[gu-l] (12/03/01) Request of your support for the nomination to the Fast
50 Global Readers Challenge
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:29:48 +0000 (GMT)
<<December 3, 2001>>
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Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Dear Ed:
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(1) Many thanks for your initiating the nomination to the Fast 50
Global Readers Challenge <http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50>
(ATTACHMENT IV).
Dear Steve:
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(2) Many thanks again for your entry for this nomination (ATTACHMENT I, II
and V).
I added my comments (ATTACHMENT III) to them in the following web.
Dear E-collagues:
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(3) This entry is also now retrievable at
http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50/profile/index.html?utsumi_(ph.d.)493
Pls visit it at your earliest convenience and add your comments and
support -- first 25 comments will be read by their peers.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:34:12 +0900
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
Eugene Edele <EEdele@fastcompany.com>,
"'dodds@e-dodds.com'" <dodds@e-dodds.com>,
Maggie Lynch <mmlynch@odin.pdx.edu>
From: Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Fast 50 - Nomination
Cc: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Hello,
I'm just back from giving a presentation on WebCT in Japanese at Ritsumeikan
University:
http://www.waoe.org/president/ritsumeikan/index.html
Then I went to Tokyo for a group applying to be the World Bank Global
Distance Learning Network secretariat for Japan. Incidentally I also did some
house-hunting there.
The closest category for Dr. Utsumi would be Change Agent. If this would be
appropriate for him, one of us would have to fill in the online submission
form with the following questions:
>Online Submission Form
>We've created this simple online form to help you tell your story.
>If you are submitting an entry for someone else,
>please use the same form.
>
>First Name: Last Name:
>What is your basic approach to making change? (10 words)
>What needed an overhaul? (50 - 100 words)
>What was the single biggest obstacle? (50 - 100 words)
>How did you overcome it? (50 - 100 words)
>How have you seen results? (50 - 100 words)
It's true that Dr. Utsumi's accomplishments should be recounted regularly.
It's such a long story that he can't finish his book about it and instead
keeps doing new volunteer work :-)
I'm at Dr. Utsumi's service whenever called upon.
Would any of you like to suggest something?
Collegially,
Steve McCarty
Mirror Site:
http://www.geocities.com/steve_mccarty
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ATTACHMENT II
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 10:42:19 +0900
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
"'dodds@e-dodds.com'" <dodds@e-dodds.com>,
Maggie Lynch <mmlynch@odin.pdx.edu>
From: Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Fast 50 - Nomination
Sensei, here is my submission on your behalf.
You may hear from them directly by e-mail.
What is your basic approach to making change? (10 words)
Organize Internet and telecommunications community leading educators
in global regions.
What needed an overhaul? (50 - 100 words)
The global digital divide goes back decades to when Dr. Utsumi was one
of the first non-Westerners to use online systems such as Arpanet.
Pre-Internet telecommunications monopolies prevailed in most
countries, such that it was possible for protectionism to block out
even e-mail when it first became available. There was also the deeper
problem that education in most countries existed to serve the wealthy
classes and perpetuate the undemocratic rule of an elite minority.
Even now the Internet represents a threat to such vested interests.
What was the single biggest obstacle? (50 - 100 words)
Japan was the first non-Western country to join the club of advanced
nations, yet it could not readily lead other non-Western nations into
the specifics of modernization or, more recently, globalization.
Japanese culture developed much in isolation historically, so its
traditional practices came to be viewed with suspicion by mainland
Asians and bewilderment elsewhere. Protectionism played a role in the
so-called economic miracle by a country that did not really want to
mingle with the outside world. Thus the telecommunications monopoly
KDD was in a position to block the adoption of e-mail to protect its
lucrative telex business.
How did you overcome it? (50 - 100 words)
Japan-born Dr. Utsumi received his advanced degrees in the U.S. and
attained lecturer status at Columbia University. With half his life in
both countries, and seeing the border-crossing technologies as a means
to reconcile East with West, Dr. Utsumi spent much of his personal
wealth to bridge the differences between Japan and the U.S. A major
breakthrough was when he helped the late Commerce Secretary Malcolm
Baldridge to open the Japanese market to e-mail, overturning special
interests in insular Japan, which then snowballed into the wired world
we enjoy today.
How have you seen results? (50 - 100 words)
By leading organizations such as the Global Systems Analysis and
Simulation Association, Dr. Utsumi has built a grass-roots global
network that gains the cooperation of international agencies such as
the World Bank and UNESCO. Having copyrighted the name Global
University by 1990, he has organized thousands of educators worldwide
to share expertise, serving as the world's first meta-virtual
university. He organizes regional workshops to demonstrate the
benefits of teleconferencing and broadband Internet. His frequent
trips to the Tokyo government also bore fruit when the Prime Minister
announced a $15 billion appropriation to relieve the global digital
divide.
Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
President, World Association for Online Education (NPO):
waoe@waoe.org - http://waoe.org/president/index.html
Global University System (NGO) Asia-Pacific Framework:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/
Online Publications (Asian Studies WWWVL 4-star site):
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/
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ATTACHMENT III
Steve:
(1) Many thanks for this nomination!! It is concise with layman's words
-- very understandable.
(2) My email account at Columbia University was given because, more than a
dozen years, I am a member of the monthly seminar for its faculty it
is called "Computer, Man and Society." I have never taught there,
though.
(3) The GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.
(GLOSAS/USA) is a publicly supported, non-profit, educational service
organization - in fact, a consortium of organizations that is
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 in the deregulation of the Japanese
telecommunications policies regarding the use of e-mail through
ARPANET, Telenet and Internet (thanks to help from the Late Commerce
Secretary Malcolm Baldridge); this is now referred to as "closing the
digital divide." This contribution of GLOSAS/USA triggered the de
-monopolization and privatization of Japanese telecommunications
industries, and the liberalization of the telecommunication industry
(such as the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's largest
corporation, and KDD) has now created a more enabling environment for
economic and social development in many other countries. This type of
reasoning has since been emulated by many other countries; at present,
more than 180 countries have Internet access, and more than 380
million people are using e-mail around the world. Academic programs
of universities in America and other industrialized countries now
reach many under-served developing countries. This may be an example
of "Even a stupid fellow (like me!!) can move a mountain" in Chinese
words.
Another major contribution of GLOSAS towards fostering global dialogue
and creating learning environments has been the innovative distance
teaching trials conducted in our Global Lecture Hall (GLH)TM --
multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive videoconferencing,
using hybrid delivery technologies. Thanks to these efforts, I
received the prestigious Lord Perry Award for the 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 was Sir Arthur C. Clark, the inventor of satellite.
(4) My effort of de-regulating the Japanese telecom policies for the use
of email also had the following subsequent effects to mention but a
few;
(a) It encouraged the job movements among Japanese youngsters from a
company to another in software programming field. This was
because of large demand for their expertise in the 1980s.
See Nikkei Shimbun, August 2, 1989, "Crumbling Down Pyramid,"
(in Japanese) in Chapter 1/Section 3.12 of my book draft at;
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_I/Total/Insertions/Nikkei/8-2-
89/Nikkei_8-2-89.html
Some Americans say that this was the kick-off to end the life-long
employment system of Japanese companies, i.e., a social
revolution in a sense that the effort brought the concept of
Renaissance among Japanese to respect the right of individual,
rather than of large establishments.
(b) In disaster relief and telehealthcare fields, it is well known
that email was the first means to report the occurrences of Kobe
earthquake and terrorist attack of the World Trade Center in New
York to the outside world, thus helping to save many lives.
(c) Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate for her anti-landmine
activities, said that her world-wide coordination was also
successfully and effectively made with the use of email.
I was very much relieved and satisfied to hear of them.
(5) The current activities of our GLOSAS/USA are focused on the use of
broadband Internet in global scale, i.e., the second round of the
closing digital divide, -- as the first one mentioned above was with
the narrow-band. This is along with the establishments of the
following three;
1. Global University System (GUS) (TM),
2. Global Broadband Internet (GBI),
3. Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) (TM).
See more about them at;
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Reference_web_sites.html
(6) Thanks again for your nomination.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT IV
Subject: Re: Fast 50 - Nomination
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2001 4:20 PM
From: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
To: Eugene Edele <EEdele@fastcompany.com>, "'dodds@e-dodds.com'" <dodds@e-
dodds.com>, Maggie Lynch <mmlynch@odin.pdx.edu>, Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-
jc.ac.jp>
Cc: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear Edd:
(1) Many, many thanks for your nomination.
Dear Maggie, Steve and Edd:
(2) Would you kindly write something about our projects?
I am currently very busy with our GUS, GSTF and Manaus projects.
Besides that, I am not good to self-nominate and to write down anything to
praise myself.
(3) I would be happy to look over your draft, though.
Thanks in advance.
Best, Tak
On 11/15/01 2:34 PM, "Eugene Edele" <EEdele@fastcompany.com> wrote:
>
> Takashi,
> what a strong nomination -- sounds like you're doing some great things
> with GLOSAS. you should definitely submit your story. so to be
> considered, legally, for the Fast 50, everyone has to go though the
> same submission process at fastcompany.com/fast50/submit.html.
> the feature's planned for march and would reach about a million
> people. if you feel uncomfortable about writing your own entry, you
> could have someone submit it for you. in any case, i hope you enter.
> the deadline is NOVEMBER 30. thanks and good luck!
> Gene
> 617-973-0335
>
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>> From: dsearson@gjusa.com
>> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 9:34 AM
>> To: fast50nominations@fastcompany.com; Daniel Cederholm
>> Subject: Fast 50 - Nomination
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>> =============================================================
>> Fast Company Fast 50 Nomination
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>>
>> Person who filled out the nomination form:
>> Ed Dodds
>> dodds@e-dodds.com
>>
>> Person he or she nominated:
>> Takashi Utsumi
>> utsumi@columbia.edu
>>
>> Here's why Ed thought Takashi should be included:
>>
>>
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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>> GLOSAS Project
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>> Global Web Connected University ; telemedicine and related technologies
>> proponent
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ATTACHMENT V
Subject: your fast 50 entry
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:03 PM
From: Paul Cabana <PCabana@fastcompany.com>
To: "'fast50@fastcompany.com'" <fast50@fastcompany.com>
hi folks,
congrats! the edit team has taken a look at your Fast 50 entry and we are
forwarding it onto the next round. sorry for the bulk email -- i was hoping
to send a personal email to all of you, especially since many of us have
exchanged emails already, but we're starting to get swamped with entries.
(and besides)
in any case, we have created a page for your entry on fastcompany.com. You
can search for your entry by last name at: (yours or the person for whom you
submitted)
http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50/search.html
This will be the entry that we'll forward to the judges at the end of
November. In the meantime, feel free to send your friends and colleagues your
web address. they can add their own comments using the Sound Off tool at the
bottom, and we'll publish the first 25.
Can we make changes to the entries? at this point, most likely, no, because
of the number of entries coming in. No worries though. We're looking for
great stories, not typos, anyway.
i can't tell you how encouraging it is to read all of your entries. despite
what you hear about in the news, there are some really amazing things going
on out there. thanks for giving me a glimpse. on that note, have a great
holiday with your friends and family and good luck!
paul
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* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
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