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Paul Kawachi <paul.kawachi@crtvu.edu.cn>

Dr Ramesh Chander Sharma <rcsharma@ignou.ac.in>

Josie Lianna Kaye <jlk2149@columbia.edu>


References:

(a) (20091002) (1) Construction of Bangladesh simulation model and (2) Possible System Dynamic seminar in Guyana
http://tinyurl.com/yc2ahcq

(b) (20091004) (1) Help needed to construct a simulation model to assess soil and land degradation in Bangladesh and (2) Key contact persons in e-learning in Amazon area
http://tinyurl.com/yhehbvp

(c) (20091126) (1) Construction of Global Early Warning System (GEWS)/DRC, (2) Establishment of Global University System (GUS)/DRC, and (3) Establishment of Broadband Internet in Congo and Neighboring Countries
http://tinyurl.com/ydesqbv

(d) Al-Azab, M. and T. Utsumi, (2007), "Creation of Global University System in Egypt (GUS/Egypt)," Paper for "ICT-Learn 2007" conference in Cairo, Egypt, September 2 to 4, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/ypkaqo

(e) (06/25/09) (1) Report on the preliminary planning workshop to create GUS/Nigeria and (2) Concept paper of Niger Delta Renaissance project
http://tinyurl.com/yauucp4

Dear Paul:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) -- I am very happy to hear from you after long absence.

My wholehearted congratulations to;

(a) Being elected to the Fellow of the Royal Society — very prestigious, world renowned society!!

(b) Becoming the only foreign expert in the Headquarters of the world largest Open University of China (formerly the China Central Radio & TV University (CCRTVU)).

Yes, I recall the creation of CCRTVU with the ACCESS project of INTELSAT as using four transponders in 1989 by Joe Pelton (then a spokesman of the INTELSAT, now a prof. at the George Washington University in Washing, DC and one of our GLOSAS/USA board members), with Prof. Zhongen Liu, then Manager of Signatory Training Department at the INTELSAT.

At that time, there were almost 1 million students, but you report 2.8 million now -- very surprising, indeed!!  I just wonder what % of them is now receiving one-way broadcasting classroom replicating style course, and what % with web oriented course with email Q&A and video-conferencing.

As you may know well, the former style satellite distance learning courses, such as the National University Teleconference Network (NUTN), National Technological University (NTU), the one at the University of Wisconsin, Western Governors’ University (if ever formulated) have disappeared in the US.  In Japan, the well known Satellite Collaboration System (SCS) has also been dismantled, even after having more than 130 member universities with two satellite transponders for two-way broadcasting interaction for Q&A — very expensive experiment with more than US$100 million Japanese tax payers’ money.

Many thanks also for your recalling us for Ramesh’s new project.

Dear Ramesh:

(2) For your project mentioned in the References (a) and (b), you may consider to attend our following joint conference/workshop next May — see more in Reference (c) above;

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 Global Early Warning System (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 don’t 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.

(3) First of all, broadband Internet is the “MUST” to have for the future of e-learning, e-healthcare, e-governance, etc. -- it is so pitiful for your 5000 students university has only 0.5 Mbps trunk line to the outside world!! -- I have 8 Mbps down and 0.5 Mbps up with US$42/month at my home.  If I recall correctly, Havana Institute of Technology in Cuba was paying US$1,500/month for 1.5 Mbps up/down trunk line via cable to the outside world.

However, your situation may be improved in 2011;

Figure 1 <http://tinyurl.com/yfjjaws>

When you enlarge this diagram, you can see your Guyana is going to have a broadband Internet cable in 2011.  Did the GTT (your Guyana government telecom agency) mention of this, when you met them the other day?  If so, what is the capacity of the cable he mentioned?  As Figure 3 of the Reference (c) above showed, African is now getting almost 4 Tera bps submarine optical fiber line, so that your GTT should aim for a similar capacity — or, at least, 45 Mbps as for Venezuela as shown in Figure 2 below;

RedCLARA Network


Figure 2 <http://tinyurl.com/yfw2fm5>

Your best bet may be to join in DEANT2 who arranged those connections of this figure — pls contact me further if you and/or GTT wish to do so.

(4) This trunk line to the outside world is expensive, so that it is very advisable if you would share it with other educational, healthcare institutions, libraries, governmental agencies, and NGOs, etc.  For this, you may need to form a consortium, which you may call the Global University System in Guyana (GUS/Guyana);

Figure 3 <http://tinyurl.com/yl68uga>

Those organizations may be interconnected with the so-called WiMax at very high speed, say, 75 Mbps, for 50 miles range — may reach to Berbice from Georgetown.  If your GTT would provide this, it could be at free of charge, and may be accessed anywhere around your Guyana — I have heard that Macedonia and other countries are now providing wireless Internet around their countries at free of charge — though need to be confirmed.

Pls see Section IX “Action Plan” of the Reference (d) above, on how to organize this GUS/Guyana, and also Reference (e) about the concept paper on the GUS/Nigeria.  As said there, after the workshop to form GUS/Guyana, a comprehensive project proposal is to be constructed, which is to be submitted to the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) fund with endorsement letters from your minister of telecom, education, healthcare, etc. to the Japan Embassy.  Other possible funding sources could be the Japan Special Fund at the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) or the Japan Fund at the World Bank in Washington, DC., etc.

(5) Have you contacted Alex at the University of Amazon in Manaus and Marco Antonio Dias in Paris — about whom I mentioned in the Reference (b) above?

This is because you indicate your university’s desire to have connection with the University of Surinam.  You may also connect with the University of West Indies, Havana Institute of Technology in Cuba, universities in Jamaica, Venezuela, Columbia, etc.

I would strongly suggest that you organize a workshop with key stakeholders in those Caribbean and Amazon areas — I would be very happy to provide you with key persons’ names and addresses there.  The points you raised could be discussed at this workshop, which could be included in the comprehensive proposal to the Japanese ODA or IADB or the World Bank.

So, your first step would be to raise a fund to organize the workshop to form GUS/Guyana — you may utilize any info, say, about GUS/Nigeria — see in Reference (e) above.  Pls send me your first draft of the concept paper (4 to 5 pages) for this workshop, so that we can work on it together.

Keep in touch.  Pls feel free to contact me.

Best, Tak

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ATTACHMENT I

From: 川内 豊流 Paul Kawachi <kawachi@open-ed.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:58 -0500
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Ramesh Sharma <rc_sharma@yahoo.com>
Subject: your kind advice please

Dear Tak,

How are you ? Is everything going well ?

On your next visit to Asia, please consider coming to see us in China. I moved here from Japan. The Open Univ of China formerly CCRTVU is the largest univ in the world with 2.8million registered active students, and 60000 teachers, and only me as foreign expert in the HQ building in Fuxingmen Beijing.

Well, my great colleague Ramesh Sharma is in Guyana, S Am, the only English speaking country in S Am, and wants our help to connect up the country -- I thought of you and GUS immediately. They have funding though I hope your systems are not too expensive for them...
briefly their situation is below.

COULD YOU PLEASE CONTACT WITH RAMESH DIRECTLY cc to me,
"Dr. Ramesh Sharma" <rc_sharma@yahoo.com>

Many thanks always
paul

please see my signature at bottom for updated contact info.
I was nominated and elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society two months ago !!!

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the University of Guyana wants to increase the bandwidth. Currently it is only 512 k for whole of uni!!

    then Uni wants to implement WAN. Other agenda is to have some Net link with Neighbouring country Surinam.

    The following is needed:
    1. GTT (Govt Tele agency like our VSNL and BSNL and MTNL) is the agency for Internet providing. UG has nearly 5000 students and 700 staff. So to get all staff and students conneted on campus, what bandwidth will be OK.
    2. UG has two campuses: one in Georgetown and other in Berbice. (2 hours distance). How to get a WAN done to interconnect both places.
    3. Tommorrow at 11 noon I am go to the meeting on these points. There we will ask the GTT to be either provider or partner with us. What will be better: GTT as a provider of net services or a partner.
    4. UG thinks of getting some funding from some international body for networking.
    5. UG plans to provide all staff the internet at home. what would be best way to do it? Like I thought of giving all staff some amount. Fix the ceiling. More than that is theirs. Or ask GTT for some plan for staff. What do you say?
    6. The points which we will be asking GTT are:
    Kind of networking
    Infrastructure required
    Cost
    Training of staff
    Maintenance



川内 豊流 Paul Kawachi,  博士 教授 FRSA,
C ATE, Ed D, MA ODE, MA TEFL, F BIELT, F ASODE

教育教学设计专家
Professor of Instructional Design
The Open University of China
(formerly China Central Radio & TV University)
Room 1204, CCRTVU Building,
160 Fuxingmennei Dajie,
Beijing 100031,  China
中央广播电视大学
北京市复兴门内大街160号1204室, 保罗·川内
电话 : 010 6649 0577 , 158 1023 2121
电子邮箱 : paul.kawachi@crtvu.edu.cn
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Gold Medal Laureate : AAOU Research in Education
Editor-in-Chief  : Asian Journal of Distance Education    http://www.AsianJDE.org
Institutional Member  : International Council for Open and Distance Education  ICDE
General Board Member  : Asian Association of Open Universities    AAOU
President  : NPO  Asian Society of Open and Distance Education
Director  : International Professors Project   IPP

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List of Distribution

Paul Kawachi
FRSA, C ATE, Ed D, MA ODE, MA TEFL, F BIELT, F ASODE
Professor of Instructional Design
The Open University of China
(formerly China Central Radio & TV University)
Room 1204, CCRTVU Building,
160 Fuxingmennei Dajie,
Beijing 100031, China
Tel: 010 6649 0577, 158 1023 2121
paul.kawachi@crtvu.edu.cn
kawachi@open-ed.net
http://en.crtvu.edu.cn/#null

Dr Ramesh Chander Sharma
Director
Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
Flat 5, Queen's College Compound
Camp Road, Georgetown
Guyana (South America)
Office phone/fax: 592-227-0407
rcsharma@ignou.ac.in
http://www.uog.edu.gy/schools/idce

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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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA                           *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)          *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education           *
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