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Prof. Dr. Kyandoghere Kyamakya <kyandoghere.kyamakya@uni-klu.ac.at>
Aubin Kashoba Kalasa <aubin.kashoba@gmail.com>
Prof. Dr.-Ing., Dr.sc. techn. (habil) Michael E. Auer <m.auer@cti.ac.at>
Andrea Marcello Bassi <ab@millennium-institute.org>
Peter O. Jack <pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk>
Josie Lianna Kaye <jlk2149@columbia.edu>
References:
(a) (20091126)
Creating Global Early Warning System (GEWS) in Romania along with GUS/Romania
and advocacy for Black Sea Ring
http://tinyurl.com/yf29kol
(b) (20091112) Report on our visit to IBM on November 3rd, 2009
http://tinyurl.com/yamu346
(c) (20090919) Planning workshop to create GUS/Congo
http://tinyurl.com/ku8grq
(d) Niger Delta Renaissance: Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Forum, Abuja 2010
Pls treat this confidential, since it is still in
draft stage.
http://tinyurl.com/yhfqaqt
(e) (04/16/05)-b Possible Broadband Internet to Ghana, Senegal, etc.
http://tinyurl.com/y8djoyq
(f) (20090802) SEACOM undersea fibre optic cable along eastern African coast
http://tinyurl.com/leynf3
Dear Prof. Kyamakya:
(1) Many, many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) with comprehensive report of your side
activities.
I am very delighted to hear of your steady progress.
Dear Mr. Kalasa:
(2) We are very happy to have you as the Chief Operations Officer of GUS-DRC.
I am sure that you will have very exciting time with this project.
Dear Prof.
Kyamakya and Mr. Kalasa:
Pls send me the followings;
(a)
Full address (snail mail address, phone/fax and if possible, URL, etc.),
(b) A photo,
(c) A brief bio, etc.
See for othersŐ at <List of Working Group Members <http://tinyurl.com/yjrxbnb> 15.4MB>.
Dear
Prof. Kyamakya and Mr. Kalasa:
(3) Construction of Global Early Warning System (GEWS)/DRC: -- see
Reference (a) above.
You may consider to start our joint projects as constructing DRC national
socio-economy-energy-environment simulation model — if necessary, you may
ask help to AndreaŐs Millennium Institute, too, for this construction.
We would like to make each model run all the time, continuously and
repetitively, say, from the year 2000 to 2050, as similar to a repetitive
analog computer. This is to be done in the cloud computing environment of IBM,
which is now in process of arrangements — see Reference (b).
The graphical
presentation of the year 2000 to the present would be the past data, and the
one from the present to the 2050 would be the prediction made by the simulation
model. The initial conditions at the present would be revised with the
fresh input data, say, about the national consensus or GDP (gross domestic
product) figure, etc. This makes the simulation as similar to the one of
a simulator/trainer of nuclear power plant or petroleum refinery or ethylene
plant — or it could be the engine of a large oil tanker, which President
Obama often quotes as analogous to the operation of the United State economy.
The models will then be DRCŐs Early Warning System (EWS) which can interlink
with similar models of nearby countries to form a regional EWS, too.
Millennium Institute has started constructing national energy simulation model
for 15 member countries of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) -- starting with Nigeria. This is very
significant movement and even a paradigm shift of political science, since such
poor developing countries start using scientific methodology for their policy
evaluation and setting, basing on facts and figures.
BTW, we will have a demonstration
(*) of gaming/simulation on the energy policies proposed by Former Vice
President, Mr. Al Gore and President Barack Obama to replace fossil fuel with
renewable one to generate electricity in the United States in relation to
appropriate allocation of oil revenue in Niger Delta of Nigeria, -- What would
be the consequences to other economic and social structures in the US and in
other countries, particularly Nigeria? — This is because 95% of Nigerian
revenue comes from oil export, 40% of which is exported to north America.
(*)
This is to be held during Global Symposium on: Climate Change and International
Peace and Security, Global Challenges and Global Solutions: Interdisciplinary
Approaches Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) in the School of
International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University in May 2010.
After this conference at Columbia University, we plan to hold one-day workshop
on GEWS to discuss its technicalities at Polytechnic Institute of New York
University in Brooklyn, NY.
Should you wish to attend the former at Columbia University, pls contact Josie.
For the latter, you can have my permission — I donŐt know the
registration fee for the former, but the latter would be at free of charge.
However, you have to accommodate all of your travel expenses and
arrangements.
(4)
Establishment of Global University System (GUS)/DRC: -- see Reference
(a) above.
Along the construction of national socio-economy-energy-environment simulation
model, you may plan to establish Global University System (GUS) to assist the
model building, maintenance, administration and gaming execution, etc. --
although I mentioned before about the creation of GUS/DRC in the Reference (c)
above.
You would also need to emphasize the importance of educating young would-be
decision makers who are now in the teens and twenties who would become real
decision makers at their 50 to 70 years ages around 2050s, when most of the
UNŐs Millennium Development Goals (MSGs) would not meet their targets, and
hence would become fierce, severe resource competitions and conflicts issues.
Their training in crisis management, conflict resolution, and negotiation
techniques should be basing on "facts and figures." Their understanding gained with
scientific and rational analysis and critical thinking with the
gaming/simulation would be the basis of world peace, and hence ought to provide
the basic principle of global education for peace.
As mentioned before,
Peter Jack, our Nigerian colleague, is now setting up a workshop for
GEWS/Nigeria and GUS/Nigeria on January 28-29, 2010 in Abuja, Nigeria —
see Reference (d) above. Should you wish to attend it, pls contact Peter.
(5) Establishment of Broadband Internet in Congo and Neighboring Countries:
-- see its diagram in the ANNEX of ATTACHMENT I below.
Your proposed network topology may go along with the followings;
Figure 1: <http://tinyurl.com/yc4sezf>
Figure 2: <http://tinyurl.com/yhq3z4n>
Figure 3: <http://tinyurl.com/yg8rw53>
Table 1: <http://tinyurl.com/yf3b7wn>
At the beginning, I would suggest that you may
follow the precedence of broadband Internet connection between Advanced
Information Technology Institute (AITI) (which was created with the fund from
India) in Ghana and Bowie State University in Bowie, MD (a famous black
university <http://www.bowiestate.edu/>)
through SAT3 at 45 Mbps with fund from the US National Science Foundation
— see;
Identifying
U.S-African Collaborations and Projects that Would Benefit from Expanded
Bandwidth to Africa
http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/us-africa-collaborators.html
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0451384
This
was mentioned in the Reference (e) above.
After this stage, you may approach the Japanese government to install
ultra-high speed information superhighway at terabits per second range as we
once advocated (Reference (f) above), along the super highway with the US $4
billion which was pledged by the Japanese government at the TICAD-IV conference
in the spring of 2008 in Yokohama, Japan. I think that your proposed
broadband Internet network in Congo and nearby countries (Figure 1 in ATTACHMENT
I below) would go along well
with it.
(6) I look forward to receiving your concept paper soon.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
From: Kyandoghere Kyamakya <kyandoghere.kyamakya@uni-klu.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:55:40
+0100
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: <aubin.kashoba@gmail.com>, Kyandoghere
Kyamakya <kyandoghere.kyamakya@uni-klu.ac.at>
Subject: Short Update from GUS-
DR Congo: GUS-DRC
Dear Chairman !
Dear Prof. Utsumi,
I would like to give you here a short update concerning the on-going contacts
and preparations in DR Congo concerning the organization of the first Workshop
and especially securing a full "political" support of the GUS-DRC
project by the Congolese government:
1) We have setup a group of people who are permanently managing in Kinshasa the
project preparation steps. This local group is headed by a very brilliant
manager named Aubin KASHOBA. He is reading us in copy. I have nominated him to
be the "Chief Operations Officer of GUS-DRC". He has many years of
management experience in the telecommunication and IT industry and know most
related players in DR Congo.
Therefore for GUS-DRC we have now filled two core positions:
* President: Prof. K. Kyamakya
* COO: Aubin Kashoba Kalasa.
Further positions for the board of directors will be filled progressively as we
secure good commitments from all relevant stake-holders.
2) GUS-DRC has secured the political backing of a political NGO that is
supported by the head of state: COPAK. This is expected to help us in getting
the political support of the government to back GUS-DRC
3) We are also in the process of contacting and discussing in details with 5
core ministers of relevance for GUS-DRC: Telecommunications, International
Cooperation, Education and Research, Health, Agriculture, and Environment.
5) Whenever we explain the GUS idea to ministers or to their advisors, some of
them wish to also come and assist to the GUS-Workshops planned in Nigeria
and/or somewhere else in North Africa or Asia. The idea is that GUS-DRC
representatives accompanied by representatives of the Congolese government
should go there to learn from the experience of those other GUS projects.
Question: can you
help us to get official permissions and eventually invitations for representatives of GUS DRC to those workshops
scheduled at the beginning of 2010 ?
6) As soon as we will have secured the full and official support of the
Congolese government we will finalize the application to be sent to you about
the funding of the first Strategic Workshop/Conference of GUS-DRC. We are
preparing it slowly but thoroughly.
7) Concerning the core infrastructure of GUS-DRC with regard to the aspect of
supporting peace and development in the central african region around DR Congo
and also while considering the idea of a pan-african fiber optics backbone as
wished by GUS and the japanese government, we have thought of extending the
GUS-DRC backbone to be a regional one that interconnect more than 6 neighboring
countries which anyway do not have a direct access to the undersea cables due
to their geographic positions inside the continent. All major cities will get a
direct access to the backbone. For remote towns and rural areas, a wireless
connectivity via technologies like microwave links and WiMax will be an option.
A possible topology
taking these considerations into account may roughly look this way (see
map below): the following countries should be by the way directly
interconnected to GUS-DRC: Central African Republic (capital town: Bangui);
Angola (capital town: Luanda); Congo (Capital town: Brazzaville,
just next to Kinshasa); Uganda (capital town: Kampala); Rwanda
(capital town: Kigali); Burundi (capital tow: Bujumbura);
Zambia (capital town: Lusaka); Tanzania (one major town at the border to DR Congo: Kigoma. From Kigoma there is
a railway going to the capital town of Tanzania, Dar-es-salam).
We do believe that this topology of a regional backbone does
significantly increase the significance of the GUS-DRC backbone. Therefore, the
neighboring countries become direct stake-holders and this is of course very
good to support the peace process in this region that has been hot in the last
couple of decades.
We will keep you in touch of the progress we reach on ground there in DRC and
one of the very next deliverables from us will be a draft of the concept for
the first Workshop of GUS-DRC as well as the application for funding. We want
to prepare this critical workshop very well.
Best regards
Prof. Kyamakya
Annex: tentative Map of the
backbone topology of GUS-DRC:
Figure 1 : Indication of
the areas to be covered by the backbone of GUS-DR Congo
<http://tinyurl.com/ychw7xn>
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Prof. Dr. Kyandoghere
Kyamakya
Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt,
Institute for Smart Systems Technologies,
Chair of "Transportation Informatics"
Universitaetsstrasse 65-67
A-9020 Klagenfurt; Austria
kyandoghere.kyamakya@uni-klu.ac.at
http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/tewi/ict/sst/
++43 (0) 463 2700 3540
Fax: ++43 (0) 463 2700 993540
Mobil-Tel: +43 650 567 2831
In DR Congo:
University of Kinshasa
Polytechnic Faculty
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maison B5, Plateau des Profs, UNIKIN, Commune de Lemba.
Kinshasa, Congo
kyandoghere.kyamakya@uni-klu.ac.at
Fax: ++43 (0) 463 2700 993540
Mobil-Tel: +43 650 567 2831
Aubin Kashoba Kalasa
Chief Operations Officer
GUS-DRC
Kinshasa, DR-Congo
aubin.kashoba@gmail.com
Prof. Dr.-Ing., Dr.sc. techn. (habil) Michael E. Auer
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Head of the Center of Competence Online Labs and E-Learning
School of Systems Engineering
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
Europastrasse 4, A-9524 Villach, Austria
T: +43-(0)-4242/90-500-2115 F: -2110
phone +43(5)90500-2115
voice messages / fax: +49(3212)1045622
m.auer@cti.ac.at
M.Auer@IEEE.org
m.auer@cuas.at
www.cuas.at
http://WWW.cti.ac.at/auer
and
President and CEO
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)
Kirchengasse 10/200
A-1070 Vienna, Austria
T: +43-664-8959353
F: +49-12120-294752
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Andrea Marcello Bassi
Deputy Director
Project Development and Modeling
Millennium Institute
2111 Wilson Blvd. Suite 750
Arlington, VA 22201 USA
Tel: +1 703 351 5081
Mobile: +1 571 721 8275
ab@millennium-institute.org
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
or
PhD Candidate,
International Information Technology Policy Program (ITPP),
Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program (TEMEP),
College of Engineering,
Seoul National University
Seoul, Korea
ROK: +8210-8680-5455
+8210-2897-7761
NIG: +234-80-2311-2676
UK: +44-770-483-9569
peterjack@temep.snu.ac.kr
pj2000ngr@yahoo.co.uk
Josie Lianna Kaye
Columbia University (MA), Sciences Po Paris (MA)
Assistant Director, Center for International Conflict Resolution, CICR
1325 International Affairs Building
420 West, 118th Street, MC 3369
New York, NY 10027
Tel: +1-212-854-5623
Cel: +13473239571
France: +33632343826
UK: +447891681902
jlk2149@columbia.edu
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