<<Feburuary 1, 2008>>

<<Feburuary 1, 2008>>
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P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula <kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>

Klaus Oesch <klaus.oesch@forumvirium.fi>

Hitoshi HONDA <kazumi.kitagawa@mofa.go.jp>

Isao Tsujimoto <Isao_Tsujimoto@jfny.org>

Tomoki Akazawa <tomoki_akazawa@cgp.org>

Heikki Mäenpää <heikki.maenpaa@kangasala.fi>

Dr. Chinami Fukui, President <chinami@dd.iij4u.or.jp>

Mr. Marutei Tsurunen <marutei_tsurunen@sangiin.go.jp>

Professor Juro Nakagawa <jm-naka@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp>

Dr. Paul Lefrere <P.Lefrere@open.ac.uk>

Elena Murelli <elena.murelli@unicatt.it>

Dear E-Colleagues:

(1) Pls retrieve the following previous list distribution;

(a) (11/20/07) (1) "Cultural Bridges 2007" Event, (2) Signing MOU ceremony at the University of Tampere, (3) Visiting Tallinn University and others
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/3dfrpz>

(b) (12/05/07) Need of new ethos for GUS and Finnish's outstanding achievements
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2xe649>

(c) (01/19/08)-B 2007 Annual Report of GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/38x8ze>

Dear Tapio:

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

I am awfully sorry for my very belated reply due to the trouble of our servers, which was mentioned in;

(01/19/08) Belated season's greeting
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/3apezd>

Since then, its downtime has been further prolonged till today with installation of security software.

(3) I am very, very delighted to hear of your peoples’ (you, Kaisa, Klaus, and Marita) willingness to initiate the Finnish Noblesse Oblige (*) Project upon my previous suggestions (**), after your Finnish attaining the world #1 ranking in many fields (DAVOS, OECD, UNESCO, etc., etc.).

(*) See the definition of the “Noblesse Oblige” at <http://www.learningtogive.org/papers/index.asp?bpid=38>,
(**) which was mentioned in the Item (7) to (9) and (16) of the above list distribution of (1)-(a).

(4) I greatly appreciated to read through your following materials;

(a) Leading the way to New Creative Knowledge Age
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/3xtywa>

(b) The Powerpoint slides of the above title.
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2qpns3>

Dear Kaisa:
Many, many thanks for your excellent write-ups with many phrases and ideas excerpted from my previous list distributions. The above are with my some editorial revisions. Pls use this version for your further revision (its MS/WORD file is attached to this msg <GUSLeadingtoNewAgeProgram12012008_v3.doc>). — we may need a couple more iterations on this write-ups. Pls feel free to send me your next revised version with budgets – though I think that you would not need to have its detailed figures for your preliminary funding inquiry purpose.

(5) As mentioned in the Item (17) of the list distribution in the Item (1)-(a) above, I visited Japan Foundation in Manhattan on the next day (December 11, 2007) I received your msg, and inquired the possible funding procedures upon the suggestion of H.E. Honda, Japanese Ambassador to Finland, whom I met at the “Cultural Bridges 2007” at the University of Tampere on November 9th. The people at the Japan Foundation told me that their office handles only the projects between Japan and the U.S., not the one with Finland.

Dear H.E. Ambassador Honda:
It was my great pleasure and honor to have met with you. I greatly appreciated your suggestions.

Dear Kaisa:
As mentioned to you at the University of Tampere on 11/9th, I would suggest that you would visit Mr. Honda, and talk with the cultural attache at his Embassy.

BTW, the following person approached me after my keynote speech at the University of Tampere, offering any help if necessary;

Ramer Olle
ESADE
Epson Foundation
Barcelona, Spain

Since she did not have her email address at that time, she told me to contact her through the following person;

Helen Jeff
Corporate Communications Manager
EPSON EUROPE
EPSON: EXCEED YOUR VISION
B.P.320
150 rue Victor Hugo
92305 Levallois‑Perret Cedex
TEL +33 (0) 1 40 87 67 22
MOBILE +33 (0)6 07 66 47 47
FAX +33 (0)1 40 87 67 20
Helen.jeff@epson.europe.com <<November 27, 2007>>Did not work.
www.epson.europe.com

You may also trace Ramer Olle through Epson office in Helsinki;

EPSON ELECTRONICS GmbH
Finland Branch Office
Regus Luna House
Mannerheimintie 12 B
00100   Helsinki
Finland
Tel.:     +358 925 166347
Fax:     +358 925 166159
Email:     info@epson-electronics.de
www:     http://www.epson-electronics.de

You may also visit the following person in Helsinki;

Kehityspoliittinen Toimikunta
Secretary General
DEVELOPMENT POLICY COMMITTEE
MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS
P.O. BOX 176
FIN-0061 HELSINKI, FINLAND
TEL: +358 (0)9‑160 55 779
gsm. +358-(0)40-835 96 14
FAX: +358 (0)9‑160 55 651
kpt@formin.fi
suvi.virkkunen@formin.fi
www.global.finland.fi/kpt

By the kind introduction of Tapio, I met him at the World Summit of Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia in November, 2005, and received his assurance of his help to our projects.

You may also visit the following persons in Helsinki;

Martti Ahtisaari, Dr.
Former President of Finland
Erottajankatu 11 A
00130 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: +358 9 6987024
Fax: +358 9 6127759
E-mail: office@ahtisaari.fi
Web: http://www.ahtisaari.fi/

He indicated his strong support to our project when I met him at the WSIS by the kind introduction of Tapio. Pls visit his following paper;

Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland and Laureate of Fulbright Prize.
"The 2000 Fulbright Prize Address"
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/ytrrm9>

You may also visit the following persons in Helsinki;

Dr. Erkki Tuomioja
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Merikasarmi
P.O.Box 176
00161 Helsinki, Finland
E-mail: erkki.tuomioja@eduskunta.fi
Webs:
http://www.tukiasema.net/haastattelut/tuomiojaerkki.asp
http://www2.eduskunta.fi/fakta/edustaja/357/eng.htm

Pls visit his following paper;

Erkki Tuomioja, Finland Minster of Foreign Affairs.
"Globalization -- Threats and Opportunities"
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/ysoc2g>

BTW, those two papers are in 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://tinyurl.com/kofpf

In the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
“Interview with Takeshi Utsumi” by Parker Rossman
http://tinyurl.com/fnxxt

(6) If you can read Japanese, pls visit;

Asahi Newspaper Editorial, January 7, 2008 — in Japanese
<http://www.asahi.com/paper/editorial20080107.html>

Albeit this article is in Japanese, it says that Japan’s ranking of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) of OECD is declining as the down-fall of the Japanese GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

This is in stark contrast to the Finnish achievement of #1 with this PISA.

EDITORIAL: Dismal PISA scores, 12/06/2007 — in English
<http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200712060059.html>

Subsequently, the Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (the so-called “Keidanren” in Japanese, the most powerful industrial organization in Japan) is now urging the education of high capacity personnel in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs);

Asahi Newspaper Editorial, January 7, 2008 — in Japanese
<http://www.asahi.com/business/update/0107/TKY200801070325.html>

Dear Klaus:

(7) My wholehearted congratulations to your acquiring a doctoral degree from the world-renowned prestigious vocational training institutions under the auspices of Tapio.

As mentioned in the Item (1)-(a) above, I think that there would be some synergy between your “Virtual Empowerment” and our following project;

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

Dear Mr. Tsujimoto and Mr. Akazawa:
Many thanks for your valuable time when I visited you last December. Pls feel free to ask me any further questions about this GSEEED project.

You may also be interested in the following direction;

"Globally Collaborative Innovation Network with Global University System," Paper for Learning Technology, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 8, Issue 3, July, 2006
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/fuwg6>

Namely, the coming age of global economy of innovative knowledge society is to be made with global collaboration and partnership, which I have been advocating for the past three decades.

Dear Tapio and Kaisa:

(8) As mentioned in the Item (1)-(a) above, as acquiring the world #1 ranking in education, vocational training, science, etc., etc. by DAVOS and OECD, etc., Finnish now has an honorable duty, mission and task to evangelically spread its secret know-how and gospel to other countries — after all, Chinese proverb says “Acquiring knowledge is a joy, and sharing knowledge is an ultimate joy!!” <http://preview.tinyurl.com/3d68lz>. This is the so-called “Noblesse Oblige” mentioned above.

Dear Tapio:
Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III). I am very delighted to know that you have already taking the steps of spreading the gospel of Finnish achievements.

I think that Finland is well positioned to lead the world with the right wisdom, sound moral and foresight to see the right steps towards future, as moving from the material wealth towards the more immaterial wealth (*), which everyone is longing for. I think that Finnish can show the world how would be the way to the future Society and Economy. They can influence the world to create better and meaningful Future for themselves and for their children around the world. Finnish can lead the world society and economy to have new values and new goals, which will be based on the real needs – physical, mental and spiritual - of Human beings. In this new society and economy Humanity and the real Meaning of Life will be put back to their right position as the leading elements. Human beings will be the masters. Economy, technology, systems, materiality, competitiveness and productivity etc. will be returned to their right position – to vehicles of the new value-based future and goal.

(*)

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/27w2wa>

You may ask Dr. Ahtisaari and Dr. Tuomioja (both mentioned above) to make this project as the national project of Finland, as its duty, honor and pride as attaining the world prominent status. Tapio may also approach to his friend, the President of Finland, Ms Tarja Halonen.

When the Global University System (GUS) project would become the vehicle to realize this mission, as Kaisa proposes in the Item (4)-(a), it would become a good partner to the global e-learning program of the United Nations University, which has been financed by the government of Norway in Scandinavia. In contrast to it, the GUS project has been under Tapio’s UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program.

In contrast to Finnish’s remarkable achievements, Japan is now slipping down on almost every accounts (e.g., DAVOS, OECD, GDP, ODA, etc., etc.) year after year (*), and I wish to stop this Japan’s dwindling down further (**) as having Japanese learn the know-how of Finnish accomplishments on such high and esteemed rankings in education and vocational training as mentioned above — I think that this dwindling-down of Japan may be because of the fact that Japanese haven’t realized yet what Kaisa said “The biggest barrier for new development of Human-Centric Knowledge Society is our Industrial Age mindset!” at the very last of your following paper;

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula and Marita Huhtaniemi, Nokia Ventures Organization
"Evolution Towards Human-Centric Knowledge Society. Can Societies Learn from Global Corporations?"
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/y5ja49＞

(*) A British journalist once said that Japan is no longer the “Sun Rising,” but the “Sun Setting” country. Japanese Minister of Finance recently admitted at the parliament that Japan is no longer the world leading economic power.

(**) though I experienced a dismal failure when I tried to promote software industry in Japan almost two decades ago.

Dear Kaisa:
BTW, I conceived the idea of this project when I heard your excellent, inspiring speech during our workshop at the University of Tampere in August of 1999 <http://www.uta.fi/%7etitava/EGEDL/>, and then invited you to have the above paper in our following book;

I would be very much honored and privileged to participate in this revolutionary paradigm shift project to lead the global economies into knowledge-, network- and innovation driven economies. In a sense, this project can be the response to the following banner from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU);

<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2tojte>

Considering the above, it would then be most appropriate if you start such missionary action from Japan. If agreeable, I would then start contemplating the possible conference to be held in Japan, so that Japanese would be able to learn about the Finnish know-how achieving such world prominent status.

Incidentally, about two years ago, Yomiuri Newspaper (one of the largest in Japan) had a series of articles introducing the K-12 education of Finland for a month or so.

(9) Once you set this project as the Finnish national project, you may let it work along with the following projects of deploying ultra high speed (at around 1.3 tera bps) optical fiber networks (*) for the benefits of sustainable economic development in various developing countries with the use of advanced Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with the Japanese government;

(*) as similar to the submarine cable between Japan and Siberia — see;
(08/05/07) NYTimes.com: "Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web"
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2dfz8e

(a) Optical fiber network along modern Silk Road around Central Asian countries:

(11/22/07) Possible broadband Internet with optical fiber network around Central Asian countries
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/3c4tab>

$18 Billion Plan to Build New 'Silk Roads' through Central Asia
http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2007/12241-central-asian-roads-transports/default.asp

As you see in this announcement, this money will be financed by the Asian Development Bank which often comes out from the Japanese government.

(b) Black Sea Ring:

(09/19/07) Possible GUS/Romania with Black Sea Ring
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/2oawpy>

This project could be to emulate the one between Japan and Siberia (which was mentioned above) with the use of cable boat of KDDI of Japan with the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) fund, and others, e.g., the World Bank, European Commission, etc.

Japanese government will announce this multi-billion dollar project to construct a highway network to promote commerce among African countries at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-IV) in this coming May <http://www.undp.org/ticad2/>.

Similar to the above (9)-(a), we may propose to deploy ultra-high speed optical fiber networks along with the highway networks.

Dear Heikki Mäenpää and Dr. Fukui:

(10) This project is, in a sense, the reverse direction to what you introduced Higashiyama’s art to Finnish during your “Cultural Bridges 2007” at the Tampere Hall. This project would make a good reciprocity to what you did and I think that the reciprocity is always the essence of social harmony.

I would then hope to have your cooperation to this conference in Japan. The conference may be held in Tokyo, or Fukuoka, or Nagano, etc. Pls give me your thoughts.

Dear Mr. Tsurunen:

(11) It has been sometime since I visited you in January of 2004, by the kind introduction of Tapio Varis.

I would greatly appreciate it if you can also provide us with your kind support to this project, particularly on the Japanese translations of Finnish books and the possible conference in Japan in the near future to introduce the high raking know-how of Finnish education and vocational training to Japanese.

As you are originally Finnish, and now naturalized to Japanese, and as also being one of the prominent Upper House members of the Democratic Party in the Japanese Parliament (which party is now the majority of the Upper House), you would be the most prominent and valuable supporter of this project.

Dear Professor Nakagawa:

(12) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II) in response to our following previous list distribution;

(12/02/07) English and Japanese translation of three Finnish books
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/28htdg>

I greatly appreciate to hear of your strong willingness to support our project. Pls make sure to inform me when you will be in NYC area next time so that we can discuss this project in detail.

Dear Kaisa:

(13) During my stay in Tampere, I talked with Tapio about the possible workshop at the University of Tampere in August of 2009 for the institutionalization of our Global University System (GUS) project, as for the 10th anniversary of its project after our 1999 workshop mentioned in the Item (8) above.

Paul and Elena have already indicated their strong willingness to work on it — including the fund raising for it, since Elena has extensive experiences on the fund raising from the European Commission — one of which Tapio participated in.

Pls contact with them to organize your project together.

Dear Paul and Elena:

(14) Referring to our previous correspondences, I greatly appreciated to know of your strong willingness to work on our projects. I will communicate with you further in our following msgs — sorry for my belated response due to the trouble of our web and list servers for over the past one month.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: Tapio Varis <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:06:23 +0200
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: 'Tapio Varis' <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi, "Kaisa Kautto-Koivula <kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>, 'KLASU'" <klaus.oesch@welho.com>, 'Marita Huhtaniemi' <Marita.Huhtaniemi@wise.evtek.fi>, 'Marita Huhtaniemi' <marita.huhtaniemi@welho.com>
Subject: Our book & research plans

Dear Tak,

Thanks to your great inspiration during your visit to Finland, Dr Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Marita Huhtaniemi, Klaus Oesch (who is to receive his doctoral degree this coming Wednesday) and myself have drafted the enclosed plans for major financial application as you suggested. I also think this is necessary to make our planned 2009 event succesful.

Please have a look at the documents and give your advice and feedback - preferably to all of us since I will be in Bonn and Brussels later this week.

Looking forward to hearing from you again and many thanks,

Tapio

ATTACHMENT II

From: Juro Nakagawa <jm-naka@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:09:21 +0900
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (12/02/07) English and Japanese translation of three Finnish books

Utsumi-sennsei,

Thanks for your frequent and useful information on distant learning, which I do appreciate so much every time.

1) If there is any English version translated from Finnish, I would be much interested in translation into English. I have translated information and intelligence related English books into Japanese from Diamond Publishing, ERUKO and Nikkei BP. Please let me know your idea.

2) At last in Japan, my collegue, Professor emeritus of ICU , Fujita Chu is plannning to establish Reishauer Gradute School of E-learnig in September 2009 in Japan. If you are interested in, I am pleased to invite you to our new ventures.

3) Business Inteligence Society of Japan in which I havve been President since 1992, is cellebrating its 17th annual conference in ebruary 2008. At this opportunity we are pleased and ready to nominate you as our international adviser. Please give your opinion. The Society has 100　members form academia, industry and governments.

I do wish you for your continued and further success on your　brilliant career.

Best regards,
Juro Nakagawa
Lecturer at Nihon University Graduate School of Global Business, in charge
of Intelligence and competition,
Former Professor at Tokyo Keizai University,Business Management Faculty and
Graduate School of Business Administration,
President, Society of Business Intelligence of Japan
Councellor of Special Committee of Olympus Corporation

ATTACHMENT III

From: Tapio Varis <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:33:57 +0200
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Tapio´s interview in Spain

Dear Tak,

I spoke yesterday in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Here is an
interview of me today in a newspaper El Correo Gallego where I also
mention global university idea:

http://www.elcorreogallego.es/index.php?idMenu=5&idNoticia=259397

Best,

Tapio

p.s. I just came back to Finland

Text of the above URL
(Spanish)

"La clave del éxito educativo finés es la formación del profesorado"
Además de los conocimientos, Finlandia valora en la selección de docentes su "cualificación social", explica Tapio Varis, asesor de su Ministerio de Educación

Lo llaman el milagro educativo, pero el éxito del sistema formativo finlandés tiene unos ingredientes bien definidos. Y el principal es, según el asesor del Ministerio de Educación finés Tapio Varis, la preparación que reciben sus docentes.
"La clave del éxito educativo en mi país es la formación del profesorado, que es de muy buena calidad, especialmente desde los 90, cuando la formación pasó a la universidad. En los últimos 20 años hemos puesto muchos recursos, sobre todo en el campo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC). Cada profesor es capaz de usar mínimamente los medios tecnológicos", explica el profesor Varis, que ayer participó en el congreso fundacional de la Asociación Española de Investigación en Comunicación, que se celebra en la facultad de Ciencias da Comunicación de Santiago de Compostela.

Otro factor primordial del éxito, añade Varis, es la equidad: "Todas las escuelas son buenas, hay pocas diferencias y no hay una escuela de élite privada como sucede en otros países".

El país nórdico cuida especialmente la selección de docentes, que no se queda en la evaluación de conocimientos.

"La llamada cualificación social es un aspecto importante en los procesos de selección. Si quieres impartir arte, tienes que demostrar una calidad artística y creativa, pero también una competencia social y comunicativa, porque lo fundamental es cómo desarrollarás la práctica docente. Es complicado de evaluar, pero es mejor tener estos criterios para evitar que llegue a dar clases gente inadecuada", dice.

Por eso -prosigue el profesor- la actitud positiva es en sí una cualidad fundamental a potenciar en la formación docente. Una actitud favorable, por ejemplo, "a seguir aprendiendo" y adaptarse a las tecnologías cambiantes, que en unos años podrían llegar a sustituir en gran medida los libros de texto por un ordenador portátil para cada alumno. "Los libros ya son gratis, ¿por qué no proporcionarles un portátil durante los años en la escuela para que lo usen para todo? Es algo que se ha experimentado en una localidad y que ahora se estudia extender. No significa que el libro desaparezca, pero hay campos en los que se queda obsoleto, porque lo multimedia permite un acceso a la información más imaginativo y dimensional", concluye.

TELEAPRENDIZAJE

Sin fronteras

Varis dirige un proyecto para poner al alcance de regiones en vías de desarrollo una formación universitaria de calidad a través de Internet, un campus global basado en el teleaprendizaje .

(Caption: Jesús Timoteo Álvarez, catedrático de la UCM, izquierda, y Tapio Varis, ayer, en la USC//
Jesus Timoteo Alvarez, university professor of the UCM, left, and
Tapio Varis, yesterday, in the USC)
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/3cvha2>

(SYSTRAN translation into English)

"The key of the Finn educative success is the formation of the
teaching staff"
In addition to the knowledge, Finland values in the
selection of educational its "social qualification", explains Tapio
Varis, adviser of its Ministry of Education

They call the educative miracle, but the success of the Finnish
formativo system has defined ingredients affluent. And the main one
is, according to the adviser of the Finn Ministry of Education Tapio
Varis, the preparation that receives their educational ones. "the key
of the educative success in my country is the formation of the
teaching staff, who is of very good quality, specially from the 90,
when the formation happened to the university. In the last 20 years we
have put many resources, mainly in the field of the technologies of
the information and the communication (TIC). Each professor is able to
use technological means minimumly ", explains professor Varis, who
participated yesterday in the original congress of the Spanish
Association of Investigation in Communication, that is celebrated in
the faculty of Sciences gives Communication of Santiago de Compostela.

Another priority factor of the success, adds Varis, is the fairness:
"All the schools are good, are few differences and there is no a
school of deprived elite as it happens in other countries".

The Nordic country takes care of specially the selection of
educational, that does not remain in the evaluation of knowledge.

"the call social qualification is an important aspect in the selection
processes. If you want to distribute art, you must demonstrate an
artistic and creative quality, but also a social and communicative
competition, because the fundamental thing is how you will develop the
educational practice. He is complicated to evaluate, but he is better
to have these criteria to avoid that it gets to give to classes
inadequate people ", says.

For that reason - the positive attitude continues the professor is in
himself a quality fundamental to harness in the educational formation.
A favorable attitude, for example, "to continue learning" and to adapt
to the changing technologies, that in years could get to a great
extent to replace text books by a laptop for each student. "the books
already are free, why not to provide a portable one to them during the
years in the school so that they use it for everything? He is
something that has been experienced in a locality and that now studies
to extend. It does not mean that the book disappears, but is fields in
which it remains obsolete, because the multimedia allows an access to
the most imaginative and dimensional information ", concludes.

TELEAPRENDIZAJE

Without borders

Varis directs a project to put within reach of developing
regions a university formation of quality through Internet, a global
campus based on the teleaprendizaje.

List of Distribution

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 229
FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-614-5608--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +3358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611
tapio.varis@uta.fi <mailto:tapio.varis@uta.fi>
tapio.varis@hamk.fi <mailto:tapio.varis@hamk.fi>
tapio.varis@helsinki.fi <mailto:tapio.varis@helsinki.fi>
http://www.uta.fi/~titava <http://www.uta.fi/~titava>
www.ecml-eu.org <http://www.ecml-eu.org> -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/ <http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/>
and
Principal Research Specialist
Unesco-Unevoc International Centre for Technical and Vocational
Education and Training
Gorresstr 15
53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +358-335-51-3608
Fax: +358-335-51-3611
t.varis@unevoc.unesco.org <mailto:t.varis@unevoc.unesco.org>
www.unevoc.unesco.org <http://www.unevoc.unesco.org>

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula
Ph.D.(educ.), Lic.Techn., Docent
Adjunct Professor, New Learning Environments
Tampere University
Tampere, Finland
Mobile: +358 400 403 632
kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi <mailto:kaisa.kautto-koivula@kolumbus.fi>
or
Kruununtie 8 C
02180 Espoo, Finland

Klaus Oesch
Fellow
Forum Virium Helsinki
Radiokatu 5 D
00240 Helsinki
Finland
Mobile +358 400 427 689
Tel. 358 10 387 2700
Fax + 358 10 387 2719
klaus.oesch@forumvirium.fi <mailto:klaus.oesch@forumvirium.fi>

Hitoshi HONDA
Ambassador of Japan
and
Ms Kazumi Kitagawa
Embassy of Japan
Unioninkatu 20‑22
00130 Helsinki, Finland
Tel: (358‑9)686‑0200
Fax: (358‑9) 633012
kazumi.kitagawa@mofa.go.jp <mailto:kazumi.kitagawa@mofa.go.jp>

Isao Tsujimoto
Director General
The Japan Foundation, New York
152 West 57th Str., 17th Flr.
New York, NY 10019
212-489-0299 X150
Fax: 212-489-0409
Isao_Tsujimoto@jfny.org <mailto:Isao_Tsujimoto@jfny.org>
www.jfny.org <http://www.jfny.org>

Tomoki Akazawa
Deputy Director
Center for Global Partnership (NY)
JAPAN FOUNDATION
152 West 57th Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Tel: 212-489-1255 (x122)
Fax: 212-489-1344
tomoki_akazawa@cgp.org <mailto:tomoki_akazawa@cgp.org>
www.jfny.org <http://www.jfny.org>
www.jpf.go.jp <http://www.jpf.go.jp>

Heikki Mäenpää
Vastaava tuottaja, säveltäjä
ABC-IT, Executive Producer, Composer
Sakkolankuja 2
36200 Kangasala, Finland
Cel: +358-50-564-4777
Fax: +358-50-8564-4777
heikki.maenpaa@kangasala.fi <mailto:heikki.maenpaa@kangasala.fi>
maenpaanheikki@gmail.com <mailto:maenpaanheikki@gmail.com>
www.mindtrek.org <http://www.mindtrek.org>

Dr. Chinami Fukui, President
Medical Doctor, Endoscopic specialist
Fukui Clinic
14-29 Honmachi, Tagawa City
Fukuoka, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)-947-44-0065
Fax: +81-(0)-947-45-8641
or
#404, 1-8-14, Ohori, Chuoku
Fukuoka, Japan 810-0052
Tel/Fax: +81-(0)-92-761-1178
Cel: +81-(0)-90-319-59147
chinami@dd.iij4u.or.jp <mailto:chinami@dd.iij4u.or.jp>

Mr. Marutei Tsurunen
Sangiin-giin-kaikan, Room 235
2-1-1, Nagata-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8962
03-3508-8235 (direct)
Fax: 03-5512-2235
marutei_tsurunen@sangiin.go.jp <mailto:marutei_tsurunen@sangiin.go.jp>

Professor Juro Nakagawa
Lecturer at Nihon University Graduate School of Global Business, in charge
of Intelligence and competition,
Former Professor at Tokyo Keizai University,Business Management Faculty and
Graduate School of Business Administration,
President, Society of Business Intelligence of Japan
Councellor of Special Committee of Olympus Corporation
2-17-3?Izumi-honcho
Komae-City, Tokyo?201-0003
Japan
Tel: +81-3-5497-3260
Fax: +81-3-5497-3259
jm-naka@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp <mailto:jm-naka@mvb.biglobe.ne.jp>

Dr. Paul Lefrere
Institute of Educational Technology
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
England
+44 (0)1908 653388
Fax +44 (0)1908 654173
Mobile +44(0) 7725 694 965
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http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/p.lefrere/lefrere.html <http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/p.lefrere/lefrere.html>

Elena Murelli
E-learning Research Project Manager
Center for Research on the Applications of Telematics to Organizations and Society (CRATOS)
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Via Emilia Parmense, 84
29100 Piacenza, Italy
Tel: +39 0523 599.446
+390523599442
Fax: +39 0523 599.434
Cel: +39 328 4322013
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http://www.mine.it <http://www.mine.it/>
http://cratos.pc.unicatt.it <http://cratos.pc.unicatt.it/>

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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA                           *
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* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education           *
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of                         *
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