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

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

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


References:

(a) International Workshop on Ubiquitous ICT for Sustainable Education and Cultural Literacy
http://elearningcentre.hamk.fi/international_workshop/index.html

(b) (09/18/08) Tapio's keynote speech at the Education Leadership Symposium on 9/12/08
http://tinyurl.com/3pj8zx

(c) (04/17/08) "Social Mission" as a direction of Finnish Noblesse Oblige project
http://tinyurl.com/5dap47

(d) (02/01/08) Finnish Noblesse Oblige Project for Paradigm Shift and Change the World
http://tinyurl.com/2kx63c

Dear Tapio:

(1) My wholehearted congratulations to your receiving a wonderful greeting from Mme Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland for your conference of Reference (a) above.

Message from the President of the Republic of Finland
to the International Workshop on Ubiquitous ICT for Sustainable
Education and Cultural Literacy in Hämeenlinna, 6-7 October 2008
http://tinyurl.com/4wzcr8

I presume that you are now concluding this conference with great success.

(2) I am particularly happy to read your msg as indicating your renewed strong intention to leverage the followings at this occasion;

(a) UNESCO/UNITWIN Chair for global e-learning,
(b) UNESCO/UNEVOC for vocational training.

(3) I eagerly look forward to receiving your plans for them after discussing with Kaisa and Paul — particularly on Kaisa’s Finnish Noblesse Oblige Project of References (b)-(d) above.

As proposed before, you may proceed to make this project as the Finnish national project.  As also mentioned to you during our discussion here in Flushing on 9/13th, education services are now becoming exportable commodities, e.g., almost US$ 10 to 15 billion in the US (including tuitions and living costs of about 650,000 foreign students), about US$ 6 to 8 billion in Canada, etc.  I am sure that your Finnish world #1 status in education, vocational training and innovation, etc. would be very appealing and attractive to many developing countries, for which you can effectively utilize our GUS.

Best, Tak

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ATTACHMENT I

From: Tapio Varis <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:39:46 +0300
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Our Presicdent & Unesco Chair Workshop

Dear Tak,

from tomorrow Monday the 6th you could add to our Finland information  
the enclosed official message by Mme Tarja Halonen, President of the  
Republic of Finland, which perfectly reflects our philosophy of fair  
globalization, education, women´s role, and ICT. I think it will form  
the basis for my future plans with the Unesco Chair and Unevoc centre  
here. I will elaborate these plans after the conference.

Best wishes,

Tapio

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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
+358-3-3551-3608
GSM: +3358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611 or +358-3-3551-3611
tapio.varis@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
www.ecml-eu.org -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/

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
or
Kruununtie 8 C
02180 Espoo, Finland

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
P.Lefrere@open.ac.uk
http://iet.open.ac.uk/pp/p.lefrere/lefrere.html

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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA                           *
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