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Hans Rudolf Herren, Ph.D. <hh@millennium-institute.org>
Peter O. Jack <pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk>
Weishuang (WS) Qu <wq@millennium-institute.org>
Walter G. Ollor, Ph.D. <ollorwgo@yahoo.com>
Carl Skelton <cskelton@poly.edu>
References:
(a) Quantitative
Policy Analysis of Global Socio-Economic-Energy-Environment Development
(GSEEED) Project
(i)
Synopsis <http://tinyurl.com/6oaua3>
(ii) Concept Paper <http://tinyurl.com/3k2fk9>
Dear Hans:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) with the indication of your strong willingness to
participate in our GSEEED project, particularly on the verification of Al
GoreÕs proposed energy policy.
I am also very happy to know that you would take care of PeterÕs visit next
summer for making ground work on our energy policy project with your people.
Dear Peter:
I took the liberty of
uploading your information with this list distribution.
(2) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly ask Weishuang and/or Andrea
Bassi to refine the Reference (a)-(ii) above, the concept paper of our project,
with brief description of the followings;
(a) your energy model
system,
(b) T21,
(c) national and regional models of Nigeria and any other West African
countries.
This concept paper will be used for our fund raising for the workshop at
Polytechnic Institute of NYU, which I mentioned elsewhere before — I will
come back to you when I will construct its budget which is to be submitted from
Polytechnic Institute of NYU to appropriate funding sources.
Dear Walter:
(3) I am sorry for your msgs to me having been bounced back from the Columbia
University email system.
Pls send me a short msg with a copy to your daughter, Nyime Fyne-Okorie, so
that she can forward it to me in case when I will not receive it. This
email connection is vitally necessary for the smooth conduct of our project.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
From: Hans R Herren <hansrherren@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 00:15:13
+0100
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Weishuang Qu <wq@millennium-institute.org>, Carl
Skelton <cskelton@poly.edu>, Harold
Sjursen <hsjursen@poly.edu>, Peter Jack
<pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk>, Walter Ollor
<ollorwgo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Introduction and
respectful request
Dear Tak,
Many thanks for the mail and the connection. I think that we will be able to
work together well and I look forward to link up with Peter. He would be very
welcome to visit with us when at MIT, so that we can further discuss on how we
can work together, and also acquaint him with T21 and what we have already done
re energy modeling in the US. Note that we are also discussing with ECOWAS in
Abuja about a regional model as well as national model for the West African
countries on energy, transportation, trade issues among others. That would be a
head start for the project Peter is working on.
UNU is having its annual council meeting right now in Tokyo and I look forward
to hear soon regarding the decision re MI. Will let you now the details as soon
as available.
I will get in touch with both Weishuang re your suggestion to have MI work with
Peter and also introduce Peter to our Andrea Bassi, who has done much of the
energy modeling with T21. I think that both will be very keen in looking at the
Nigerian energy outlook as well as the greater linkages between the users of
Nigerian oil and the Nigerian economy, under a number of possible scenarios.
More later when I discussed with colleagues.
Kind regards, Hans
PS : Peter, I lived and worked for 9 years with IITA in Nigeria (Ibadan)
and then 7 years in Cotonou, also for IITA. My job was saving cassava (and your
gari) from the devastation os an insect!
Dr. Hans R. Herren
President
Millennium Institute
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Arlington, VA 22201
USA
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Laureate: World Food Prize 1995, Kilby Award 1995, Brandenberger Prize
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Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) 2005
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ATTACHMENT II
From:
"<Takeshi Utsumi>"
, Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:26:28
-0500
To: Hans R Herren <hansrherren@mac.com>
Cc: Weishuang Qu <wq@millennium-institute.org>,
Carl Skelton <cskelton@poly.edu>,
Harold Sjursen <hsjursen@poly.edu>,
Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
Peter Jack <pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk>,
Walter Ollor <ollorwgo@yahoo.com>
Conversation: Introduction and
respectful request
Subject: Introduction and respectful
request
Hans Rudolf Herren, Ph.D. <hh@millennium-institute.org>
Weishuang (WS) Qu <wq@millennium-institute.org>
Carl Skelton <cskelton@poly.edu>
Walter G. Ollor, Ph.D. <ollorwgo@yahoo.com>
Dear Hans:
(1) It has been sometime since our last correspondences. Hope everything
is going fine and well with you. How is your talk with your friend, the
rector of the United Nations University in Tokyo about your joining with their
Research and Training Programs?
(2) Today, I would like to introduce you the following person;
Peter O. Jack
Training Consultant/Director
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
Federal Ministry of Science & Technology
Plot 695, Port-Harcourt Crescent
Off Gimbiya Street,
Area 11, Garki, Abuja ‑ Nigeria
Tel: 09‑3142925 (Ext 102)
Fax: 09‑3142924
GSM: 08023112676
GSM: 0805 5007777
08033122299
pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk
He is now a PhD student at Seoul University in Korea. BTW, he has a very
interesting background, e.g., chemical engineering, MBA, worked on telecom
policies and training, system dynamics simulation, and now on e-governance, --
which are very much similar to mine.
(3) Attached to this msg are the followings;
(a) His CV;
<pjcv_current_2008.doc><http://tinyurl.com/6yseka>(80
KB)
(b) The outline of his PhD these;
<Thesis_WIP_24_11_2008.ppt><http://tinyurl.com/5aro49>(2.6
MB)
(c) The outline of his 2009 Summer Internship;
<Thesis_Summer_2009_Activity_Plan.ppt><http://tinyurl.com/6nykwt>(1.1
MB)
During
this coming summer he wishes to take a week-long program at MIT/Sloan school on
Business Dynamics — as I did almost 40 years ago
<business-dynamics_MIT_one_week_course.pdf>
<http://tinyurl.com/5gwaoo>(2.1
MB).
(4) As you see, his PhD theses is about the Government Academia Partnerships
for eGovernment Development in Nigeria.
He would like to make GSEEED/Nigeria project as a part of his theses.
Quantitative Policy
Analysis of Global Socio-Economic-Energy-Environment Development (GSEEED)
Project
<http://tinyurl.com/6fb8bb>
In short, this project will verify the viability of energy policy proposed by
the former Vice President Al Gore, which is to replace fossil fuel to generate
electricity in the US with renewable energy sources in the coming decade.
Most of such carbon based fossil fuel with less sulfur content comes from
NigeriaÕs Niger Delta Region. If this fossil fuel from Niger Delta is
replaced with renewable energy sources, Niger Delta region would encounter with
lessening oil revenue. If Al GoreÕs proposition would succeed in the US,
it would certainly be replicated in energy hungry developed countries, too,
such as Japan, Germany, Italy, France, etc. This will hence bring the
drastic changes of socio-economic-energy infrastructures around the world.
Technically, this project is to interface socio-economic-energy-environmental
simulation models of Nigeria/Niger Region and the ones of the US, and later
with other countriesÕ, e.g., Japan, Germany, Italy, China, India, etc., etc.,
-- thus policy analysis and assessment of those countries can be made
collaboratively.
(5) Prof. Walter Ollor of Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO) in Nigeria/Niger
Delta region indicated his willingness to undertake this project in
Nigeria/Niger region, when he visited us last summer;
(08/25/08) Meeting
with Prof. Walter Ollor from Nigeria at Polytechnic Institute of NYU on 8/21/08
http://tinyurl.com/65aw7z
Walter then told us
that he conversed with you over the phone before coming to NYC.
Walter is now raising fund to hold a planning workshop of this project in Niger
region next May. Peter is willing to assist Walter on this project, as
making ground works as indicated in the Item (3)-(c) above, during an
internship in the summer of 2009.
I would expect that you or WS would be able to attend WalterÕs workshop to
guide his team on the construction of simulation models for Niger Region.
The workshop is to configure the construction of fund raising materials
for this main project for which we would certainly like to have your
participation.
(6) I would then respectfully request that you would have Peter for a week or
so in July of 2009 so that he can work on this project with your people.
He has assured that all expenses will be taken care of by himself, e.g.,
such as living and traveling, etc.
Looking forward to receiving your favorable response soon,
Best, Tak
List of
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Hans Rudolf Herren, Ph.D.
President
Millennium Institute
2200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201-3357 USA
Tel: (+1-703) 841-0048
Fax: (+1-703) 841-0050
Cell: (+1-530) 867-4569
hh@millennium-institute.org
hansrherren@mac.com
http://www.millennium-institute.org
http://www.millenniuminstitute.net/
www.threshold21.com
http://www.biovision.ch
http://www.eduvision.or.ke
Peter O. Jack
Training Consultant/Director
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
Federal Ministry of Science & Technology
Plot 695, Port-Harcourt Crescent
Off Gimbiya Street,
Area 11, Garki, Abuja ‑ Nigeria
Tel: 09‑3142925 (Ext 102)
Fax: 09‑3142924
GSM: 08023112676
GSM: 0805 5007777
08033122299
pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk
Weishuang (WS) Qu
Director of Modeling and Analysis
Millennium Institute
2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 650
Arlington, VA 22201-3357
Tel: +1-703-841-0048
Fax: +1-703-841-0050
Cel: 301-873-3073
wq@millennium-institute.org
www.millennium-institute.org
Walter G. Ollor, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Business and Management Sciences
Igbinedion University, Okada (IUO)
P.M.B 0006
Benin City
Edo State, Nigeria
Tel:+234-803-709-5725
ollorwgo@yahoo.com
Carl Skelton
Director, Integrated Digital Media Institute
idmi.poly.edu
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Six MetroTech Center, RH 213
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-260-4018
cskelton@poly.edu
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