[gu-l] (05/23/02) Reply from World Bank and GUS/Venezuela
Tak Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Thu, 23 May 2002 14:58:43 -0400
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<<May 23, 2002>>
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Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Professor Seth G. Neugroschl <SN23@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Bruno Lanvin <Blanvin@Worldbank.Org>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma)
<mardias@wanadoo.fr>
Dear E-Colleagues:
(1) Pls visit "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in
Amazon, Brazil" -- Grant application submitted to the InfoDev of the World
Bank (1/25/02), at
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/InfoDev_Applicatio=
n
/InfoDev_Prop_Final_Web/Main_Proposal.htm
Pls also visit =B3(03/14/02) Commitment and support letter to the InfoDev (#3=
)
and Decline of our InfoDev grant application=B2
at
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/000106.html
As mentioned in it, our grant application was NOT selected for further
evaluation =8B see
http://www.infodev.org/projects/proposals.htm
Dear Pablo:
(2) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you and Francisco
(former Ambassador to the UN from Venezuela) at Harvard Club in Manhattan o=
n
5/21st.
(3) I also thank you very much for your kindness of providing me with a cop=
y
of the letter (ATTACHMENT I) you received from your friend, Dr. Wolfensohn,
President of the World Bank, with regard to the decline of our application
by the InfoDev.
> Dear Alex:
>=20
> Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III). Pls pass this letter to the R=
ector
> of your university. We can consider that this letter is the formal
> notification of the decline of our application by the InfoDev.
>=20
> Dear Seth:
> Referring to your previous inquiry, Alex did not receive an acknowledgeme=
nt of
> receipt of our application from the InfoDev either. I think that they mu=
st be
> under-staffed to do all formalities.
(4) Many thanks for the transcript of the speech (ATTACHMENT II) made by Dr=
.
Wolfensohn in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 21. I read it with great interes=
t
and found that our Amazon project is in line with his direction, i.e.,
eradication of poverty through education and healthcare with the use of
advanced Internet.
(5) I also appreciated to receive an excellent brochure of your Universidad
Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, and specially delighted to hear of you=
r
offer of one of beautiful buildings to house a hub of our Global University
System (GUS)/Venezuela. This is an exciting project and direction.
>=20
> 1. Pls then start considering to have a workshop in Caracas as soon as yo=
ur
> political turmoil will be settled.
> 2. Pls inform me the name and full address (snail, phone/fax, email, etc.=
) of
> the person whom you visited at the Japan Embassy in Caracas and who did n=
ot
> know anything about the Grass Root Fund.
> 3. Pls also start considering to join in our GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networkin=
g
> Program =8B pls click =B3Dr. Takeshi Utsumi's Overall Activities=B2 at the top =
left
> corner of the home page of our web <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSA=
S/>.
> You can then find the subsection of this program in the Section of Global
> University System (GUS).
>>> Dear Tapio:
>>>=20
>>> Pls visit their web site <http://www.unimet.edu.ve> -- you can read it =
in
>>> Spanish which I cannot.
(6) I also greatly thank you for your kind gift of a beautiful book
=B3Redevelopment of El Litoral Central, Venezuela=B2 which was recently
published in cooperation of your university with Design School of Harvard
University. The book is about the regional and city community development
after devastated disaster with torrential rain, flood, and landslides in
December, 1999.
As browsing it through, I thought that if your university had broadband
Internet, your cooperation with Harvard might have been much effective on
joint information exchange, discussion, and drawing diagrams and maps, etc.=
,
even though thousands miles away each other.
Anyway, my sincere congratulations to your university people=B9s
accomplishment!!
(7) This book is bilingual with English and Spanish.
At our mtg, you then suggested that we should publish a book on our GUS in =
a
similar style, i.e., with English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese =8B and
might be published from Harvard University Press.
This is very appealing suggestion to me. Pls inform me more about your
intention.
> Meanwhile, pls visit the draft of my book writing at
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html
Incidentally, Tapio and Marco have previously indicated me their willingnes=
s
to compose the vision of our GUS.
For your reference, I sent you yesterday my paper =B3Hacia una Universidad
Global Electronica Latinoamericana=B2 by an airmail which was kindly
translated by UNESCO/Caracas people in 1992.
Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I=20
The World Bank
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.=20
JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN
President
April 2, 2002=20
Dr. Pablo A. Pulido M.
Executive Director
PanAmerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools
Apartado de Correo 60411
Caracas 1060-A
VENEZUELA
Dear Dr. Pulido,
Thank you so much for you recent letter, and especially for your
generous words of encouragement on everything we are trying to do here in
the fight against poverty. In case you have not yet seen it, I am sending
with this letter a copy of the statement I made at the recent "Financing fo=
r
Development" meeting in Monterrey, Mexico. Although we did not obtain
everything we were hoping for in Monterrey, I do believe the event helped t=
o
concentrate thinking at leadership levels, and produced some genuine and
important advances.
Thank you also for sharing the information you sent about your own
efforts in the field of medical informatics and telemedicine in Latin
America. I am firmly convinced that new technologies of these kinds,
appropriately applied, have much to offer the developing countries where th=
e
Bank is active.
You were also kind enough to copy me on your letter of support to the
infoDev program concerning a proposal to look into possible use of broadban=
d
internet for education and health purposes in the Amazon region. I have
enquired with the staff dealing with infoDev, and understand that, in spite
of the attractive features of this application, it faced exceptionally
strong competition this year from a large field of applications for a
strictly limited volume of funds. That the application was, in the event,
not selected should certainly not be seen as implying any lack of merit, an=
d
I trust you will reinforce this message with its sponsors.
I do appreciate hearing from you in this way.
Sincerely yours,
James D. Wolfensohn
Attachment
ATTACHMENT II=20
Remarks to the Plenary Meeting
Financing For Development Conference
James D. Wolfensohn
President
The World Bank Group
Monterrey, Mexico, March 21, 2002
Remarks prepared for delivery
Distinguished Excellencies, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: please allow m=
e
to thank both our host, President Vicente Fox of Mexico and
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, for organizing this Conference on Financing
for Development.
As most of you know, the World Bank has been very closely involved in the
FfD process. We believe this is a great opportunity to reinforce our
collective commitment to expand the opportunities and resources necessary t=
o
halve world poverty by 2015 and meet the other Millennium Development Goals=
.
It is apt that we meet here in Monterrey, Mexico. For Mexico today
exemplifies much of what can be achieved from open markets, capacity
building, the creation of an investment climate, good fiscal and monetary
policies, an attack on corruption, and a commitment to democracy. Mexicans
should be proud of their progress. But Mexico also shows how resilient
inequality and exclusion can be. Development is a long road. We must not
underestimate the challenge ahead.
This conference brings together Heads of State and Government; foreign,
finance, development and trade ministers; civil society, business leaders
and international institutions for perhaps the first time in an
international meeting. And for perhaps the first time in an international
meeting there is greater consensus than ever before about what needs to be
done.
We must not squander that opportunity.
Nor must we forget why we are here. All people have a right to human
dignity. That is why we are here.
All people have a right to control their own lives. Yet for billions povert=
y
snatches that right away. That is why we are here.
People have a right to opportunity - in education, in trade, in building a
better future for their children. That is why we are here.
We must not fail them
I have spoken before of an imaginary wall that separates the rich world fro=
m
the poor. For too long belief in that wall, and in those separate and
separated worlds, has allowed us to view as normal a world where less than
20% of the population - the rich countries - dominates the world's wealth
and resources and takes 80% of its income.
There is no wall. There are not two worlds there is only one. Here at
Monterrey we must rid ourselves of that wall once and for all. Here at
Monterrey we must recognize the link between progress in development and
progress in peace. So that generations to come will point to Monterrey and
say "something new began at Monterrey. A new global partnership was born at
Monterrey." And we will remember, and we will tell our children - we were
there and we did not fail.
For the opportunity is ours to seize.
What is this new partnership? It is an understanding that leaders of the
developing and developed world are united by a global responsibility based
on ethics, experience and self interest. It is a recognition that
opportunity and empowerment - not charity - can benefit us all. It is an
acknowledgement that we will not create long-term peace and stability until
we acknowledge that we are a common humanity with a common destiny. Our
futures are indivisible.
And we have the makings of just such a new partnership before us.
A new generation of leaders is taking responsibility in developing
countries. Many of these leaders are tackling corruption, putting in place
good governance, giving priority to investing in their people, and
establishing an investment climate to attract private capital. They are
doing it in the private sector, in civil society, in government and in
communities. They are doing it not because they have been told to. But
because they know it is right. We must support more and more countries to
take this path.
And in rich countries growing numbers of people are beginning to understand
that poverty anywhere is poverty everywhere; that imaginary walls will not
protect us. And their leaders are listening.
I very much welcome - as should we all - the recent decisions by President
Bush and the European Union to boost aid spending. There is no debate that
our efforts need to be focused and effective. On this we are all agreed. To=
o
much money has been squandered in the past by decisions borne of politics
not development. I look forward to the forthcoming discussions on increasin=
g
the effectiveness of the development community as a whole.
Your Excellencies: We have come a long way in just a week.
But we must not stop there.
This is not just about resources.
It is about scaling up - moving from individual projects to programs,
building on and then replicating, for example, microcredit for women or
community driven development, where the poor are at the center of the
solution not the end of a handout.
It is about recognizing that any effort to fight poverty must be
comprehensive. We know there is no simple formula that alone will defeat
poverty; but we know too that there are conditions that foster successful
development: Education and health programs to build the human capacity of
the country; good and clean government; well-functioning infrastructure; an
effective legal and justice system; and a well-organized and supervised
financial system.
It is about recognizing that debt-reduction for the most highly indebted
poor countries is a crucial element in putting countries back on their feet=
,
and that the funds freed up by debt relief can and must be used effectively
for poverty programs. And we must push ahead with this program.
We know that in countries with good governance and strong policies aid can
make an enormous difference. Yet we know too that corruption, bad policies,
and weak governance will make financial aid ineffective - even
counterproductive.
We must support nations to build capacity so that they can create an
investment climate and invest in their people. So that they can create jobs=
,
so that they can increase productivity and boost investment in health and
education. This is not about rich countries telling developing countries
what to do. This is about creating a chance for developing countries to put
in place policies that will enable their economies to grow. Policies that
are home grown and home owned. For the surest foundation for long-term
change is not development by fiat, but social consensus.
But even if developing countries do all this, we estimate that it will take
somewhere between $40-60 billion in additional resources a year to meet the
Millennium Development Goals. We have made a fine start. But we must not
stop here. Let us work together for results and build the pressure for
additional funds as we succeed in using effectively the funds now promised.
Nor can we shrink from taking action on trade. We must keep urging rich
countries to tear down trade barriers that harm the world's poorest workers=
,
depriving them of markets for their products. Yes there will be powerful
lobbies ranged against any such action. But it is the task of leaders to
remind electorates that lowering of trade barriers will not cost the rich
countries anything in the aggregate; they gain from freer trade in these
areas, far in excess of any short term costs of adjustment. There is little
sacrifice required, no excuse for failing to take action that would leave
all countries better off.
Rich nations must also take action to cut agricultural subsidies - subsidie=
s
that rob poor countries of markets for their products; subsidies that are
six times what the rich countries provide in foreign aid to the developing
world. Trade and agriculture must be a crucial part of the new global deal.
Your Excellencies: In one week alone we have seen new commitments on
resources, we have heard new words on interdependence. In recent months we
have seen the launch of a promising new Trade Round. We have had a taste of
what is possible.
But we do not have much time. In 25 years 2 billion more people will join
our planet - the challenge will be greater, the pressure on resources will
be more acute, the chances of success may be slimmer.
Let us not have come this far to stop now. Let us build on this momentum as
we move forward to Johannesburg. Let us tell our children, "We seized the
moment. We did not fail."
ATTACHMENT III=20
Subject: Letter
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:00 AM
From: Alex Rivas <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dr. Utsumi,
=20
I double checked with the Rector about the letter. He never received it. So=
,
all I know is what you told me.
=20
Alex
List of Distribution
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
President
Fundacion Universidad Metropolitana
Autopista Petare - Guarenas
La Urbina, Apdo
70450 Caracas
Venezuela
Tel: (0212) 242-4320 / 242-3087
Fax: (0212) 242-5148
http://www.unimet.edu.ve
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 -- CampusNet
Professor Seth G. Neugroschl
Co-chair Columbia University Seminar on Computers, Man and Society
Columbia University
1349 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128
212-876-7674
SN23@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
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/
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University System
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Unesco Chair on global eLearning
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Media Culture and Communication Education
Hypermedia laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-215 6111
Tel: +358-3-614-5247--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
tapio.varis@uta.fi
tapio.varis@helsinki.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
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
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* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
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* Global University System (GUS) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
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<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><<May 23, 2002>><BR>
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;Date,” for<BR>
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<BR>
<BR>
Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com><BR>
<BR>
Alexandre Almir Ferreira Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br><BR>
<BR>
Professor Seth G. Neugroschl <SN23@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu><BR>
<BR>
Bruno Lanvin <Blanvin@Worldbank.Org><BR>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=3D"2">P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi><B=
R>
<BR>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma) <mardias@wana=
doo.fr><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><BR>
</FONT><BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear E-Colleagues:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(1) Pls visit "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare =
in Amazon, Brazil" -- Grant application submitted to the InfoDev of the=
World Bank (1/25/02), at<BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Wo=
rkshop/InfoDev_Application/InfoDev_Prop_Final_Web/Main_Proposal.htm<BR>
</U></FONT><BR>
Pls also visit “<U>(03/14/02) Commitment and support letter to the In=
foDev (#3) and Decline of our InfoDev grant application”<BR>
</U>at<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/000106.html<BR>
<BR>
As mentioned in it, our grant application was NOT selected for further eval=
uation — see<BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><U>http://www.infodev.org/projects/proposals.htm<BR>
</U></FONT><BR>
<B><U>Dear Pablo:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(2) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you and Francisco (=
former Ambassador to the UN from Venezuela) at Harvard Club in Manhattan on =
5/21st.<BR>
<BR>
(3) I also thank you very much for your kindness of providing me with a cop=
y of the letter (<B><U>ATTACHMENT I</U></B>) you received from your friend, =
Dr. Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, with regard to the decline of o=
ur application by the InfoDev.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B><U>Dear Alex:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
Many thanks for your msg (<B><U>ATTACHMENT III</U></B>). Pls pass thi=
s letter to the Rector of your university. We can consider that this l=
etter is the formal notification of the decline of our application by the In=
foDev.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Seth:<BR>
</U></B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Referring to your previous inquiry,=
Alex did not receive an acknowledgement of receipt of our application from =
the InfoDev either. I think that they must be under-staffed to do all =
formalities.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
(4) Many thanks for the transcript of the speech (<B><U>ATTACHMENT II</U></=
B>) made by Dr. Wolfensohn in Monterrey, Mexico, on March 21. I read i=
t with great interest and found that our Amazon project is in line with his =
direction, i.e., eradication of poverty through education and healthcare wit=
h the use of advanced Internet.<BR>
<BR>
(5) I also appreciated to receive an excellent brochure of your Universidad=
Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela, and specially delighted to hear of you=
r offer of one of beautiful buildings to house a hub of our Global Universit=
y System (GUS)/Venezuela. This is an exciting project and direction.<B=
R>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
</FONT><OL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Pls then start considering to have a wo=
rkshop in Caracas as soon as your political turmoil will be settled.
</FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Pls inform me the name and full address (sn=
ail, phone/fax, email, etc.) of the person whom you visited at the Japan Emb=
assy in Caracas and who did not know anything about the Grass Root Fund.
</FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Pls also start considering to join in our G=
US/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Program — pls click “Dr. Takeshi Ut=
sumi's Overall Activities” at the top left corner of the home page of =
our web <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>. You can then =
find the subsection of this program in the Section of Global University Syst=
em (GUS).<BR>
</FONT></OL></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B><U>Dear =
Tapio:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
Pls visit their web site <http://www.unimet.edu.ve> -- you can read i=
t in Spanish which I cannot.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
(6) I also greatly thank you for your kind gift of a beautiful book “=
Redevelopment of El Litoral Central, Venezuela” which was recently pub=
lished in cooperation of your university with Design School of Harvard Unive=
rsity. The book is about the regional and city community development a=
fter devastated disaster with torrential rain, flood, and landslides in Dece=
mber, 1999.<BR>
<BR>
As browsing it through, I thought that if your university had broadband Int=
ernet, your cooperation with Harvard might have been much effective on joint=
information exchange, discussion, and drawing diagrams and maps, etc., even=
though thousands miles away each other.<BR>
<BR>
Anyway, my sincere congratulations to your university people’s accomp=
lishment!!<BR>
<BR>
(7) This book is bilingual with English and Spanish.<BR>
<BR>
At our mtg, you then suggested that we should publish a book on our GUS in =
a similar style, i.e., with English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese —=
; and might be published from Harvard University Press.<BR>
<BR>
This is very appealing suggestion to me. Pls inform me more about you=
r intention.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier">Meanwhile, pls visit the draft of m=
y book writing at<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html<BR=
>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
Incidentally, Tapio and Marco have previously indicated me their willingnes=
s to compose the vision of our GUS.<BR>
<BR>
For your reference, I sent you yesterday my paper “Hacia una Universi=
dad Global Electronica Latinoamericana” by an airmail which was kindly=
translated by UNESCO/Caracas people in 1992.<BR>
<BR>
Keep in touch.<BR>
<BR>
Best, Tak<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>ATTACHMENT I
</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">
</FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Geneva"><B>The World Bank<BR>
</B><FONT SIZE=3D"2">Washington, D.C. 20433<BR>
U.S.A.
</FONT></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Geneva"><BR>
<FONT SIZE=3D"2">JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN<BR>
President<BR>
</FONT>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">April 2, 2002
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Dr. Pablo A. Pulido M.<BR>
Executive Director<BR>
PanAmerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools<BR>
Apartado de Correo 60411<BR>
Caracas 1060-A<BR>
VENEZUELA<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Dear Dr. Pulido,<BR>
<BR>
Thank you so much for you recent letter, and especi=
ally for your generous words of encouragement on everything we are trying to=
do here in the fight against poverty. In case you have not yet seen it, I a=
m sending with this letter a copy of the statement I made at the recent &quo=
t;Financing for Development" meeting in Monterrey, Mexico. Although we =
did not obtain everything we were hoping for in Monterrey, I do believe the =
event helped to concentrate thinking at leadership levels, and produced some=
genuine and important advances.<BR>
<BR>
Thank you also for sharing the information you sent=
about your own efforts in the field of medical informatics and telemedicine=
in Latin America. I am firmly convinced that new technologies of these kind=
s, appropriately applied, have much to offer the developing countries where =
the Bank is active.<BR>
<BR>
You were also kind enough to copy me on your letter=
of support to the infoDev program concerning a proposal to look into possib=
le use of broadband internet for education and health purposes in the Amazon=
region. I have enquired with the staff dealing with infoDev, and understand=
that, in spite of the attractive features of this application, it faced exc=
eptionally strong competition this year from a large field of applications f=
or a strictly limited volume of funds. That the application was, in the even=
t, not selected should certainly not be seen as implying any lack of merit, =
and I trust you will reinforce this message with its sponsors.<BR>
<BR>
I do appreciate hearing from you in this way.<BR>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Times New Roman">Sincerely yours,<BR>
<BR>
James D. Wolfensohn
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<H5>Remarks to the Plenary Meeting<BR>
Financing For Development Conference<BR>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Geneva"><B>James D. Wolfensohn<BR>
President<BR>
The World Bank Group<BR>
</B><FONT SIZE=3D"1">Monterrey, Mexico, March 21, 2002<BR>
<BR>
<I>Remarks prepared for delivery
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<FONT FACE=3D"Geneva"><BR>
<FONT SIZE=3D"2">Distinguished Excellencies, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen:=
please allow me to thank both our host, President Vicente Fox of Mexico and=
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, for organizing this Conference on Financing f=
or Development.<BR>
<BR>
As most of you know, the World Bank has been very closely involved in the F=
fD process. We believe this is a great opportunity to reinforce our collecti=
ve commitment to expand the opportunities and resources necessary to halve w=
orld poverty by 2015 and meet the other Millennium Development Goals.<BR>
<BR>
It is apt that we meet here in Monterrey, Mexico. For Mexico today exemplif=
ies much of what can be achieved from open markets, capacity building, the c=
reation of an investment climate, good fiscal and monetary policies, an atta=
ck on corruption, and a commitment to democracy. Mexicans should be proud of=
their progress. But Mexico also shows how resilient inequality and exclusio=
n can be. Development is a long road. We must not underestimate the challeng=
e ahead.<BR>
<BR>
This conference brings together Heads of State and Government; foreign, fin=
ance, development and trade ministers; civil society, business leaders and i=
nternational institutions for perhaps the first time in an international mee=
ting. And for perhaps the first time in an international meeting there is gr=
eater consensus than ever before about what needs to be done.<BR>
<BR>
We must not squander that opportunity.<BR>
<BR>
Nor must we forget why we are here. All people have a right to human dignit=
y. That is why we are here.<BR>
<BR>
All people have a right to control their own lives. Yet for billions povert=
y snatches that right away. That is why we are here.<BR>
<BR>
People have a right to opportunity - in education, in trade, in building a =
better future for their children. That is why we are here.<BR>
<BR>
We must not fail them<BR>
<BR>
I have spoken before of an imaginary wall that separates the rich world fro=
m the poor. For too long belief in that wall, and in those separate and sepa=
rated worlds, has allowed us to view as normal a world where less than 20% o=
f the population - the rich countries - dominates the world's wealth and res=
ources and takes 80% of its income.<BR>
<BR>
There is no wall. There are not two worlds there is only one. Here at Monte=
rrey we must rid ourselves of that wall once and for all. Here at Monterrey =
we must recognize the link between progress in development and progress in p=
eace. So that generations to come will point to Monterrey and say "some=
thing new began at Monterrey. A new global partnership was born at Monterrey=
." And we will remember, and we will tell our children - we were there =
and we did not fail.<BR>
<BR>
For the opportunity is ours to seize.<BR>
<BR>
What is this new partnership? It is an understanding that leaders of the de=
veloping and developed world are united by a global responsibility based on =
ethics, experience and self interest. It is a recognition that opportunity a=
nd empowerment - not charity - can benefit us all. It is an acknowledgement =
that we will not create long-term peace and stability until we acknowledge t=
hat we are a common humanity with a common destiny. Our futures are indivisi=
ble.<BR>
<BR>
And we have the makings of just such a new partnership before us.<BR>
<BR>
A new generation of leaders is taking responsibility in developing countrie=
s. Many of these leaders are tackling corruption, putting in place good gove=
rnance, giving priority to investing in their people, and establishing an in=
vestment climate to attract private capital. They are doing it in the privat=
e sector, in civil society, in government and in communities. They are doing=
it not because they have been told to. But because they know it is right. W=
e must support more and more countries to take this path.<BR>
<BR>
And in rich countries growing numbers of people are beginning to understand=
that poverty anywhere is poverty everywhere; that imaginary walls will not =
protect us. And their leaders are listening.<BR>
<BR>
I very much welcome - as should we all - the recent decisions by President =
Bush and the European Union to boost aid spending. There is no debate that o=
ur efforts need to be focused and effective. On this we are all agreed. Too =
much money has been squandered in the past by decisions borne of politics no=
t development. I look forward to the forthcoming discussions on increasing t=
he effectiveness of the development community as a whole.<BR>
<BR>
Your Excellencies: We have come a long way in just a week.<BR>
<BR>
But we must not stop there.<BR>
<BR>
This is not just about resources.<BR>
<BR>
It is about scaling up - moving from individual projects to programs, build=
ing on and then replicating, for example, microcredit for women or community=
driven development, where the poor are at the center of the solution not th=
e end of a handout.<BR>
<BR>
It is about recognizing that any effort to fight poverty must be comprehens=
ive. We know there is no simple formula that alone will defeat poverty; but =
we know too that there are conditions that foster successful development: Ed=
ucation and health programs to build the human capacity of the country; good=
and clean government; well-functioning infrastructure; an effective legal a=
nd justice system; and a well-organized and supervised financial system.<BR>
<BR>
It is about recognizing that debt-reduction for the most highly indebted po=
or countries is a crucial element in putting countries back on their feet, a=
nd that the funds freed up by debt relief can and must be used effectively f=
or poverty programs. And we must push ahead with this program.<BR>
<BR>
We know that in countries with good governance and strong policies aid can =
make an enormous difference. Yet we know too that corruption, bad policies, =
and weak governance will make financial aid ineffective - even counterproduc=
tive.<BR>
<BR>
We must support nations to build capacity so that <I>they </I>can create an=
investment climate and invest in their people. So that <I>they </I>can crea=
te jobs, so that <I>they </I>can increase productivity and boost investment =
in health and education. This is not about rich countries telling developing=
countries what to do. This is about creating a chance for developing countr=
ies to put in place policies that will enable their economies to grow. Polic=
ies that are home grown and home owned. For the surest foundation for long-t=
erm change is not development by fiat, but social consensus.<BR>
<BR>
But even if developing countries do all this, we estimate that it will take=
somewhere between $40-60 billion in additional resources a year to meet the=
Millennium Development Goals. We have made a fine start. But we must not st=
op here. Let us work together for results and build the pressure for additio=
nal funds as we succeed in using effectively the funds now promised.<BR>
<BR>
Nor can we shrink from taking action on trade. We must keep urging rich cou=
ntries to tear down trade barriers that harm the world's poorest workers, de=
priving them of markets for their products. Yes there will be powerful lobbi=
es ranged against any such action. But it is the task of leaders to remind e=
lectorates that lowering of trade barriers will not cost the rich countries =
anything in the aggregate; they gain from freer trade in these areas, far in=
excess of any short term costs of adjustment. There is little sacrifice req=
uired, no excuse for failing to take action that would leave all countries b=
etter off.<BR>
<BR>
Rich nations must also take action to cut agricultural subsidies - subsidie=
s that rob poor countries of markets for their products; subsidies that are =
six times what the rich countries provide in foreign aid to the developing w=
orld. Trade and agriculture must be a crucial part of the new global deal.<B=
R>
<BR>
Your Excellencies: In one week alone we have seen new commitments on resour=
ces, we have heard new words on interdependence. In recent months we have se=
en the launch of a promising new Trade Round. We have had a taste of what is=
possible.<BR>
<BR>
But we do not have much time. In 25 years 2 billion more people will join o=
ur planet - the challenge will be greater, the pressure on resources will be=
more acute, the chances of success may be slimmer.<BR>
<BR>
Let us not have come this far to stop now. Let us build on this momentum as=
we move forward to Johannesburg. Let us tell our children, "We seized =
the moment. We did not fail."<BR>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>ATTACHMENT III
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<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B>Subject: </B>Letter<BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:00 AM<BR>
<B>From: </B>Alex Rivas <alex_mau@argo.com.br><BR>
<B>To: </B><utsumi@columbia.edu><BR>
<BR>
Dr. Utsumi,<BR>
<BR>
I double checked with the Rector about the letter. He never received it. So=
, all I know is what you told me.<BR>
<BR>
Alex<BR>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><B><U>List of Distribution
</U></B></FONT>
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<FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><BR>
<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>
President<BR>
Fundacion Universidad Metropolitana<BR>
Autopista Petare - Guarenas<BR>
La Urbina, Apdo<BR>
70450 Caracas<BR>
Venezuela<BR>
Tel: (0212) 242-4320 / 242-3087<BR>
Fax: (0212) 242-5148<BR>
http://www.unimet.edu.ve<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>
Professor Seth G. Neugroschl<BR>
Co-chair Columbia University Seminar on Computers, Man and Society<BR>
Columbia University<BR>
1349 Lexington Avenue<BR>
New York, NY 10128<BR>
212-876-7674<BR>
SN23@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu<BR>
<BR>
Bruno Lanvin<BR>
Executive Secretary of DOT Force<BR>
infoDev Work Program Administrator<BR>
The World Bank<BR>
1818 H Street, N.W.<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20433<BR>
Tel : +1.202.473.2414<BR>
Fax : +1.202.522.7464<BR>
Blanvin@Worldbank.Org<BR>
And<BR>
Phone: (202) 458-5153<BR>
Fax: (202) 522-3186<BR>
E-mail: infodev@worldbank.org<BR>
http://www.infodev.org/<BR>
<BR>
<FONT SIZE=3D"2">P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor<BR>
Acting President, Global University System<BR>
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland<BR>
Unesco Chair on global eLearning<BR>
Professor and Chair of Media Education<BR>
Media Culture and Communication Education<BR>
Hypermedia laboratory<BR>
University of Tampere<BR>
P.O.Box 607<BR>
FIN-33101 Tampere<BR>
FINLAND<BR>
Tel: +358-3-215 6111<BR>
Tel: +358-3-614-5247--office in Hameenlinna<BR>
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere<BR>
GSM: +358-50-567-9833<BR>
Fax: +358-3-215 7503<BR>
tapio.varis@uta.fi<BR>
tapio.varis@helsinki.fi<BR>
http://www.uta.fi/~titava<BR>
<BR>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma)<BR>
Vice President, Global University System<BR>
Consultant of United Nations University<BR>
Former Director, Division of Higher Education of UNESCO<BR>
36, Rue Ernest Renan<BR>
92.190 Meudon<BR>
FRANCE<BR>
Tel: +33-1-45 34 3509<BR>
+33-1-45-68-3009 (UNU office in Paris)<BR>
Fax: +33-1-45 34 3509<BR>
mardias@wanadoo.fr<BR>
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