[gu-l] (02/13/02) Commitment and support letter to the InfoDev (#2)
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:25:32 +0000 (GMT)
<<February 13, 2002>>
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Bruno Lanvin <infodev@worldbank.org>
Vivek S. Chaudhry <vchaudhry1@worldbank.org>
Ellie Alavi <ealavi@worldbank.org>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. <mardias@wanadoo.fr>
Ermanno Pietrosemoli <ermanno@ing.ula.ve>
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D. <salah@wisekey.ch>
T. Peter Burgess <profitinafrica@aol.com>
Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com>
Dear Bruno, Vivek and Ellie:
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(1) ATTACHMENT I to V below are the copies of msgs on the commitment and
support to our project on the "Community Development with E-Learning
and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil," which proposal was recently
submitted to you by Prof. Alex Rivas and me.
Dear David, Marco, Ermanno, Salah, and Peter:
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Many, many thanks for your msgs to the InfoDev.
Dear E-Colleagues:
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(2) This application is a result of a long and hard effort to promote
sustainable development in Amazonia.
I would greatly appreciate it if you can also kindly send your
commitment and support to the InfoDev (cc to me), as its application
form recommends, at your earliest convenience. Thanks.
Dear Pablo:
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Many thanks for your msg of yesterday. Yes, pls send your msg
of support to the InfoDev ASAP.
(3) If necessary, pls visit the application at
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/InfoDev_Application/InfoDev_Prop_Final_Web/Main_Proposal.htm
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: RE: [gu-mmoa] (02/10/02) Commitment and support letter to the
InfoDev
Date: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 6:51 AM
From: daj <daj@utk.edu>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Tak:
I have sent a letter of support and commitment by FAX to Bruno Lanvin per
your request. As I am not connected and this is being sent from a Cybercafe,
I cannot send a copy herewith to you. Please be assured, though, that it
strongly supports the project. I do hope the application will be successful.
Regards,
Dave Johnson
Bangalore, India
David A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP
Professor Emeritus of Planning
University of Tennessee
e-mail address: daj@utk.edu
web page: http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
mailing address: 8 Hilltop Road
Asheville, NC 28803
telephone: 828 277 5792
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ATTACHMENT II
Subject: Fw: Community Development in Amazon
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 6:04 AM
From: mardias <mardias@wanadoo.fr>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dear friends,
I just came back from London. I hope this message will be useful. M.A.R. Dias
----- Original Message -----
From: mardias <mailto:mardias@wanadoo.fr>
To: infodev@worldbank.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:02 PM
Subject: Community Development in Amazon
13 February 2002
To Bruno Lanvin
Executive Secretary of DOT Force
Infodev Work Program Administrator
The World Bank
1818 H Street. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Dear Sir,
This message is to manifestate my personal commitment and support to the
Grant application "Community Development with E-learning and E-Healthcare in
Amazon, Brazil, submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02).
As you know, the idea for this project was raised in Tampere during a
conference organized in 1999, in Tampere, Finland, by a group of experts,
under the leadership of drs. Tak Utsumi and Tapio Varis.
At this occasion, the basis were launched for the creation of a network of
institutions dealing with e-learning, in particular in the field of health.
The network was called GUS -Global University System- and, among its aim, we
can find the idea of giving more relevance to higher education institutions
trough the utilization of new technologies for contributing to the solution
of pressing problems of societies, in particular in developping countries.
This particular project in Amazon raised the enthousiasm of the academic
community in the Brazilian Amazonia. All public universities in the region
decided to follow the proposals made by dr. Alexandre Rivas from the Federal
University of Amazonia in Brazil to work together in this field, helping to
find solution to a serious problem of a population not well served in the
field of health.
This project, if correctly implemented, will increase the relevance of higher
education institutions, will stimulate a social utilization of new
technologies and will deserve the interest of thousands of citizens not well
covered by health systems. In addition, it will be instrumental in
consolidating a good idea: the Global University System, now having a solid
basis in the University of Tampere trough the UNESCO's chair on e-learning
recently created.
My best wishes
Marco Antonio R. Dias
United Nations University Consultant
Former Director of the Division of Higher Education of UNESCO (1981-1999)
Former Vice-Rector of the Univesity of Brasilia (1976-1980)
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ATTACHMENT III
Subject: Re: Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 11:14 PM
From: Ermanno Pietrosemoli <ermanno@ing.ula.ve>
To: <Blanvin@worldbank.org>, <i.nfodev@worldbank.org>
Cc: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Mr. Bruno Lanvin
> Executive Secretary of DOT Force
> infoDev Work Program Administrator
> The World Bank
> 1818 H Street, N.W.
> Washington, D.C. 20433
>
>
> February 11, 2002
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> This letter is to express EsLaRed institutional support to the Grant
> application "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in
> Amazon, Brazil" submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02).
>
> For the last 10 years, the Latin American Networking School (EsLaRed) > has
organized training activities directed to reap the benefits of
> networking technologies mainly in the fields of education, health and
> community networks. We grateful recognize the economic support of
> InfoDev to several of these efforts.
> The proposed activity in Brazil is directed to the same aims.
> Furthermore, we have been using wireless long range networking since
> 1992 with excellent results (it is part of the curriculum of our
> training as well), and believe that is particularly well suited to the
> needs of many areas where the communications infrastructure is
> limited.
>
> So, we think that the resources that InfoDev might apply to this
> program will have a profound impact on the lives of the amazonian
> people.
>
Yours Truly,
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
President
Latin American Networking School (Fundacion Escuela Latinoamericana de
Redes)
Merida, Venezuela www.eslared.org
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ATTACHMENT IV
Subject: Commitment and support
Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:21 AM
From: Salah Mandil <salah@wisekey.ch>
To: "'infodev@worldbank.org'" <infodev@worldbank.org>
Dear colleagues,
This is to offer our strong support for the InfoDev grant application by
GLOSAS/USA. The grant is to sustain the founding steps for a network to
support critical work for Amazonia - its people and its rich but dwindling
nature.
In my global, extensive work in eHealth, TeleHealth and TeleMedicine, I have
seen ample proof of the great value of Information and Communication
technologies, to meet challenges such as those in Amazonia and which the
project seeks to address. And, I have also known quite well how absolutely
critical, indeed a requisite, is "education" for such work. Hence, our
commitment and support for the Project.
Our present world of spectacular conflicts, and inhumanity, needs projects
and work such as this Amazonia project aims to do, so that we purposely
divert those frustrations and energies to address the socio-economic
challenges.
Salah MANDIL
Geneva
Salah Mandil, PhD
Previously:
Director,
Health Informatics & Telematics,
World Health Organisation,
1211 Geneva
Switzerland.
and,
at present:
Vice President eStrategies,
WiseKey S.A.,
29, Route de PrĒs-Bois,
1215 Geneva,
Switzerland.
tel: +41.22 929 5757
fax: +41.22 929 5702
eMail: salah@wisekey.ch
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ATTACHMENT V
Subject: Letter of Commitment to "Community Development with E-Learning and
E-Healthcare
Date: Sunday, February 10, 2002 9:57 PM
From: Profitinafrica@aol.com
To: <infodev@worldbank.org>, <Blanvin@worldbank.org>,
<vchaudhry1@worldbank.org>, <ealavi@worldbank.org>
Cc: <utsumi@columbia.edu>, <kirimik@atcnet.org>
Bruno Lanvin
infoDev Work Program Administrator
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
10 February 2002
Dear Sir
I am writing on behalf of ATCnet to express our support for the Grant
application "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in
Amazon, Brazil" recently submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02). This Grant
makes it possible for the Global University System (GUS) as drafted in a 1999
workshop on "Emerging global electronic distance learning" to move further
forward. ATCnet sees considerable value in what this next step will
facilitate, not only with reference to the specific area and country (Amazon
/ Brazil), but also in the broader international context. ATCnet anticipates
being able to take advantage of the lessons learned to accelerate its own
program of E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Africa in collaboration with the
GUS and its global collaborators.
Sincerely
Peter Burgess
______________
T. Peter Burgess
VP and CFO ATCnet
New York USA
Tel 212 772 6918
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ATCnet Project for Universal Accountability
ATCnet Community Cyber Networks
ATCnet Database on African Development and Enterprise
ATCnet Database on the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis
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Bruno Lanvin
Executive Secretary of DOT Force
infoDev Work Program Administrator
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Tel : +1.202.473.2414
Fax : +1.202.522.7464
Blanvin@Worldbank.Org
And
Phone: (202) 458-5153
Fax: (202) 522-3186
E-mail: infodev@worldbank.org
http://www.infodev.org/
Vivek S. Chaudhry
Program Administrator, infoDev
Global Information and Communication Technologies
The World Bank
1818 H Street, NW, Room F5P - 156
Washington, DC 20433
USA
202-473-3880
Fax: 202-522-3186
vchaudhry1@worldbank.org
http://www.infodev.org/ereadiness
www.infodev.org
Ellie Alavi
Information for Development Program (infoDev)
The World Bank, F5P-152
1818 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20433 USA
Tel: + 202-458-7715
Fax: + 202-522-3186
ealavi@worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/infodev
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: +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 -- CampusNet
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Former President of Fulbright Association
Professor Emeritus
Department of Urban and Rgional Planning
University of Tennessee
108-I Hoskins Library
Knoxville, TN 37996-4015
USA
Tel: +1-865-974 5227
Fax: +1-865-974 5229
daj@utk.edu
davidj@buncombe.main.nc.us
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma)
Vice President, Global University System
Consultant of United Nations University
Former Director, Division of Higher Education of UNESCO
36, Rue Ernest Renan
92.190 Meudon
FRANCE
Tel: +33-1-45 34 3509
+33-1-45-68-3009 (UNU office in Paris)
Fax: +33-1-45 34 3509
mardias@wanadoo.fr
Ermanno Pietrosemoli
President of the organizing Committee
Latin American Networking School (Eslared)
(Fundacion Escuela Latinoamericana de
Redes)
Laboratorio de Telecomunicaciones (LabCom)
Advisor in Teleinformatics to Fundacite Merida
Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes
Universidad de los Andes
Apartado Postal 514 Merida 5101-A
Venezuela
Tel: +58(74)402823- (074)402824
Fax: +58(74)402894- (074)402947
ermanno@ing.ula.ve
ermanno@umd5.umd.edu
www.eslared.org
Salah H. Mandil, Ph.D.
Vice President eStrategies,
WiseKey S.A.,
29, Route de PrĒs-Bois,
1215 Geneva,
Switzerland.
tel: +41.22 929 5757
cel: +41 79 753 7301
fax: +41.22 929 5702
salah@wisekey.ch
T. Peter Burgess
VP and CFO ATCnet
President and CEO
AfriFund Management Limited
1173A Second Avenue #221
New York NY 10021
Tel 212 772 6918
Fax 212 585 2501
Fax 707 371 7805
profitinafrica@aol.com
hivaidsstories@aol.com
www.afrifund.com
www.profitinafrica.com
www.atcnet.org
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.ve
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