[gu-l] Thanks for your offer of voluntary help

Tak Utsumi utsumi@columbia.edu
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 02:04:57 +0000 (GMT)


<<September 10, 2001>>
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Maggie McVay Lynch, Ed.D. <mmlynch@odin.pdx.edu>

Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>

Edward Dodds <dodds@home.com>

Prof. Anton Ljutic <antonl99@home.com>

Ms. Tina Evans Greenwood <greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu>

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>

Dear Maggie:
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(1)  Many thanks for your msg with kind words!!

     Sorry for my belated reply since I was in Taipei and Japan from 8/10
     to 9/1st.

     I am very much delighted to hear of your kind offer.

     I took the liberty of admitting you into our list -- since you were
     not in our list, you must have reading our list distribution from your
     friend.

     Pls send me your CV with your next msg.

(2)  As for publicity:

     Pls retrieve "Terrible experiences with hacker and virus" at
     http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2001q1/date.html

     As mentioned in Item (3) in it, we are now soliciting volunteer editor
     for our GLOSAS NEWS.  After this list distribution, I received two
     volunteers, Steve and Ed.

          Anton initiated this and has registered to Canadian Library of
          Congress.

          Tina then spend her considerable time for web archiving the
          previous publications.

     I wonder if you would be interested to be the managing editor of our
     GLOSAS NEWS.  Your job may be to excerpt major activities out of our
     list distributions and cooperate with Steve and Ed to refine them to
     put into final format.  I will then distribute it to our list members.

     Although I distribute our daily progresses to them, many of them wish
     to receive just only their summary periodically.

(3)  As for fund raising:

     I am very happy to hear of your help on this since we are now in the
     midst of this activity for many projects/workshops.

     Pls retrieve
          (a) "Travel Grant Application Mini-Workshop for Pilot Project of
          Global University System in the Philippines for Tele-learning
          and Tele-Health/Tele-Medicine" at
          http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/NSF_appl_for_Manila.html

          (b) "PROPOSAL FORM" at
          http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/InfoDev_Application/infoDev_Proposa_%20v_4.html
          This is our grant application for the InfoDev of the World Bank.

     Pls also retrieve
          (i) Global University System (GUS)/Synopsis at
          http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Synopsis_6-30-01.html

          (ii) GLOSAS/USA
          "GLOSAS Projects for Closing Digital Divide"
          http://www.iicom.org/intermedia/April2001/ -- Click "First
          Paper" in this web site for the published version of the above
          paper in InterMedia
          As stated at
          http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Reference_web_sites.html
          This is a summary of the current status of our GUS, GBI and GSTF
          projects.

     I would like to discuss with you on this fund raising project further,
     e.g., to which to approach and how to approach, etc.

(4)  Tapio is now incorporating GUS in Finland, and will obtain an
     endorsement from Finnish National UNESCO Committee this week for his
     becoming a member of the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network program.  This will,
     in a sense, be the headquarters of GUS which will have counterpart
     UNESCO/UNITWIN Chairs at our regional/country GUSs which will then
     form a general assembly of our GUS.

Looking forward to receiving your response soon,

Best, Tak
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                       ATTACHMENT I

Subject: Global University Status
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 1:59 PM
From: Maggie McVay Lynch <mmlynch@odin.pdx.edu>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>

Dr. Utsumi,

It is with great interest that I have been reading about the GUS efforts
through March 2001.  I am particularly interested in your mission and
surprised by the amount of work GUS has done and what has been accomplished. 
Your organizations efforts are excellent and I am surprised that so few
people (myself included until recently) knew of your efforts.

>From recent email transcripts among your partners, it appears that you are
continuing to receive some funding and support through Finland.  Are you
currently working on other funding resources since the U.S. funding ended?  I
would think this would be a great area for many grants.

I would very much like to be a part of any continuing efforts in this regard,
as distance education and world wide accessibility are near to my heart.  If
there is anything I can do to assist in grant writing, publishing
information, presenting, I would like to help.  Your mission and goals match
with my ideals for distance learning, and perhaps I can offer my partnership
in your continuing efforts.

Maggie McVay Lynch, Ed.D.

 The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up
their minds to be either good or evil"   -- Hannah Arendt
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Association for the Development of Religious Information Systems (ADRIS)
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Prof. Anton Ljutic (Fax: 514-672-9299)
Social Science/Economics
Champlain College
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St. Lambert, Quebec
CANADA J4P 3P2
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P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University System
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Professor and Chair
Media Culture and Communication Education
Hypermedia laboratory
University of Tampere
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA                  *
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