[gu-l] (12/24/01) Tanzania connection
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Mon, 24 Dec 2001 16:24:04 +0000 (GMT)
<<December 24, 2001>>
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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
Dear Honest:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my previous
list distribution "[gu-l] (12/15/01) Possible Tanzanian connection"
which can now be retrieved at
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2001q4/000071.html
(2) Your Inquiry #1:
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At this stage, the invitation from your university is sufficient.
(3) Your Inquiry #2:
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My fact finding trip needs to be financed by your university or
someone on your side. This is because we receive many requests and we
cannot finance them with our limited resources.
For example, our Brazilian colleague invited me and my wife for
his workshop in October, 1998, we then invited him to our
Tampere event in Finland, and then he invited me and our
colleagues to his second workshop in May, 2000. Reciprocity is
always the basis of friendship and trust to bring successful
project.
If you can find a fund for this, it will accelerate our joint project.
If you cannot find a fund, you may firstly apply for the Grass Root
Fund which I mentioned in my previous msg. This process may take a
half year or so, if everything goes well.
(4) Your Inquiry #3:
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As similar to our Amazon/Brazil project, the comprehensive document of
the feasibility study and market survey, etc., with multi-million
dollar cost estimates will be submitted to the Japanese government
with endorsement letters from your ministers of health, education and
telecom -- through your ministry of foreign affairs which will then be
passed on to the Japan Embassy in Tanzania, and then to the Japanese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo, in order to obtain their "non
-tied cultural aid."
Therefore, I would like to meet with high officials of those
ministries during my visit, in addition to officials of various
departments of your universities.
As similar to Manaus Community Development Network project in Amazon,
Brazil, we suggest that you form a coalition of non-profit
organizations in your major cities to which the broadband Internet
will be extended with the use of inexpensive (about US$3,000) spread
spectrum broadband (10 Mbps) wireless units.
I would then also like to meet officials of some of those
organizations during my visit.
The success of our project can be ensured if those people will
participate (or, at least, be informed) from the very beginning of our
project.
(5) Your Inquiry #4:
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(a) After my fact finding, we will conduct a workshop in your
locality. This is;
1. to form a coalition of universities, secondary and
elementary schools, libraries, hospitals, local
governments, and non-profit organizations, etc.;
2. to have American and European scholars present their
current experiences on global e-learning and healthcare;
3. to discuss the way how to have global e-learning and
healthcare with your currently available narrow band
Internet;
4. to discuss how such e-learning and healthcare can be done
better if you have broadband Internet;
5. to configure next steps of feasibility study and market
survey, etc. to implement broadband Internet in your
localities; and
6. to plan joint fund raising for their activities, etc.
We will jointly work on the fund raising of this workshop
particularly from the InfoDev of the World Bank, and also travel
grant from the US National Science Foundation for Americans'
attendances (as similar to our Amazon project), etc..
a. Pls visit Item (4)-(a) in my previous list
distribution mentioned above.
This is our grant application to the InfoDev for
the workshop in Manaus, Amazon.
b. Pls visit "Travel Grant Application: Mini-Workshop
for Pilot Project of Global University System in
the Philippines for Tele-learning and Tele-Health/
Tele-Medicine" at
http://www.friends-
partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/NSF_appl_for_Manila.html
This is for the workshop in Manila, the Philippines
(thought it has been postponed now), and is to be
submitted to the US National Science Foundation
from Montana State University.
A similar one will be submitted from Cornell
University for our workshop in Manaus, Amazon next
summer.
(b) During my stay, I would like to visit the Japan Embassy to
introduce you to them and to get the grant application of Grass
Root Fund. I would also like to visit the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) to get the application form of their
Community Empowerment Program.
We can jointly work on their formulations, as we are doing for
our Amazon project.
(c) The comprehensive document with multimillion dollar cost
estimates for your project (which will be submitted to the
Japanese government in the future) will be made with the experts
we will introduce to you. They are in broad range of e-learning,
e-healthcare, infrastructure, multimedia, etc., etc.
If you have any questions, pls feel free to ask me.
Happy Holidays!!
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: Re: Possible Tanzanian connection:Tanzania-East Africa
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001 5:04 AM
From: Honest C. Kimaro <h.c.kimaro@cs.udsm.ac.tz>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>, <alex_mau@argo.com.br>, <rboston@tenet.edu>,
<poindexter@ics.uwex.edu>, <rriccio@usa.healthnet.org>
Cc: "Dr. R.J. Mgaya" <rmgaya@cs.udsm.ac.tz>, "prof." <vsfur@cs.udsm.ac.tz>
Dear Dr Takeshi Utsumi
Please refer to your recent responce to us regarding the implimentation of
modern health care information system in Tanzania.
Thank you for your strong interest and your offer of help and cooperation to
our project. We are very grateful to you for accepting to collaborate with us
and admitting us into your list for daily updates.
The department has accepted your fact finding trip but would like to get
clarification on the following issues.
Firstly, the department would like to know the type of invitation you would
prefer. Whether you would prefer to receive the University invitation or
government invitation (Ministry of Heath-Tanzania) or both.
Secondly, the department enquires about expenses of your trip. Whether you
will incur those expenses yourself or not. This is because we have not
secured any funds for this project yet.
Thirdly, We would like to know the key personnel you would like to meet in
our locality when you arrive. Whether you would like to meet with other
officials in the University and/or Government. Let us know so that we may
inform them.
Fourthly, the department would like to know the type of assistance you expect
to offer in this project (financial, conceptual ,etc). Also,we would like to
know what next after your fact finding trip in our locality (jus give us a
hint)
Thanks for the list of different source of funds we have received from you.
We promise to visit japan Embassy in Tanzania and do as you suggested.
We will not hesitate to ask you incase of any clarification concerning those
grant forms.
With much thanks,
Yours Sincerely
Honest C. Kimaro (Msc. Technical Informatics)
Department of Computer Science
University of Dar es Salaam
P.O. Box 35062
Dar es Salaam - Tanzania
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