[gu-l] (12/15/01) Possible Tanzanian connection
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Sat, 15 Dec 2001 15:28:28 +0000 (GMT)
<<December 15, 2001>>
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Dr. Rabson J. Mgaya <rmgaya@cs.udsm.ac.tz>
Honest C. Kimaro (Msc. Technical Informatics) <h.c.kimaro@cs.udsm.ac.tz>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
Jamie Diana Poindexter <poindexter@ics.uwex.edu>
Rebecca Riccio <rriccio@usa.healthnet.org>
Dear Dr. Mgaya and Mr. Kimaro:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
(2) Yes, we would be very delighted to help you and work with you as much
as possible.
I took the liberty of admitting both of you into our list so
that you will be kept updated with our daily progresses.
(3) For our joint project, I would respectfully request to invite me for
my fact finding trip for;
(a) Learning your need in detail,
(b) Learning your capabilities in Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT),
(c) Learning any possibility of forming a coalition of non-profit
organizations in your locality,
(d) Figuring out how to conduct a workshop in your locality,
(e) Meeting with a champion who will forge ahead of those projects
at your locality,
(f) Meeting with key personnel of your locality, etc.
(4) For your reference, pls visit
(a) "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
(b) PowerPoint Presentations by Alex Rivas;
1. 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
2. CampusNet Amazonia
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Alex_slides_11_28_01/CampusNet/CampusNet.htm
The CampusNet/Amazonia is to connect 6 universities via broadband
digital satellite -- see ANNEX I of Item (4)-(a) above. Its ANNEX IV
also shows Manaus Community Development Network which will connect
about a dozen non-profit organizations in the City of Manaus at the
middle of rain forest. This includes medical facilities and blood
centers.
The workshop of Item (4)-(a) is to brainstorm for the construction of
comprehensive documents on the feasibility study and market survey of
those two projects. The documents (probably about US$10 million for
telecom facilities of the CampusNet) will be submitted to the Japanese
government later for their "non-tied cultural aid."
Incidentally, about 5 Tanzanian parties received this aid last
year -- the largest amount was about US$10 million for
educational facilities at the national radio broadcasting
station.
(5) About our telemedicine demonstrations, pls visit;
(a) Our highly successful workshop/conference on "Emerging Global
Electronic Distance Learning August 9th - 13th, 1999, University
of Tampere, Finland
http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/
Click Roger Boston's web site, then, click August 9 in the left
column, and then click Telemedicine 1 and 2 at the top of right
column. This was when we connected to Columbia University in
New York from Tampere, Finland, with the use of echocardiogram
and via ISDN line at 384 Kbps.
Roger:
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Your beautiful photos are not working as before -- pls fix
them ASAP. Thanks.
(b) Workshop in Manaus in May, 2000
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us/hist/yr00/brazil/
Roger:
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Telemedicine in the left column produce better photos than
the one of Tampere, but two photos of using echocardiogram
for a real patient were missing -- or I could not get
them.
Pls visit my previous description of this demo at Item (4) of
"(12/12/01) Requesting help for privacy and security issues of
our Manaus/Amazon projects"
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2001q4/000070.html
These telemedicine demo were done via ISDN line with an
echocardiogram. We would like to do the same via broadband Internet
-- as similar to Internet-2 (ATTACHMENT II). We want to promote
videoconferencing via Internet-2 in global scale. This is one of our
reasons why we strive for the establishment of Global Broadband
Internet (GBI) -- see ANNEX VII of the InfoDev application mentioned
above.
We have already tested the use of Internet-2 for a
videoconferencing during our Tampere event as connecting with
Montana State University. There was no hitch with smooth audio
and no jiggling, though there were more than a dozen routers of
different vendors on its way.
(6) Obviously, for our joint project, we need to raise funds.
I would suggest that you visit Japan Embassy and ask the grant
application form for their Grass Root Fund.
ATTACHMENT III below is the application in Portuguese which our
Brazilian colleague obtained from the web site of the Japan Embassy in
Brazilia. You may do the same at the Japan Embassy of your country,
if they have already constructed it. (We are now working its English
translation.)
We plan to submit it soon to establish Manaus Community
Development Network mentioned above, with the use of spread
-spectrum wireless broadband Internet units (about
US$3,000/unit).
You may also visit
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Final_Report/Compilation_of_comments/12059_B_Shahab_Khan/12059_B_Shahab_Khan.html
This is the Grass Root Fund grant application in English and for
Pakistani.
This fund usually provides you with up to Y10,000,000 (about
US$80,000). There were about a half dozen recipients of this grant in
your country last year.
(7) At the Japan Embassy, you may ask if there is the office of the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA). They also have the Community
Empowerment Program which provide a small fund.
Pls let me know when you obtained those applications forms.
(8) As for the dissemination of public healthcare information (e.g., HIV,
etc.), pls visit my previous list distribution "Possible use of
WorldSpace satellite for Continuing Medical Education (CME)" at
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2001q2/000023.html
This describes the approach of SATELLIFE which is now disseminating
tele-health services to many African countries via AfriSat of the
WorldSpace satellite. The WorldSpace was created by Mr. Samara from
Ethiopia. Its WorldSpace Foundation provides free of charge satellite
service for e-learning and e-healthcare.
(a) You may download a material about the activity of "Reproductive
Health Project of Tanzania" at
http://www.afronets.org/
(b) You may ask Rebecca Riccio to send you her excellent report on
"SATELLIFE and the HealthNet Experience: Lessons from a Decade
of Service to the African Health Community."
(9) BTW, I visited the UN Ambassador of Uganda last week and mentioned the
same as above.
(10) When you successfully conduct the above with us, we may invite you to
be a counterpart of our Global University System's UNESCO/UNITWIN
Networking Program -- see ANNEX IX of our InfoDev grant application
mentioned above. ATTACHMENT IV below is the list of objectives of our
Global University System (GUS) for your reference.
(11) Lastly, pls click "Current Reference Websites" at the top of the home
page of our web which URL is listed at the end of my e-signature
below, to get various information of our activities.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: Computerised tele-healthcare information system:Request for
assistance
Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:53 AM
From: Honest C. Kimaro <h.c.kimaro@cs.udsm.ac.tz>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, Chairman of the GLOSAS/USA
The young Department of Computer Science at the University of Dar es
Salaam-Tanzania in collaboration with various stakeholders envisages to
promote health through a computerised healthcare system. The Department is
currently looking for interested partners and support from various sources so
that it can develop and implement the system.
The rapid advances in Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs)-
especially the Internet- have raised the potential for transforming health
care services in Tanzania.
Tele-healthcare is the use of Information and Communications Technologies for
the transmission of information related to the diagnosis and treatment of
medical condition at a distance, exchange of professional experiences between
doctors and introducing new methods such as teleconferencing, etc.
It includes all aspects of health services including health promotion,
education, research, population data collection, preventive care and health
management.
The Tele-healthcare is one form of advanced information and
telecommunications technology that has a potential to deliver equitable
access to high quality, cost-effective healthcare and education for the
under-served communities of Tanzania.
The research programme strives to improve the national health status and
quality of life through relevant and excellent ICT health research aimed at
promoting equity and development.
In Tanzania, healthcare is provided to the society mainly by the public
hospitals. Normally, the public healthcare professionals do not have adequate
time to cross-examine patients due to a large numbers of patients to be
attended daily and ignorance of some patients.
Sharing of patient information among hospitals in Tanzania is crucial due to
its widespread and un-collaborative system of healthcare services; Tanzanian
patients are treated in various hospitals without their past medical
information being consulted. As a result, some patients are given
prescription that had already proved ineffective to them in the past or they
are allergic of, because of the lack of patient historical data. This,
therefore, calls for the need to have a computer-based health care system to
provide effective storage and timely delivery of the patient historical data
at any distance.
The proposed computer-based healthcare system will enable various healthcare
professionals and stakeholders to access and share electronic patient records
and related medical data wherever they are and in whatever system they are
held. The patient care will be distributed among different professionals in
the hospitals, for example, in managing patients with chronic diseases.
In addition, the healthcare system intends to provide effective storage and
automatic analysis of medical data to enable researchers, government, and
organizations identify the effectiveness of a particular medication and the
extent to which a particular disease has spread (e.g. HIV) in order to take
proper actions and other health statistical information.
The proposed computer based system is expected to protect privacy of the
patient; the storage and transfer of patient information must meet security
and confidentiality requirements specified by the Government of Tanzania and
WHO.
In view of the above, we are enquiring if you can give any support to our
research and development efforts.
Thanking you in advance.
Dr. Rabson J. Mgaya
Research Coordinator
Department of Computer Science
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35062
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Tel: +255-22-241-0657
rmgaya@cs.udsm.ac.tz
Honest C. Kimaro (Msc. Technical Informatics)
Department of Computer Science
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35062
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Tel: +255-22-241-0657
h.c.kimaro@cs.udsm.ac.tz
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ATTACHMENT II
Subject: Fwd: CIC I2 Commons News Release
Date: Friday, December 14, 2001 10:05 AM
From: Jamie Poindexter <poindexter@ICS.UWEX.EDU>
Reply-To: Video Network Discussion List <VIDNET-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
To: <VIDNET-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
I thought some of you might be interested in this news release.
Jamie Poindexter
University of Wisconsin-Extension
Internet2 Videoconferencing Service Gearing Up
With Site Coordinator Training
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Partlow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, (217) 265-0395 or
kpartlow@cic.uiuc.edu
December 13, 2001-A certification program for Internet2 Commons Site
Coordinators-the first of its kind designed to prepare prospective campus
site coordinators to participate in the new worldwide videoconferencing
service-was held on November 29-30, 2001 at The Pyle Center at the University
of Wisconsin-Extension on the UW-Madison campus. Forty-four individuals
representing nineteen institutions of higher learning and affiliated
organizations, primarily from the Midwest, attended the training, coordinated
by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Successful completion of
this training certified the participants as eligible to perform the duties of
Internet2 Commons Site Coordinator.
The Internet2 Commons is a framework for collaboration throughout the
research and education community that encourages one-to-one, one-to-group,
and group-to-group collaborations. These interactive communications include
meetings, conferences, and activities related to teaching and learning. While
the Internet2 Commons will eventually comprise a large set of collaboration
services, it is initially focusing on services related to videoconferencing.
The services provided by the Internet2 Commons are available to Internet2
members, Abilene participants, and their international counterparts. More
information about the Internet2 Commons can be found at
http://www.internet2.edu/html/commons.html.
Sponsors of the training course included the CIC, University of Wisconsin-
Extension and SKC Communications, Inc. The instructors were nationally
recognized professionals in videoconferencing from Indiana University, Ohio
State University, University of Wisconsin-Extension and SKC Communications,
Inc. The course included components on videoconferencing etiquette, H.323
basics, room design considerations, operating and troubleshooting procedures,
multipoint conferencing, gatekeepers, gateways, network considerations,
Internet2 Commons procedures, and hands-on exercises.
The course planning committee expects to refine the curriculum based on the
results from the training evaluation and then provide this training again,
possibly in late spring 2002.
Founded in 1958, the CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities
including the 11 members of the Big Ten Athletic Conference and the
University of Chicago. For more information about the CIC, visit their Web
site at http://www.cic.uiuc.edu.
_________________________________________________
Karen M. Partlow
Program Administrator, Learning & Information Technologies
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
302 E. John St., Suite 1705, Champaign, Illinois 61820-5698
Phone: (217) 265-0395 Fax: (217) 244-7127
Email: kpartlow@cic.uiuc.edu
Web site: http://www.cic.uiuc.edu
Secretary: Cindy Chastain, chastain@uiuc.edu
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ATTACHMENT III
Subject: Formulario de Requerimento / Portuguese form
Date: Friday, December 7, 2001 4:26 PM
From: Alex Rivas <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Formulário de Requerimento para a Assistência para Projetos Comunitários
1. Requerente
(1) Nome do Requerente
(2) Endereço
(3) Número do Telefone
Número do Fax
(4) Pessoa Responsável
(Nome)
(Cargo)
(5) Sua organizaç o já recebeu alguma assistência financeira e ou técnica de
governos estrangeiros, organizaç es internacionais ou ONGs?
(Em caso afirmativo, favor descrever o conteúdo da assistência)
(6) Queira responder as seguintes quest es, conforme a natureza da sua
organizaç o.
(a) Organizaç o N o Governamental (ONG)
(i) Ano de Fundaç o
(ii) Número de assistentes(staffs)
(iii) Propósito da Organizaç o
(iv) Principais Atividades
(b) Escola ou Instituto de Pesquisa
(i) Ano de Fundaç o
(ii) Número de Professores/Pesquisadores
(iii) Número de Estudantes
(iv) Objeto da Pesquisa
(c) Hospital ou Instituiç o Médica
(i) Ano de Fundaç o
(ii) Número de Médicos
(iii) Número de Enfermeiras
(iv) Número de Leitos
(v) Serviço médico prestado por seu hospital/instituiç o
(d) Governo Local
(i) Populaç o
(ii) Tamanho do Orçamento (Em cada ano Fiscal)
(iii) Situaç o atual e problemas em áreas sob a jurisdiç o do
requerente
(e) Instituicç o Governamental (Departamento)
(i) Número de pessoas
(ii) Autoridade e obrigaç o do requerente
Se houver algum documento ou brochura que apresente sua organizaç o, favor
anexar a este formulário.
2. Projeto
(1) Nome do Projeto
(2) Local do Projeto (Inclusive a distância da cidade conhecida mais próxima)
(3) Objetivos do Projeto
(4) Linhas gerais do Projeto
(5) Populaç o estimada que será beneficiada pelo projeto
(6) Efeitos esperados do Projeto(Favor descrever a relaç o entre o projeto e
o objetivo, e como o projeto contribuirá para a realizaç o do objetivo)
(7) Custo estimado para o projeto completo
Favor anexar análise de mercadorias e ou serviços que pretende comprar com as
Doaç es.
(8) Se for aplicar as Doaç es em parte do projeto, como irá financiar os
outros custos?
(9) Duraç o do Projeto
De___________________ até_____________________
(mês, ano) (mês, ano)
Favor anexar a este formulário os seguintes documentos:
(Se n o estiverem disponíveis, favor fornecer informaç es equivalentes aos
funcionários da Embaixada e ou Consulado Geral)
Mapa com projeç o local do projeto
Design de especificaç o do projeto
Estimativas escritas de mercadorias e ou serviços de três fornecedores
Data ________________________________
Nome ________________________________
Título/Cargo ________________________________
Assinatura ________________________________
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ATTACHMENT IV
Objectives of Global University System Association (GUS)
Excerpt of Draft Statutes
The Global University System Association (GUS), hereinafter the GUS, is a
network of net-works formed in particular by higher education institutions,
but also by other organisations sharing the same objectives of developing a
co-operation based on solidarity and partnership aiming to:
* improving the global learning and wellness environment for people in
the global knowledge society, where the global responsibility is
shared by all;
* sharing and exchanging knowledge among the sectors of education-related
research, industry and trade;
* giving priority to actions improving learning and healthcare world-wide;
* harnessing the technologies of broadband Internet connectivity among
institutions of higher learning in the developing countries, in order
to provide learners of all ages access to global e-learning across
national and cultural boundaries;
* fostering youngsters around the world in a creative competition for
relevance and excellence through affordable and accessible broadband
Internet;
* supporting systems which complement the traditional institutions of
learning and healthcare by using conventional methods together with
advanced electronic media;
* improving learning and health of the disadvantaged by increasing their
access through the utilisation of new technologies, basing its long-term
orientations on societal aims and needs and reinforcing the role of service
to the whole society.
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Distribution List
Dr. Rabson J. Mgaya
Research Coordinator
Department of Computer Science
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35062
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Tel: +255-22-241-0657
rmgaya@cs.udsm.ac.tz
Honest C. Kimaro (Msc. Technical Informatics)
Department of Computer Science
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35062
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
Tel: +255-22-241-0657
h.c.kimaro@cs.udsm.ac.tz
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
Roger Lee Boston
Rockwell Chair/Instructor
Distance Education/Technology Center
Houston Community College System
4310 Dunlavy Street
P.O.Box 7849
Houston, Texas 77006
USA
Tel: +1-713-718 5224
Fax: +1-713-664 0367
rboston@tenet.edu
boston_r@hccs.cc.tx.us (secondary)
http://www.rboston.com
http://www.teched.org/
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us
http://www.teched.org/hist/iia.htm
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us/hist/yr99/finland/ -- Tampere event
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us/hist/yr00/brazil/ -- Manaus event
Jamie Diana Poindexter (Fax: 608-263-4435)
Manager, Teleconference Operations
Audio, Satellite, 2-Way Video, and Audiographics Services
for meetings and distance education
Instructional Communications Systems
University of Wisconsin-Extension
Radio Hall
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poindexter@ics.uwex.edu
Rebecca Riccio
Director of Programs
SATELLIFE
30 California Street
Watertown, MA 02472
USA
phone: +(617) 926-9400
fax: +(617) 926-1212
email: rriccio@usa.healthnet.org
http://www.healthnet.org
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
* Founder of CAADE *
* (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education) *
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of *
* Global University System (GUS) *
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