[gu-l] (12/16/01) Possible help and cooperation of Hewlette Packard (HP)
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 05:09:17 +0000 (GMT)
<<December 16, 2001>>
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James R. Sheats <sheats@spica.hpl.hp.com>
Dennis McGavis <dennis_muscato@hp.com>
Drisha Leggitt <drisha_leggitt@agilent.com>
Marcos Costa <marcos_costa@agilent.com>
Mariangela Paris <Mariangela_Paris@agilent.com>
Dr. Fernando Antonio Menezes <fernando_menezes@hotmail.com>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Bob Grabau <rygrabau@wizwire.com>
Dear Jim:
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(1) Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT I and II) 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.
(2) My whole hearted congratulations to your receiving the Tech Museum of
Innovation Awards for Technology Benefiting Humanity.
I visited the web. It is quite impressive, and I think that your
project is well deserved for the award.
ON OUR AMAZON PROJECTS:
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(3) I thank you for your continuing strong interest in and your offer of
help and cooperation to our projects. Yes, I was also thinking to
approach you again for our current main projects in Amazon, Brazil.
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 (3)-(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 (3)-(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."
ON TELEHEALTHCARE AND TELEMEDICINE:
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(4) As mentioned in Item (3)-(a) above, we conducted a telemedicine demo
during the workshop in Manaus in May, 2000 -- see
http://tc1.hccs.cc.tx.us/hist/yr00/brazil/
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
Marcos Costa kindly brought the most advanced (and only the one
available in Latin American countries) echocardiogram machine from the
US for this telemedicine demonstration -- which connection with the
University of Michigan was done via ISDN line (at 384 Kbps).
Dr. Fernando Antonio, Rector of the University of Roraima, later
invited me to his university and indicated his strong interest in
doing the same -- but this time through broadband Internet. (BTW, he
is a surgeon medical doctor and was a professor at a university in
Scotland before.)
ANNEX I of the Item (3)-(a) lists the cost estimates of necessary
equipment for establishing Multimedia Resource Centers (MRC) at
various locations -- which is a similar one as the "Digital Town
Center" (at average cost of US$50,000/site) of your LINCOS project.
However, there is none of estimates included for equipment of tele
-healthcare and telemedicine (e.g., echocardiogram, etc.). I think
Marcos Costa and your people in Palo Alto may be able to help Alex
Rivas and his colleagues for the construction of this list.
Dear Alex:
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Pls keep this in your mind.
ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT:
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(5) Marcos Costa then presented his talk with PowerPoint slides during our
workshop -- two of which were about your LINCOS (Little Intelligent
Communities) project <http://www.lincos.net/> with the use of Tachyon
satellite system <http://www.tachyon.com/> -- see Slides #20 and 21 at
Item 1-a "Three GLOSAS Projects" at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Three_GLOSAS_Projects/Three_GLOSAS_Project_Folder/Three_GLOSAS_Projects.htm
You then kindly provided me with more comprehensive slides -- see at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/LINCOS%20Project/Full_Slides/LINCOS.we.sep00.htm
I agree 100% with your statement of the Slide #1;
"A very important principle is that the physical infrastructure is
necessary but not sufficient; the technology must be placed in the
context of a people-centered solution that addresses community needs
that are specified by the customer (who should in fact co-create the
solution).
Truly sustainable development of well-being in a human community
requires three components to mesh in a mutually supportive fashion:
there must be ECONOMIC VIABILITY (with satisfactory rewards to all
participants); the CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS of the community must be
respected and its social needs served; and the ENVIRONMENT must be
protected and treated in a way that can be sustained indefinitely. If
ANY ONE of these elements is lacking, the effort is doomed to ultimate
failure, with attendant human misery. While the Internet is only a
tool of technology, it holds the promise of being able to empower
people to make informed, effective choices for themselves, and to sue
this power to meet their needs in ways that minimizes their impact on
nature."
"The delivery of useful service from the Internet will require
innovative business models, adapted to the users' conditions and
nurtured for success. Business creation, incubation, training and
support are all essential. Much of this may be delivered via the
net."
Since our Amazon projects are very similar to your LINCOS, we may be
able to expect the guidance from your experiences.
ON SATELLITE DELIVERY SYSTEM:
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(6) I recall that the Tachyon's web said last year that their services
would be extended to South America by the summer of this year. If
this is the case, it may be the most easiest and economical way for
our CampusNet projects, without any hustles of getting licenses for
uplinking to a satellite.
However, there are other possibilities to be evaluated, e.g., use of
(i) BRAZILSAT with EMBRATEL, (ii) transponders on the BRAZILSAT which
are now used by SIVAM of the Brazilian Air Force which has been
providing analog broadcasting type distance education, (iii) HISPASAT
of Spain which 70% capacity is not used according to Dr. Federico
Mayor, former Director-General of UNESCO and a Trustee member of our
Global University System (GUS), (iv) WorldSpace satellite (albeit one
-way digital broadcasting), (v) INTELSAT at free of charge as similar
to the case of the University of South Pacific Net (USPNet) in Fiji
(albeit narrow band approach) -- see Slides #17 to 19 at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Three_GLOSAS_Projects/Three_GLOSAS_Project_Folder/Three_GLOSAS_Projects.htm, etc.
As you might have noticed in Item (3)-(a) above, its ANNEX I does not
include anything of telecommunication facilities, since its authors
were not experts on them. Therefore, the major purpose of the
workshop in Manaus next summer will be the construction of feasibility
study and market survey on this issue -- with the comparisons of those
satellite systems mentioned above. Mr. Bob Grabau of Satellite Sales
and Consulting may be able to help us on this matter.
ON E-INCLUSION:
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(7) ANNEX II of Item (3)-(a) is about the content development for the
CampusNet.
I would be very appreciative if you can kindly consider of your help
with E-Inclusion <www.hp.com/e-inclusion> for this activities
<http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/LINCOS%20Project/w-einclusion.subset/w-
einclusion.subset.htm>
After the initial phase of our projects for non-profit organizations
(which are to be financed with the "Non-tied Cultural Aid" of the
Japanese government), we plan to invite commercial firms which are to
subsidize the expensive broadband digital satellite trunk lines -- in
a sense, as creating the so-called E-Rate with their support to
provide free of charge or heavily discounted rates of broadband
Internet to K-12 schools in remote/rural areas of Amazon.
In this regard, I appreciate the words of Slide #5 of the above
PowerPoint show;
"HP is focused on sustainability in all its dimensions. If the
solution is not sustainable, it's not a solution.
Economically self-sustaining solutions offer fair value to all
participants. Solutions that don't die out when the donations dry up.
Sustainable solutions respect culture. They preserve and enhance the
environment."
ON FUND RAISING:
++++++++++++++++
(8) We would like to discuss the above matters in more details at our
workshop in Manaus next summer.
For this workshop, we are now raising funds. We would then greatly
appreciate it if you can kindly introduce to someone at the Cooperate
Contribution Division of your firm and/or at Hewlette Foundation.
(9) 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.
(10) I would be very delighted if we can meet either in NYC or Washington,
DC, should you have any chance of coming over in the next months.
ON ROLLTRONICS CORPORATION:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(11) Yes, I recently read about this technology and its associated products
to come. I believed them. My sincere congratulations for your
working on this new technology at Rolltronics Corp.
(www.rolltronics.com). You have certainly a great future!!
BTW, its basic technology was found by Dr. Shiwakawa, a junior
graduate of my alma mater, Tokyo Institute of Technology, when
he made a mistake on the amount of catalyst of his hypolymer
chemical experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. He then
received his Nobel Prize last year!!
Looking forward to receiving your response to the above soon,
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: Your holiday greeting
Date: Friday, December 7, 2001 2:54 AM
From: James Sheats <sheats244@earthlink.net>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: <sheats244@earthlink.net>
Hello Tak,
Thank you very much for your very nice greeting message with the candle
photo. It has a very warm and appropriate feeling!
I really appreciate the tremendous amount of work you are doing with
respect to closing the digital divide, and hope that we may have an
opportunity to work together more closely at some point. You may recall that
I introduced the LINCOS project (www.lincos.net) to you some time ago. This
project won an award as a finalist for the Tech Museum of Innovation Awards
for Technology Benefiting Humanity, in the category of Equality
(www.thetech.org/exhibits_events/techawards/finalists_info.html).
More recently, I have been working with the group Satellite Sales and
Consulting, which is a system integrator for providing affordable satellite
date services (primary ISP) throughout the world. They are working with
LINCOS as well as others, and could perhaps be helpful to you. As a small,
for-profit company they cannot donate bandwidth, but I find them to be
extremely willing to try to make a deal work financially, and to have a great
interest in helping people. You can contact Bob Grabau at
mailto:rygrabau@wizwire.com.
Finally, I would like to bring Rolltronics Corp. (www.rolltronics.com) to
your attention (I am the chief technical advisor for this company). This
company will facilitate the introduction of displays that are affordable by
the people we have been trying to serve in HP's e-Inclusion program
(www.hp.com/e-inclusion), and I believe will be absolutely crucial for the
realization of many of the educational goals that you have. If you would
like more information I will be happy to send it.
With very best regards,
Jim Sheats
Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard
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ATTACHMENT II
From: James Sheats <sheats@hpldr2.hpl.hp.com>
Subject: Re: LINCOS and your project
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 2:54:22 PST
Cc: sheats@hpl.hp.com (James Sheats), dennis_muscato@hp.com
Hello Tak,
It has been quite some time, and still I seem to be buried! Nevertheless
now is the time to take a few minutes to reply to your earlier messages.
As you may have noticed, HP announced last month its World e-Inclusion
Initiative (www.hp.com/e-inclusion, directly linked from HP home page),
which is a very aggressive plan that builds on but goes far beyond the LINCOS
project from which it arose.
One aspect of the Initiative is still the proliferation of telecenters,
together with a program of content and service provision that make them
valuable (where "value" is defined from both a human fulfillment and a
financial revenue viewpoint). We are now working very hard on implementing a
business plan for them. As e-health and e-learning are important services
which meet these criteria of value, I think exploration of ways to work with
you and your friends would be very desirable.
The satellite delivery company I mentioned (Tachyon, www.tachyon.net) is
still a candidate, but there are others we are talking to quite actively.
The price of a few hundred dollars per month for something around 1 Mb or
more seems to be a reasonable goal. Today the government of Costa Rica
offers 4 Mb for this price for the LINCOS units there. Of course, government
license fees in other countries are often the problem, rather than the fee to
the satellite delivery company. Nevertheless we are seeing a lot of
progress. In Bolivia EcoSage has gotten $150/mo.; though that is subsidized,
they expect that $300 will be a general figure. OnSat also has a program in
Honduras (see OnSat website at www.onsat.com).
Dennis McGavis is a member of our group who is primarily coordinating our
e-health activities and also e-learning, so I have copied him on this
message.
With best regards,
Jim
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 20:58:59 -0400
> From: utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Reply-To: utsumi@columbia.edu
> To: James Sheats <sheats@hpldr2.hpl.hp.com>
> CC: James Sheats <sheats@hpl.hp.com>
> Subject: Re: LINCOS and your project
>
> Dear Jim:
>
> (1) Many thanks for your msg -- I was just thinking to email you.
>
> (2) Your project is very interesting and can go along with our project
> very well, since we have many counterparts around the world to set up
> broadband wireless and satellite Internet -- particularly in Amazon
> area countries.
>
> Incidentally, I took the liberty of citing your LINCOS project in
> our web -- see in List of
> Activities/Projects/Conferences/2000/May.
>
> (3) If you find time, pls visit
>
> "Global University System" for The 14th Annual Conference of The Asian
> Association of Open Universities at The University of Philippines/Open
> University, Manila, Philippines 25-27 October 2000
>
> at
>
> http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/GUS_Paper/Manila_conf_10-
00/GUS_Paper_Manila_conf.html
>
> (4) You can find relevant web sites of our projects, if you click
> "Reference web sites:" in its contents (or at
>
> http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%20System/Reference_web_sites.html
>
> (5) I would like to know from you the rate schedules of Internet
> digital satellite company in San Diego -- you mentioned $300/month for
> 4 Mbps during our last phone conversation. We may find many users for
> their service.
>
> How much is the total cost of a van equipped with all the electronic
> gears?
>
> (6) I will take the liberty of admitting you into our listserve so
> that you will be kept updated with our daily progress -- pls feel free
> to discard them if some are not relevant to your project.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
>
> Best, Tak
> *****************
> James Sheats wrote:
>
> > Dear Mr. Utsumi,
> >
> > I am very sorry not to have responded till now. Even now I am
> > buried with issues requiring immediate attention. However, I do
> > appreciate very much the email you sent, and intend to follow up on
> > it just as soon as I can. Again I apologize for not being able to
> > do so quite as soon as would be desired.
> >
> > With best regards,
> > Jim
> > --
> > James R. Sheats Tel. 650-857-5987
> > Program Manager, World E-services Fax 650-813-3152
> > Hewlett-Packard Co. sheats@hpl.hp.com
> > 1501 Page Mill Road
> > Palo Alto, CA 94304
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James R. Sheats
Program Manager, World e-Inclusion
Hewlett-Packard Co.
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Tel. 650-857-5987
Fax 650-813-3152
sheats@spica.hpl.hp.com
jim_sheats@hp.com
www.hp.com/e-inclusion
www.lincos.net
Dennis McGavis
dennis_muscato@hp.com
Drisha Leggitt
Corporate Community Relations Manager
US Community Relations Manager
Agilent Technologies
8000 Foothills Blvd. MS 5778
Roseville, CA 95747-5778
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Marcos Costa
Presidente
Agilent Technologies Brasil Ltda.
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06455-000 - Barueri - SP - Brasil
+55-11-7297-3690
Fax: +55-11-7297-3793
marcos_costa@agilent.com
Mariangela Paris
+55-11-7297-3512
Tel:(55 11)7297-3691
Fax:(55 11)7297-3793
Mariangela_Paris@agilent.com
Dr. Fernando Antonio Menezes
President
University of Roraima
Universidade Federal de Roraima
Campus do Paricarana/BR 174 S/N
Boa Vista, RORAIMA
Tel: +55-95-623-9067, 9065
Fax: +55-95-623-9063
fernando_menezes@hotmail.com
www.ufrr.br
www.germinal.ufrr.br
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
Bob Grabau
Satellite Sales and Consulting
rygrabau@wizwire.com
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