[gu-l] Paper for InterMedia of International Institute of Communications
(IIC)
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Sun, 4 Mar 2001 03:42:30 +0000 (GMT)
<<March 3, 2001>>
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Martin Sims <martin@iicom.org>
John Wyver <john.wyver@fathom.com>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. <ptknight@attglobal.net>
Francis J. Method <fmethod@erols.com>
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>
Dear Martin:
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(1) Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT I and II).
(2) I am attaching my Draft #1 of our paper for your InterMedia
(ATTACHMENT VI).
I did not address to your question in the second para of
ATTACHMENT I well, since they would require almost one
paper length to describe the issues with our lessens
learned in the past three decades.
Pls inform me if we should really respond to those
issues, as altering my writing in the Draft #1.
Is the format of the Draft #1 good enough?
(3) About the commoditization and commercialization of education, I asked
John Wyver of Fathom, a newly created profit-oriented educational
consortium, to give us some viewpoints on this (ATTACHMENT V).
On 2/21st, we had a monthly seminar of Computer, Man and
Society" at Columbia University. He presented there about his
Fathom, a new venture which is a consortium of many prestigious
universities in the US and London, and which is a profit-oriented
organization for e-learning. He also has some
experiences at BBC in London.
You may ask John to write his own paper for your InterMedia.
(4) Our GUS' philosophy is to go along with the principle of UNESCO, i.e.,
education is the right of people -- though its interpretation may
differ depending on tradition and culture. GUS is to look for the
Knowledge Society of the 21st century where the measure of wealth and
success is to be made not by hard currency but by knowledge and
wisdom. GUS will foster learners to understand that money can buy
power, but not respect nor esteem. GUS is to bring youngsters as wise
persons who can work for world peace as transforming knowledge to
wisdom with action. This is user- and demand-oriented, bottom-up
approach as encouraging creativity in their localities with
entrepreneurship which may need to destroy traditional mind-settings.
This may be drastically different from the educational philosophy of
the top-down, command-control type, profit-oriented, industrial age
where subservient, slavish obedience was prime principle.
Dear Joe and Peter:
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(5) Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT III and IV).
The current version has 2537 words which is between the limits at 2500
(ATTACHMENT I) and at 2700 (ATTACHMENT II). Therefore, you can add
another 163 words, if necessary and desired.
Dear Tapio, Peter, Frank and Joe:
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(6) Pls check my Draft #1 and let me know your revision at your earliest
convenience.
Figure 1 can be retrieved at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Global_Broadband_Internet/Global_Broadband_Diagram.html
Figure 2 can be retrieved at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/GSTF/GSTF_Organization.html
Looking forward to receiving your prompt response,
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: Article on distance learning
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:26 AM
From: Simsmart@aol.com
To: <mearsk@ucs.orst.edu>, <jafele@plant.uoguelph.ca>, <jonathan@gng.org>,
<rboston@tenet.edu>, <jpeizer@sorosny.org>, <JIMMSL@aol.com>,
<ptknight@attglobal.net>, <fmethod@erols.com>, <Ecjpelton@aol.com>,
<hds2@cornell.edu>, <utsumi@columbia.edu>, <jafele@plant.uoguelph.ca>,
<tapio.varis@uta.fi>, <hds2@cornell.edu>, <rboston@tenet.edu>, <peter@knight-
moore.com>, <ptknight@netscape.net>, <fmethod@erols.com>, <vaa_r@usp.ac.fj>,
<thaman_k@usp.ac.fj>, <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dear Mr Utsumi and colleagues,
For some months now I have been following with interest your exchange of
emails about distance learning. I am the editior of the Intermedia, the
journal of the International Institute of Communications. Our forthcoming
isse has a special feature on distance learning, with features on projects in
Argentina and the UK.
I was wondering if one of you, being experts on the subject might be prepared
to give a wider pers[pective on the issue. Distance learning has been around
a long time, through printed materials, broadcasting, and more satellite. The
question which interests me is whether the internet is really a paradigm
shift in what distance learning can achieve. Furthermore, should we be
concenred about the growing commercials investments in distance learning and
the partnership deals being struck with the prestigious univerisites. Is this
another example of the commodification of a good which was previously free?
Would anyone be prepared to write an article of 700 - 2500 words answering
these questions, for our next issue, which has a deadline of the 14th March?
To give you a bit of background about the publication, Intermedia stands
midway between a trade publication and an academic journal. It has a high
level readership, comprising policy makers, lawyers, regulators, business
leaders and academics in the broadcasting, telecoms and internet sectors.
The IIC is a global, interdisciplinary network with members in more than 70
countries. It is a non-profit making body founded thirty years ago to explore
the implications of new communications technologies through meetings,
research and publications. Intermedia is one aspect of this. You can find
more information about the IIC and get a flavour of recent issues of
Intermedia at our website <www.iicom.org>.
regards,
Martin Sims
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ATTACHMENT II
From: Simsmart@aol.com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:03:14 EST
Subject: Re: Article on distance learning
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Dear Tak,
Very kind of you to offer to write an article for Intermedia. Sending it by
email is fine, and I would very much welcome any diagrams or illustrations
you consider appropriate. It would be easiest for me if these could be sent
as separate image files rather than embedded in a word document.
Thanks again for you offer. If I can be of any further assistance please do
not hesitate to contact me. Our guidelines for contributors are copied in
below.
regards
Martin Sims
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GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Could I make a few points about file formats and style which I send to all
contributors? Sorting out these technical issues can save a lot of time in
the production process. Do apologise if I am teaching you to suck eggs.
We very much welcome any graphs, illustrations, diagrams, photos etc as they
make the piece much easier to read! Hard copies of illustrations give the
best quality but we can also use most digital formats, from zip discs to
email attachments. If you have the illustrations to hand that's fine, if not
I can chase them up for you. The only thing I would ask is that you don't
embed illustrations in the final document - it's murder trying to extract
them! It's much easier for us if they are kept as separate image files.
Everything you send is converted into bare text to be imported into the Quark
Express programme which we use to design the magazine. So there is no need to
spend time producing a well-formatted and well-presented word document - all
this formatting has to be removed before Quark can read the file. In a
nutshell - we only need the bare text!
Some styles commonly used in report writing don't work well in the magazine
format. A short report can have 9 or 10 bullet lists, but in a magazine it
looks strange if you have more than one or two. Several layers of headings
and subheadings can make reports easier to understand but again they look odd
in magazines, particularly if they apear in only one article. We would prefer
just one layer of subheadings, or at the most two.
One technique which isn't much used in report writing but works very well in
magazines is the text box. It's the ideal way of making an interesting and
relevant point which doesn't directly fit into the main thrust of your
argument. They can be 50- 400 words long, and one or two per article is about
the limit.
Articles can be from 700- 2700 words long. Emailing them is fine, preferably
as attachments in .doc (Microsoft Word documents) or .rtf (Rich Text File)
formats.
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ATTACHMENT III
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:46:05 -0500
From: "Joseph N. Pelton" <jpelton@SEAS.GWU.EDU>
To: "Peter T. Knight" <ptknight@attglobal.net>
CC: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
Frank Method <unesco1@cais.com>
Subject: Re: Revised GSTF Proposal, Summary of NYC discussions used toguide
changes
Dear Peter and Tak: Perhaps we could talk about the Intermedia article. I
have twice served on the Board of Directors of the IIC and have written
several articles for Intermedia in the past. It is more of a "news" than a
"scholarly" journal and thus the writing needs to be fairly tight and written
in a journalistic yet terse style. They also have a firm schedule and thus
the deadline will be important to keep.Also I am uncertain where things stand
with regard to the Michael Moore book as well. Perhaps we could have a three
way discussion on both points.
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ATTACHMENT IV
Subject: RE: Revised GSTF Proposal, Summary of NYC discussions used toguide
changes
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 3:42 PM
From: Peter T. Knight <peter@knight-moore.com>
To: <jpelton@SEAS.GWU.EDU>, "'Peter T. Knight'" <ptknight@attglobal.net>
Cc: "'Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.'" <utsumi@columbia.edu>, 'Frank Method'
<unesco1@cais.com>
Tak, perhaps it should be jointly authored like our proposal, Tak. I'd think
we bring in Frank and keep authorship the same. Willing to help.
Cheers,
Peter
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ATTACHMENT V
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 22:39:49 -0500
Subject: Re: Article on distance learning
From: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
To: John Wyver <john.wyver@fathom.com>
CC: "Ph.D. Takeshi Utsumi" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear John:
(1) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you at the Columbia
seminar last night.
(2) Attached below is the invitation for a paper publication from the IIC
which I mentioned.
(3) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly send me your brief
viewpoint with regard to the commercialization of education, especially from
your viewpoint of British, as you mentioned last night -- see red marked
sentence below.
Thanks in advance.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT VI
GLOSAS Projects for Closing Digital Divide
Paper to be published in
InterMedia
International Institute of Communications (IIC)
Westcott House, 3rd Floor
35 Portland Place
London, W1N 3AG
United Kingdom
DRAFT #1: 2/26/01
Takeshi Utsumi, Tapio Varis,
Peter Knight, Francis Method, Joseph Pelton
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GLOSAS Projects for Closing Digital Divide
I. Introduction
The dawn of the twenty-first century comes with a digital revolution and
economic globalization with a New Economy. We are moving towards a global
knowledge society where information skills and competence become the driving
forces of social and economic development. Effective learning requires
upgraded multimedia educational materials, preferably distributed using
broadband Internet applications. The use of these applications for global e-
learning and telehealth/telemedicine must be efficient and cost-effective,
enabling educational institutions to foster global citizenship and achieve
"education and healthcare for all" at anytime, anywhere and at any pace. The
Internet will be the main telecommunication media of tomorrow. Broadband
Internet holds great promise for improving multimedia e-learning and
telehealthcare capabilities in global scale, especially in rural and isolated
areas that are not well served by commercial network providers.
A true revolution in e-learning and telemedicine requires high-speed access
to the World Wide Web, and the flexibility to offer a variety of media.
These might include two-way audio, full-motion video-conferencing up to MPEG2
quality, television-quality netcasting, and high-resolution image transfer
for telemedicine. Such capabilities require medium to broad bandwidth.
Developing countries need broadband Internet via international satellite and
fiber-optic cable. The objective of increasing quality of audio/video
delivery, high interactivity, and system throughput can be seen as a global
objective of closing digital divide for improving e-learning and telehealth
services.
As a result of the G-8 meetings held in Okinawa, Japan, in July 2000,
important initiatives have been started, and the GLOSAS projects described
here fall clearly within the suggestions for action in the Okinawa Charter on
Global Information Society.
II. GLOSAS/USA
The GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.
(GLOSAS/USA) is a publicly supported, non-profit, educational service
organization and is a consortium of organizations dedicated to the use of
evolving telecommunications and information technologies to further advance
world peace through global communications. GLOSAS fosters science and
technology based economic development to improve the quality of life.
Over the past three decades GLOSAS/USA played a major pioneering role in
extending U.S. data communication networks to other countries, particularly
to Japan, and deregulating Japanese telecommunication policies for the use of
e-mail through ARPANET, Telenet and Internet (thanks to help from the Late
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge) -- the so-called closing digital
divide" nowadays. This triggered the de-monopolization and privatization of
Japanese telecommunications industries. This movement has later been
emulated in many other countries -- now over 180 countries with Internet
access and more than 377 million people using e-mail around the world. This
effort helped in extending American and other countries' university courses
to under-served developing countries and the conduct of innovative distance
teaching trials with "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" (TM) multipoint-to-multipoint
multimedia interactive videoconferences using hybrid delivery
technologies. Thanks to these efforts, Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, one of authors,
received a prestigious Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
in the fall of 1994 from Lord Perry, the founder of the U.K. Open University.
The two year senior recipient of the same award is Sir Arthur C. Clark, the
inventor of satellite.
III. Tampere Workshop
Thanks to generous funds from Alprint, the British Council, Finnair, Finnish
Broadcasting Company, Ministry of Education Finland, Sonera, Soros
Foundation/Open Society Institute, United States Information Agency (USIA),
United States National Science Foundation, and the Information and
Development Program (infoDev) administered by the World Bank, and many
others, a highly successful International Workshop and Conference on
"Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning (EGEDL'99)" was held in August,
1999 at the University of Tampere, Finland -- see <http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL>
for the compilation of the conference materials.
The event brought together about 60 decision-makers and leaders in e-learning
and telemedicine from 14 underserved countries who discussed practical
solutions for the implementation of affordable global e-learning across
national boundaries. They brainstormed on the formation of the following
three;
A. Global University System (GUS) (TM),
B. Global Broadband Internet (GBI),
C. Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) (TM).
The group formulated specific pilot projects focussed on major regions of the
world to reduce the growing digital divide between information rich and
information poor populations, as realizing "education and healthcare for
all," at anywhere, anytime and at any pace.
IV. Global University System (GUS)
The goal of the GUS is to improve the global learning and wellness
environment for people in the global knowledge society where the global
responsibility is shared by all. A central theme is the sharing and exchange
of knowledge among educational, research, industry and trade sectors. The
GUS will (1) seek open, egalitarian and culturally transparent methods to
achieve improved learning and healthcare worldwide, cooperating closely with
people around the world, (2) harness the emerging technologies of broadband
Internet connectivity among institutions of higher learning in developing
countries to provide learners of all ages with global e-learning across
national and cultural boundaries, (3) foster youngsters around the world with
creative competition for excellence through affordable and accessible
broadband Internet, (4) coordinate and facilitate national and international
regional systems which will support and complement the traditional
institutions of learning and healthcare, by using conventional methods in
tandem with advanced electronic media.
The GUS has group activities in the major regions of the globe. They are
developing their pilot projects in;
(1) the Asia-Pacific region (with Manila in the Philippines as its first
target, and then with Japan, China, Pakistan, Western and South
Pacific),
(2) North America (for indigenous peoples in the states of Arizona and
Montana and in Calgary in Canada),
(3) Central America (e.g., Costa Rica and the Caribbean),
(4) South America (mainly with UNAMAZ consortium in Amazon basin in
initial stage, Argentina, etc.),
(5) Europe (firstly with Estonia, Barcelona and Ukraine), and
(6) Africa (Ghana, Nigeria, etc.).
Each of those regional groups with partnerships of higher learning and
healthcare institutions will foster the establishment of GUS in their
respective regions with the use of advanced global broadband Internet virtual
private network which is to be financed by the Global Service Trust Fund
(GSTF) -- see below.
The major officers of the GUS are: P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Acting President,
(University of Tampere, former rector of the United Nations University of
Peace in Costa Rica); Marco Antonio Dias, T.C.D., Vice President for
Administration, (former director of Higher Education of UNESCO); Takeshi
Utsumi, Ph.D., Vice President for Technology and Coordination, (Chairman of
GLOSAS/USA); Pekka Tarjanne, Ph. D., Trustee member, (former Director-General
of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)).
V. Global Broadband Internet (GBI) (Figure 1)
GUS will foster the development of e-learning and telemedicine pilot projects
using broadband Internet technology in order to enhance their
teaching/learning capabilities. The GUS will also facilitate connectivity
among current e-learning efforts around the world and will provide support
and guidance to selected pilot projects intended to serve as models for
adoption around the world.
Each regional satellite hub of the GUS will be connected with their
counterparts in developed countries with the use of digital satellites across
continents and oceans. However, if possible, it is desirable to use optical
fiber terrestrial line to avoid time delay for the round trip to/from
geostationary satellite. This is because such a time delay prohibits
effective audio conversation which is absolute necessity of
videoconferencing.
The each regional satellite hub will then be connected to regional
constituent member organizations (elementary and secondary schools, higher
education, libraries, hospitals, local governmental agencies, etc.) in mid-
range (50 to 200 miles) apart from each other with the use of microwave
broadband (1.5 to 45 Mbps) Internet networks.
Those organizations will then emanate the broadband Internet service further
to similar nearby (up to 25 miles) organizations with wireless spread
spectrum broadband (3 to 10 Mbps) Internet networks, which use does not
require license in most of countries.
These are the so-called fixed wireless" approach with the requirement of the
line-of-sight," and hence, this technology can be used only among
buildings. The users have to belong to the organizations of the buildings,
hence prohibiting the use of the broadband Internet by individual outreach
students at their homes. The buildings with broadband Internet connection
will then also become relay points for the so-called third generation mobil
wireless" units which are now rapidly appearing in the market, e.g., 96 Kbps
or up to 300 Kbps Internet access in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. This
advanced mobil wireless unit with laptop/notebook will realize e-learning for
anyone, anywhere, and anytime with capabilities of Internet telephony, fax,
voice mail, e-mail, web access, videoconferencing, etc.
This is not only to help local community development, but also assure close
cooperation among higher, middle and lower levels of education, e.g., for
teacher training, and courseware development, etc. In a sense, the regional
satellite hub is to be the major Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the
global virtual private (exclusive) network (VPN) for not-for-profit
organizations in the region, and the gateway to the outside world.
VI. Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) (Figure 2)
Deployment of this high-speed Internet for education and health applications
in developing countries would be financed with a Global Service Trust Fund
(GSTF) which will use all available satellite and optical-fiber facilities to
further the cause of worldwide digital divide for e-learning,
telehealth/telemedicine and other social services such as emergency warning
and rescue.
The GSTF responds directly to several of the injunctions of the Okinawa
Charter on Global Information Society <http://www.g8kyushu-
okinawa.go.jp/e/documents/it1.html> to:
* Foster an appropriate policy and regulatory environment to stimulate
competition and innovation, ensure economic and financial stability,
advance stakeholder collaboration to optimize global networks, fight
abuses that undermine the integrity of the network, bridge the digital
divide, invest In people, and promote global access and participation,
... and calling on,
* All, within both the public and private sectors to bridge the
international information and knowledge divide.
Objective steps must be taken to:
* Reduce the cost of broadband connectivity to a level poor countries
can afford.
* Create policy and regulatory frameworks conducive to the development
of sustainable e-learning and telemedicine programs.
* Establish high-quality applications in developing country to
demonstrate technical feasibility, increase demand, and build support
for more extensive use of such technologies in developing country
contexts.
The GSTF directly addresses the digital divide at the international level.
Although many countries (including some developing countries) are now geared
to establish broadband Internet, their initiatives are mainly domestic.
There is currently no international organization that provides such a network
across national boundaries, continents, and oceans, for the use by non-profit
organizations, e.g., e-learning, tele-healthcare, libraries, and local
governments. This international gap is now a major cause of network
congestion, and there is an urgent need to close it in a rapidly globalizing
world society.
The GSTF would create strong incentives for an improved policy and regulatory
environment in developing and transitional countries, increase bandwidth
available free or at subsidized rates for educational and health projects --
that is projects investing in people -- requiring broad bandwidth, and would
involve collaboration between the public and private sectors.
The GSTF will make available broad bandwidth free or at below market prices
for qualifying education and health projects in developing countries.
Ideally, funding would be sufficient to eliminate or greatly reduce the
telecommunications cost for qualified education and healthcare applications.
This might be done by a voluntary international mechanism akin to the "E-Rate"
now benefiting schools in the United States.
The fund would come from two donor sources: (1) telecommunications companies
with under-utilized bandwidth (transponder space, fiber capacity) and (2)
organizations possessing financial resources (foundations; multinational
corporations, international organizations, individual donors, etc.). The
latter could also include:
* Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) funds of countries belonging to
the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with
multi-lateral collaboration,
* Cash contributions from the profits of international financial
institutions such as the World Bank and the regional development
banks.
There would be some policy conditionality (telecommunications, education,
health). This conditionality and operational criteria will be established in
a participatory fashion by working groups convened by ITU, UNESCO, and WHO.
Major stakeholders -- nations, international organizations, private
companies, NGOs, etc. -- would be invited to help determine the minimum
acceptable policy framework intended to create an enabling environment for
the development of both broad bandwidth infrastructure and applications of
this infrastructure to meet development needs.
The Coalition for this GSTF ideally would include a broad spectrum of
commercial and governmental sources. These might include key international
organizations such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the
United Nations Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization (UNESCO),
the World Health Organization (WHO), and International Labor Organization
(ILO) plus commercial satellite system providers, equipment manufacturers and
providers of tele-education and tele-health services. The Coalition would
also include international development banks, bilateral aid agencies,
foundations, and various types of companies contributing to the GSTF as well
as organizations contributing education and healthcare knowledge.
A credible, reliable, and competent structure will be established to
administer the GSTF. One possibility is that the World Bank would provide
the secretariat, making use of the same legal infrastructure established for
the Information and Development Program (InfoDev). The United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) is another possible host, and others could be
envisioned, e.g., an independent neutral entity under the auspices of UNESCO,
WHO, ITU, World Bank, UNDP, etc.
This activity, including a high-level meeting of global leaders to launch the
GSTF, is now being adopted by the [Arthur C.] Clarke Institute of
Telecommunications and Information (CITI) <http://www.clarkeinstitute.com/>
and coordinated through GLOSAS/USA and the GUS.
VII. Pilot Projects
The organizers of this project have already identified a number of potential
pilot projects for the GSTF. These include several projects of the Global
University System; the Millennium Satellite System for the Digital Divide;
the Biosphere Project; Canal Futura Africano - A 24-Hour-a-Day Portuguese
Language Educational Television Service for Africa; Conversion of Zimbabwe
Open University to Decentralized Web-Based Learning and Satellite Web-Based
Delivery for the South Institute of Information Technology in Pakistan.
These projects are already in a relatively advanced state of preparation and
could be implemented rapidly as GSTF funding becomes available.
VIII. Conclusions
The Tampere meeting was a study in contrasts, and clearly showed the enormous
gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots". On the one hand, some of the
players have tremendous resources with which to deploy broadband wireless
technology; on the other hand, some must operate on a shoestring budget, and
even lack adequate basic wireline services as a starting point. A major
challenge will be to identify technology which will be appropriate (in terms
of start-up and operating costs, maintainability by local people, etc.) in
the "have not" situations.
Thanks to our highly successful event in Tampere, Finland, substantial
momentum for our Global Initiative is now building up to have follow-up
workshops and conferences to forge ahead the establishment of the GUS with
GBI and GSTF by multilateral collaborations.
IX. Current Reference Websites
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Reference_web_sites.html
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Biographies of Authors
* Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. is Partner in Knight-Moore Telematics for
Education and Development (www.knight-moore.com), which he founded in March
1997 together with Professor Michael G. Moore of Pennsylvania State
University. Dr. Knight's clients include The World Bank; Inter-American
Development Bank; International Monetary Fund; Science Applications
International Corporation; SRI International/National Science Foundation; US
Department of State; United Nations Development Programme, Pakistan; and
Secretariat of Education, Paraná State, Brazil. He was Chief of the
Electronic Media Center at the World Bank from June 1994 through February
1997, and before that, Division Chief of the National Economic Management
Division in the Bank's Economic Development Institute (EDI), now known as the
World Bank Institute (WBI). Of his over 20 years in the World Bank, he
worked eight exclusively on Brazil, most recently as Lead Economist for
Brazil (1987-88). Before joining the World Bank in 1976 he held positions at
Cornell University, the Ford Foundation and the Brookings Institution. Dr.
Knight's received his Ph.D in economics from Stanford University, a B.A. in
philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, and an A.B. from
Dartmouth College (major in government). He is sole, principal, or
contributing author of 11 published World Bank studies; author of books on
new forms of economic organization in Peru (1975) and Brazilian agricultural
technology and trade (1971); and over 30 published articles, book chapters,
and numerous unpublished reports and papers. He was executive producer of 12
videos/TV programs dealing with telematics, distance learning, and
sustainable development and Internet development in Africa (see www.knight-
moore.com for recent papers, projects). He speaks French, Portuguese,
Spanish, and Russian as well as his native English.
* Francis Method is an educator with extensive international experience
with social sector planning, assessment and service delivery in developing
country contexts. Since 1998 he has been the Washington-based education
advisor to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization). From 1981 through 1996, he was Senior Education Advisor at
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He also
worked independently on higher education and technical training, with the
Ford Foundation on education assistance strategy and language policy, and as
a Peace Corps teacher and staff member in Nigeria. His interests include the
processes of education policy development, education technology and media,
early childhood development, lifelong learning, and new understandings of
learning, learning organizations and strategies for functioning more
effectively in open learning environments. He is an advisor to Techknowlogia
(www.techknowlogia.org), the online magazine on education and technology, and
is a member of several working groups on strategic planning for prevention of
conflict. This includes helping communities to use education and
communications media to reduce isolation and explore new scenarios.
* Joseph Pelton, Ph.D. is currently a Research Professor with the
Institute for Applied Space Research at the George Washington University
(www.seas.gwu.edu/~iasr) as well as Director of the Accelerated M.S. Program
in Telecommunications and Computers. He also holds concurrent appointments
as a Member of the College of Teachers at the International Space University
of Strasbourg, France and as Professor of Telecommunications at the
University of Colorado at Boulder. He is also the founder and Acting
Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Telecommunications and
Information (CITI [www.clarkeinstitute.com]) as well as Chairman of the Board
of Triana Worldcast Corporation. Currently he heads several international
research projects in space communications and frequency allocation at the
Institute of Applied Space Research. During 1996/7, he is served as Vice
President of Academic Programs and Dean of the experimental global virtual
university known as the International Space University. This project, with
backing from 400 organizations around the world and most of the world's space
agencies, has a central campus in Strasbourg, France and 24 affiliate
campuses worldwide. The ISU is also represented on the Space Agency Forum, a
group representing NASA, ESA and 35 other space agencies from around the
world, and in this role has been requested to develop a model space education
program for global implementation. From 1989 to 1996, during the period of
his directorship of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the
University of Colorado, this program grew from just over 100 graduate
students all on campus to a program of nearly 500 graduate students, some 230
on campus, 140 in distance learning programs from the U.S. and 20 other
countries and a special intensive Masters program for 100 students from AT&T
and Lucent Technologies. Its research laboratories during the same period of
time grew from an estimated value of $1 million to $5 million. Dr. Pelton
holds degrees from the University of Tulsa (B.S. 1965), New York University,
(M.A. 1967) and Georgetown University (Ph.D. 1971). He is the founding
President of the Society of Satellite Professionals International, the Vice
Chairman and founder of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S., a member
of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute of Communications,
and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Space University
for three years.
* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., is Chairman of GLObal Systems Analysis
and Simulation Association in the USA (GLOSAS/USA) and Vice President for
Technology and Coordination of Global University System (GUS) (see
www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS). He is the 1994 Laureate of Lord Perry
Award for the Excellence in Distance Education. His public services have
included political work for deregulation of global telecommunications and the
use of e-mail through ARPANET, Telenet and Internet; helping extend American
university courses to the Third World; the conduct of innovative distance
teaching trials with "Global Lecture Hall" multipoint-to-multipoint
multimedia interactive videoconferences using hybrid technologies; as well as
lectures, consultation, and research in process control, management science,
systems science and engineering at the University of Michigan, the University
of Pennsylvania, M.I.T. and many universities, governmental agencies, and
large firms in Japan and other countries. Among more than 150 related
scientific papers and books are presentations to the Summer Computer
Simulation Conferences (which he created and named) and the Society for
Computer Simulation International. He is a member of various scientific and
professional groups, including the Chemists Club (New York, NY); Columbia
University Seminar on Computer, Man and Society (New York, NY); Fulbright
Association (Washington, D.C.); International Center for Integrative Studies
(ICIS) (New York, NY); and Society of Satellite Professionals International
(Washington, D.C.). Dr. Utsumi received his Ph.D. Ch.E. from Polytechnic
University in New York, M.S.Ch.E. from Montana State University, after study
at the University of Nebraska on a Fulbright scholarship. His professional
experiences in simulation and optimization of petrochemical and refinery
processes were at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo; Stone & Webster
Engineering Corp., Boston; Mobil Oil Corporation and Shell Chemical Company,
New York; Asahi Chemical Industry, Inc., Tokyo.
* Tapio Varis, Ph.D., is currently Professor and Chair of Media Culture
and Communication Education at the University of Tampere, Finland (Journalism
and Mass Communication and Department of Teacher Education), Consultant on
new learning technologies for the Finnish Ministry of Education, and Adviser
to several international organizations. In 1996-97 he was UNESCO Chair of
Communication studies at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. He
has also been a faculty member of the European Peace University,
Communication and Media Scholar at the University of Helsinki and the
University of Art and Design in Helsinki. He is a former Rector of the
University for Peace in Costa Rica, and Professor of Media Studies in the
University of Lapland, Finland. He has published approximately 200
scientific contributions - the latest being Media of the Knowledge Age,
published by Helsinki University Press 1995 (in Finnish). He is listed in
Who's Who in the World (1984 & 1995) and Men of Achievement (1986 &1995).
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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 *
* Founder of CAADE *
* (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education) *
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of *
* Global University System (GUS) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/ *
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