[gu-l] Second Tampere Conference on Disaster Communications, 28-30 May,
2001
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:23:14 +0000 (GMT)
<<March 5, 2001>>
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Hans Zimmermann <hans.zimmermann@itu.int>
Gian Piero T. Roz <roz@un.org>
Dennis Gilhooly <denis.gilhooly@undp.org>
Dr. Hans d'Orville <dorville@undp.org>
Atsuko Okuda <aokuda@undp.org>
Rolf Sommerhalder <rs@ife.ee.ethz.ch>
Mont J. Smith <msmith@pdc.org>
Frederick M. Burkle <skip@website.tamc.amedd.army.mil>
Ms. Robin Hayden <haydenr@website.tamc.amedd.army.mil>
Victoria Garshnek, Ph.D. <74072.3104@compuserve.com>
Jim Rogers <rogersj@website.tamc.amedd.army.mil>
John Studach <jstudac@american.edu>
Gary Garriott <garyg@vita.org>
Nels D. Sanddal <nsanddal@citmt.org>
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>
James B. Steinberg <JSteinberg@markle.org>
Karen Lynch <klynch@markle.org>
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. <ptknight@attglobal.net>
Francis J. Method <fmethod@erols.com>
Ben I. Haraguchi, J.D. <haralaw@cs.com>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dr. Paul Lefrere <p.lefrere@open.ac.uk>
Dr. Lauri Hirvonen <Lauri.Hirvonen@nokia.com>
Dear Hans:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I and II).
It was certainly my great pleasure to have met you at the annual
conference of the International Institute of Communications (IIC) in
Tampa, FL last September.
Many thanks for your previous msgs about the 10th Plenary
Meeting of the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications, at
the UN Headquarters in New York, NY, from 30 November to 1
December 2000.
I was sorry I could not attend it. However, I believe that your
conference was very successful.
Dear E-Colleagues:
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(2) Should you be interested in Hans' Tampere conference on 28 - 30 May
2001, pls contact him for your attendance.
Dear Mr. Roz:
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Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III). I included you for this
distribution.
Dear E-Colleagues listed above:
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You may also be interested in the Tampere conference. If so, pls
contact Hans.
Dear Hans:
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(3) The Tampere Hall where you will have your conference is just across
the main entrance of the University of Tampere.
In August of 1999, we had a highly successful workshop and conference
on the Emerging Global Electronic Distance Education (EGEDL/'99)" at
the university and initiated the following three projects;
1. Global University System (GUS),
2. Global Broadband Internet (GBI),
3. Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF).
Pls click Current Reference Websites" at the top of the home page of
our web site which URL is listed at the top of this msg to find out
more about those projects.
In this page, pls click Proposal for Creating the GSTF (February 28,
2001)."
(4) Although this GSTF is primarily for global e-learning and tele-healthcare
and tele-medicine of GUS with GBI, your emergency
preparedness and relief fields may have overlapping interest with
ours.
For example, Mont Smith of Pacific Disaster Center and the
people at the Center of Excellence in Disaster Management &
Humanitarian Assistance in Hawaii indicated their interest in
our projects (particularly on the availability of GBI around the
Pacific Basin) when I visited them in the spring of 1999.
Dear Robin:
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You may include Hans in the distribution list of your
excellent newsletter.
Another example is that we are now working to extend the e-learning
program of the critical and emergency medical care
service (which extensive experiences were accumulated by Nels
Sanddal in vast area of Montana) to the Philippines.
Another example:
In the web listed in your msg I found your excellent paper
³Telecommunications in the Service of Humanitarian Assistance"
which was appeared in the International Civil Defence Journal,
Vol.XI - No.1 - April, 1998, p.p. 20-24, which said;
On 17 January 1995, when the Japanese city of Kobe was
devastated by an earthquake at 05:46 hours (local time),
it took only 22 minutes until the first news flash
appeared on 327,000 computer screens linked to the
Reuters' network spanning 154 countries (2), within less
than two hours millions of households on all continents
had live pictures on the TV screen in their living room
and 4 hours later the first search and rescue teams in
Europe, thousands of miles away, mobilized their
specialists (3)."
My list distribution of April 8, 2000 said;
It is well known fact in telemedicine that email was the
first to report Kobe earthquake to the outside world a few
years ago. I felt very satisfied and honored when I
received sincere thanks from a former Japanese House
Representative when I mentioned of this, since I once
worked to de-regulate the Japanese telecom policies for
the use of email almost two decades ago. He experienced
the devastated quake by himself in the middle of Kobe."
(5) The GSTF project has been adapted by Joe Pelton's Arthur C. Clark
Institute for Telecommunication and Information (CITI) -- one of other
three projects CITI adapted is to create a New Global Warning and
Recovery Network - Project WARN - which initial participants are (a)
Clarke Institute (CITI), (b) Volunteers in Technical Assistance
(VITA), (c) UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
VITA and UNICEF were listed in your November conference at the UN
headquarters in Manhattan.
Pls see the synopsis of the Project WARN in my list distribution
³[Arthur C.] Clark Day events on 2/7th" of February 28,2001 in
the archives mentioned above.
(6) On 2/12th, Peter Knight, Frank Method, Ben Haraguchi and I visited the
people at Markle Foundation and the UNDP and received favorable
response to the GSTF project -- previously we have received the same
from European Commission, UNESCO, WHO, ITU, World Bank, INTELSAT,
WorldSpace, etc.
Those people at Markle and UNDP are now working on the Digital
Opportunity Taskforce (DOT) project <http://www.dotforce.org/>
and <http://www.markle.org/dotforce.html>, which is the follow-up of
the pledge ($15 billion for 3 years to close the digital
divide in developing countries) made by Japanese Prime Minister,
Mr. Mori, during the Okinawa Summit last July.
Pls visit the web site and you may contact Dennis Gilhooly of
the UNDP or Jim Steinberg and/or Karen Lynch of Markle
Foundation.
(7) Should you be interested, you may ask Tapio Varis (professor of the
University of Tampere) to give a brief talk on our GUS project -- he
is now working with Paul Lefrere on the community development in
Estonia, Barcelona and later in Ukraine, which grant application is to
be submitted to the European Commission soon.
(8) Since your November conference material mentioned of the use of
broadband wireless, you may also contact Lauri Hirvonen of Nokia.
During our Tampere event in August of 1999, he kindly treated us with
a dinner party and also a wonderful presentation of their R&D for G3
mobil videophone at 34 Mbps which is to come in market in near future.
(9) We would be very delighted if we can be of any help to your project
and, in return, if you can provide our GSTF project with your support
and endorsement.
I wish you a very good luck to your Tampere conference -- I wish to
attend it, but am sorry to say that our resources are very limited.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 10:34:48 +0100 (MET)
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
From: Hans Zimmermann <Hans.Zimmermann@ties.itu.ch>
Subject: Disaster Communications Conference CDC-2001
Dear Professor Utzumi,
it was a pleasure to discuss some issues of common interest with you during
the IIXC conference in Tampa, FL, last September, and I am following the
discussions on your e-mail list with interest.
Together with the IIC, the ITU, and the Finnish authorities, we are presently
preparing a major event:
"CDC-2001, The Second Tampere Conference on Disaster Communications" Tampere,
Finland, 28-30 May 2001.
The preliminary program and additional information will be published later
this week. You may wish to have a look at the draft information on the not-
yet linked or published "construction-site" at URL
<http://www.reliefweb.int/telecoms/temp/tampere01.htm>
and your comments and suggestions for possible additions would of course be
very valuable for us.
I hope to have the opportunity to continue our discussions and to develop a
cooperation on the issues of common interest,
best regards
Hans
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ATTACHMENT II
Subject: CDC-2001 now on the web
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
From: "Hans Zimmermann" <zimmermann@un.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:11:58 +0100
Dear Professor Utsumi,
the information below, concerning the fortcoming conference co-hosted by
the IIC, might be of interest for some members of your group:
----- Forwarded by Hans Zimmermann/OCHA/GE on 02/08/2001 01:52 PM -----
Hans Zimmermann
To: emergency-telecoms@itu.int, sig-tag@list.unicc.org, tampere-2001@itu.int
02/08/2001 12:22 PM
Subject: CDC-2001 now on the web
Dear colleagues,
I am very pleased to announce that the programme and further information on
CDC-2001
THE SECOND TAMPERE CONFERENCE ON DISASTER COMMUNICATIONS
Tampere, Finland, 28 - 30 May 2001
are now available on the Emergency-Telecoms site of ReliefWeb at URL
<http://www.reliefweb.int/telecoms>
Please have a look, and please register as early as possible. CDC-2001
will be a very result-oriented conference, with plenary sessions only, and
consequently only a limited number of participants can be included from
each of the participating sectors:
- Users (Emergency Managers)
- Providers (Telecoms experts)
- Regulators (Government authorities)
- Suppliers (Private Sector, Service and Equipment)
- Academia
The site will be updated continuously.
Best regards
Hans
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ATTACHMENT III
From: "Gian Piero Roz" <roz@un.org>
Subject: Iridium project
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Cc: "Hans Zimmermann" <zimmermann@un.org>
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 08:53:25 -0400
Dear Mr. Utsumi,
I am the Director for IT for the United Nations in New York.
A colleague of mine, Mr. Hans Zimmermann from OCHA in Geneva, just
received a message you had sent on the Rescue Iridium Project scheduled for
20 June.
I would appreciate it if you could kindly include me in you mailing list
since the United Nations is interested in following the developments in this
area.
Thank you in advance for your kind attention
Gian Piero T. Roz
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Hans Zimmermann
Senior Humanitarian Affairs Officer
United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
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Mobil: +41 79 203-7614 and +41 79 477-0882
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hans.zimmermann@ties.itu.int
Zimmermann@un.org
Gian Piero T. Roz
Director, Information technology
Services Division
United Nations
New York, NY 10017
Tel 212 963 1656
roz@un.org
Dennis Gilhooly
Senior Advisor to the Administrator
Director, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development
United Nations Development Program
One United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
212-906-6914
Fax: 212-906-5778
denis.gilhooly@undp.org
http://www.dotforce.org/
Dr. Hans d'Orville
Director
Information Technology for Development Programme
Bureau for Development Policy
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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New York, NY 10017
212-906-3687
Fax: 212-906-5023
Fax: 212 906 3676
dorville@undp.org
hans.dorville@undv.org
www.undp.org
Atsuko Okuda
Programme Associate
IT for Development Programme
Bureau for Development Policy
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
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New York, NY 10017
212-906-6329
Fax: 212-906-5023
aokuda@undp.org
http://www.undp.org/info21/
Rolf Sommerhalder
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Geneva, Switzerland
rs@ife.ee.ethz.ch
Mont J. Smith
Community Relations Director
Pacific Disaster Center
Premeire Place
535 Lipoa Pkwy, Suite 104
Kihei, Maui, HI 96753
808-875-4145
Fax: 808-875-6150
Cellular 280-4309
msmith@pdc.org
http://www.pdc.org
or,
Mont J. Smith
Pacific Business Development
Engineering Integration Technologies
Betac Corporation
msmith@tetac.com
Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, FACEP
Director
Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
A WHO Collaborating Center
1 Jarrett White Road (MCPA-DM)
Tripler Army Medical Center (AMC), HI 96859-5000
808-433-7035 (main #)
Fax: 808-433-1757
skip@website.tamc.amedd.army.mil<<May 8, 2000>>Did not work.
http://coe.tamc.amedd.army.mil
Or,
Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery & Public Health
Chair, Division of Emergency Medicine
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii
Ms. Robin Hayden
Public Affair Officer
Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
1 Jarrett White Road (MCPA-DM)
Tripler Army Medical Center (AMC), HI 96859-5000
808-433-1433
Fax: 808-433-1757
haydenr@website.tamc.amedd.army.mil
http://coe.tamc.amedd.army.mil
Victoria Garshnek, Ph.D.
Project Manager, AKAMAI Telemedicine Evaluation
Clinical Research Manager
Information Systems Support, Inc.
Pacific Regional Program Office
1 Jarrett White Road
Tripler Army Medical Center (AMC), HI 96859-5000
808-433-3600
Fax: 808-433-1920
Pager: 808-549-7835
74072.3104@compuserve.com
garshnek@mhpcc.edu
http://prpo.tamc.amedd.army.mil
Jim Rogers, M.B.E.
Director of Program Operations
Center of Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance
1 Jarrett White Road (MCPA-DM)
Tripler Army Medical Center (AMC), HI 96859-5000
808-433-7035 (main #)
808-433-1943 (direct)
Fax: 808-433-1757
rogersj@website.tamc.amedd.army.mil
http://coe.tamc.amedd.army.mil
John Studach
National Center for Health Fitness
American University
4400 Massachusettes Ave. NW
Washington DC 20016-8037
202-885-6287
202-885-6288 FX
jstudac@american.edu
http://www.healthy.american.edu
Gary Garriott
Director, Informatics
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 500
P.O. Box 12438
Arlington, VA 22209-8438
703-276-1800 X19
Fax: 703-243-1865
garyg@vita.org
vita@vita.org
ECONET: VITA
Telex: 440192 VITAUI
Cable: VITAINC
www.vita.org/satvitpo.htm -- Press release on Consorcio SAT/SatelLife/VITA
www.vita.org/consort.htm -- Press release on satellite-users coalition
www.vita.org/slife.htm -- Press release on SatelLife-VITA
Nels D. Sanddal
President & CEO
Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation
300 North Willson Avenue, Suite 3002
Bozeman, MT 59715-3572
USA
Tel: +1-406-585 2659
Fax: +1-406-585 2741
nsanddal@citmt.org
www.citmt.org
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Applied Space Research, Rm 340
George Washington University
2033 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
202-994-5507
Fax: 202-994-5505
ecjpelton@aol.com
jpelton@seas.gwu.edu
Or,
Acting Executive Director of CITI
Vice-Chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S. (ACCFUS)
Arthur C. Clark Institute for Telecommunication and Information (CITI)
4025 40th Street North
Arlington, VA 22207
(703) 536-6985
ecjpelton@aol.com
http://clarkeinstitute.com/
http://www.clarkeinstitute.com/
James B. Steinberg
Senior Advisor
Markle Foundation
10 Rockefeller Plaza, 16th Flr.
New York, NY 10020-1903
212-713-7645
212-713-7628
Mobil: 1-917-539-2877
Fax: 212-765-9690
JSteinberg@markle.org
Karen Lynch
Director, Global Digital Opportunity Project
Markle Foundation
10 Rockefeller Plaza, 16th Flr.
New York, NY 10020-1903
212-713-7620
Fax: 212-765-9690
klynch@markle.org
http://www.markle.org/dotforce.html
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D.
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Knight, Moore - Telematics for Education and Development
Communications Development Incorporated (CDI)
Strategy, Policy, Design, Implementation, Evaluation
1808 I Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20006, USA
Tel: 1-202-721-0348 (dir/vmail) 202-775-2132 (sec.)
Fax: 1-202-775-2135 (office)
Cel: 1-202-255-7215
IP for CU-SeeMe: 198.77.80.46
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peter@knight-moore.com
webmail: ptknight@netscape.net
http://www.knight-moore.com
http://www.cdinet.com
http://www.knight-moore.com/partners/partnerindex.htm -- bio
http://www.knight-moore.com/projects/GSTF.html -- about GSTF
Or
Rio de Janeiro Office
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P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University System
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Professor and Chair
Media Culture and Communication Education
Hypermedia laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-215 6110
Tel: +358-3-614-5247--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
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http://www.uta.fi/~titava
Dr. Paul Lefrere
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Educational Technology
Director, Networking and Partnerships, Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC)
Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Systems
Open University
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UNITED KINGDOM
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Fax: +44-1-908 67 28 02
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Wireless Data
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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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