International Coalition for Global Information Infrastructure (GII) in Education and Healthcare

Education and healthcare are the basis of any society. The main goal of this coalition is to foster global citizenship of global village with global electronic distance education and global healthcare/telemedicine, especially to achieve "Education for All" from anywhere to anywhere at anytime.

The main objective is to produce policy recommendations for promoting and accelerating the establishment and use of the GII, as looking toward the year 2005, 2010, and 2015. This is to be done with international and interdisciplinary collaboration in the fields of non-profit organizations, especially for benefitting underserved people in remote and rural areas of less developed countries with educational and healthcare services from the finest and willing sources around the world.

The purposes are;
(a) to formulate collaborative arrangements in each country or region to achieve the goal and objective affordably, with multi-lateral cooperation,

(b) to devise guidelines in each individual field for collaboration and execution of their objectives,

(c) to raise governmental and industrial funds to achieve this goal, mainly from Japan, North America, Europe.

Internet, with its extending and improving infrastructure, will be the main telecommunication media of tomorrow. It has been extended to most of countries, albeit with slow-to-medium speed yet. The rapid advancement of videoconferencing, telephony, World Wide Web in distance education and high resolution image transfer for telemedicine require broad-band Internet via international satellite. The deployment of this to less developing countries needs joint support in the magnitude of several billion dollars by the Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) of major countries. By working together, both fields of global electronic distance education and global healthcare/telemedicine can share the cost. Without this international cooperation for broad-band Internet, GII will become an empty dream.