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Kunal Malhotra
Director of Legislation & Budget
Office of Council Member Gale A. Brewer
Council District 6: Upper West Side Manhattan
250 Broadway, Suite 1744
New York, NY 10007
212.788.6975 (phone)
212.513.7717 (fax)
Kunal.Malhotra@council.nyc.gov
Professor Seth G. Neugroschl
Co-chair Columbia University Seminar on Computers, Man and Society
Columbia University
1349 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
212-876-7674
212-722-4046 -- after 6 pm
SN23@columbia.edu
Dr Joseph O. Okpaku, Sr.
President and CEO
Telecom Africa International Corporation
222 Forest Avenue
New Rochelle, N.Y. 10804
Tel: (914) 636-6498
Fax: (914) 813-2503
Okpaku@aol.com
Dear Kunal Malbotra:
(1) Albeit belated, I would like to respectfully request a time for my
testimony during your ÒBroadband Advisor HearingÓ which is to be held at
LaGuardia Community College, 1pm to 4 pm of March 3rd, 2008 <http://preview.tinyurl.com/249uga>
<http://preview.tinyurl.com/yqu2ln>.
Dear Seth:
Many thanks for
your letting me know this event.
(2) Over the past three decades since October 1972, GLOSAS/USA (the founder of
Global University System (GUS)) has played a major pioneering role in extending
U.S. data communication networks to other countries, particularly to Japan, and
deregulating Japanese telecommunication policies for the use of e-mail through
ARPANET, Telenet and Internet. This triggered
the de-monopolization and privatization of Japanese telecommunications
industries. This liberalization of the telecommunication industry has
been emulated and has now created a more enabling environment for economic and
social development in many other countries. Over 180 countries have
Internet access and more than one billion people use e-mail around the world
nowadays. American and other countries' university courses now reach many
under-served developing countries.
Next to that, since 1986, GLOSAS conducted a series of innovative distance
teaching trials with multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive
videoconferences using hybrid delivery technologies, which often spanned the
globe and came to be called the "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" tm,
including demonstrations of telemedicine from Finland and Amazon to the US.
Thanks to those efforts, Dr. Utsumi received a prestigious Lord Perry Award for
Excellence in Distance Education in the fall of 1994. Two year senior of
the same award is Dr. Arthur C. Clarke, the inventor of satellite.
(3) It is said that in Korea and Japan 100 Mbps (10 times more than in NYC) is
now commonly available at a half of the monthly cost in NYC. New Yorkers
are now getting way, way behind other countries — for example, we now
start advocating even 2 Tera bps ultra-high-speed
optical fiber network among African countries — see;
(a) (02/14/08) Idea for Trans-Africa Ultra High
Speed Optical Fiber Network
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3x4roy
(b) (02/29/08) Eloquent clarion call for
Africa Renaissance
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ytjwe8
(c) Synopsis of GLOSAS/USA Projects
http://preview.tinyurl.com/yoebmy
(4) If affirmative, pls inform me of my time slot and
possibility of my slide presentation.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
Dear Joseph:
Albeit short
notice, can you come to support me?
Best, Tak
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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