[gu-l] (04/20/02) System Dynamics and Amazon Project
Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.
utsumi@columbia.edu
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 10:16:59 -0400
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Bryan L. Lazerow <Lazerow@dickinson.edu>
Renate Rennie <rrennie@tinker.org>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
H. Dean Sutphin <hds2@cornell.edu>
Ellie Alavi <ealavi@worldbank.org>
Jessica Lewis <jlewis@iacd.oas.org>
Ms. Yacsire Cutler <ycutler@iacd.oas.org>
Mr. Arturo Garzon (Fax: 202-458-3149) <agarzon@oas.org>
Dr. A. Frank Mayadas (Fax: 212-757-5117) <Mayadas@sloan.org>
Dear David and Gary:
(1) Many thanks for your msgs in response to my previous following list
distributions;
> (a) (03/27/02) System Dynamics simulation and its K-12 education
>=20
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/date.html
>=20
> (b) (04/16/02) Attachments of my last list distribution on System Dynamic=
s and
> its K-12 education (Revised)
>=20
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q2/date.html
>>=20
Dear David:
(2) I am sure that Prof. Forrester=B9s Urban Dynamics book (and others) must
have been a very useful text for your city planning teaching.
Dear Gary:
(3) My interest in the SD is for its use by youngsters around the world for
promoting their mutual understanding of inter-relatedness and
inter-dependency of world phenomena across various barriers and boundaries
of nations, continents and oceans, cultures for their constructing and
keeping the world peace. This is why I have been advocating the Globally
Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming with globally distributed computer
simulation through global neural computer network in the past three decades=
,
as mentioned in the above Item (1)-(a).
Our Amazon project (see below) is to establish a major global e-learning
center in the middle of Amazon rain forest which produces 20% of oxygen =8B
without which none of us and any animal can live. This center will be a
counterpart of our GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program which
headquarters is at the University of Tampere in Finland =8B see the following=
s
as clicking =B3Dr. Takeshi Utsumi's Overall Activities=B2 at the top left corne=
r
of our web home page <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>.
>> GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Program
>> * Proposal for GUS to Become a Member of UNITWIN Program of UNESCO (Firs=
t
>> Draft) (3/24/01)
>> * Application to UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Program
> * Signed Agreement by UNESCO and the University of Tampere
The mission of our Global University System program is not the mere
enhancement of job skills with e-learning, but the creation of youngsters
for the world peace for the eradication of borderless terrorism by reductio=
n
of poverty through the use of advanced Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) in remote/rural areas around the world.
I would greatly appreciate it if your VITA group members would be intereste=
d
in helping us to construct CampusNet and Community Development Networks in
Amazon region.
Dear Bryan:
(4) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III). It was certainly my great
pleasure to have met with you at the Brazil conference at the Bildner Cente=
r
of CUNY on 4/8th and 9th.
Pls click =B3Dr. Takeshi Utsumi's Overall Activities=B2 at the top left corner
of our web home page <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>.
>=20
You can then find the followings in the Section of =B3Global University Syste=
m
(GUS)=B2;
>> GUS/Brazil/Amazon
>> 1. "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Br=
azil"
>> -- Grant application submitted to the InfoDev of the World Bank (1/25/02=
).
>> 2. Grass Root Fund of the Japanese Government
>>> * Comparison of Application Form (Brazil and Pakistan)
>>> * Application (Draft #2a)
>> 3. PowerPoint Presentations by Alex Rivas;
>>> * Technological Feasibility for Distance Education and Promotion of
>>> Sustainable Development in Amazonia
>>> * CampusNet Amazonia
>> 4. PowerPoint Presentation by T. Utsumi
> * Latin America and Caribbean Symposium on Education, Science and Culture=
in
> the Information Society (SimpLAC 2002), Havana, Cuba, 18 to 21 Feburary, =
2002
I certainly appreciate your offer of help. I will then ask your assistance
from time to time.
Dear David:
(5) I am very glad to hear that you are successfully concluding your long
trips in different continents (e.g., South America, South Africa, India,
etc., etc.) in the past few months. Pls have a very safe and pleasant trip
back.
(6) Incidentally, I visited Ms. Rennie at Tinker Foundation on 4/18th =8B
which is the well known funding source for projects in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Spain and even Antarctica =8B see their web listed in her address
below.
She indicated her strong interest in our Amazon project and encouraged us t=
o
submit our grant application =8B deadline on 9/1st and its decision in
December. She even predicted that, if everything goes well, we may be able
to conduct our planned workshop in early month of the next year. She also
kindly indicated her willingness to introduce our project to other funding
sources which may be interested in global e-learning and e-healthcare.
Dear Alex:
(7) Pls inform me which early month of 2003 would be convenient for your
people to have the workshop in Manaus.
(8) Pls visit Tinker=B9s web site to learn about the grant application
procedures.
I gave Ms. Rennie a complete set of our InfoDev application in hard copy an=
d
CD forms.
She suggested that we may extract most of the materials from the InfoDev
application. I will do this in the coming month and will send you its draf=
t
for your approval.
(9) I will also work on the NSF travel grant application for Americans
attending the workshop =8B which is to be submitted by Dean Sutphin of Cornel=
l
University =8B we visited the NSF last fall to discuss this matter and they
are waiting our application.
(10) You may recall that Ellie Alavi of the InfoDev suggested us to submit
our travel grant application to the InfoDev=B9s Conference Scholarship Fund
<http://www.infodev.org/icsf/index.html> during our visit last fall.
I talked with her later over phone and she told me that the grant is up to
US$50,000 (but usually around US$20,000 to 25,000) for those attendees from
developing countries. Pls send me names and full addresses of your selecte=
d
persons for this grant application.
Dear Jessica:
(11) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met at the Americas Society
seminar on the Impact of Internet and Information Technology in Latin
America which was sponsored by Tinker Foundation, on 4/12th.
(12) Many thanks for your recent msgs with kind suggestions. I also thank
you for your introduction of our Amazon project to your colleagues.
I will follow your suggestions and wait for Ms. Cutler=B9s response.
(13) Our Amazon project is a part of our Global University System program
and both are long-range. Therefore, the former may need to submit a grant
application to the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development
(IACD) in the near future. This is why I would like to know from Ms. Cutle=
r
the next cycle of the IACD grant program. Since our Amazon project will
also be soon related with UNAMAZ (a consortium of 77 universities in 8
Amazonian countries), we may need to know how to submit our application fro=
m
which of your agencies in which countries, etc.
> For our current project of organizing a workshop in Manaus, I visited Ms.
> Rennie on 4/18th (see above) whom you and I met at the Americas Society
> seminar on 4/12th.
(14) BTW, you may visit =B3Global University for Global Peace Gaming" -- Pape=
r
presented at the 22nd International Conference of the International
Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA), Kyoto, Japan, 15-19 July, 1991=B2
at
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_V/ISAGA_P=
a
per.html
This was written with Arturo Garzon of your organization =8B I also arranged
his travel fund to attend the conference.
(15) Around that time, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) gav=
e
$250,000 (3 years) to your OAS for the CREAD (distance education) project o=
f
the Open University in Caracas, Venezuela, which later moved to Pennsylvani=
a
State University =8B CREAD is now becoming a major international e-learning
program of Penn State and Sloan Foundation is providing them with
multi-million dollar funds.
At that time, thanks to my previous effort of deregulating the Japanese
telecom policies for the use of email in early 1980s, I had a privilege of
distributing free email accounts of Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to
many colleagues in Latin America =8B including CREAD colleagues and Arturo,
etc. Their total usage in a 18 month or so period amounted almost
$1,000,000 commercial value!! This was because Telenet could mix fax
address with email address (see Arturo=B9s address with fax number below whic=
h
is the same as I used with Telenet), and many of Latin American countries
did not have proper data telecom, not to mention of Internet, at that time
yet =8B BTW, even the current Internet cannot do the same either. Our Latin
American colleagues therefore loved this special feature very much.
> How did this happened?
> Martha Bograd, then the Director of Education Program of the Americas Soc=
iety,
> gave me a travel fund with her friend in Santiago, Chile for my attending=
the
> mtg of International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) in Cordova,
> Argentina in late 1980s. I met many of Latin American colleagues to whom
> later I gave the free accounts of Telenet, and also conducted many worksh=
ops
> on how to use it in various locations in Latin American and the Caribbean=
=8B
> subsequently I had a wonderful experience of VIP treatment in Monterrey,
> Mexico =8B see Item (7) of my previous list distribution =B3(02/05/02) Follow=
ing
> the suit of our Amazon project in Latin America,=B2
> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/date.html
Therefore, I was very self-satisfied to learn the proliferated use of
Internet in Latin America during the Americas Society seminar.
(16) We have, however, a lot of more things to do this summer and thus
exciting!!
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I=20
On 4/17/02 8:15 AM, "daj" <daj@utk.edu> wrote:
> Hello Tak:
>=20
> Thank you for forwarding references regarding systems theory. I used Dr.
> Forrester's books and articles in many of my classes over the years.
>=20
> We are now winding up our visits to cities around the world and will retu=
rn to
> Boston shortly. The usefulness of the net and the potential of distance
> learning has been brought home to me again and again, as we visited
> educational institutions and slum areas on three continents. It has been=
good
> to be back here in Brazil and to become reacquainted with the situation h=
ere.
> I do hope that we can continue to work to realize the Amazonas Project wh=
ich I
> think has great potential.
>=20
> Best wishes from the Open University for the Environment in Curitiba, Bra=
zil
>=20
> Dave
>=20
> David A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP
> Professor Emeritus of Planning
> University of Tennessee
>=20
> e-mail address: daj@utk.edu
> web page: http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
>=20
> mailing address: 8 Hilltop Road
> Asheville, NC 28803
> telephone: 828 277 5792
ATTACHMENT II=20
Subject: RE: [gu-l] (04/16/02) Attachments of my last list distribution on
System Dynamics and its K-12 education (Revised)
Date: Friday, April 19, 2002 7:09 PM
From: Gary Garriott <garyg@vita.org>
Reply-To: "garyg@vita.org" <garyg@vita.org>
To: "'utsumi@columbia.edu'" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Hi Tak,=20
Long time!
I was just curious what your interest in system dynamics is all about as I
have been dabbling (metaphorically anyway) in this as well.
Best,
Gary Garriott
Director Informatics
VITA
(Volunteers in Technical Assistance)
ATTACHMENT III=20
Subject: Bildner institute
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:22 PM
From: Dickinson Email <lazerow@dickinson.edu>
To: Takeshi Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
I am sorry I was unable to watch your presentation but I was able to read
over the packet you gave me before I left the conference. I think the
program you are head of is wonderful, and will hopefully be expanded
throughout Brazil and used in a variety of different settings.
I am graduating in May, and if possible would be willing to help work with
GLOSAS.
Bryan Lazerow =20
Majors: Brazilian Area Studies and a Certificate in Latin American Studies
Dickinson College HUB 1039
P.O. Box 4888
Carlisle, Pa. 17013-0928
(717) 240-3700
cell: (443) 324-7667
Lazerow@dickinson.edu
List of Distribution
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Former President of Fulbright Association
Lead Faculty Member,
International Honors Program on Globalization, 2002
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/
Gary Garriott
Director, Informatics
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 500
P.O. Box 12438
Arlington, VA 22209-8438
703-276-1800 X19
Fax: 703-243-1865
garyg@vita.org
vita@vita.org
ECONET: VITA
Telex: 440192 VITAUI
Cable: VITAINC
www.vita.org/satvitpo.htm -- Press release on Consorcio SAT/SatelLife/VITA
www.vita.org/consort.htm -- Press release on satellite-users coalition
www.vita.org/slife.htm -- Press release on SatelLife-VITA
Professor Jay W. Forrester
Professor of Management
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E60-389, System Dynamics Group
30 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-1571
fax: 617-258-9405
jforestr@mit.edu
http://www.sysdyn.mit.edu
Bryan L. Lazerow
Majors: Brazilian Area Studies and a Certificate in Latin American Studies
Dickinson College HUB 1039
P.O. Box 4888
Carlisle, Pa. 17013-0928
(717) 240-3700
cell: (443) 324-7667
Lazerow@dickinson.edu
Or
3908 N. Charles St. #1003
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 235-8611
Fax: (410) 243-2629
Renate Rennie
President
The Tinker Foundation Inc.
55 East 59th Street
New York. NY 10022
2I2-421-6858
Fax: (2I2) 223-3326
rrennie@tinker.org
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/tinker
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
H. Dean Sutphin
Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences systems
Cornell University
140 Roberts Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
USA
607-255-3081
Cel: 607-227-6845
Fax: 607-254-4613
hds2@cornell.edu
http://ed.cornell.edu/globalseminar/
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
Jessica Lewis
Manager, New Initiative Development/ICT and Education
Department of Information Technology for Human Development
Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development
Organization of American States
1889 "F" Street, NW, 240-G
Washington, D.C. 20006
Tel. (202) 458-3482
Fax (202) 458-3526
jlewis@iacd.oas.org
www.oas.org
Ms. Yacsire Cutler
Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD)
Organization of American States
1889 "F" Street, NW, 240-G
Washington, D.C. 20006
Tel. (202) 458-3510
Fax: (202) 458-3526
ycutler@iacd.oas.org
http://www.oas.org/
Mr. Arturo Garzon (Fax: 202-458-3149)
Regional Coordinator of Special Projects
Educational Affairs Department
Organization of American States
1889 F St. N.W. Room 200-I
Washington, D.C. 20006
202-458-3309
Modem: 202-458-3300
agarzon@oas.org
Dr. A. Frank Mayadas (Fax: 212-757-5117)
Program Officer
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
630 Fifth Avenue, Suite #2550
New York, NY 10111-0242
212-649-1649
Mayadas@sloan.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) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
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Ms. Yacsire Cutler <ycutler@iacd.oas.org><BR>
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</FONT><H5><U>Dear David and Gary:<BR>
</U></H5><BR>
(1) Many thanks for your msgs in response to my previous following list dis=
tributions;<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">(a) (03/27/02) System Dynamics simu=
lation and its K-12 education <BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">http://www.friends-partners.org/pip=
ermail/gu-l/2002q1/date.html<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
(b) (04/16/02) Attachments of my last list distribution on System Dynamics =
and its K-12 education (Revised)<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">http://www.friends-partners.org/pip=
ermail/gu-l/2002q2/date.html<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B><U>Dear David:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(2) I am sure that Prof. Forrester’s Urban Dynamics book (and others)=
must have been a very useful text for your city planning teaching.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Gary:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(3) My interest in the SD is for its use by youngsters around the world for=
promoting their mutual understanding of inter-relatedness and inter-depende=
ncy of world phenomena across various barriers and boundaries of nations, co=
ntinents and oceans, cultures for their constructing and keeping the world p=
eace. This is why I have been advocating the Globally Collaborative En=
vironmental Peace Gaming with globally distributed computer simulation throu=
gh global neural computer network in the past three decades, as mentioned in=
the above Item (1)-(a).<BR>
<BR>
Our Amazon project (see below) is to establish a major global e-learning ce=
nter in the middle of Amazon rain forest which produces 20% of oxygen —=
; without which none of us and any animal can live. This center will b=
e a counterpart of our GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program which hea=
dquarters is at the University of Tampere in Finland — see the followi=
ngs as clicking “Dr. Takeshi Utsumi's Overall Activities” at the=
top left corner of our web home page <<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>http://ww=
w.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/</U></FONT>>.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B>GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN N=
etworking Program<BR>
</B></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Proposal for GUS to Become a Member=
of UNITWIN Program of UNESCO (First Draft) (3/24/01)=20
</FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Application to UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Pr=
ogram <BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><UL><UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Signed Ag=
reement by UNESCO and the University of Tampere<BR>
</FONT></UL></UL></UL><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
The mission of our Global University System program is not the mere enhance=
ment of job skills with e-learning, but the creation of youngsters for the w=
orld peace for the eradication of borderless terrorism by reduction of pover=
ty through the use of advanced Information and Communication Technologies (I=
CT) in remote/rural areas around the world.<BR>
<BR>
I would greatly appreciate it if your VITA group members would be intereste=
d in helping us to construct CampusNet and Community Development Networks in=
Amazon region.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Bryan:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(4) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III). It was certainly my gr=
eat pleasure to have met with you at the Brazil conference at the Bildner Ce=
nter of CUNY on 4/8th and 9th.<BR>
<BR>
Pls click “Dr. Takeshi Utsumi's Overall Activities” at the top =
left corner of our web home page <<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>http://www.fri=
ends-partners.org/GLOSAS/</U></FONT>>.<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">You can then find the followings i=
n the Section of “Global University System (GUS)”;<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B>GUS/Brazil/Amazon</B=
> <BR>
</FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">"Community Development with E-Lear=
ning and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil" -- Grant application submitted=
to the InfoDev of the World Bank (1/25/02).=20
</FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Grass Root Fund of the Japanese Government =
<BR>
</FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Comparison of Application Form (Brazil =
and Pakistan)=20
</FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Application (Draft #2a) <BR>
</FONT></UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">PowerPoint Presentations by Alex Rivas=
; <BR>
</FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Technological Feasibility for Distance =
Education and Promotion of Sustainable Development in Amazonia=20
</FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">CampusNet Amazonia <BR>
</FONT></UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">PowerPoint Presentation by T. Utsumi <=
BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><UL><UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Latin Ame=
rica and Caribbean Symposium on Education, Science and Culture in the Inform=
ation Society (SimpLAC 2002), Havana, Cuba, 18 to 21 Feburary, 2002<BR>
</FONT></UL></UL></OL><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
I certainly appreciate your offer of help. I will then ask your assis=
tance from time to time.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear David:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(5) I am very glad to hear that you are successfully concluding your long t=
rips in different continents (e.g., South America, South Africa, India, etc.=
, etc.) in the past few months. Pls have a very safe and pleasant trip=
back.<BR>
<BR>
(6) Incidentally, I visited Ms. Rennie at Tinker Foundation on 4/18th ̵=
2; which is the well known funding source for projects in Latin America, the=
Caribbean, Spain and even Antarctica — see their web listed in her ad=
dress below.<BR>
<BR>
She indicated her strong interest in our Amazon project and encouraged us t=
o submit our grant application — deadline on 9/1st and its decision in=
December. She even predicted that, if everything goes well, we may be=
able to conduct our planned workshop in early month of the next year.  =
;She also kindly indicated her willingness to introduce our project to other=
funding sources which may be interested in global e-learning and e-healthca=
re.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Alex:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(7) Pls inform me which early month of 2003 would be convenient for your pe=
ople to have the workshop in Manaus.<BR>
<BR>
(8) Pls visit Tinker’s web site to learn about the grant application =
procedures.<BR>
<BR>
I gave Ms. Rennie a complete set of our InfoDev application in hard copy an=
d CD forms.<BR>
<BR>
She suggested that we may extract most of the materials from the InfoDev ap=
plication. I will do this in the coming month and will send you its dr=
aft for your approval.<BR>
<BR>
(9) I will also work on the NSF travel grant application for Americans atte=
nding the workshop — which is to be submitted by Dean Sutphin of Corne=
ll University — we visited the NSF last fall to discuss this matter an=
d they are waiting our application.<BR>
<BR>
(10) You may recall that Ellie Alavi of the InfoDev suggested us to submit =
our travel grant application to the InfoDev’s Conference Scholarship F=
und <http://www.infodev.org/icsf/index.html> during our visit last fal=
l.<BR>
<BR>
I talked with her later over phone and she told me that the grant is up to =
US$50,000 (but usually around US$20,000 to 25,000) for those attendees from =
developing countries. Pls send me names and full addresses of your sel=
ected persons for this grant application.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Jessica:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(11) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met at the Americas Society=
seminar on the Impact of Internet and Information Technology in Latin Ameri=
ca which was sponsored by Tinker Foundation, on 4/12th.<BR>
<BR>
(12) Many thanks for your recent msgs with kind suggestions. I also t=
hank you for your introduction of our Amazon project to your colleagues.<BR>
<BR>
I will follow your suggestions and wait for Ms. Cutler’s response.<BR=
>
<BR>
(13) Our Amazon project is a part of our Global University System program a=
nd both are long-range. Therefore, the former may need to submit a gra=
nt application to the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development =
(IACD) in the near future. This is why I would like to know from Ms. C=
utler the next cycle of the IACD grant program. Since our Amazon proje=
ct will also be soon related with UNAMAZ (a consortium of 77 universities in=
8 Amazonian countries), we may need to know how to submit our application f=
rom which of your agencies in which countries, etc.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">For our current project of organizi=
ng a workshop in Manaus, I visited Ms. Rennie on 4/18th (see above) whom you=
and I met at the Americas Society seminar on 4/12th.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
(14) BTW, you may visit “Global University for Global Peace Gaming&qu=
ot; -- Paper presented at the 22nd International Conference of the Internati=
onal Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA), Kyoto, Japan, 15-19 July, 19=
91” at<BR>
<U>http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_V/ISAG=
A_Paper.html<BR>
<BR>
</U>This was written with Arturo Garzon of your organization — I also=
arranged his travel fund to attend the conference.<BR>
<BR>
(15) Around that time, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) gav=
e $250,000 (3 years) to your OAS for the CREAD (distance education) project =
of the Open University in Caracas, Venezuela, which later moved to Pennsylva=
nia State University — CREAD is now becoming a major international e-l=
earning program of Penn State and Sloan Foundation is providing them with mu=
lti-million dollar funds.<BR>
<BR>
At that time, thanks to my previous effort of deregulating the Japanese tel=
ecom policies for the use of email in early 1980s, I had a privilege of dist=
ributing free email accounts of Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to many =
colleagues in Latin America — including CREAD colleagues and Arturo, e=
tc. Their total usage in a 18 month or so period amounted almost $1,00=
0,000 commercial value!! This was because Telenet could mix fax addres=
s with email address (see Arturo’s address with fax number below which=
is the same as I used with Telenet), and many of Latin American countries d=
id not have proper data telecom, not to mention of Internet, at that time ye=
t — BTW, even the current Internet cannot do the same either. Ou=
r Latin American colleagues therefore loved this special feature very much.<=
BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">How did this happened?<BR>
Martha Bograd, then the Director of Education Program of the Americas Socie=
ty, gave me a travel fund with her friend in Santiago, Chile for my attendin=
g the mtg of International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) in Cordova,=
Argentina in late 1980s. I met many of Latin American colleagues to w=
hom later I gave the free accounts of Telenet, and also conducted many works=
hops on how to use it in various locations in Latin American and the Caribbe=
an — subsequently I had a wonderful experience of VIP treatment in Mon=
terrey, Mexico — see Item (7) of my previous list distribution “=
(02/05/02) Following the suit of our Amazon project in Latin America,”=
<BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/200=
2q1/date.html<BR>
</U></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
Therefore, I was very self-satisfied to learn the proliferated use of Inter=
net in Latin America during the Americas Society seminar.<BR>
<BR>
(16) We have, however, a lot of more things to do this summer and thus exci=
ting!!<BR>
<BR>
Best, Tak<BR>
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On 4/17/02 8:15 AM, "daj" <daj@utk.edu> wrote:<BR>
<BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#000098">> Hello Tak:<BR>
> <BR>
> Thank you for forwarding references regarding systems theory. I =
used Dr. <BR>
> Forrester's books and articles in many of my classes over the years.<B=
R>
> <BR>
> We are now winding up our visits to cities around the world and will r=
eturn to <BR>
> Boston shortly. The usefulness of the net and the potential of d=
istance <BR>
> learning has been brought home to me again and again, as we visited <B=
R>
> educational institutions and slum areas on three continents. It =
has been good <BR>
> to be back here in Brazil and to become reacquainted with the situatio=
n here. <BR>
> I do hope that we can continue to work to realize the Amazonas Project=
which I <BR>
> think has great potential.<BR>
> <BR>
> Best wishes from the Open University for the Environment in Curitiba, =
Brazil<BR>
> <BR>
> Dave<BR>
> <BR>
> David A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP<BR>
> Professor Emeritus of Planning<BR>
> University of Tennessee<BR>
> <BR>
> e-mail address: daj@utk.edu<BR>
> web page: http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/<BR>
> <BR>
> mailing address: 8 Hilltop Road<BR>
> &nbs=
p; Asheville, NC 28803<BR>
> telephone: 828 277 5792=20
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"95%"></FONT><B><U>ATTACHMENT II=20
</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><FONT COLOR=3D"#000098"><BR>
</FONT><B>Subject: </B>RE: [gu-l] (04/16/02) Attachments of my last list di=
stribution on System Dynamics and its K-12 education (Revised)<BR>
<B>Date: </B>Friday, April 19, 2002 7:09 PM<BR>
<B>From: </B>Gary Garriott <garyg@vita.org><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>"garyg@vita.org" <garyg@vita.org><BR>
<B>To: </B>"'utsumi@columbia.edu'" <utsumi@columbia.edu><BR=
>
<BR>
Hi Tak, <BR>
<BR>
Long time!<BR>
<BR>
I was just curious what your interest in system dynamics is all about as I =
have been dabbling (metaphorically anyway) in this as well.<BR>
<BR>
Best,<BR>
<BR>
Gary Garriott<BR>
Director Informatics<BR>
VITA<BR>
(Volunteers in Technical Assistance)<BR>
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</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><FONT COLOR=3D"#000098"><BR>
</FONT><B>Subject: </B>Bildner institute<BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wednesday, April 10, 2002 6:22 PM<BR>
<B>From: </B>Dickinson Email <lazerow@dickinson.edu><BR>
<B>To: </B>Takeshi Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu><BR>
<BR>
I am sorry I was unable to watch your presentation but I was able to read o=
ver the packet you gave me before I left the conference. I think the program=
you are head of is wonderful, and will hopefully be expanded throughout Bra=
zil and used in a variety of different settings.<BR>
<BR>
I am graduating in May, and if possible would be willing to help work with =
GLOSAS.<BR>
<BR>
Bryan Lazerow &=
nbsp; <BR>
Majors: Brazilian Area Studies and a Certificate in Latin American Studies<=
BR>
Dickinson College HUB 1039<BR>
P.O. Box 4888<BR>
Carlisle, Pa. 17013-0928<BR>
(717) 240-3700<BR>
cell: (443) 324-7667<BR>
Lazerow@dickinson.edu<BR>
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</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP<BR>
Board member of GLOSAS/USA<BR>
Former President of Fulbright Association<BR>
Lead Faculty Member,<BR>
International Honors Program on Globalization, 2002<BR>
Professor Emeritus<BR>
Department of Urban and Rgional Planning<BR>
University of Tennessee<BR>
108-I Hoskins Library<BR>
Knoxville, TN 37996-4015<BR>
USA<BR>
Tel: +1-865-974 5227<BR>
Fax: +1-865-974 5229<BR>
daj@utk.edu<BR>
davidj@buncombe.main.nc.us<BR>
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/<BR>
<BR>
Gary Garriott<BR>
Director, Informatics<BR>
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)<BR>
1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 500<BR>
P.O. Box 12438<BR>
Arlington, VA 22209-8438<BR>
703-276-1800 X19<BR>
Fax: 703-243-1865<BR>
garyg@vita.org<BR>
vita@vita.org<BR>
ECONET: VITA<BR>
Telex: 440192 VITAUI<BR>
Cable: VITAINC<BR>
www.vita.org/satvitpo.htm -- Press release on Consorcio SAT/SatelLife/VITA<=
BR>
www.vita.org/consort.htm -- Press release on satellite-users coalition<BR>
www.vita.org/slife.htm -- Press release on SatelLife-VITA<BR>
<BR>
Professor Jay W. Forrester<BR>
Professor of Management<BR>
Sloan School of Management<BR>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<BR>
E60-389, System Dynamics Group<BR>
30 Memorial Drive<BR>
Cambridge, MA 02139<BR>
617-253-1571<BR>
fax: 617-258-9405<BR>
jforestr@mit.edu<BR>
http://www.sysdyn.mit.edu<BR>
<BR>
Bryan L. Lazerow<BR>
Majors: Brazilian Area Studies and a Certificate in Latin American Studies<=
BR>
Dickinson College HUB 1039<BR>
P.O. Box 4888<BR>
Carlisle, Pa. 17013-0928<BR>
(717) 240-3700<BR>
cell: (443) 324-7667<BR>
Lazerow@dickinson.edu<BR>
Or<BR>
3908 N. Charles St. #1003<BR>
Baltimore, MD 21218<BR>
(410) 235-8611<BR>
Fax: (410) 243-2629<BR>
<FONT SIZE=3D"2"><BR>
</FONT>Renate Rennie<BR>
President<BR>
The Tinker Foundation Inc.<BR>
55 East 59th Street<BR>
New York. NY 10022<BR>
2I2-421-6858<BR>
Fax: (2I2) 223-3326<BR>
rrennie@tinker.org<BR>
http://fdncenter.org/grantmaker/tinker<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>
H. Dean Sutphin<BR>
Associate Dean, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences systems<BR>
Cornell University<BR>
140 Roberts Hall<BR>
Ithaca, NY 14853<BR>
USA<BR>
607-255-3081<BR>
Cel: 607-227-6845<BR>
Fax: 607-254-4613<BR>
hds2@cornell.edu<BR>
http://ed.cornell.edu/globalseminar/<BR>
<BR>
Ellie Alavi<BR>
Information for Development Program (infoDev)<BR>
The World Bank, F5P-152<BR>
1818 H Street NW<BR>
Washington, DC 20433 USA<BR>
Tel: + 202-458-7715<BR>
Fax: + 202-522-3186<BR>
ealavi@worldbank.org<BR>
http://www.worldbank.org/infodev<BR>
<BR>
Jessica Lewis<BR>
Manager, New Initiative Development/ICT and Education<BR>
Department of Information Technology for Human Development<BR>
Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development<BR>
Organization of American States<BR>
1889 "F" Street, NW, 240-G<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20006<BR>
Tel. (202) 458-3482<BR>
Fax (202) 458-3526<BR>
jlewis@iacd.oas.org<BR>
www.oas.org<BR>
<BR>
Ms. Yacsire Cutler<BR>
Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD)<BR>
Organization of American States<BR>
1889 "F" Street, NW, 240-G<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20006<BR>
Tel. (202) 458-3510<BR>
Fax: (202) 458-3526<BR>
ycutler@iacd.oas.org<BR>
http://www.oas.org/<BR>
<BR>
Mr. Arturo Garzon (Fax: 202-458-3149)<BR>
Regional Coordinator of Special Projects<BR>
Educational Affairs Department<BR>
Organization of American States<BR>
1889 F St. N.W. Room 200-I<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20006<BR>
202-458-3309<BR>
Modem: 202-458-3300<BR>
agarzon@oas.org<BR>
<BR>
Dr. A. Frank Mayadas (Fax: 212-757-5117)<BR>
Program Officer<BR>
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<BR>
630 Fifth Avenue, Suite #2550<BR>
New York, NY 10111-0242<BR>
212-649-1649<BR>
Mayadas@sloan.org<BR>
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