[gu-l] (12/12/01) Requesting help for pravacy and security issues of our
Manaus/Amazon projects
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Thu, 13 Dec 2001 03:45:35 +0000 (GMT)
<<December 12, 2001>>
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Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D. <salah@wisekey.ch>
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. <ptknight@attglobal.net>
Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng. <yamasaw@gipwc.shinshu-u.ac.jp>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Professor Rashid Bashshur, Ph.D. <bashshur@umich.edu>
Dear Salah:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my e-greeting
card "Takeshi Utsumi has sent you an Apple iCard" which can be
retrieved at
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2001q4/000068.html.
Dear E-Colleagues:
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My wife and I greatly appreciated to receive many responses from
you, too. Thank you very much, indeed.
(2) My sincere congratulations to your new, exciting job!! I am sure that
you will enjoy with it and strive for it.
(3) I thank you again for your kind introduction to Dr. Taro Nakayama in
the spring of 1998, after he visited you at the WHO. He has a medical
doctor background, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the
chairman of policy of the Liberal Democratic Party of the Japanese
parliament.
At that time, I mentioned to him that many of Overseas Development
Assistant (ODA) fund projects of the Japanese government were ill-reputed (i), except only one of human genom project for which the
Japanese government donated the first $1 billion, then the second $1
billion by the British and the third by the US to have accomplished
such a tremendous success.
(i) for example, I recently visited the UN Ambassador of a
small island in the Pacific. He told me that a Japanese ODA
project constructed wireless analog telecom network on the
island. Since there was no privacy measures configured in the
network, everybody of the island soon learned the privacies of
other families, and hence they abandoned the use of the network
soon after its inauguration!! "What a waist!!," he exclaimed.
I then proposed our Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF)(TM) (ii) to
improve the image of Japan. He immediately and open-handedly welcome
it and assured to raise necessary fund (iii), and proposed to have an
independent entity to handle it in a neutral city, such as Geneva,
Switzerland (iv).
(ii) for which Peter Knight is now striving -- see some of its
materials at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Reference_web_sites.html
(iii) which was culminated to the US$15 billion pledge made by
the Japanese government during the Okinawa Summit in July, 2000,
to close the digital divide in developing countries. UNESCO in
Bangkok, Asia Development Bank in Manila, UNDP in New York have
already got their share out of this fund.
(iv) as discussing this project later, this has been changed to
Washington, D.C. with Dr. Nakayama's approval.
Therefore, I really appreciated your initial encouragement and help
given to this GSTF project in 1997.
(4) Although Dr. Nakayama was out of country trip, I and Prof. Yamasawa
visited his office and left a copy of our Manaus/Amazon/Brazil project
(v) to his secretary when I was in Tokyo last August. She assured
that he would be very interested in telemedicine part of this project
(vi).
(v) 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
PowerPoint Presentations by Alex Rivas;
* 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
* CampusNet Amazonia
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Alex_slides_11_28_01/CampusNet/CampusNet.htm
(vi) as mentioned in the InfoDev application, we conducted a
telemedicine demonstration in Manaus, Amazon, as connecting with
the University of Michigan -- by the kind help of Prof. Bashshur
(your friend) and his colleague. The echocardiogram of a real
patient was sent to a specialist doctor in Michigan. He was
very pleased to have the patient since he was looking for such a
special disease of the patient as receiving two large research
funds from the US National Institute of Health (NIH). Doctors
at the both sides discussed intensively how to diagnose and
treat the patient.
(5) As mentioned in those materials, we are working both on e-learning and
e-healthcare/telemedicine. This is because we believe that each of
them alone cannot be economically sustainable for the use of broadband
Internet.
As you see in ANNEX IV of the InfoDev proposal, we will also take care
of the "last-mile" issue to reach individual users with the community
development networks in the cities of main campus of the affiliated
universities of the CampusNet. This network connects non-profit
organizations with broadband (10 Mbps) wireless Internet units, which
will include hospitals, clinics, and blood centers, etc.
Here, I wonder if you can help us on the privacy issue with those
digital networks, lest we should repeat the failure at the Pacific
island with the Japanese ODA funds mentioned above.
Pls browse through the above materials and inform me of the
availability of your expertise. We plan to submit a comprehensive
document to the Japanese government to fund the CampusNet. If
possible, we would like to include some proposal on the privacy issue,
especially aiming on e-healthcare.
I look forward to receiving your favorable response soon.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: RE: [gu-glh] Takeshi Utsumi has sent you an Apple iCard
Date: Friday, December 7, 2001 3:15 AM
From: Salah Mandil <salah@wisekey.ch>
To: "'utsumi@columbia.edu'" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear Tak,
... and many happy returns to you and to all those dear to you.
I wish to take the opportunity and confirm that I have left WHO to take a
senior position, as of October 2001, with a Geneva-based, Swiss Internet
company that specialises in the security of transactions over computerised
networks. I direct their support and services to countries and large
corporations for the establishment and implementation of technical electronic
strategies for the secure uses of Intranets and the Internet in eCommerce,
eGovernment and eHealth including TeleMedicine. It is a fascinating area
that is growing by the day.
I look forward to maintaining our contacts, and wish you and yours all the
best.
Salah
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Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D.
Vice President eStrategies,
WiseKey S.A.,
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Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng.
Professor
Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Shinshu University
4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553
JAPAN
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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
Professor Rashid Bashshur, Ph.D.
President-elect of the American Telemedicine Association
Editor-in-Chief of the Telemedicine Journal
Director of Telemedicine
Professor of Health management & Policy
The University of Michigan Health System
Am Arbor
Michigan 48109-2029
USA
734-763-0555
Tel: +1 734 647 3089
Fax: +1 734 936 9406
bashshur@umich.edu
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