eu.int
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/

Ralph. C. Huntsinger, Prof., Dr.
Professor of Computer Science
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing
Director Emeritus, the McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences (MISS)
College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology (ECT)
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0410
+1 530 343 3456 (Home)
Fax: +1 530 898 5995
drralph@ecst.csuchico.edu
drralph@stormnet.com
http://www.simulationscience.org/

Leslaw Michnowski
Civil Society. Sustainable Development Information Society Forum - Poland
High School for Management in Legnica (Poland)
Peoples Science-Culture Society
Al. 3 Maja 2 m. 164
00-391 Warszawa, Poland
tel/fax: +48 22 7681019
Cel: +48601264164
kte@psl.org.pl
www.psl.org.pl/kte
http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/postergd.pdf

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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)                                            *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A.                        *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi@columbia.edu                               *
* http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/search/display.asp?Quest=8032562&lang=en *
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/                                     *
* Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676                                                   *
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