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Leslaw Michnowski <kte@psl.org.pl>
Bernhard Fabianek <Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu>
Norbert Mayer <meyer@man.poznan.pl>
Ralph. C. Huntsinger, Prof., Dr. <drralph@stormnet.com>
Dr Jacek Gajewski <jacek.ceenet@gmail.com>
Liis Kelberg
<kelberg@tlu.ee>
Gilbert Ahamer <gilbert.ahamer/at/chello.at>
Prof. Stuart A. Umpleby <umpleby@gwu.edu>
Dear E-Colleagues:
(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 Leslaw, Bernhard, and Norbert:
(2) Many thanks for your conversations (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my following list
distribution;
(10/03/07) (1) GSEEED project with possible Polish
participation and (2) MOU signing ceremony at the University of Tampere on
November 9th.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/24atb9
Dear Leslaw:
(3) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II) in response to my following list
distribution;
(10/03/07) (1) GSEEED project with possible Polish
participation and (2) MOU signing ceremony at the University of Tampere on
November 9th.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/24atb9
(4) I have read your following excellent paper with great interest (though
rather technical for layman);
Eco-Humanism and Popular System Dynamics as
Preconditions for Sustainable Development
http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n11michnowski.html
I appreciate that you cited my two papers. I agree with you that;
ÒTo
achieve sustainable development of the world society we need a wisdom based
society instead of just a knowledge based society. A wisdom society is one that
is based on intellectual evolution mechanisms and popular access to information
concerning the future consequences of current human activity. A wisdom society
will use this information and high technology in eco-humanistic way - for the
common good of humanity, including taking good care of the human habitat.
To get access to the knowledge necessary for implementing the Òthree pillarsÓ
sustainable development vision, a large-scale international science-technology
and social operation is necessary for shaping an appropriate world information
infrastructure. A commonly accessible, net and GRID, continuously under
development, Worldwide Sustainable Development Information System (WSDIS), with System Dynamics
analysis capability, ought to be built with help of United Nations as follow-up
to WSIS.
This information system - built step by step - together with popular wisdom
education, will radically enlarge the range of
far-sightedness/long-sightedness, flexibility and reserves creativity of the
world society. It makes it possible to change egoistic axiology into ego
altruistic – eco-humanistic - one.Ó
(5) Yes, pls try to construct Polish simulation model, since only Polish can
make it, and we definitely need Poland in our global model.
Pls provide me with;
(a) Your photo — see ANNEX I of the Item (1) above,
(b) Brief bio — see ANNEX I of the Item (1) above,
(c) Letter of commitment — see ANNEX II of the Item (1) above,
(d) CV — see ANNEX V of the Item (1) above.
(6) You may also start considering to create GUS/Poland which will also be
necessary for GSEEED project.
Pls feel free to contact with Ralph — he is expecting to be in Poland in
this coming spring.
You may also contact with Dr Jacek Gajewski who is in Warsaw and indicated his
strong support to our Black Sea Fiber Ring project — see ATTACHMENT
III below.
(7) Pls compose a concept paper (4 to 5 pages) for fund raising for the steps
indicated in Section IX of the following paper;
Al-Azab, M. and T. Utsumi, (2007), "Creation of
Global University System in Egypt (GUS/Egypt)," Paper for "ICT-Learn 2007"
conference in Cairo, Egypt, September 2 to 4, 2007
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ypkaqo
Pls send me your first draft of the concept paper so that we can work on it
together.
Dear Jacek:
(7) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III) in response to my following list
distribution;
(11/27/07) Broadband Internet with optical fiber
network around Black Sea and Central Asian countries.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yubou5
(8) I am very, very delighted to hear of your strong support to the Black Sea
Fiber Ring project.
I will provide you with the template of the letter of support soon.
(9) I am also very happy to know that you are working on e-learning project in
Ukraine and others.
We would be very delighted if we can be of any help to your Central and Eastern
European Virtual University, also.
Dear Liis:
(10) Many,
many thanks again for your extraordinary help during our stay in Tallinn a few
week ago.
Referring
JecekÕs msg (ATTACHMENT III), pls convey my best regards to Dr Anne Villems or Dr
Mart Laanpere, -- of course, to Rector Prof. Raud, too.
Dear Gilbert:
(11) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT IV) by the kind introduction of
Stuart.
Your "Surfing Global Change" (SGC) <http://preview.tinyurl.com/yrjrcf>
sounds very interesting, and may go along with our GSEEED project mentioned in
the Item (1) above, as it says;
This project will have two-tier system:
a. One for training young would-be decision makers in
crisis management, conflict resolution, and negotiation techniques basing on
"facts and figures" and
b. The other for helping decision makers construct a globally distributed
decision-support system for positive sum/win-win alternatives to conflict and
war.
Should you wish to join in this GSEEED project, pls provide me with;
(a) Your photo — see ANNEX I of the Item (1) above,
(b) Brief bio — see ANNEX I of the Item (1) above,
(c) Letter of commitment — see ANNEX II of the Item (1) above.
You may also consider to create GUS/Austria for this GSEEED project.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: Leslaw
Michnowski <kte@psl.org.pl>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:37:00 +0200
To: <Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu>, Norbert Meyer
<meyer@man.poznan.pl>
Cc: <artur@man.poznan.pl>, <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: FW: [gu-new] (10/03/07) (1) GSEEED project with possible
Polish participation and (2) MOU signing ceremony at the University of
Tampere on November 9th.
Dear Norbert,
Not only my problem I such as beneath. :
We humankind are currently living in quite new life-state, in the State of
Change/Flux and Risk (SCR). This new state arouse mainly as a result of
science-technology progress. The changes in environment (in large sense) are
pacing so rapidly that only feedback control principle social relations are
obsolete. We need to add into world social relations feedforward control
mechanism. It means necessity to base politics on pre-emptive development
principle. Because future is not fully predictable, therefore such politics
will be connected with big risk of political faults.
Therefore for life in SCR we inter alia need;
1.. World integrated forecasting system (continuously up-graded),
including global (and local) dynamic monitoring (of future effects of
policy) - (GSEEED).
2.. World science system that allow to deliver efficiently to above
information system not only existing yet (individually used) knowledge, but
also new knowledge about rapidly changing reality (GUS).
3.. Education system that shape popular wisdom (GUS).
4.. Flexible automation that allow for rapidly respond on
challenges
cognized to late.
5.. Eco-humanism (egoaltruistic) ethics, instead of egoistic ethics
(inter
alia basic condition of access to information that is necessary for life in
SCR).
6.. Sustainable development economy, that will eco-humanisticly
stimulate
cognize and innovative creative activity, that is in SCR essential for
elimination the main crisis generating factor - rapid obsoleting (moral
destruction) of life-forms not fitted to the new life conditions.
Therefore a commonly accessible, net and GRID, continuously under
development, WORLDWIDE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (with
System Dynamics analysis capability) ought to be built with help of UN.
In EU I propose to transform EUROSTAT into European Office for Statistic and
Dynamic Monitoring. I propose also to build China - EU INFORMATION CENTER
for Sustainable Development Strategy and Global Dynamic Monitoring.
Do you approve above conclusions? Could you help in their
realization?
With kind regards -
Leslaw Michnowski.
www.psl.org.pl/kte
www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm
PS
Panie Norbercie, czy mozemy omawiac te problemy takze po polsku? M—j
telefon: 22-7681019.
LM.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norbert Meyer" <meyer@man.poznan.pl>
To: <Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu>;
<kte@psl.org.pl>
Cc: <artur@man.poznan.pl>; <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: FW: [gu-new] (10/03/07) (1) GSEEED project with possible Polish
participation and (2) MOU signing ceremony at the University of Tampere on
November 9th.
Dear Bernhard,
Dear All,
Yes, exactly. Please let me know your
expectations about a possible co-operation
and we will try to find a solution.
Best regards
Norbert Meyer
At
2007-10-08 09:26, Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu
wrote:
>Dear Sir,
>
>Reading your email sent to Tak, I guess that your colleagues in
Poznan
>(especially Norbert Mayer) might be able to help you further in your Grid
>related activities (Artur Binczewski could help you on the networking
>side).
>
>With kind regards,
>
>Bernhard Fabianek
>
>__________________________________________________________________
>
> Bernhard Fabianek
> European Commission
> Information Society and Media Directorate-General
> GƒANT & eInfrastructures
> http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/
>
> Office: BU25 4-82
Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu
> BE-1049 Bruxelles Tel:
+32 2 29.69.615
> Belgium
Fax:
+32 2 29.93.127
>__________________________________________________________________
ATTACHMENT
II
Dear Tak,
As I know, we have not Polish national socio-economic System Dynamics
simulation model, Such model was built several years ago in IBS PAN - in
Dynamo yet - but it is not continued.
I try to get to like Polish politics to create Poland Sustainable
Development Strategy Center and Government Dynamic Monitoring Center based
on System Dynamics. (I try to get contact with Ralph in these matters.)
I justify necessity of basing sustainable development policy on simulation
methods in my last edited book: |VISION OF A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SOCIETY - THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD FROM THE CYBERNETICIST PERSPECTIVE" (You
have written below about this book).
The large overview of this book -
http://pelicanweb.org/solisustv03n11michnowski.html
- was just published in The Vol. 3, No. 11, November 2007 issue of the
Solidarity, Sustainability, and Non-Violence (SSNV) Research Newsletter.
Regards,
Leslaw.
ATTACHMENT
III
From: Jacek Gajewski <jacek.ceenet@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <gajewski@ceenet.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:17:11 +0100
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>, Murat Soysal <msoysal@ulakbim.gov.tr>,
Ramaz Kvatadze <ramaz@grena.ge>, Yannis Mitsos
<ymitsos@admin.grnet.gr>
Cc: gu-new <gu-new@friends-partners.org>,
"Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu" <Bernhard.Fabianek@ec.europa.eu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (11/27/07) Broadband Internet with optical fiber network
around Black Sea and Central Asian countries.
Dear Prof Utsumi,
The BSI and CEENet are really interested in
supporting your
activities, which potentially may have a synergy with our Black Sea
Interconnection Initiative. We will be eager to receive from you the
template of the Letter of Support, which you requested. I will present
it to the Board for consideration.
In the context of GUS, let me mention
that we run several
e-learning projects in EEurope. Recently we start EC project called
EJUMP, which you probably heard during your recent stay in Estonia (I
am sure you met Dr Anne Villems or Dr Mart Laanpere) there. I am also
a vice-president of the Central and Eastern European Virtual
University, based in Kiev - it is unfortunately rather idle, but with
a couple of good ideas can be re-started (it is formally registered in
Ukraine).
With kindest regards,
Jacek
ATTACHMENT
IV
From: Gilbert Ahamer <gilbert.ahamer/at/chello.at>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:33:26 +0100
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: WG: after the IIASA conference
Dear Mr. Utsumi,
I would like to take the liberty to take up contact with you according to a
suggestion of Prof. Umpleby whom I met at the IIASA 35th Anniversary
Conference last week.
Since some years I have developed a negotiation game callled "Surfing
Global
Change" (SGC) that was among others also published in "Simulation
& Gaming".
Along ist five levels students engage in a series of web-supported social
interaction leading to the creation of a sustainable consensus for a complex
interdisciplinary issue. A brief bilingual leaflet is attached, als a
literature list. SGC recently reached the final round of the highest
rewarded European prize on media didactics "Medidaprix".
Possibly there could be some future co-operation in this area.
Secondly I would like to mention that at Graz University we are currently
building up a new master curriculum entitled "Global Studies" (GS) on
the
existing bundle of facultative courses. Both endeavours are motivated by
development aid and policy and include NGOs as stakeholders. GS is
essentially interdisciplinary and interfacultative and incorporates all
faculties at Graz University (where I give regular lectures, Graz is the 2nd
largest Austrian university city). A link (in German language) is
http://www.uni-graz.at/globalstudies/.
From the side of the "Global Studies Steering Committee" we are
continuously
interested to build up additional contacts with similar centers at other
universities. One option would be to create a "Joint Degree", which
is a
cooperative curriculum based in several universities - so far it is already
common here, however, in the EU area.
Possibly there will emerge bridgeheads for co-operation in the future.
With best regards,
Gilbert Ahamer
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Gilbert Ahamer
Obere Teichstra§e 25/5
8010 Graz - Austria
email: gilbert.ahamer@uni-graz.at
Tel.: +43-316-948692, +43-664-9730046
List
of Distribution
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
www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm
http://www.psl.org.pl/kte/postergd.pdf
Bernhard Fabianek
EU – research technical assistance and program development
European Commission
Information Society and Media Directorate-General
GƒANT & 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/
Norbert Mayer
Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
61-704 Poznan, ul. Noskowskiego 10
POLAND
phone (+48 61) 8 58 2050
(+48 61) 8 528-503
ext. 279
fax (+48 61) 8 525-954
meyer@man.poznan.pl
http://www.man.poznan.pl/
Ralph. C. Huntsinger, Prof., Dr.
Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing
Founder and Emeritus Director, the International McLeod Institute of Simulation
Sciences (MISS)
College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Mgmt.
California State University, Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0410
Cel: +1 530 521 3456
Polish Mobil Phone: + 48 506 359 787
+1 530 343 3456 (Home)
FAX: +1 (530) 343-3556
Fax: +1 530 898 5995
drralph@ecst.csuchico.edu
drralph@wi.pb.edu.pl
drralph@huntsinger.net
drralph@csuchico.edu
drralph@humboldt.edu
drralph@wi.pb.edu.pl
drralph@stormnet.com
http://www.simulationscience.org/
Dr Jacek Gajewski
Secretary General
CEENet Secretariat
Central and Eastern European Networking (CEENet) Association
Member of the "Internet Society"
ul. Pasteura 7
02-093 Warsaw, POLAND
Tel/Fax: +48 22 - 6685807
fax. +48 22 - 8239956
gajewski@ceenet.org
gajewski@lsc.net.tw
jacek.ceenet@gmail.com
www.ceenet.org
Liis Kelberg
rector's assistant
Tallinn University
Narva mnt 25
10120 Tallinn
Estonia
Phone +372 6409 108
Cel: +372 53 421 708
Fax: +372 6409 116
kelberg@tlu.ee
http://kaart.tallinn.ee -- map of the
Tallinn City.
Gilbert Ahamer
Granz University
Obere Teichstra§e 25/5
8010 Graz - Austria
Tel.: +43-316-948692, +43-664-9730046
gilbert.ahamer/at/uni-graz.at
gilbert.ahamer/at/chello.at
Prof. Stuart A. Umpleby
Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning
School of Business
The George Washington University
2033 K Street NW, Suite 230
Washington, DC 20052, USA
Tel: (202) 994-1642
Fax: (202) 994-5284
umpleby@gwu.edu
http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby
http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2005/index.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/recent_papers/2006_GUS.pdf
-- his paper ÒA Global University for a Global Village.Ó
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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