[gu-l] (02/05/02) Following the suit of our Amazon project in Latin
America
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:57:19 -0500
> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
this format, some or all of this message may not be legible.
--B_3095794641_1574079
Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
<<February 5, 2002>>
Archived distributions can be retrieved by clicking "Correspondence" in our
home page at <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>.
For those after 2/27/01, see or bookmark:
<http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/> and click on "Date," for
example. The most recent archives are the bottom line.
Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D. <salah@wisekey.ch>
Roberto J. Rodrigues, MD <rrodrigues@paho.org>
Raul G. Perez <rgperez@optonline.net>
Dear Pablo:
(1) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you again at Harvar=
d
Club in Manhattan on 1/30th.
(2) I was very delighted to hear of your willingness to follow the suit of
our Amazon project.
Pls visit =B3[gu-l] (02/05/02) URGENT REQUEST for the InfoDev application of
our Amazon project=B2 at
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/date.html
=20
> This list distribution msg tells the web site of our proposal of the Amaz=
on
> project which was submitted to the InfoDev of the World Bank recently.
> Although I gave its hard copy and CD-R to you at our mtg, you may utilize=
this
> web for your discussions with your colleagues in Caracas.
I have read your excellent preliminary feasibility study on the creation of
the =B3Virtual University of Health Sciences of Latin America and the
Caribbean (Vi@Salud)=B2 with great interest.
> My suggestion to your proposal is that you may replace the word =B3Digital =
TV=B2
> with =B3broadband Internet,=B2 since the former has faded away and the word =8C=
TV=B2
> gives impression of one-way broadcasting which is contrary to your stress=
ing
> point of high interactivity for effective e-learning.
As discussed, I like your idea of extending it to the tropical disease
center located in south of Orinoco River close to the Brazilian border, and
also extending it further to the communities in the southern part of
Venezuela with the use of broadband wireless units.
For this project, you indicated me that you would invite me for my
facts-finding and assessment trip to Caracas next month or so, and to hold =
a
mini-workshop in Caracas in the coming June to form a coalition/team of you=
r
project (as similar to the CampusNet Amazonia of Alex Rivas in Manaus,
Brazil).
As you are a former minister of health of Venezuela, you have a very good
asset of knowing how to go-by with the various governmental channels in
Caracas to pass the project proposal (with feasibility study and market
survey, etc., which will be constructed as holding a large workshop with th=
e
coalition members, probably a half year later of the mini-workshop) to the
Japan Embassy in Caracas in order to obtain the non-tied cultural aid of th=
e
Japanese government. Your previous experience of receiving $500,000 from
the Japanese government would also be very helpful.
Also, as you are the current Executive Director of the Panamerican
Federation of Associations of Medical Schools (which has almost 304 medical
school members), your project in Venezuela may well be modeled to other
parts of South America, once it will succeed.
I look forward to receiving your next msg soon.
Dear Salah:
(3) As you read the above, I had a very good occasion to meet with Pablo
again, whom I firstly met at your workshop held at your WHO office in Genev=
a
in January of 2000.
> As you might have found in our InfoDev application mentioned above, Bob
> Rodrigues of PAHO will join in our project with his nurse training course=
s
> from his new position at John Hopkins University Nursing School. He was =
at
> your workshop, also.
(4) I thank you so much for your two recent msgs. I was sorry that, due to
your very busy traveling schedules, I could not receive your brief
description of a possible collaborative project along with our Amazon
project, especially with your expertise on the security and privacy
protection system in the public healthcare information system.
(5) Since our application will be revised and improved from time to time,
pls feel free to send me your brief description and bio at your earliest
convenience. I will include them in the application at our next cycle =8B
which may be at the time when we will submit our travel grant application t=
o
the US National Science Foundation.
Dear Paul:
(6) It was my great pleasure to have met with you at the seminar "The Impac=
t
of the Internet and Information Technology on Health Care in Latin America:
The Roles of Government and Business" on 1/24th at the Americas Society in
Manhattan.
(7) I was delighted to hear from you that you would be willing to introduce
our Amazon project to your Consulate General and Pace University people so
that your colleagues in Monterrey, Mexico may follow its suit.
> Incidentally, I was once invited to a conference in Monterrey, Mexico in =
June
> of 1992, and was very surprised to find out that I was the major keynote
> speaker and my speech and photo were in the front page of the local newsp=
apers
> and in the TV news, etc.
>=20
> That was because I helped to promote the use of Bitnet and Internet in La=
tin
> America a few years before =8B with the distributions of free Sprint (then
> Telenet) email accounts to our colleagues in Latin America =8B almost $1
> million/year commercial worth, which was initiated by the generous travel=
fund
> from the Americas Society for my attending a conference in Cordoba, Argen=
tina
> a few years before.
=20
(8) I look forward to receiving your next msg for our appointment with the
Consulate General =8B as said at the seminar, I would prefer late afternoon,
say, 4:00 pm after his siesta.
Best, Tak
List of Distributions
Dr. Pablo Pulido
Executive Director
PanAmerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools
Apartado de Correos 60411
Caracus 1060-A
VENEZUELA
+58-2-945-0857
Fax: +58-2-945-4275
pablopulido1@compuserve.com
or
Sede de la Direccion Ejecutiva
Caracas, VENEZUELA
Calle el Torreon, Quinta FEPAFEM
Urb. Sorocaima, La Trinidad
+58-2-93-0875 / 943-2840 / 93-0857
Fax: +58-2-943-285-40
73000.1447@compuserve.com
http://www.fepafem.org.vp
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=3DEAncias 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: +55-92-9988.9121 (from 7:30am to 7:00pm, Monday to Friday)
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
http://ab-tiama.pop-am.rnp.br/cca/workshop --
The international workshop home page on Technology and Distance
Education for Sustainable Development of the Amazonia
http://www.fua.br/~cna/ -- CampusNet
http://www.fua.br/campusnet-am/index.htm =8B CampusNet
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D.
Vice President eStrategies,
WiseKey S.A.,
29, Route de Pr=E9s-Bois,
1215 Geneva,
Switzerland.
tel: +41.22 929 5757
cel: +41 79 753 7301
fax: +41.22 929 5702
salah@wisekey.ch
Roberto J. Rodrigues, MD
Regional Advisor, Health Services Information Technology
Essential Drugs and Technology Program
Division of Health Systems and Services Development
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037-2895
USA
Tel: (202) 974-3826
Fax: (202) 974-3610
rrodrigues@paho.org
NetMeeting Server: ils.paho.org
http://www.paho.org
Raul G. Perez
President & CEO
UNITTECH CORPORATION
P.O. Box 288
Mt. Kisco, NY 10549-0228
USA
(914) 241-9431
Fax (914) 666-8809
rgperez@optonline.net
**********************************************************************
* 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) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/ *
**********************************************************************
--B_3095794641_1574079
Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>(02/05/02) Following the suit of our Amazon project in Latin America=
</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><<February 5, 2002>><BR>
Archived distributions can be retrieved by clicking "Correspondence&qu=
ot; in our<BR>
home page at <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>.<BR>
For those after 2/27/01, see or bookmark:<BR>
<http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/> and click on "=
Date," for<BR>
example. The most recent archives are the bottom line.<BR>
<BR>
Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com><BR>
<BR>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br><BR>
<BR>
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D. <salah@wisekey.ch><BR>
<BR>
Roberto J. Rodrigues, MD <rrodrigues@paho.org><BR>
<BR>
Raul G. Perez <rgperez@optonline.net><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Pablo:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(1) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you again at Harvar=
d Club in Manhattan on 1/30th.<BR>
<BR>
(2) I was very delighted to hear of your willingness to follow the suit of =
our Amazon project.<BR>
<BR>
Pls visit “[gu-l] (02/05/02) URGENT REQUEST for the InfoDev applicati=
on of our Amazon project” at http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail=
/gu-l/2002q1/date.html<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">This list distribution msg tells th=
e web site of our proposal of the Amazon project which was submitted to the =
InfoDev of the World Bank recently. Although I gave its hard copy and =
CD-R to you at our mtg, you may utilize this web for your discussions with y=
our colleagues in Caracas.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
I have read your excellent preliminary feasibility study on the creation of=
the “Virtual University of Health Sciences of Latin America and the C=
aribbean (Vi@Salud)” with great interest.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">My suggestion to your proposal is t=
hat you may replace the word “Digital TV” with “broadband =
Internet,” since the former has faded away and the word ‘TV̶=
1; gives impression of one-way broadcasting which is contrary to your stress=
ing point of high interactivity for effective e-learning.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
As discussed, I like your idea of extending it to the tropical disease cent=
er located in south of Orinoco River close to the Brazilian border, and also=
extending it further to the communities in the southern part of Venezuela w=
ith the use of broadband wireless units.<BR>
<BR>
For this project, you indicated me that you would invite me for my facts-fi=
nding and assessment trip to Caracas next month or so, and to hold a mini-wo=
rkshop in Caracas in the coming June to form a coalition/team of your projec=
t (as similar to the CampusNet Amazonia of Alex Rivas in Manaus, Brazil).<BR=
>
<BR>
As you are a former minister of health of Venezuela, you have a very good a=
sset of knowing how to go-by with the various governmental channels in Carac=
as to pass the project proposal (with feasibility study and market survey, e=
tc., which will be constructed as holding a large workshop with the coalitio=
n members, probably a half year later of the mini-workshop) to the Japan Emb=
assy in Caracas in order to obtain the non-tied cultural aid of the Japanese=
government. Your previous experience of receiving $500,000 from the J=
apanese government would also be very helpful.<BR>
<BR>
Also, as you are the current Executive Director of the Panamerican<BR>
Federation of Associations of Medical Schools (which has almost 304 medical=
<BR>
school members), your project in Venezuela may well be modeled to other par=
ts of South America, once it will succeed.<BR>
<BR>
I look forward to receiving your next msg soon.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Salah:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(3) As you read the above, I had a very good occasion to meet with Pablo ag=
ain, whom I firstly met at your workshop held at your WHO office in Geneva i=
n January of 2000.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">As you might have found in our Info=
Dev application mentioned above, Bob Rodrigues of PAHO will join in our proj=
ect with his nurse training courses from his new position at John Hopkins Un=
iversity Nursing School. He was at your workshop, also.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
(4) I thank you so much for your two recent msgs. I was sorry that, d=
ue to your very busy traveling schedules, I could not receive your brief des=
cription of a possible collaborative project along with our Amazon project, =
especially with your expertise on the security and privacy protection system=
in the public healthcare information system.<BR>
<BR>
(5) Since our application will be revised and improved from time to time, p=
ls feel free to send me your brief description and bio at your earliest conv=
enience. I will include them in the application at our next cycle R=
12; which may be at the time when we will submit our travel grant applicatio=
n to the US National Science Foundation.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Paul:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(6) It was my great pleasure to have met with you at the seminar "The =
Impact of the Internet and Information Technology on Health Care in Latin Am=
erica: The Roles of Government and Business" on 1/24th at the Americas =
Society in Manhattan.<BR>
<BR>
(7) I was delighted to hear from you that you would be willing to introduce=
our Amazon project to your Consulate General and Pace University people so =
that your colleagues in Monterrey, Mexico may follow its suit.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Incidentally, I was once invited to=
a conference in Monterrey, Mexico in June of 1992, and was very surprised t=
o find out that I was the major keynote speaker and my speech and photo were=
in the front page of the local newspapers and in the TV news, etc.<BR>
<BR>
That was because I helped to promote the use of Bitnet and Internet in Lati=
n America a few years before — with the distributions of free Sprint (=
then Telenet) email accounts to our colleagues in Latin America — almo=
st $1 million/year commercial worth, which was initiated by the generous tra=
vel fund from the Americas Society for my attending a conference in Cordoba,=
Argentina a few years before.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"> <BR>
(8) I look forward to receiving your next msg for our appointment with the =
Consulate General — as said at the seminar, I would prefer late aftern=
oon, say, 4:00 pm after his siesta.<BR>
<BR>
Best, Tak<BR>
<HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B><U>List of Distributions=20
</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
Dr. Pablo Pulido<BR>
Executive Director<BR>
PanAmerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools<BR>
Apartado de Correos 60411<BR>
Caracus 1060-A<BR>
VENEZUELA<BR>
+58-2-945-0857<BR>
Fax: +58-2-945-4275<BR>
pablopulido1@compuserve.com<BR>
or<BR>
Sede de la Direccion Ejecutiva<BR>
Caracas, VENEZUELA<BR>
Calle el Torreon, Quinta FEPAFEM<BR>
Urb. Sorocaima, La Trinidad<BR>
+58-2-93-0875 / 943-2840 / 93-0857<BR>
Fax: +58-2-943-285-40<BR>
73000.1447@compuserve.com<BR>
http://www.fepafem.org.vp<BR>
<BR>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D.<BR>
Adjunct Professor<BR>
Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences<BR>
Director Centro de Ciencias do Ambiente e Professor da Economia<BR>
University of Amazonas - Brazil<BR>
Centro de Ci=3DEAncias do Ambiente<BR>
Av. General Rodrigo Otavio Jordao Ramos 3000<BR>
Bairro do Coroado - Campus Universitario<BR>
C.P. 4208, Manaus, AM 69053-140<BR>
BRAZIL<BR>
Tel/Fax.: +55 92 647.4066 or +55-92-644-2384<BR>
Cel: +55-92-9988.9121 (from 7:30am to 7:00pm, Monday to Friday)<BR>
alex_mau@argo.com.br<BR>
http://www.argo.com.br/~alex_mau/alex.htm<BR>
http://lab-tiama.pop-am.rnp.br/cca/workshop/English/wksp_E.htm<BR>
http://ab-tiama.pop-am.rnp.br/cca/workshop --<BR>
The international workshop home page on Technology =
and Distance Education for Sustainable Development of the Amazonia<BR>
http://www.fua.br/~cna/ -- CampusNet<BR>
http://www.fua.br/campusnet-am/index.htm — CampusNet<BR>
<BR>
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D.<BR>
Vice President eStrategies,<BR>
WiseKey S.A.,<BR>
29, Route de Prés-Bois,<BR>
1215 Geneva,<BR>
Switzerland.<BR>
tel: +41.22 929 5757<BR>
cel: +41 79 753 7301<BR>
fax: +41.22 929 5702<BR>
salah@wisekey.ch<BR>
<BR>
Roberto J. Rodrigues, MD<BR>
Regional Advisor, Health Services Information Technology<BR>
Essential Drugs and Technology Program<BR>
Division of Health Systems and Services Development<BR>
Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization<BR>
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20037-2895<BR>
USA<BR>
Tel: (202) 974-3826<BR>
Fax: (202) 974-3610<BR>
rrodrigues@paho.org<BR>
NetMeeting Server: ils.paho.org<BR>
http://www.paho.org<BR>
<BR>
Raul G. Perez<BR>
President & CEO<BR>
UNITTECH CORPORATION<BR>
P.O. Box 288<BR>
Mt. Kisco, NY 10549-0228<BR>
USA<BR>
(914) 241-9431<BR>
Fax (914) 666-8809<BR>
rgperez@optonline.net<BR>
**********************************************************************<BR>
* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA  =
; &nb=
sp;*<BR>
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *<BR>
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *=
<BR>
* Founder of CAADE &n=
bsp; =
&nbs=
p; &n=
bsp; *<BR>
* (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education)  =
; *<BR>
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of &nbs=
p; *<BR>
* Global University System (GUS) =
&nbs=
p; &n=
bsp; *<BR>
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. &n=
bsp; *<BR>
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *<BR>
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 &=
nbsp; *<BR>
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/ &nb=
sp; &=
nbsp; *<BR>
**********************************************************************<BR>
</FONT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
--B_3095794641_1574079--