[gu-l] Trip to Tokyo from 4/26 to 5/19/01 (Part 1); (1) GSTF, (2) Workshop
in Tokyo in 2002
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:30:59 +0000 (GMT)
<<June 5, 2001>>
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Chisato Furuya <chisato@happi.gr.jp>
Motokuni Ishiguro <edu@jaei.org>
Victor Kotelnikov <vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at>
Yasuhisa Kawamura <yasuhisa.kawamura@mofa.go.jp>
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. <ptknight@attglobal.net>
Francis J. Method <fmethod@erols.com>
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>
Juro Chikaraishi <chikara@jica.go.jp>
Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga <cbraga@worldbank.org>
Takashi Sakamoto, Ph.D. <sakamoto@nime.ac.jp>
Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Sakura Suzuki <sakura@crn.or.jp>
Mrs. Consuelo A. Perez <iceqt23@yahoo.com>
Takeshi Tamura, Dr. Eng. <tamura@center.osakafu-u.ac.jp>
Kazuyoshi Koizumi <koizumik@mail.benesse.co.jp>
Pepe Parrad <pparrado@jonesknowledge.com>
Dear Chisato:
=============
(1) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you in Tokyo, by
the kind introduction of Mr. Ishiguro.
Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) with a kind word calling me as
the "Grandfather of the Internet Japan."
You are the second Japanese who admitted it, after Late Dr. Hiroshi
Inose, former Director General of the National Center for Science
Information System (NACSIS) [the highest authority on Internet in
Japan] and the Laureate of Bunka-Sho (Medal of Culture, the highest
honor in Japan).
In the spring of 1999, he expressed his sincere thanks to me as saying
"Thank you, Dr. Utsumi, for your effort of having introduced Internet
to Japan." His word was more than enough to have paid off my effort,
time and all of my private fortune spent on it and de-regulating the
Japanese telecom policies for the use of email (which I mentioned
elsewhere many times).
At that time, he then agreed with my idea of creating a Global
Service Trust Fund (GSTF), as saying that the state of art of
Internet had then transformed from the advancement of its
technology to the international political matter, i.e., how to
finance costly broadband Internet lines across national
boundaries, continents and oceans, where there is serious line
congestions and, on the other hand, there is no appropriate
organization to take care of it, especially for non-profit and
governmental organizations.
After my talk with him, I then appealed to various key persons
at the Japanese parliament and governmental agencies which led
to the $15 billion pledge (3 years) by Mr. Mori, the former
Prime Minister, during the Okinawa Summit last July, to close
digital divide in developing countries.
Dear Victor:
============
(2) You once asked me where the pledged fund went. I made many inquiries
while I was in Tokyo last November and this time in May, too, and
finally tracked it down to Mr. Kawamura of the Japanese Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
Dear Peter, Frank and Joe:
==========================
(3) He told me that they will announce their plan on the pledged fund at
the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy in July. He also told me that he has
been receiving many proposals.
I handed him a copy of "Proposal for Creating the Global Service Trust
Fund (GSTF)" (February 28, 2001) which can be retrieved at;
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/GSTF/GSTF_2-28-01/Proposal_2-28-01.html
He said to me that if we get endorsement letters from international
organizations, e.g., UNESCO, WHO, ITU, World Bank, ILO, etc., he may
consider to put some of the pledged funds to the GSTF.
I warned him that they should not waste valuable Japanese taxpayers'
money as they did before. I mentioned to them that multilateral
cooperation on its use will be more transparent and accountable.
This idea was mentioned to Mr. Fujita, then the Director-General
of the Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) (an
equivalent to the US International Development Agency (USAID) or
the British Council) in the spring of 1999, and he indicated his
wholehearted welcome.
(4) Mr. Chikaraishi of JICA told me that when he met John Wolfensohn, the
President of the World Bank a few month ago, Wolfensohn told him that
the World Bank is now considering to create an independent entity
which is similar to our GSTF, to handle larger funds than the InfoDev.
Carols Braga, the manager of InfoDev at the World Bank, might have
already told to Wholfensohn about our GSTF after our presentation of
it at the TechNet seminar at the World Bank last October. Carlos
Braga encouraged us at that time to proceed with the preparation of
the launching ceremony of the GSTF to be held in Washington, D.C. --
hopefully in this coming fall.
(5) I conveyed this to Peter Knight (now in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). He
and I will come up a grant proposal to the InfoDev for a seed money to
prepare the formation of the GSTF -- as stated in the proposal
(mentioned above), -- this will include the construction of
conditionalities in cooperation with UNESCO, WHO, ITU, etc.
(6) Out of this pledge at the Okinawa Summit, the Japanese government has
launched a massive project on Information Technology (IT) Revolution.
An article of a Japanese newspaper reported $12 million donation to
the Asian Development Bank, $100 million for poverty prevention
project, etc. to name but a few.
JICA launched J-NET which provides 2 Mbps satellite linkages to many
Asian countries, e.g., the University of the Philippines (UP) in
Manila, etc. JICA leases one INTELSAT transponder and chops off to
many channels of 2 Mbps, and provides them to the developing countries
free of charge. This is similar to Leland Program of the USAID (which
linked about two dozen African countries with 128 Kbps satellite
lines), and to our GSTF.
Dear Mr. Chikaraishi:
=====================
Is this J-NET linkage for research purpose or for e-learning and
telehealth/telemedicine?
If the former, you should not fall in the same pitfall as the US
National Science Foundation (NSF) -- they provided $6 million (3
years) to the University of Indiana which connected with a
Japanese university (I don't know which) with 70 Mbps line, but
alas its usage is only 40%!!
If the latter, you should firstly make comprehensive market
survey in the receiving sites -- as we are planning to do with
our workshop in Manila (and elsewhere) -- see my previous list
distributions and our draft grant application to the NSF at;
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/NSF_appl_for_Manila.html
Only making both together, you can make the line sustainable --
if the receiving site will form a coalition of non-profit
organizations (i.e., higher, secondary and primary education
institutions, libraries, hospitals, local governmental agencies,
etc.), the usage of the line will increase and hence more cost
effective, i.e., less failure for utilizing valuable money of
Japanese taxpayers.
I have grave concern if you can accomplish the latter well --
see below.
Dear Dr. Sakamoto:
==================
(7) It was my great pleasure to have met with you again -- after our
Tampere event in August, 1999.
You were interested in making educational service as export commodity
and asked me any factual figures on it.
Pls visit "Educational exchange via broadband Internet - April 27,
2000" at
http://www.friends-partners.org/utsumi/gu-l/early-2000/4-27-a.html
In its Item (3), I said;
"As President Clinton says, the education exchange contributes $9
billion to the US economy. Canada has about a half of that. The US
and Canadian governments now start promoting education as export
commodity. British government invests $80 million to encourage
educational institutions in the U.K. to do so."
I would strongly suggest that you read President Clinton's
memorandum on International Education Policy in ATTACHMENT II of
this list distribution.
(8) Pls also visit "Knowledge generation with broadband Internet -
February 26, 2000" at
http://www.friends-partners.org/utsumi/gu-l/early-2000/2-26-c.html
This was my msg to Peter Knight and said as;
"I like your statement in the last para;
It is our belief that content produced in developing countries
will flourish when the cost of bandwidth is eliminated or
greatly reduced. Over time the price of bandwidth will fall
sharply anyway, but if the global digital divide is to be
attacked, mechanisms to encourage this content production need
to be put in place now.'
Providing ample bandwidth to users to have their imagination
"flourish" for creation of contents is the principal idea of 80 giga
optical fiber network throughout Canada.
This is not same as the transfer of knowledge from developed to
developing countries, but GENERATION of the knowledge which can
encourage their autonomy with dignity and economic sustainability in
the knowledge society of the 21st century. People in economically
under-developed countries are not necessary intellectually under
-developed -- see INDIA WIRED in Business Week, March 6, 2000,
Page 82-91 (ATTACHMENT II -- of this list distribution mentioned
above).
I am afraid that Japan (which used to be No. 2 high-tech country
after the US) is now behind India -- Business Week a few weeks
ago ranked Japan at the 18th country in the Cyber-world."
I strongly suggest that you also read ATTACHMENT II of this
distribution. For example, a few excerpted para's are;
"With the Net fast bridging the once-vast geographical gap that
separated the West and Japan from India's immense pool of English
-speaking technical talent, the country's IT industry is set to
explode. This year, software products should account for $5.7 billion
in exports and one-quarter of the growth in India's $400 billion
economy, which should expand by nearly 7% this year. Within eight
years, predicts a recent study by McKinsey & Co. and India's National
Association of Software & Service Companies (Nasscom), India's annual
IT exports could hit $50 billion--about 33% of total exports, up from
10% now. Domestic IT revenues could approach $40 billion. That could
create 2.2 million jobs--and push India's growth rate near the double
digits that many East Asian Tigers enjoyed before the 1997 crash.
If so, India may chart a new course for development among emerging
markets. Since the 1950s, Asia's dynamos have focused on manufacturing
exports. India may be the first to rely on brainpower-led growth.
What's more, IT may succeed despite notoriously bad roads, airports,
and container terminals. Prospering in IT services ''doesn't require a
lot of big capital investment in anything,'' notes Grady E. Means, who
heads PricewaterhouseCoopers' global corporate-strategy practice.
''India is for real, for real, for real.''"
(9) It is said that Japan has now "lost a decade" after busting the
so-called "bubble economy" in late 1980s, and yet, she is now facing
a big stonewall on how to reform Japanese society from old to new
economies -- the raw materials of the former are tangible (e.g., coal,
oil, steel, wheat, etc.) in contrast to that the raw materials of the
latter are intangible (e.g., creativity and innovation).
I foresaw this day to come and worked in the past quarter century on;
(a) extension of packet-switching data telecommunication network to
Japan -- (the so-called narrow-band),
(b) de-regulation of the Japanese telecom policies for the use of
email.
The former was to prepare for the infrastructure and the latter for
the easy, affordable communication among people around the world.
We now need to upgrade both; i.e.,
1. upgrading from narrow-band to broad-band with GSTF,
2. enhancing telecommunication from text-oriented email (as this
msg) to multimedia communication.
The former can be done with the currently available technologies --
but, what is now needed is only enough funds to deploy necessary
equipment and telecom media -- thus, our GSTF project.
However, availability of broadband telecom media is easy, but not
enough to make it sustainable economically in long term. This
sustainability can only be accomplished with the contents which can be
carried through the broadband media.
Here comes the need for you to play a big role to save Japan (and
hence the world later) [*], as the chief of the National Institute of
Multimedia Education (NIME) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, the
center of e-learning with the most advanced technology, albeit most of
them are now rapidly becoming obsolete -- see below.
[*] Japan has lost textile to China long time ago, steel to
Korea and China, ship building to Korea, and automobile to Korea
and Indonesia, etc., etc. To save Japan is not to rely on those
old industries, but on new economy industry, as mentioned above.
This transformation can only be done by education, i.e.,
education itself is to become a major industry.
This means that radical transformation of Japanese educational system
is in urgent need now.
Competition for excellence among countries is now becoming
synonymous to the competition of their educational systems.
During our mtg in Tokyo last month, you aptly expressed your concern
if there are enough Japanese professors who can provide e-learning
courses in English, -- not mentioning even those who can construct
web-teaching materials.
For the former, we explored the marketability of our English as a
Second Language (ESL) program during my stay in Tokyo last month,
which utilizes advanced Japanese broadband wireless telecom and
laptop/notebook with advanced north American contents development
tools of DVD, e-book, web-teaching, and cultural content -- which I
will report in my following msgs.
For the latter, I am very delighted to learn that you are now
obtaining $4 million from the Japanese Ministry of Education
(ATTACHMENT II) -- see more below for my suggestions.
Dear Steve:
===========
Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT II and III).
Dear Sakura:
============
Many thanks for your taking care of Maricel's inquiry.
Dear Maricel:
=============
You may contact following person;
Dr. Phil S. Gang
Director
The Institute for Educational Studies
4202 Ashwoody Trail
Atlanta, GA 30319
1-404-458-5678
Fax: 404-441-7653
gang@dcjcon.das.net
Or,
Globe of Life Publishing
3596 Oakcliff Road
Atlanta, Georgia 30340
His organization uses Montessori method of learning, too. He
put me as one of its board members, but I lost contact for some
years.
(10) Pls visit the home page of the Web-based Education Commission at
http://www.hpcnet.org/cgi-
bin/global/a_bus_card.cgi?store_SiteID=154797
and click for their final report at the top of its home page which was
produced for the US Congress last fall.
Its conclusion said that the web-based education should become the
backbone of the national education policy.
I predicted this to you in the spring of 1999 in your office --
but I appreciated your attendance at our Tampere event in the
August of 1999 to present your Space Collaboration System (SCS)
which is a giant videoconferencing system with two-way digital
satellite system connecting more than 125 universities around
Japan.
As said to you, the videoconferencing system to replicate
classrooms is now fading away in the US, since participants have
to get together synchronously (which cannot be done by outreach
students easily) and also have to belong to the organizations
which have earthstations.
The bigger organizations usually have better
videoconferencing equipment, but they are hard to get in,
and thus forming rigid, feudalistic hierarchy of schools
("gaku-batsu" and "gaku-reki" in Japanese), e.g., your and
my alma mater, Tokyo Institute of Technology, is out of
sequential order on the creation of old Imperial
Universities, thus lower social status than the graduates
from them. Therefore, such giant videoconferencing system
for e-learning is direct contradiction to
individualization of education with e-learning, and hence
participatory democracy with American principles of
equality, justice and freedom -- which are the same
principles of Internet.
The SCS is too expensive ($75 million so far?) and not
replicable to developing countries and hence no marketability of
the technology, hence no sustainability of its technological
development.
BTW, you can click our congressional e-testimony for this report
in the home page of our web site which URL is listed in my
signature below. We emphasized our Global University System
(GUS) is for educational and cultural exchange at equal status
among its participating universities -- this is to be stated in
our UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Program application which will be
submitted in a few month.
(11) During my stay in Tokyo this time, I was very glad to receive an
inquiry from many Japanese "why Japan lags on the usage of Internet"
-- now around 18th among countries, less than Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Singapore, etc. -- this is because, till last November, the question
was "what Internet is."
I once discussed on this matter with an American friend in San
Diego in early 1980s, and concluded that we had to figure out
how to sugar coat Internet so that Japanese can swallow it with
the principles mentioned above. This is to promote global
e-learning.
(12) I was very delighted to hear of your willingness to hold a
workshop/conference on global e-learning in 2002 in Tokyo.
The $4 million from the Japanese Ministry of Education (ATTACHMENT II)
may include this event.
Steve, Professor Tamura and Mr. Koizumi:
========================================
I would be very happy if you can kindly assist Dr. Sakamoto on
this matter.
Mr. Koizumi:
============
Can your Benesse Corporation take its administrative function?
The geographic coverage of this event could be ASEAN countries.
Dear Mr. Chikaraishi:
=====================
We will come back to you to ask the travel funds for the people
from ASEAN countries -- you told me its possibility during our
mtg at your office.
(13) This workshop can be re-enactment of our workshop planned to be held
at Sheffield Hallan University in England last April (which was
canceled) -- see its proposed scheme in "Preparation of workshop in
Sheffield, England - September 15, 2000" at
http://www.friends-partners.org/utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/9-15-a.html
The main theme of this workshop in Tokyo in 2002 can be on the web
learning platforms. In the above list, I wrote as;
"there will be following two schemes on web learning platforms;
1. Presentations of experiences by the academic users of
commercially available web learning platforms which are to
be supported by the vendors,
2. Exhibitions of those web learning platforms by the
vendors.
Paul, you need to provide them with booths which are to
have broadband Internet connections.
Those platforms could be WebCT, FORUM, CU-SeeMe Web, SYMPOSIUM,
OUTREACH, ATRIUM, NiceNet, etc., etc."
As for the list of those web learning platform, pls visit Section
III/Web Learning Platform in the draft of "Reference Materials for
Constructing Guidelines for Global E-Learning" at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Guideline/List_of_Materials.html
Dear Steve:
===========
Your previous msg once said that there is a web site in Canada
which compiled those web learning platforms comprehensively.
Pls let me know its URL.
Dear Pepe:
==========
Pls keep track on this movement in this list, since you have
already indicated your willingness to participate in our
workshop and exhibit your web learning platform.
(14) The goal of this workshop in Tokyo is to force/immerse Japanese for
global e-learning environment;
1. to have them acquire English capability,
2. to have broad mind for global citizenship.
(15) The objectives of this workshop are;
(a) To expose attendees with most advanced web learning platforms,
videoconferencing systems, educational services via mainly
broadband Internet,
(b) To provide the Guideline for Global E-Learning which includes
how to make feasibility study in the region/locality of
attendees, in such a way that the finished comprehensive study
can be submitted through the governments of attendees to the
Japanese government for a large funds to implement broadband
wireless virtual private Internet among the coalition members of
non-profit organizations,
(c) To configure;
1. how to import educational services to Japan from outside
world,
2. how to export the same from Japan to outside world.
Looking forward to receiving your response,
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: It was a big day yesterday.
Date: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:32 PM
From: Chisato Furuya <chisato@happi.gr.jp>
Reply-To: <chisato@happi.gr.jp>
To: "Dr.Utsumi Takeshi" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear Dr. Utsumi,
Thank you for taking time for me yesterday. I was excited to have the chance
to talk with Grandfather of the Internet Japan. I would like to appreciate
your insight and efforts of introducing the Internet to Japan in the 1970s.
I was also impressed to know that you still challenge for creating a new
world with a big educational project. I wish everything goes well.
Thanks. Let me visit your project website and see more about your activities
later.
Take care,
Chisato Furuya
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ATTACHMENT II
Subject: Distance learning training (Japan & The Philippines)
Date: Monday, June 4, 2001 8:31 PM
From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Reply-To: steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp
To: Sakura Suzuki <sakura@crn.or.jp>
Cc: <iceqt23@yahoo.com>, Takeshi Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Sakura-san, thanks as always for your collaboration.
Dear Maricel,
Regarding "distance learning training institutions for teachers" in Japan,
things go at a very deliberate pace in Japan, so I do not know of any such
opportunities yet. That kind of training is available over the Net itself
from institutions in Canada, the US, Australia and elsewhere, which you could
find with Web searches on keywords such as you have in mind.
Japan has pledged $15 billion over some years to close the digital divide,
especially in Asia. A few projects outside of Japan have begun to receive
funding, and it will be important to follow the situation with this funding.
To a very limited extent the Japanese government can offer training in Japan,
but recognizing their limitations in manpower with English ability and able
to provide training, they have started by funding a UNESCO center in Bangkok,
as I recall, to handle IT training for Southeast Asians. Probably your best
source of information and funding opportunities is the large Manila office of
the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
JICA Philippines Office
12th Floor, Pacific Star Building
Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue Corner
Makati Avenue
Makati City, Philippines
or
P. O. Box 1026
Makati Central Post Office
Makati City, Philippines
Tel: +63-2-893-3081
Fax: +63-2-816-4222
The above was provided by Dr. Utsumi, who is sending out messages regularly.
If you aren't on his distribution list you could still go to his home page:
http://www.friends-partners.org/utsumi/ and for example do a search on
keywords like "Philippines" with the site search function. (I just had the
site spidered to cover messages up to the other day). Or bookmark his recent
archives at:
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/
I may be able to follow Japan's progress with virtual universities more
closely from the fall. I have been invited to join a research project
introducing instructional design to Japan and preparing for the training of
instructional designers. The group led by Dr. Sakamoto of the National
Institute of Multimedia Education is applying to the Education Ministry for
funds equivalent to about US$4 million over three years.
So keep in touch.
Collegially, Steve McCarty,
========================================
Sakura Suzuki wrote:
>
> Dear Ms. Maricel Perez
>
> As far as I know, Mr. Steve McCarty, President of the World
> Association for Online Education, and Professor of Kagawa Junior
> College in Japan, is welll known for distance education in Japan.
>
> Please take a look in the WAOE home page <http://www.waoe.org> and you
> might find the information you are looking for.
>
> By the mean time, I will contact Mr. McCarty and ask if he has some
> information.
>
> [ Dear Steve-sensei, Dr.Utsumi introduced Ms. Maricel Perez to me
> through email, and she would like to know if there are any distance
> learning training institutions for teachers in Japan. Do you know
> such organizations in Japan? ]
>
> Sakura Suzuki
========================================
>
> "m. cez perez" wrote:
>
> > 28th may 2001
> >
> > Good Day suzuki-san,
> >
> > i am maricel perez from the philippines as kindly
> > introduced by Utsumi-San.
> >
> > my mother is very much interested to know if there are
> > any distance learning training institutions for
> > teachers within your vicinity.
> >
> > we are running a modest school integrated with the
> > Montessori method of learning for youngsters but my
> > brother is currently with a distance education
> > institution here in the philippines which is how we
> > met Utsumi-San here.
> >
> > we appreciate all your help as well as Utsumi-San too,
> > thank you so much and best regards.
> >
> > maricel perez
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ATTACHMENT III
Subject: Japan ministry to fund UNESCO Bangkok IT training
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:02 PM
From: Steve McCarty <steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Reply-To: steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp
To: <digopp@phoenix.edc.org>
Cc: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
A vernacular daily newspaper in Japan reported as follows at:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20010320wo41.htm
> Govt to set up IT fund for developing nations
>
> Yomiuri Shimbun
>
> The Education, Science and Technology Ministry is to establish a trust
> fund at UNESCO to help developing countries promote the use of
> information technology for education, ministry sources announced
> recently.
>
> The ministry plans to provide the fund with 170 million yen in fiscal
> 2001 to enable it to carry out IT training projects for 300 teachers
> from the Asia-Pacific region, the sources said.
>
> The ministry will contribute to the fund for the next 10 years, with
> the aim of producing human resources and contributing to economic
> development in the region.
>
> The establishment of the fund is part of an effort to complement a
> plan stipulated in the IT charter adopted at the Group of Eight summit
> in Okinawa Prefecture in July. The charter seeks to aid developing
> nations in this regard to prevent the so-called digital divide between
> developing and industrial parts of the world widening.
>
> One-month training sessions will be held in Bangkok, home to the
> UNESCO Asia-Pacific regional head office.
>
> Primary and middle school teachers from developing countries,
> including Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, will
> receive training there.
>
> The training sessions, which will help teachers develop Internet
> skills, will place priority on how to use information gathered from
> the Internet for educational purposes.
>
> UNESCO will be responsible for the training program, but the ministry
> will send IT experts to Bangkok to provide advice and guidance on the
> training program and development of teaching materials.
Last year the gov't asked ministries to come up with plans to tackle the
Asian digital divide. At the same time there has been downward pressure on
the national budget. A Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official told me
and Dr. Takeshi Utsumi late last year that the $15 billion promise was Prime
Minister Mori's thing, implying a lack of consensus. The Genoa G8 meeting
should rekindle some continuity after Mr. Mori is replaced. But it is
possible that attempts to cut Japan's ODA will result in less funding for
other types of aid if the the $15 billion is actually forthcoming over 10
years. And funding to Japanese companies as well as the junkets to Bangkok
implied in the above article, that is, Japanese-to-Japanese transactions will
constitute the overwhelming share of appropriations.
Available manpower for IT training is extremely limited beyond domestic
needs, not to mention the language barrier when it comes to training those
from other countries, so the UNESCO-Bangkok plan makes good sense. Under
current circumstances, with Japan's bloated domestic debt and desperate cries
for bailouts, the overall budget is limited, and one can only hope that
requests to Japan from abroad are for peaceful purposes.
Collegially, Steve McCarty
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03-3581-0018 (direct)
Fax: 03-3581-9470
yasuhisa.kawamura@mofa.go.jp
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
ptknight@attglobal.net
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
Knight-Moore Telemática pare a Educaç o e o Desenvolvimento
Avenida Atlântica 4002/302
22070-002 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Tel/Fax +55 (21) 522-9167 Celular 9752-5972
www.knight-moore.com
Francis J. Method
Former Director of UNESCO-Washington
Education Advisor to UNESCO
1775 K St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
Phone:(1)202-454-2182
Fax: (1) 202-331-9121
fmethod@erols.com
Or -- New contacts after March 2001
202-483-2727
Tel/fax: 202-588-1608
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/
Juro Chikaraishi
Director
Planning and Coordination Division
Planning and Evaluation Department
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Shinjuku Maynds Tower Bldg
2-1-1, Yoyogi
Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo 151-8558
Japan
Tel: +81-3-5352-5121
Fax: +81-3-5352-5490
chikara@jica.go.jp
http://www.jica.go.jp
Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga
Program Manager
Information for Development (InfoDev)
Energy, Mining and Telecommunications Department
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
202-473-3927
Fax: (202) 522 3186
cbraga@worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/infodev
Takashi Sakamoto, Ph.D.
Director General
National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME)
2-12, Wakaba
Mihama-Ku, Chiba 261-0014
JAPAN
Tel: +81-43-298 3000
Fax: +81-43-298 3471
sakamoto@nime.ac.jp
http://www.nime.ac.jp/
http://hoklpc25.uta.fi/egedl/outline/virtualuniversityinjapan.htm -- his
slide presentation at Tampere event.
Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College
President, World Association for Online Education: http://waoe.org/
Residence: 3717-33 Nii, Kokubunji, Kagawa 769-0101 JAPAN
Tel: +81-877-49-8041 (office, direct); Fax: +81-877-49-5252
E-mail: steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp, mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp
Website Map: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/
In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/
Sakura Suzuki
Web Coordinator, Child Research Net
Benesse Corporation
1-34 Ochiai, Tama City
Tokyo 206-8686
Japan
Tel: +81-42-356-0685
Fax: +81-42-356-7314
sakura@crn.or.jp
http://www.childresearch.net/
Mrs. Consuelo A. Perez
Santo Nino Montessori
School Systems Incorporated
Basah, Mandaue
(beside Fioatina Parish Church)
Philippines, 6410
and
Maricel Perez
iceqt23@yahoo.com
Takeshi Tamura, Dr. Eng.
Professor
Library & Science Information Center
Osaka Prefecture University
Gakuen-cho, Sakai
Osaka 599-8231
JAPAN
+81-722-54-9154
Fax: +81-722-54-9940
tamura@center.osakafu-u.ac.jp
http//www.center.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~tamura
Kazuyoshi Koizumi
Benesse Educational Research Center
Benesse Corporation
Tokyo Head Office
1-34 Ochiai, Tama City
Tokyo 206-8686
Japan
Tel: +81-42-356-0841
Fax: +81-42-356-7313
koizumik@mail.benesse.co.jp
Pepe Parrado
Director of International Business Development
JonesKnowledge.com (TM), Inc.
World Leader In Online Learning (TM)
9697 East Mineral Avenue
Englewood, Colorado USA 80112
303-784-8268 (Direct)
Fax: 303-784-8994
pparrado@jonesknowledge.com
www.jonesknowledge.com
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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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