Outline of Events at The Internatioonal workshop/conference on "Emerging Global Electronic Distance Education" at The University of Tampere Tampere, Finland
	(Date to be announced later.)

1. Brainstorming on the followings during the conference;
   
   
   1. Establishment of Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF),
      
   2. Establishment of International Coalition for Global Information Infrastructure (GII) in Education and Healthcare,
      
   3. Institutionalization of Global University System.
      
      
2. Technical workshop and demonstration;
   
   
   1. Prior to the conference, we plan to have 2-day workshop which will be conducted by Roger Boston of Houston Community College, for about up to 50 delegates from developing countries,
      
      1. If there are enough equipment, this could be hands-on workshop for them,
         
      2. If there is not enough equipment, this can be performed as a one-man demo by Roger Boston.
         
   2. The entire conference session will be web broadcast via Internet throughout the world,
      
   3. Soros Foundation has already kindly pledged a fund for the following demonstrations of high-resolution, diagnostic quality image transfer for telemedicine;
      
      1. Connection between Tampere site and Yale University/School of Medicine/Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, CT with the use of PictureTel (or preferably VTEL) via 384 Kbps ISDN line,
         
      2. Connection between Tampere site and Tulane University/School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, LA with the use of PictureTel (or preferably VTEL) via T1 (1.5 Mbps) Internet line.
         
         
3. Global electronic distance education obviously requires information infrastructure settings. For this, we advocate the combined use of following broadband wireless Internet as much as possible.
   
   
   1. Near range (up to 10 to 25 miles):
      
      1. In building use of spread spectrum broadband (2 Mbps) wireless unit, in order to save hard wiring cost with optical fiber network (which may amount $30,000 to 50,000).
         
      2. Between buildings with the use of the same;
         
         1. If in line of sight -- up to 10 Mbps,
            
         2. If not in line of sight -- up to 128 Kbps.
            
   2. Medium range (50, 100 to 200 miles):
      
      1. Use of terrestrial TV frequencies for downloading at 0.5 to 4 Mbps and Internet access through ordinary telephone for uploading at 56 Kbps, -- this is for individual home users,
         
      2. Use of microwave network which can carry 45 Mbps -- this is for connecting main buildings.
         
   3. Wide range in global scale:
      
      1. Use of DirecPC in a similar scheme as (b)-1 above but with the use of satellite instead of the terrestrial TV frequencies, -- this is for individual home users,
         
      2. Use of similar scheme as the "Medical Information Network by Communication Satellite for University Hospital (MINCS-UH)" in Japan. This connects about a dozen university hospitals around Japan with two-way, broadband (45 Mbps) digital satellite channels for medical diagnosis with HDTV. The technical investigation is now underway if this network can be used as a backbone of Internet.

Some of them will be demonstrated/presented during our Tampere event.