[gu-l] (11/19/01) (1) New US-Russia High Permance Network, (2) Amazon
projects, (3) Ukraine workshop, (4) Japan workshop
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 14:37:59 +0000 (GMT)
<<November 19, 2001>>
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Greg Cole, Ph.D. <gcole@ncsa.edu>
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Dr. Harold Stolberg <hstolber@nsf.gov>
Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak <ik@uar.net>
Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng. <yamasaw@gipwc.shinshu-u.ac.jp>
Dear Greg:
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(1) Thank you very, very much for your help (ATTACHMENT I), in spite of
your busy schedules. Yes, the conversion of the linkages of our web
sites from your old host computer to the new one are now working at my
book draft sites!!
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html
(2) Congratulations to your continuing effort to bring broadband Internet
to Russia!! Your new US-Russian high-performance network at 155 Mbps
would be very substantial, indeed!!
(3) As you may know, Alex Rivas attended our highly successful "Global
Lecture Hall (GLH)" videoconference at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville (UTK) in July, 1994 when you made a splendid demonstration
of the first Mosaic web browser and very clear audio/video
conferencing via broadband Internet.
He enacted it at his workshops in 1998 and 2000 in Manaus,
amazon, with a videoconferencing spanning from Tokyo to Ukraine
in the former, and a telemedicine demo connecting with the
University of Michigan for the diagnosis of a heart disease
patient by an expert doctor at the University of Michigan with
an echocardiograph in the latter.
(4) He then initiated his large projects, CampusNet (which will connect a
half dozen universities in Amazon area via broadband digital satellite
Internet) and Manaus Community Development Network (which will connect
a half dozen non-profit organizations in the City of Manaus via spread
spectrum wireless broadband Internet).
See more in ANNEX I and IV of ""Community Development with E
-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil" -- Grant
application to be submitted to the InfoDev of the World Bank."
at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/InfoDev_Application/infoDev_Proposa_%20v_6.html
This grant application is for us to conduct a workshop for
feasibility study and market survey of these projects.
We will seek large funds (US$ 15 Million or so) for this project from
the Japanese government incidentally, in the spring of 1998, I
initiated to have the Japanese government pledge $15 Billion (5
years) during the Okinawa Summit last year to close the digital divide
in developing countries.
Incidentally, I asked Steve Goldstein of the NSF in 1996 or so
about the Request For Proposal (RFP) of his program (*) on
extending broadband Internet to overseas if he would finance
purchasing satellite equipment. His negative reply at that time
prompted me to initiate the CampusNet project and the $15
Billion pledge mentioned above.
(*) from which program you received $6 Million for your
MIRNET at 6 Mbps in 1997 or so to connect with your
Russian colleagues.
Alex, David Johnson and others will visit NSF, World Bank Institute,
US Dept of Education, InfoDev, Inter-American Development Bank, USAID,
etc. on 11/27th and 28th to describe this project and Global Service
Trust Fund (GSTF) project -- see
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Reference_web_sites.html
(5) I may ask your help for our CampusNet project, if you have time and
are interested in.
(6) Thank you very much again for your fixing the lost linkages in our
web. I can now refer to sections of my book draft in our fund raising
correspondences.
Dear Ihor:
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(7) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II).
Congratulations to your substantial progress!!
Pls try to follow Alex's suit -- you met him at our Tampere event in
August, 1999 <http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/>. Hope you will realize your
plan of holding a workshop in your Lviv soon -- as similar to Alex's
approach, your workshop may initiate the establishment of broadband
Internet, say, from the University of Tampere in Finland which already
has 165 Mbps as you saw it there during the demo of our event.
Dear Prof. Yamasawa:
====================
(8) Ihor's msg may help your composing the outline of your workshop next
fall. Pls feel free to let me know if you are now having any
difficulty for this.
As compared with Greg's 155 Mbps, your university's 1.5 Mbps is too
slow -- many elementary school in the US already has it now!!
I hope you can follow the suits of Greg, Ihor and Alex -- you met Ihor
and Alex at our Tampere event.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: Re: SEREOUS DISASTER
Date: Sunday, November 18, 2001 5:18 PM
From: Greg Cole <gcole@ncsa.edu>
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear Tak,
I just want to let you know that I've finally had the chance to write the
software necessary to go through all the files in your web area, converting
any old references from our solar.rtd.utk.edu address to the new www.friends-
partners.org host.
I regret the time this has taken - but fortunately, there are just no nights
or weekends any longer to this job. I'm hoping it will slow down someday,
but it is a really exceptionally busy time as we work to establish this new
US-Russian high-performance network. (we will have a new broadband network
between US and Russia this week - it will start at 45 Mbps but our service
contract is for 155 Mbps (this will be in place in January)).
I hope you're doing well and appreciate your patience. Hopefully this is the
last issue related to our move from the University of Tennessee to the NCSA.
Best wishes,
Greg
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ATTACHMENT II
Subject: Re: Request for Grant proposals
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2001 2:48 PM
From: Ihor Katernyak <ikaternyak@hotmail.com>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>, <rboston@tenet.edu>, <ik@uar.net>
Dear Rogerand Tak:
By this letter I would like present you short info on our DL project in
Ukraine.
In May 2000 the International Project "Distance Learning in the Field of
Business Management" funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
of the U.S. Department of State started running in Ukraine. The work on the
project has been conducted in partnership with 27 leading educational
institutions in Ukraine, which have expressed their wish to implement and
develop distance learning. Back in 1999-2000 the Ukrainian market of
educational services was the ground of discussions on the perspectives and
possibilities of introducing Web-based learning. Today it is obvious that
this form of learning can be not only successfully introduced in the learning
process: with the help of new Web-technologies the universities get new
opportunities for their development and improvement, viz., students network
expansion, faculty and courses exchange, creation of joint programs between
different institutions.
In January 2001 the Ukrainian Distance Learning System (UDL System) was
founded (www.udl.org.ua). During its existence in the Ukrainian educational
market, the UDL System has developed its own specific business concept and
has proved by its activity that E-learning is not just an interesting
innovation but also a kind of means with the help of which one can collect
money and be sustainable on the end 2002.
The main objects of the UDL System today are as follows:
1) professional development of teachers in the area of distance education
(DE)
2) distance courses incubation ° providing space on the Web-platform and
consulting for course design and management
3) corporate E-training
4) network learning
UDL System in its strategy focused on benchmarking collaborates with well-
known global universities and international organizations involved in E-
learning and business education, for example, with the Global University
System, Central Eastern European Network Association, International Research
Exchange Board (IREX), Consortium of Enhancement of the Ukrainian Management
Education (CEUME), etc.
The demand for teachers experienced in methods and technologies of Web-based
distance teaching is continuously growing in Ukraine. During its operation,
the UDL System has organized internship on E-learning for 15 professors at
the US Universities-famous providers of distance education. Besides, the UDL
System has started its own modular program °Professional Development in
Distance Education°±, and 24 teachers have already gone through it. The
program covers the following aspects:
1. Pedagogy and methodology in distance learning;
2. Virtual learning environment;
3. On-line course design and management.
The program consists of distance theoretical modules and face-to-face hands-on
workshops conducted in the state-of-the-art computer labs and finishes
with their E-teaching practice. The goal of this program is not just to
present some knowledge and skills to the Ukrainian professors, but to prepare
them for their future practical work in the virtual learning environment and
to convert their courses onto the Web-platform.
All the participants expressed their willingness to continue collaboration
with the UDL System and to have a teaching practice using the Web-platform.
The UDL System provides space for designers, moderators and students on the
platform with all necessary consulting services (Course Incubation).
Collaboration of the UDL System and Lviv Institute of Management (LIM) is
especially fruitful. In April LIM started a distance-modular MBA program.
Students of this program are business people ° mid and top managers - who
work and study at the same time. Today distance learning opens great
possibility for start up International education programs on the base
University Partnerships (taking on line courses/curricula through Partner
Universities by US and Ukrainian students and e-teaching by US and Ukrainian
faculty).
Having a good team, specialists, technology, and a wide partnership network,
we can guarantee the development of our new project.
Looking forward for your comments or questions.
With best wishes,
Ihor
www.udl.org.ua
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Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D.
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Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
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Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak
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Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng.
Professor
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Shinshu University
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