[gu-l] (12/11/01) Visists funding sources in Washington DC on 11/27th and
28th
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Tue, 11 Dec 2001 18:59:56 +0000 (GMT)
<<December 11, 2001>>
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Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Dr. David A. Johnson <daj@utk.edu>
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James R. Kahn <Kahnj@wlu.edu>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias <mardias@wanadoo.fr>
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Dr. David Levy <AXEL@conted.lan.mcgill.ca>
Steven Donahue <sdonah01@bellsouth.net>
Dear Alex:
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(1) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met you in Washington, DC
to visit the InfoDev of the World Bank, Inter-American Development
Bank (IADB) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on
11/28th, with David Johnson, Peter Knight and Joe Pelton.
Those mtgs were for the fund raising for your workshop in Manaus next
summer -- see "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare
in Amazon, Brazil" -- Grant application to be submitted to the InfoDev
of the World Bank
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/InfoDev_Application/infoDev_Proposa_%20v_6.html
(2) Your PowerPoint slides showed to them were very excellent.
Dear E-Colleagues:
==================
They are as follows and retrievable at their respective URLs;
(a) Technological Feasibility for Distance Education and Promotion
of Sustainable Development in Amazonia
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Alex_slides_11_28_01/CampusNet/WordBank_1-a.htm
(b) CampusNet Amazonia
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Alex_slides_11_28_01/CampusNet/CampusNet.htm
Dear Prof. Yamasawa:
====================
Those slides may be of some help to your vision setting of your
new Shinshu University.
It was good to speak with you last night over the phone. I look
forward to visiting your university in a few month to discuss
the preparation of the workshop at your university next fall, if
possible.
When you and me visited JICA last summer, they indicated
their willingness to provide you with Y10,000,000 (about
US$80,000) for travel of overseas colleagues from Asia and
other countries. We will ask the NSF about a half of that
amount for the travel of Americans as soon as you set the
date of your workshop -- as we have done for our Tampere
event in the summer of 1999.
(3) In the morning of 11/27th (the day before we met you), we visited the
US National Science Foundation (NSF).
Dean Sutphin of Cornell University was also with us through audio
conference. He kindly agreed to submit his travel grant application
to Stolberg for covering the travel expenses of American scholars to
attend your workshop in Manaus next summer, as soon as you confirm its
date as receiving funds from the InfoDev, IADB and others.
(4) In the afternoon of 11/27th, we also visited the US Dept. of Education
and learned your joint activity with James R. Kahn of Washington and
Lee University. Congratulations!!
Dean Sutphin's global seminar via analog satellite may go along well
with your activity, too, when your proposed CampusNet is established,
-- though some conversion may be necessary from analog to digital of
the latter.
(a) During your workshop in Manaus in 2000, when we tried to chat
with our colleague at Montana State University with a 56 Kbps
dial-up modem at a conference room, we could not get even the
responses of our key-strokes, since we could have only 2 Kbps
through a commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) -- because
congestions were so severe at that time.
(b) When I visited the University of Rondonia which had a 56 Kbps
leased line from the Embratel office at the center of Porto
Velho, it was so congested by the use of several thousands
students that their faculty members simply gave up the use of
Internet.
(c) When I visited the University of Roraima, my connections to our
web in the US were often disconnected so that I had to quit it
and rely on my PowerPoint slide presentations.
(5) Although I am sure that the broadband Internet of CampusNet will
provide smooth collaboration among scholars, researchers and students
of both countries of the US and Brazil, you indicated the next
barrier, i.e., language barrier among them.
(a) When you sent me Portuguese versions of ANNEX I to III of our
InfoDev grant application mentioned above, Marco Antonio Dias
suggested that they should be translated into English -- from
his many years' experiences at UNESCO and as being a Brazilian.
Thanks to great help of Roberto Mueller and Steve McCarty, we
finally made them into English after many months' struggles in
this summer and fall.
(b) When I visited Porto Velho and Roraima, I found very few people
speak English -- similar to Shinshu University in Japan.
Therefore, I will talk with David Levy of McGill University if his
English as a Second Language (ESL) with Steven Donahue's web teaching
of pronunciation program (which was originally proposed for Japanese)
may be extended to your Brazilian, too, when David will come to
Manhattan, New York, next week. We will need to raise fund for this
project, too.
Dear E-Colleagues:
==================
Mike Nugent of the US Dept. of Education/FIPSE told me that he would
be interested in financing projects which teaches Portuguese to
American student, but not other way round, i.e., teaching ESL to
Brazilian students. Should you have any such a program, pls feel free
to contact him directly.
I should take such a course by my self, but I am too old dog to
learn a new trick!! -- Muito Obrigato (Thank you very much.)
Happy Holidays!!
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE/Brazil/FY200I/index.html
Project Abstracts - FY 2001 Awards
US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
P116M010011
The Environment, Economic Development and Quality of Life Nexus: An
Interdisciplinary Approach to Undergraduate and Graduate Education
Lead Institution Partners
US Washington and Lee Fairfield University
University
Brazil Universidade do Universidade Estadual do Norte
Amazonas Fluminense
Subject Areas: Environmental Studies Sustainable Development
The US-Brazil Consortium for Environmental Studies will focus on the study of
the relationships among the environment, economic development and the quality
of life. Our primary goal is to use the different experiences and
perspectives in Brazil and the United States to improve environmental studies
curricula through the development of a better understanding of the
relationship between the environment and economic development. The
development of a common curriculum and shared perspectives from the North and
South can not only contribute to the field of environmental studies, but help
to move us closer to global resolution of environmental problems. The
universities in this consortium were chosen for their expertise in
environmental studies, a shared vision of the importance of an
interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies, and with a view towards
geographic and socio-economic diversity. Students who participate in this
program will develop the ability to understand environmental problems from an
interdisciplinary perspective, with a global view that incorporates the
importance of differing ecological, economic, political and cultural
contexts.
Total US funding for 4 years: $208,000
US Lead Contact:
James R. Kahn
Director of Environmental Studies
Professor of Economics
Washington and Lee University
218 Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
Tel: 540-463-8036
Fax: 540-463-8639
Kahnj@wlu.edu
Brazil Lead Contact:
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas
Director Centro de Ciencias do Ambiente e Professor da Economia
Universidade do Amazonas
Av. General Rodrigo Otavio Jordao Ramos 3000
Bairro do Coroado - Campus Universitario
Manaus Amazonas CEP 69077-000 Brasil
Tel: 55-92-644-2384
Fax: 55-92-644-2384
alex_mau@argo.com.br
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Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences
Director Centro de Ciencias do Ambiente e Professor da Economia
University of Amazonas - Brazil
Centro de Ci=EAncias do Ambiente
Av. General Rodrigo Otavio Jordao Ramos 3000
Bairro do Coroado - Campus Universitario
C.P. 4208, Manaus, AM 69053-140
BRAZIL
Tel/Fax.: +55 92 647.4066 or +55-92-644-2384
Cel: 9988.9121
alex_mau@argo.com.br
alex_mau@argo.com.br
http://www.argo.com.br/~alex_mau/alex.htm
http://lab-tiama.pop-am.rnp.br/cca/workshop/English/wksp_E.htm
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Former President of Fulbright Association
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban and Rgional Planning
University of Tennessee
108-I Hoskins Library
Knoxville, TN 37996-4015
USA
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Fax: +1-865-974 5229
daj@utk.edu
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Peter T. Knight, Ph.D.
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Knight, Moore - Telematics for Education and Development
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Washington, DC 20006-5443, USA
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Or
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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
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Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng.
Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Shinshu University
4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553
JAPAN
Tel: +81-26-269 51 96
Fax: +81-26-223 77 54
ISDN:+81-26-223-0228
yamasaw@gipwc.shinshu-u.ac.jp
http://yslab.shinshu-u.ac.jp
Dr. Harold J. Stolberg
Program Coordinator, The Americas Program
Division of International Programs
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22230
703-292-8706
Fax: 703-292-9175
hstolber@nsf.gov
Vicki B. Booker, Ph.D.
Program Manager
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22230
(703) 292-8706
Fax: (703) 292-9175
vbooker@nsf.gov
H. Dean Sutphin
Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences systems
Cornell University
140 Roberts Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
607-255-3081
Cel: 607-227-6845
Fax: 607-254-4613
hds2@cornell.edu
http://ed.cornell.edu/globalseminar/
Michael A. Nugent, Ph.D.
Coordinator, US-Brazil Higher Education Consortia Program
Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
U.S. Department of Education
1990 K Street, NW, 8th Floor
Washington DC, 20006-8544
202-502-7522 (direct)
tel: 202-502-7500
fax: 202-502-7877
Mike.Nugent@ed.gov
fipse@ed.gov
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/FIPSE/Brazil/index.html
James R. Kahn
Director of Environmental Studies
Professor of Economics
Washington and Lee University
218 Leyburn Library
Lexington, VA 24450
Tel: 540-463-8036
Fax: 540-463-8639
Kahnj@wlu.edu
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma)
Vice President, Global University System
Consultant of United Nations University
Former Director, Division of Higher Education of UNESCO
36, Rue Ernest Renan
92.190 Meudon
FRANCE
Tel: +33-1-45 34 3509
+33-1-45-68-3009 (UNU office in Paris)
Fax: +33-1-45 34 3509
mardias@wanadoo.fr
Prof. Dr. Roberto Andrea Mueller
Full time Chemistry Professor
University Counsellor
Departamento de Quimica
Universidade Federal de Vicosa
CEP 36571-000 - Vicosa
Minas Gerais - Brasil
Tel: (031)899-3057
FAX: (031)899-3065
rmueller@mail.ufv.br
http://www.lehigh.edu/~jlma/poly/poly.html -- for rotation of Bucky ball.
http://www.tele.ed.nom.br/teleeduci.html
http://www.ufv.br/deq/teleduc/labori.html
Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College
President, World Association for Online Education (WAOE):
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/
http://www.waoe.org/president/index.html
http://www.waoe.org/steve/index.html
Dr. David Levy
Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)
McGill University
680 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 1184
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H3A 3R1
514-398-7374
Fax: 514-398-2650
AXEL@conted.lan.mcgill.ca
Steven Donahue
Broward Community College
1128 N. 16Th Avenue
Hollywood, FL 33020
954-927-8807
cell: 954-701-1561
(678) 275-6952--Demo
sdonah01@bellsouth.net
sdonahue@broward.cc.fl.us
http://www.10tongues.com
http://www.glearner.com
http://fs.broward.cc.fl.us/~sdonahue
http://www.erepublic.com/publications/gt/2000/sept/departments/eCommerceSLF.shtm
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