[gu-l] (12/05/02) Africa and Norway connections
Takeshi Utsumi
utsumi@columbia.edu
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 22:10:54 -0500
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<<December 5, 2002>>
Archived distributions can be retrieved by clicking "Correspondence" in our
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For example. The most recent archives are the bottom line.
Professor Clement Dzidonu <dzidonu@ghana.com>
HE Dr. Isaac C. Lamba <iclamba@yahoo.com>
Mr Lorant Czaran <czaran@un.org>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma)
<mardias@wanadoo.fr>
Natalie D. Hahn <hahnn@un.org>
Mark Davis <Mrd1977@hotmail.com>
Dear Clement:
(1) Many, many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I). Very glad to hear from
you again =8B after disappeared into Zimbabwe!!
Yes, I remember you very well. I took the liberty of changing your email
address in our list from the one in Zimbabwe to the present one.
Pls visit our web (which URL is listed at the end of my e-signature below),
and click =B3Current Reference Websites=B2 at the top-right corner of the home
page to find various materials about our activities.
Keep in touch!!
Dear Dr. Lamba:
(2) It was my great pleasure to have spoken with you over phone today.
I look forward to visiting you in the afternoon of 11/6th (Friday), to
discuss the possibility of creating Global University System (GUS)/Malawi.
Dear Mr. Czaran:
(3) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II).
It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you at the Digital
Bridge for Africa Meeting at the United Nations on 7/12/02.
(4) Yes, we would be very delighted if you can kindly introduce our GUS
activities to your colleagues at the Global Virtual University in Norway =8B =
I
visited its web with great interest.
> BTW, pls read through the outline of our proposed Japan Project in my pre=
vious
> list distribution =B3(08/18/02) Respect to Intellectual Property (Copyright=
) and
> Outline of Japan Project=B2 which can be retrieved at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q3/000144.html
>=20
>> I am attaching its copy to this msg for clarity sake =8B E-Colleagues, sor=
ry
>> about this duplication.
>=20
We are now start contemplating to establish a global e-learning center of
GUS for Asia and the Pacific in my home prefecture of Nagano, Japan.
(5) This is to be counterpart to the headquarters of the GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN
Networking Chair Program at the University of Tampere, Finland, which is
chaired by Tapio Varis.
> Pls visit the following web for the UNITWIN Program;
> http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=3D1324&URL_DO=3DDO_TOPIC&URL=
_SECT
> ION=3D201
Tapio is now planning to have a workshop at his university on the
organization structures of the GUS in June of next year. Your colleagues
may attend it to discuss our collaboration.
(6) The UNITWIN Program was created by Marco Antonio Dias almost two decade=
s
ago. He is now a consultant to the United Nations University in Tokyo and =
a
VP for Administration of our GUS.
(7) One of my mentors in Tokyo was Dr. Michio Nagai, Special Advisor to the
UN University in Tokyo and a former President of Tokyo Institute of
Technology (my alma mater). While he was the Japanese Minister of
Education, he brought the headquarters of the UN University to Tokyo.
He once kindly introduce me to;
> Mr. Edward W. Ploman
> Vice Rector
> Global Learning Division
> The United Nations University
> Toho Seimei Building, 29th Flr.
> 2-15-1, Shibuya
> Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150
> JAPAN
> +1-81-3-3499-2811
>=20
> I was very sorry to learn of his death by a cancer in Paris in several ye=
ars
> later.
I received his favorable response when I visited him and presented our
Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming Project =8B which brief
synopsis can be found in the Section VII of our paper =B3Creating Global
E-Learning and E-Healthcare through the Global University System=B2 which can
be retrieved at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Universit=
y
%20System/Dubai%20Confeence_1-2003/E-learning%20with%20GU/E-learning_with_G=
U
_D6.htm
Our effort of establishing GUS with Global Broadband Internet is to achieve
this project with global neural computer network (or the so-called Global
Grid Computing nowadays) of mini-supercomputers scattered around the world,
yet acting as if they are a single computer.
Your colleagues in Norway may be interested in this project.
(8) BTW, I will be presenting our project at Dr. Natalie Hahn=B9s office from
4:00 pm of 12/11th.
If your office is in the same building as hers, you may join in the mtg.
Pls ask her about this =8B you may recall her impressive, eloquent and
inspiring speech at the UN mtg on 7/12/02.
> Dear Natalie:
>=20
> I hope you can accommodate him in our mtg.
>=20
> I will also report you about our trip to Cuba, mtg with Mark Davis (your
> friend) and my mtg with Dr. Lamba, your friend.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I=20
Subject: Message from Clement Dzidonu
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:49 AM
From: Clement Dzidonu <dzidonu@ghana.com>
Reply-To: dzidonu@ghana.com
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Hello Takeshi:
Remember me... I used to be at Trinity College in the 1990's..we
authored a paper together on the Africa-end of the Global University
System...
I need to touch base with you... Can you still be reached by the
e-mail..?
Meanswhile is there a site you can point me to as per the latest
technologies and concepts on virtual collaborative learning..etc..the
sort of things you have been promoting as part of the GU and CAADE...
Thanks and and bye for now
Clement
ATTACHMENT II=20
Subject: Re: [gu-l] (11/07/02)11 Synopsis of GUS for Presentation at the UN
on 12/11th/02/4 pm
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:29 PM
From: Lorant Czaran <czaran@un.org>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: <hahnn@un.org>
Hello,
I receive your messages probably as a result of participating in the
African Diaspora meeting at the UN.
I just wanted to point you to an initiative by UNEP and GRID Arendal in
Norway - my former work place - to set up a Global Virtual University (GVU)
around the same e-learning and broadband concepts you mention in the GUS
presentation I have seen.
The Norwegian Government just granted 2,000,000 USD for 3 years to develop
this concept, and the background is UNEP's involvement in the Global
Telecommunications for Environment (UNEPnet/Mercure) project years ago. We
in Arendal maintained a 17-country satellite network for environment data,
3 of the partners (Kenya, Niger and Mozambique) being from Africa.
Partners for this new project are UNEP, UNU and a number of universities.
Some more information is available under
http://www.grida.no/inf/gaunu/index.htm
and I would be happy to point you to the right persons should you wish to
establish some informal liaison. At least to make sure efforts are
complementary rather than duplicated.
Thanks,=20
Lorant.
List of Distribution
Professor Clement Dzidonu
President & CEO
International Institute for
Information Technology (INIIT)
P.O Box AN-19782, Accra-North, Ghana
Tel 233-21-246200 Mobile: 233-24-280079
Fax 233-21-763062
dzidonu@ghana.com
HE Dr. Isaac C. Lamba
Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Republic of Malawi
Permanent Mission of Malawi to the United Nations
600 Third Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10016
Tel (212) 949-0180
Cel: 914-473-4551
Fax: (212) 599-5021
Res: (914) 472-3932
iclamba@yahoo.com
iclamba2@aol.com
UNMalawi@aol.com
Mr Lorant Czaran
United Nations, HQ
UN Geographic Information Working Group, Secretariat
Cartographic Section, Room L-172
New York, NY 10017
U.S.A.
tel.: +1 917 367 2467
fax: +1 212 963 3742
czaran@un.org
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University System
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Unesco Chair in 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
Natalie D. Hahn
Senior Private Sector Adviser
United Nations Fund for International Partnership (UNFIP)
United Nations
1 UN Plaza, Room DC1-1330
New York, NY 10017, USA
(212) 963-3036
(917) 367-2094
Fax: (212) 963-1486
hahnn@un.org
Mark Davis
Davis Farms
3134 West-Oak Hwy.
Westminster, SC 29693
Fax: 864-647-7366
Home: 864-647-9721
Cell: 864-723-4138
Mrd1977@hotmail.com
or
Mark Davis
Spanish Teacher
Model UN Director
West-Oak High School
130 Warrior Lane
Westminster, SC 29693
864-647-3065
mrdavis@oconee.k12.sc.us
http://www.oconee.k12.sc.us/woh/
**********************************************************************
* 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 *
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of *
* =A0=A0Global University System (GUS) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi@columbia.edu *
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/ *
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<BR>
Professor Clement Dzidonu <dzidonu@ghana.com><BR>
<BR>
HE Dr. Isaac C. Lamba <iclamba@yahoo.com><BR>
<BR>
Mr Lorant Czaran <czaran@un.org><BR>
<BR>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi><BR>
<BR>
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, T.C.D. (Third Cycle Diploma) <mardias@wana=
doo.fr><BR>
<BR>
Natalie D. Hahn <hahnn@un.org><BR>
<BR>
Mark Davis <<U>Mrd1977@hotmail.com><BR>
</U><BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Clement:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(1) Many, many thanks for your msg (<B><U>ATTACHMENT I</U></B>). Very=
glad to hear from you again — after disappeared into Zimbabwe!! <BR>
<BR>
Yes, I remember you very well. I took the liberty of changing your em=
ail address in our list from the one in Zimbabwe to the present one.<BR>
<BR>
Pls visit our web (which URL is listed at the end of my e-signature below),=
and click “Current Reference Websites” at the top-right corner =
of the home page to find various materials about our activities.<BR>
<BR>
Keep in touch!!<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Dr. Lamba:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(2) It was my great pleasure to have spoken with you over phone today.<BR>
<BR>
I look forward to visiting you in the afternoon of 11/6th (Friday), to disc=
uss the possibility of creating Global University System (GUS)/Malawi.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Mr. Czaran:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(3) Many thanks for your msg (<B><U>ATTACHMENT II</U></B>).<BR>
<BR>
It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you at the Digital Brid=
ge for Africa Meeting at the United Nations on 7/12/02.<BR>
<BR>
(4) Yes, we would be very delighted if you can kindly introduce our GUS act=
ivities to your colleagues at the Global Virtual University in Norway —=
; I visited its web with great interest.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">BTW, pls read through the outline o=
f our proposed Japan Project in my previous list distribution “<U>(08/=
18/02) Respect to Intellectual Property (Copyright) and Outline of Japan Pro=
ject”</U> which can be retrieved at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q3/000144.html<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I am attaching its copy to this msg=
for clarity sake — E-Colleagues, sorry about this duplication.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">We are now start contemplating to =
establish a global e-learning center of GUS for Asia and the Pacific in my h=
ome prefecture of Nagano, Japan.<BR>
<BR>
(5) This is to be counterpart to the headquarters of the GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN=
Networking Chair Program at the University of Tampere, Finland, which is ch=
aired by Tapio Varis.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Pls visit the following web for the=
UNITWIN Program;<BR>
http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=3D1324&URL_DO=3DDO_TOPIC&a=
mp;URL_SECTION=3D201<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
Tapio is now planning to have a workshop at his university on the organizat=
ion structures of the GUS in June of next year. Your colleagues may at=
tend it to discuss our collaboration.<BR>
<BR>
(6) The UNITWIN Program was created by Marco Antonio Dias almost two decade=
s ago. He is now a consultant to the United Nations University in Toky=
o and a VP for Administration of our GUS.<BR>
<BR>
(7) One of my mentors in Tokyo was Dr. Michio Nagai, Special Advisor to the=
UN University in Tokyo and a former President of Tokyo Institute of Technol=
ogy (my alma mater). While he was the Japanese Minister of Education, =
he brought the headquarters of the UN University to Tokyo.<BR>
<BR>
He once kindly introduce me to; <BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Mr. Edward W. Ploman<BR>
Vice Rector<BR>
Global Learning Division<BR>
The United Nations University<BR>
Toho Seimei Building, 29th Flr.<BR>
2-15-1, Shibuya<BR>
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150<BR>
JAPAN<BR>
+1-81-3-3499-2811<BR>
<BR>
I was very sorry to learn of his death by a cancer in Paris in several year=
s later.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
I received his favorable response when I visited him and presented our Glob=
ally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming Project — which brief sy=
nopsis can be found in the Section VII of our paper “Creating Global E=
-Learning and E-Healthcare through the Global University System” which=
can be retrieved at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Universit=
y%20System/Dubai%20Confeence_1-2003/E-learning%20with%20GU/E-learning_with_G=
U_D6.htm<BR>
<BR>
Our effort of establishing GUS with Global Broadband Internet is to achieve=
this project with global neural computer network (or the so-called Global G=
rid Computing nowadays) of mini-supercomputers scattered around the world, y=
et acting as if they are a single computer.<BR>
<BR>
Your colleagues in Norway may be interested in this project.<BR>
<BR>
(8) BTW, I will be presenting our project at Dr. Natalie Hahn’s offic=
e from 4:00 pm of 12/11th.<BR>
<BR>
If your office is in the same building as hers, you may join in the mtg. &n=
bsp;Pls ask her about this — you may recall her impressive, eloquent a=
nd inspiring speech at the UN mtg on 7/12/02.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>Dear Natalie:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
I hope you can accommodate him in our mtg.<BR>
<BR>
I will also report you about our trip to Cuba, mtg with Mark Davis (your fr=
iend) and my mtg with Dr. Lamba, your friend.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
Best, Tak<BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><FONT SIZE=3D"2"><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><HR ALIGN=3D=
CENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"></FONT></FONT></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>ATTACHMENT I
</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Message from Clement Dzidonu<BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wednesday, November 27, 2002 7:49 AM<BR>
<B>From: </B>Clement Dzidonu <dzidonu@ghana.com><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B>dzidonu@ghana.com<BR>
<B>To: </B><utsumi@columbia.edu><BR>
<BR>
Hello Takeshi:<BR>
<BR>
Remember me... I used to be at Trinity College in the 1990's..we<BR>
authored a paper together on the Africa-end of the Global University<BR>
System...<BR>
<BR>
I need to touch base with you... Can you still be reached by the<BR>
e-mail..?<BR>
<BR>
Meanswhile is there a site you can point me to as per the latest<BR>
technologies and concepts on virtual collaborative learning..etc..the<BR>
sort of things you have been promoting as part of the GU and CAADE...<BR>
<BR>
Thanks and and bye for now<BR>
<BR>
Clement<BR>
<HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"></FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>ATTACHMENT II
</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [gu-l] (11/07/02)11 Synopsis of GUS for Presentation at=
the UN on 12/11th/02/4 pm<BR>
<B>Date: </B>Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:29 PM<BR>
<B>From: </B>Lorant Czaran <czaran@un.org><BR>
<B>To: </B><utsumi@columbia.edu><BR>
<B>Cc: </B><hahnn@un.org><BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Hello,<BR>
I receive your messages probably as a result of participating in the<BR>
African Diaspora meeting at the UN.<BR>
I just wanted to point you to an initiative by UNEP and GRID Arendal in<BR>
Norway - my former work place - to set up a Global Virtual University (GVU)=
<BR>
around the same e-learning and broadband concepts you mention in the GUS<BR=
>
presentation I have seen.<BR>
The Norwegian Government just granted 2,000,000 USD for 3 years to develop<=
BR>
this concept, and the background is UNEP's involvement in the Global<BR>
Telecommunications for Environment (UNEPnet/Mercure) project years ago. We<=
BR>
in Arendal maintained a 17-country satellite network for environment data,<=
BR>
3 of the partners (Kenya, Niger and Mozambique) being from Africa.<BR>
Partners for this new project are UNEP, UNU and a number of universities.<B=
R>
Some more information is available under<BR>
http://www.grida.no/inf/gaunu/index.htm<BR>
and I would be happy to point you to the right persons should you wish to<B=
R>
establish some informal liaison. At least to make sure efforts are<BR>
complementary rather than duplicated.<BR>
Thanks, <BR>
Lorant.<BR>
</FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Monaco"><TT><HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%"></TT><=
/FONT>
<P ALIGN=3DCENTER>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>List of Distribution
</U></B></FONT>
<P>
<FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
Professor Clement Dzidonu<BR>
President & CEO<BR>
International Institute for<BR>
Information Technology (INIIT)<BR>
P.O Box AN-19782, Accra-North, Ghana<BR>
Tel 233-21-246200 Mobile: 233-24-280079<BR>
Fax 233-21-763062<BR>
dzidonu@ghana.com<BR>
<BR>
HE Dr. Isaac C. Lamba<BR>
Ambassador and Permanent Representative<BR>
Republic of Malawi<BR>
Permanent Mission of Malawi to the United Nations<BR>
600 Third Avenue<BR>
New York, N.Y. 10016<BR>
Tel (212) 949-0180<BR>
Cel: 914-473-4551<BR>
Fax: (212) 599-5021<BR>
Res: (914) 472-3932<BR>
iclamba@yahoo.com<BR>
iclamba2@aol.com<BR>
UNMalawi@aol.com<BR>
<BR>
Mr Lorant Czaran<BR>
United Nations, HQ<BR>
UN Geographic Information Working Group, Secretariat<BR>
Cartographic Section, Room L-172<BR>
New York, NY 10017<BR>
U.S.A.<BR>
tel.: +1 917 367 2467<BR>
fax: +1 212 963 3742<BR>
czaran@un.org<BR>
<BR>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor<BR>
Acting President, Global University System<BR>
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland<BR>
Unesco Chair in 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>
<BR>
Natalie D. Hahn<BR>
Senior Private Sector Adviser<BR>
United Nations Fund for International Partnership (UNFIP)<BR>
United Nations<BR>
1 UN Plaza, Room DC1-1330<BR>
New York, NY 10017, USA<BR>
(212) 963-3036<BR>
(917) 367-2094<BR>
Fax: (212) 963-1486<BR>
hahnn@un.org<BR>
<BR>
Mark Davis<BR>
Davis Farms<BR>
3134 West-Oak Hwy.<BR>
Westminster, SC 29693<BR>
Fax: 864-647-7366<BR>
Home: 864-647-9721<BR>
Cell: 864-723-4138<BR>
<U>Mrd1977@hotmail.com<BR>
</U>or<BR>
Mark Davis<BR>
Spanish Teacher<BR>
Model UN Director<BR>
West-Oak High School<BR>
130 Warrior Lane<BR>
Westminster, SC 29693<BR>
864-647-3065<BR>
<U>mrdavis@oconee.k12.sc.us<BR>
http://www.oconee.k12.sc.us/woh/<BR>
</U></FONT><FONT FACE=3D"Courier"><HR ALIGN=3DCENTER SIZE=3D"3" WIDTH=3D"95%">*****=
*****************************************************************<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>
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of &nbs=
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<<August 18, 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.
Don Nilson, Ph.D. <nilson@msua.ac.jp>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng. <Yamasaw@Gipwc.shinshu-U.ac.jp>
Naoyuki Tokuda, Ph.D & D.Sc <tokuda_n@sunflare.co.jp>
Steve McCarty <steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>
Mr. Sachio Iinuma <sachi888@arion.ocn.ne.jp>
Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga <cbraga@worldbank.org>
Horace A. Crowe <horacecrowe@csi.com>
Mr. G. Ernest (Ernie) Anderson <geand@educ.umass.edu>
Sarbuland Khan <khan2@un.org>
Mrs. Yoko Takagi <yoko@jearn.jp>
Dear Don:
I. YOUR PARA (A), (B), (C) AND (D): Copyright and Japanese culture
(1) Many thanks for your msg =8B especially asking me if the =B3Global
University=B2 has been copyrighted or not.
(2) My answer is YES by our GLOSAS/USA =8B I forgot when, but in early 1980s.
Pls visit the draft of my book "Electronic Global University System and
Services" at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html
Its Chapter 1 tells how this project of creating =B3Global University System
(GUS)=B2 was evolved from early 1970s, including my saga on the extension of
Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to Japan and the deregulation of the
Japanese telecom policies for the use of email in 1970s to early 1980s --
because of this effort, more than 550 million people around the world
(including you) can use email nowadays.
(3) I know several parties have been using the same, but they will face our
litigation in due course in the near future =8B one of our Polish colleagues
has already been suggesting me to do so several times.
(4) I noticed the one you mentioned, a Biblical School in Midwest, USA a fe=
w
years back =8B one of its creators was one of our list members a dozen years
ago =8B I was really puzzled with their moral and educational principles. Ho=
w
can they teach Bible=B9s principle which says =B3Blessed are the ones who
believe in intangible and invisible (God or Truth),=B2 while stealing
intangible intellectual property?
(5) Japanese are the same with traditional idolatry culture =8B they only
recently established a professional society on the protection of the
intellectual property.
Steve McCarty=B9s web aptly mentions that the use of Internet in Japan has
been stagnated due to the direct confrontation of the principle of Internet
against with the Japanese traditional culture.
Sachio Iinuma recently told me that Mr. Tanaka, a junior graduate of Fukash=
i
High School in Matsumoto in Nagano (my alma mater) and Sachio=B9s student, ha=
s
been struggling with Pork Barrel type political system of Nagano Prefecture
while he was its governor with his Christian family background. Internet
revealed all secret payments to house representatives. As you may know, he
was then kicked out by the house members and is now fighting for his
re-election on September 1st.
My experience with Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) was the same. I
raised about $1,000,000 in early 1970s (almost $10,000,000 nowadays) for my
project of global peace gaming. My boss then kicked me out. But, alas,
they could not proceed with the money, and had to return it. They could no=
t
figure out how deep things involved behind the invisible, intangible
intellectual matters. How stupid and shameful it was to them, as many of
Japanese now perceived the incidence!! -- see Section 2.2 of Chapter 1 of m=
y
book draft mentioned above. They did not realize that their act was
injustice because of the Japanese traditional culture with a vertical
hierarchical society by Confucianism (*) and Shintoism =8B like the vertical
pyramid type, hierarchy of elite Imperial University system =8B see my
acceptance speech of Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in Distance
Education in Chapter 3/Section 2 of my book draft.
>> (*) Sachio told me that, when he visited Beijing recently, he was surpri=
sed
>> to find no visitors at the shrine of Confucian in contrast to many peopl=
e at
>> the grave of Chairman Mao.
> I recently appalled and was aghast to learn that the World Bank picked su=
ch a
> dubious organization as MRI as their Japanese partner for their Global
> Development Learning Network Project =8B or I am sorry that there is no oth=
er
> organization in Japan which can suit to the project=B9s objectives =8B pickin=
g the
> right party is the key to the success of such a project.
>=20
>> My sister married to a great grandson of Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of
>> Mitsubishi cartel which may be more than the combination of Standard Oil=
of
>> John D. Rockefeller and Ford Motor Company of Henry Ford nowadays. Howe=
ver,
>> Mitsubishi does not have any world renowned philanthropic organizations =
as
>> Rockefeller Foundation nor Ford Foundation =8B to my view, due to the
>> difference of the Japanese traditional culture and Judeo-Christianity, a=
nd
>> sun is now setting over them (ATTACHMENT I) -- for example, main street =
front
>> of Tokyo station was used to be the center of Mitsubishi, but now those
>> buildings along the street are occupied by foreign firms =8B just opposite=
of
>> the time when Mitsubishi purchased the estate of Rockefeller Center in
>> Manhattan and then bankrupted and sold back to the Rockefeller Foundatio=
n
>> again. Another example; the president of Mitsubishi Motor is now an Ame=
rican
>> =8B after Nissan was headed by a French =8B both of them produced Zero fight=
ers
>> during the last war!!
>=20
> Dear Horace:
> Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II) about the Global Development Lea=
rning
> Network Project of the World Bank in Indonesia. Pls let me know if you w=
ant
> to revive GUS/Philippine project.
>=20
> Dear Ernie:
> Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT III) in response to my previous list
> distribution of =B3(06/15/02) UN ICT Task Force Meeting =AD Africa=B2 which can=
now
> be retrieved at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q2/000132.html
>=20
>> Many thanks also for your information about the UN=B9s activity with Ambas=
sador
>> Chaudhury, an Undersecretary General for Least Developed Countries. Aft=
er
>> the mtg at the UN, I visited Mr. Khan of ECOSOC, and received his strong
>> interest and support to our GUS project. I think that he is one of the
>> chiefs of the UN=B9s ICT Task Force.
>=20
> I visited the World Bank=B9s web at <http://www.world-links.org/english/> w=
ith
> great interest, and appreciated greatly how they are enjoying the use of =
email
> which is the basis of world-wide collaboration.
>=20
> You asked me what their World Link project is missing.
>=20
> Pls visit Section XVI: Proponent Capability Statement/B. Global Universit=
y
> System (GUS) which will be mentioned in Item III-(1) below =8B our goal is
> larger and long range, but their World Link project is the basis to be
> enhanced to meet with our goal in the future. For example, have you visi=
ted
> their page =B3Tips for those with Internet slow connections=B2 at
> <http://www.world-links.org/english/html/slow.html>? When I came to this
> page, I burst into a big laugh!! It is completely BLANK and they are
> certainly MISSING a very key component!! Our GUS project is to interconn=
ect
> members of our GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORKING Chair Program around the wor=
ld
> with Global Broadband Internet (GBI) -- see its diagram at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Global_Broadban=
d_Int
> ernet/Global_Broadband_Diagram.html
>=20
>> Our Indonesian colleague once told me that they are still using 28.8 Kbp=
s
>> dial-up modem to access Internet!!
>=20
> The World Bank projects, including InfoDev program, are good for pilot pr=
oject
> to open eyes for the value of using Internet for which we have done with =
many
> =B3Global Lecture Hall (GLH)=B2 videoconferencings spanning around the world =
in
> the past over one dozen years =8B see Chapter 2 of my book draft mentioned
> above. However, I completely agree with your observation of how importan=
t to
> have good =B3human understanding of how to use this new resource, not lack
> thereof.=B2 Our GUS is particularly interested in promoting this mutual
> understanding with the use of advanced ICT, among the people of various
> cultures for the world peace =8B we are especially lucky to have Tapio Vari=
s,
> world renowned specialist in this field, as the Acting President of our G=
US.
>=20
> Our GUS project with broadband Internet for multimedia web teaching aims =
the
> next stage developments than the World Bank=B9s. We will have a lot of thi=
ngs
> to do (*)!! Our Croatian colleague once said that our project is the
> Archimedes' lever -- see 3.12 Remarks of my book draft Chapter 1 mentione=
d
> above.
>=20
>> (*) See the agenda of our strategic mtg of GUS at the University of Tamp=
ere
>> in =B3(07/17/02) GUS Strategic Mtg in Tampere, Finland in June, 2003=B2 whic=
h can
>> now be retrieved at;
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q3/000138.html
>=20
II. YOUR PARA (B): Creation of your new university
(1) My heartfelt congratulation to your effort of establishing a university
in Akita Prefecture as an extension of Minnesota State Colleges and
Universities System (MnSCU).
> I once approached to House Representative, Mr. Susumu Nikaido (from Kagos=
hima
> Prefecture and who were educated at the UCLA or the University of Souther=
n
> California) on the same idea of extending branch campuses of American
> universities to Japan more than a dozen years ago =8B using Telenet at that
> time.
>=20
(2) As mentioned above, Japanese companies are now being managed by
westerners for their survival in global economy. Next, their educational
institutions will be needed to be the same to produce youngsters with
capabilities to serve for global village. Spreading Internet in Japan is
also bound to cause the social and spiritual revolution. Your presence in
Japan will be very valuable with this regard =8B as exemplified with your
inquiry on the intangible intellectual property. As mentioned above,
Japanese idolatry culture does not recognize the value of intangible
matters, your inquiry is teaching them the justice. Teaching the principle=
s
of western value is now urgent and vital necessity to Japanese in order for
them to become more creative in the knowledge society of the 21st century.
> (a) Pls visit my previous list distribution =B3Re: (05/18/02) E-universitie=
s
> (Part #2)=B2 at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q2/000125.html
>=20
>> In its Item (2), I described my experiences of encountering wisdom of
>> American teachers which changed the course of my life, and Japan.
>>=20
>> I quoted a word by an Englishman in this list distribution; =B3(Japan the)
>> Country sun never rises.=B2
>=20
> (b) Pls also visit my previous list distribution =B3(07/20/02) GUS/Nigeria
> project=B2 at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q3/000140.html
>=20
>> In its Item (4), I described how a word made by Prof. Clark from Amhurs=
t
>> College in Massachusetts inspired young Japanese students for their nati=
on
>> building in Meiji Era more than a century ago.
>=20
> I hope you will inspire young Japanese for rational analysis and critical
> thinking, justice, liberty and equality, i.e., American =B3intangible=B2 valu=
e, so
> that a tide will be turned to have sun rising again over Japan =8B I wrote =
an
> article =B3Japan at a turning point=B2 in 1986, in the hey day of the so-call=
ed
> Japanese bubble economy, and distributed it to many echelons of Japanese
> parliament and government, but in vain.
See the plan of our Japan project in Item V below.
III. YOUR PARA (G): Our GUS project
(1) Pls visit;
> =B3Full Proposal=B2
> at
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Tinker%20Foundat=
ion/A
> pplication%20Form/Tinker_Proposal_Web/Application_to_Tinker.html
> then.
> =B3International Workshop for The Community Development with E-Learning and
> E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil=B2
> and
> Section XVI: Proponent Capability Statement
> B. Global University System (GUS)
> Pls also visit its APPENDIX IX: =B3List of Participants.=B2
>=20
> Pls also visit 3.12 Remarks of my book draft Chapter 1 mentioned above.
(2) We are now creating GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN/NETWORKIING Chair Program with
its headquarters at the University of Tampere, Finland =8B see its agreement
signed by Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO and Tapio Varis
of the University of Tampere at;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Universit=
y
%20System/UNESCO_NGO/UNITWIN/UNITWIN_Agreement/UNITWIN_Agreement.html
(3) As mentioned in the above Item I-(4)-(*), we are now planning to hold a
strategic mtg of GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORKING Chair Program at the
University of Tampere in Finland next June in order to solidify our GUS
activities.
The member university of this chair program is then naturally entitled to
use =B3Global University System,=B2 if they wish =8B with proper affix to
distinguish from other members.
IV. YOUR PARA (G): Spreading Internet, i.e., Closing Digital Divide
(1) My zeal of spreading Internet is to destroy the University of Tokyo, as
suggested by Late US Ambassador Edwin O. Reishauer to Japan, in order to
save Japan (ATTACHMENT I).
> I was very surprised and amazed to hear of his very fluent Japanese when =
my
> mother and I visited him in his office at Harvard University =8B anyway, he=
was
> born in Japan and my mother was taught by his father at the Tokyo Women=B9s
> Christian University.
(2) This is not the matter of destroying the bricks and mortars of the
University of Tokyo. Traditional Japanese thinking is that any universitie=
s
or colleges other than the old =B3Imperial University=B2 system are =B3junk=B2 --
including your university and my alma mater, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
> BTW, the father of my brother-in-law was a professor of my alma mater.
> However, he could not get through its entrance exam. He then got into th=
e
> University of Tokyo next year, and became the dean of engineering, and
> recently had an honor to have given a lecture to Emperor (go-shin-ko in
> Japanese). He is now the president of the Japanese National Environment
> Institute in Tsukuba.
(3) In order to crack this thinking, Late Dr. Shigeru Nambara, then Rector
of the University of Tokyo, introduced American educational system to Japan
right after the last war, with Late Dr. James Conant, then President of
Harvard University.
> BTW, when I had a teaching job offer at the university, Dr. Nambara told =
me
> =B3Don=B9t come here! Too stifle!!=B2 This is another motivation of mine to c=
reate
> a better university than the University of Tokyo with our GUS.
(4) For this, I am taking the same strategy as of my previous effort of
deregulating Japanese telecom policies for the use of email as mentioned
above, i.e., I helped to extend Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to
various Asian countries first. When it came to Taiwan, KDD, the overseas
telecom authority of Japan, felt competition and got started working on
importing the telecom equipment of Telenet. This is in a sense, =B3Sotobori
wo umetekara, Uchibori wo umeru=B2 in Japanese =8B translating that, in order t=
o
crack down a fort, you need to fill up the outer moat first and then inner
moat.
> You may visit Section III =B3Global Peace Gaming=B2/E: =B3De-regulation of Japa=
nese
> Telecommunications Policies for the Use of E-mail=B2 in my paper =B3Quest for
> Global Peace=B2 to find out what exclaimed by Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, my
> long-distance relative, current Director-General of the International
> Telecommunications Union (ITU) and then the counterpart at the Japanese
> Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications when I pressured him with a help=
of
> Late Commerce Secretary Malcom Baldridge at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/GPA-Taipei_8-15-01/Quest_for_GP.ht=
ml#an
> chor2588182
(5) Subsequently, I have been working with various developing countries,
e.g., our Amazon project mentioned in Item III-(1) above. In order for the=
m
to have broadband Internet, we need to have huge money. I then helped the
Japanese government pledge US$15 billion to close the digital divide in
developing countries during the Okinawa Summit in July of 2000. Mr. Koizumi=
,
Prime Minister of Japan, made another pledge of US$2 billion to aid
education in developing countries during the G8 Summit in Canada on June
26-27, 2002.=20
> For the former pledge, I worked with Late Dr. Hiroshi Inose, then Directo=
r
> General of the National Center for Science Information System (NACSIS), t=
he
> highest authority of Internet in Japan, and Dr. Taro Nakayama, former Min=
ister
> of Foreign Affairs, and others.
>=20
> For the latter, I gave a newspaper clip of the comment made by Dr. Inose =
about
> our GUS project, to Ms. Atsuko Toyama, current Minister of Education and
> Science and my long-time acquaintance, a few years ago. The clip of the
> Nikkei (an equivalent to Wall Street Journal) (February 9, 1992) said;
>=20
>> I ask to those people who wish to build artificial intelligence machine;
>> =B3which of the machine or human brain is superior?=B2 Everybody answer =B3Of
>> course, human brain is superior.=B2 I then say to them =B3If so, rather tha=
n
>> spending huge money to develop such machine, wouldn=B9t it be wise and
>> beneficial to world society to spend such money for education of excelle=
nt,
>> capable youngsters in developing countries?=B2
>>=20
>>> Around that time, my project with Globally Collaborative Environmental =
Peace
>>> Gaming lost to the so-called 5th Generation Computer Project which spen=
t
>>> about $500 million (10 years) of Japanese taxpayers=B9 money and did not
>>> produce any tangible results and hence became an internationally laugha=
ble
>>> project. After losing it, I said to myself, =B3Oh well, I=B9m going to do =
it by
>>> myself even without money,=B2 and the rest became a history.
>>=20
> I later suggested those Japanese echelons to direct Japanese ODA fund for
> e-learning and e-healthcare to improve the image of Japan, whenever I vis=
ited
> Japan in the past several years =8B I said to them that many of Japanese OD=
A
> projects were ill-reputed, expect only one, i.e., the human genome projec=
t for
> which the Japanese government gave the first $1 billion, British the seco=
nd
> and the US the third and others to become the total $5 billion project wi=
th
> tremendous success. I then said to them to follow the suit, and asked $5
> billion (10 years) (as ten times of $500 million I lost) which was multip=
lied
> by them later to become $15 billion (3 years).
(6) The Amazon projects will then combine (1) the Japanese government's
Official Development Assistance (ODA) funds and (2) electronic equipment
(computer, tranceiver, dish antenna, etc.) of Japan with (a) the Internet
technology and (b) content development of the north America to help
underserved people in rural and remote areas of developing countries =8B see
APPENDIX VIII of the URL mentioned in the above Item III-(1).
V. Outline of our proposed Japan Project:
(1) We are now start contemplating to establish a global e-learning and
e-healthcare center for Asia and the Pacific which is to be located in
Nagano Prefecture (my home) -- hopefully with the cooperation of Shinshu
University (my alma mater in its old system). Should you wish to join in
this effort, pls let me know.
> BTW, you may start joining in this movement/project as participating in o=
ur
> videoconferencing from Manaus, Amazon in the evening of 3/18th (Brazil ti=
me)
> -- see the workshop program in Section VII/E of the full proposal to Tink=
er
> Foundation which can be retrieved at the same URL mentioned in Item III-(=
1)
> above.
>=20
> Its main purpose is to connect a Japanese school in Manaus with their
> counterparts in Japan =8B see =B3Application for Grass Root Fund for the Mana=
us
> Community Development Network=B2 at;
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Grass_Root_Fund/=
Appli
> cation_Form/Appl_for_GRF_7-18-02.html
>=20
> Dear Prof. Yamasawa:
>=20
> If you want to join in this event, pls let me know, also.
>=20
> Dear Don and Prof. Yamasawa:
> Japanese contact person for this event is Yoko Tagaki. Pls feel free to
> contact her for instructions.
(2) Missions:
> (a) To be the hub of broadband Internet for e-learning and e-healthcare, =
as
> connecting to remote/rural areas of Asia and the Pacific via digital sate=
llite
> linkages,
>=20
>> This center could be a relay point between the US and those areas to bui=
ld
>> private virtual network for non-profit organizations.
>>=20
>> The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is now starting to pro=
vide
>> J-Net at 1.5 Mbps to various Asian countries (e.g., the University of th=
e
>> Philippines, etc.) free of charge, from KDD=B9s satellite stations in Ibar=
agi
>> and Okinawa. We may consolidate with them to provide broader bandwidth.
>=20
> (b) To be the test bed of advanced ICT for deployment in those areas,
>=20
>> Those are hardware and software made not only by Japanese but also by
>> Americans and elsewhere.
>=20
> (c) To be the collaborative research and development center of multimedia=
web
> teaching platforms, curriculum design for intercultural issues, e-health =
and
> peace studies, etc., for those areas,
>=20
> (d) To train trainers and teachers from those areas by expert instructors=
from
> the US and Canada, etc., who are familiar with e-learning and e-healthcar=
e,
>=20
>> These training will be made in English.
>>=20
>> Japanese university professors and K-12 school teachers will join them a=
s
>> observers and assistants to learn the teaching principles and wisdoms of
>> American and Canadian instructors =8B some of which were mentioned in Item
>> II-(2) above.
>>=20
>> JICA now has a training center in Komagane City (the next town from my h=
ome
>> town), but it is for training of Japanese by Japanese instructors. This
>> center may be enhanced with the proposed scheme and with the broadband
>> Internet connection.
>>=20
>> This direction of teaching lessons in English will match with the new pr=
ogram
>> of the Ministry of Education and Science, since those joining Japanese c=
an
>> have the on-the-job training of English-as-Second-Language lessons.
>>=20
>> Bringing trainers and teachers from those areas may also meet with the p=
ledge
>> made by then Prime Minister, Mr. Nakasone, who proposed to have 100,000
>> foreign students to Japan =8B which is now about 60,000, compared with 600=
,000
>> in the US.
>>=20
>>> BTW, Mr. Nakasone was a good friend of my second cousin when they were =
at
>>> Shizuoka High School (old system) and at the political science dept of =
the
>>> University of Tokyo under Dr. Nambara.
>=20
> (e) To promote GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORKING Chair Program,
>=20
>> See Item III-(2) above.
>=20
> (f) To build a model of smart community with nearby organizations,
>=20
>> See APPENDIX VIII-5 of the web for our Amazon project mentioned in Item
>> III-(1) above.
>=20
> (g) To be a service center to spread Systems Dynamics approach,
>=20
>> See my previous list distribution =B3(03/27/02) System Dynamics simulation=
and
>> its K-12 education=B2 at;
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/000108.html
>=20
>> "System Dynamics and K-12 Teachers" by Prof. Jay Forrester at;
>> http://sysdyn.mit.edu/people/jay-forrester.html
>=20
> (h) To be the Japanese center of the global Beowulf mini-supercomputer ne=
twork
> with Access Grid project,
>=20
>> See APPENDIX VIII-8 at;
>> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Tinker%20Founda=
tion/
>> Application%20Form/Tinker_Proposal_Web/Appendices/Appendix-VIII_Joint_Pr=
ogram
>> s/APPENDIX%20VIII-8_Access-Grid/Access%20Grid%20Project.htm
>=20
> (i) To be the Japanese center of the Globally Collaborating Environmental
> Peace Gaming.
>=20
>> See Chapter 5 of my book draft mentioned above.
(3) Financing:
To be made out of those pledged funds mentioned in Item IV-(5) above in the
magnitude equivalent (or more) to the 5th Generation Computer Project
mentioned in the Item IV-(5) above, also.
Dear Prof. Yamasawa and Dr. Tokuda:
(4) As discussed over the phones, I would like to have your cooperation to
compose our brief proposal of this project =8B firstly in English which is to
be translated into Japanese (say, up to 5 pages).
Tapio is invited to a conference of UNESCO/Chair program in Paris in
November, and he is now preparing his paper on our GUS for intercultural
education =8B probably within 10 pages and to be completed by the end of
September. I would suggest that we should receive it from Tapio and
condense further and translated into Japanese.
> Dear Dr. Tokuda:
>=20
> Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT IV). Pls see last few para of ATTAC=
HMENT
> I, -- as you say, Japan really and urgently needs to open her country in =
many
> aspects. Pls feel free to solicit the interest of your former employer,
> Utsunomiya University.
>=20
As said also, I would like to discuss with you on its first draft in the
coming December when I will be in Japan.
(5) Its final version is to be submitted in next April to;
> Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister,
> Ms. Atsuko Toyama, Minister of Education and Science,
> Dr. Taro Nakayama, former Minister of Foreign Affairs,
> Mr. Sohei Miyashita, former Minister of Health and Welfare, etc.
>=20
(6) My time may be allocated for this project as follows;
> 6 month residence at the center,
> 3 month for on-the-road, including stay at the headquarters of GUS in Tam=
pere,
> Finland,
> 3 month in New York.
Pls feel free to send me your comments and suggestions..
VI. YOUR PARA (B): Akita Prefecture
(1) Father of my another second cousin was =B3Kyouiku Iincho =3D Commissioner o=
f
Education=B2 of Akita almost a half century ago. My second cousin graduated
from the political science dept of the University of Tokyo, came to Los
Angeles with the UN=B9s scholarship right after the last war. Dr. Nambara
(mentioned above) gave him $80 left over duirng his trip when he was
departing back to Japan by President Wilson passenger boat. With it, he
took a bus ride to New York and received a master degree in political
science from Columbia University. He has now his school in Boston to teach
estern culture and macro-biotics, as spreading vegiterian food around the
world.
VII. YOUR PARA (F): GLH/Hungary/1996
(1) Pls visit Chapter 2: =B3Global Lecture Hall (GLH)=B2/Section 1.11: =B3GLH in
August, 1996,=B2 which was held with Central European University in Budapest,
Hungary.
VIII. YOUR PARA (H): Columbia seminar
(1) I belong to the monthly seminar of =B3Computer, Man and Society=B2 of the
faculty club of the Columbia University with many privileges as their
faculty members. I think that I am out of their retirement age. Pls visit
the following for my brief bio;
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/GLOSAS_USA_Directors/Addresses/GLOSA=
S
_Directors.html
IX. YOUR PARA (I): Your phone msg
(1) I am very sorry to have missed an opportunity to meet with you in
Manhattan.
(2) Sorry also to say that your phone msg did not appear in my answering
machine =8B maybe its fault.
X. YOUR PARA (J): Admitting into our list
(1) I took the liberty of admitting you into our list (now more than 1,600
members, including Dr. Paul Baran, the inventor of packet-switching
technology, the basis of Internet) so that you will be kept updated with ou=
r
daily progress.
I wish you a very good luck for your endeavor of establishing a new
university in Akita. Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
On 8/15/02 12:06 AM, "Don Nilson" <nilson@msua.ac.jp> wrote:
<<Note: Paragraph numbers are added by T. Utsumi>>
> Dear Dr. Utsumi :
>=20
(A)
> I send you my personal greetings from Akita, Japan. I regret to do
> so without the benefit of a formal introduction. I hope that you
> will forgive my directness in simply writing and phoning to you.
>=20
(B)
> I am the CEO of a small university campus in Northern Japan which is
> a branch of the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities (MnSCU)
> system in the U.S. We are in the process of working with Akita
> Prefecture in the development of a four-year university in Akita,
> Japan linked to the MnSCU universities and other universities in
> China, Korea and other countries. This university will be founded
> and funded by Akita Prefecture. The Governor of Akita Prefecture has
> expressed his general support for the idea of the Founding Committee
> (of which I am a member) to name the new university :
> "The Global University in Akita (GUA) " .
>=20
(C)
> In an effort to determine whether the title "Global University" and a
> coresponding web site designator, as well as various variations on
> this name, have been already taken under copyright and web
> proprietory holdings, I have done several searches on the world wide
> web. I find that in the note below you are indicated as Pres. of
> "Global University in the USA" .
>=20
> **********************************************************************
> * Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D. *
> * Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
> * President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA) *
> * A Divisional Activity of GLOSAS/USA *
> * (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
> * 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
> * Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
> * INTERNET: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
> **********************************************************************
>=20
(D)
> I am wondering whether you hold the copyright to this name and what
> affiliations you may have in the U.S.A. various other countries? I
> guess that it would not be proper/legal for Akita Prefectural
> Government to make use of the name "The Global University in Akita"
> if you hold rights to the name "Global University"...for there is
> danger of causing confusion. (Byn the way have you noted that there
> appears to be a Bible School in the Midwest U.S.A using the name
> "Global University" ?
>=20
(F)
> I noted in one website that GLOSAS had planned a conference in
> Hungary. Did that conference take place and do have an affiliation in
> Hungary? At what universities?
>=20
(G)
> Do I understand correctly that your main effort has been in the
> development of global educational networks focussed on
> electronically-delivered distance education? Do you have a listing
> of all affiliated universities in various countries within your
> network?
>=20
(H)
> I note that your e-mail address is at Columbia.edu Are you also on
> the faculty at Columbia University ? What is your major subject area ?
>=20
(I)
> Finally, if you found my voice mail message on your answering machine
> last week, I am the same person who called you and left the message
> at the 718 phone number you listed in the ID reprinted above. I was
> visiting in New York City last week and thought that I would try to
> reach you in person to speak with you about your educational
> projects. Hence my message. The answering machine was a little hard
> to hear and so I am not sure whether my message came through OK to
> you.
>=20
(J)
> In any case, you now have this initial more clear written inquiry
> from me. So I look forward to hearing from you, if you would be so
> kind as to reply to my initial questions listed above.
>=20
>=20
> Yoroshiku. And with best regards,
>=20
> Don Nilson
ATTACHMENT I=20
Excerpt from
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/weekinreview/11FREN.html?pagewanted=3Dprint=
&
position=3Dtop
=20
August 11, 2002
Setting Sun? Japan Anxiously Looks Ahead
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
TOKYO
YEAR in and year out since Japan's financial bubble burst in 1990, American
presidents have needled and cajoled the country's leaders to fix their
economy and restore Japan to its rightful place in the world.
Gradually, though, as this country has continued its drift, a more skeptica=
l
view has begun to gain ground: Japan is returning to its rightful place in
the world, that of a middling country of vastly diminished and still
declining importance in world affairs.
>From the ashes of World War II, Japan enjoyed one of the fastest economic
rises ever seen. Its successes made it widely envied by developing nations
everywhere, as an example of how much a democratic, capitalistic country
could achieve in a short period of time. Now, if its decline continues, it
could have profound implications for American diplomatic and military polic=
y
in Asia.
Twelve years after its stock market collapsed, along with its dreams of
superpower status, Japan is still frozen in denial about a dysfunctional
political system built on institutionalized cronyism. By contrast, the
United States is already seeing strong stirrings of reform just weeks into =
a
crisis over business ethics.
Not everyone is ready to turn out the lights on Japan. The Hudson Institute=
,
for example, has just published a book titled "The Re-Emergence of Japan as
a Super State." In a recent opinion column in The Wall Street Journal, the
institute's president, Herbert London, cited Japan's "100 percent literacy
rate, stable leadership, products valued in world markets, mastery of
Western management techniques and a belief in purposeful communal action,"
and concluded "it is not hard to be confident in Japan's future."
But recent signals from Washington suggest much greater skepticism, as
diplomats say the Bush administration has increasing doubts that Japan will
ever again become a global mover and shaker.
It is not just that Japan is not what it used to be. Some analysts say even
its decline matters far less than it might once have, because it failed,
when times were still good, to convert some of the immense wealth it had
accumulated into more lasting power and influence.
"Looked at objectively, Japan is a rather insignificant power in terms of
its contributions to the rest of the world," said Ronald A. Morse, a
professor of Japanese studies at the University of California at Los Angele=
s
who is also an executive with a telecommunications firm here. "If the
country keeps receding, or even disappeared, there is hardly anything that
would have a major negative impact abroad. The reason this sounds shocking
is because everybody still remembers the Godzilla image of a Japan not so
long ago that was going to swallow up America."
For other observers, however, Japan's long slide has huge implications for
the future of Asia and beyond. Japan is a model for few in Asia these days,
and with the country's diplomacy in disarray, those who take their cues fro=
m
Tokyo are a fast dwindling number, leaving a vacuum that may be filled by
less closely allied friends of the United States, or by outright rivals.
Indeed, from Central Asia to the Korean peninsula, many analysts believe th=
e
coming decades are shaping up to be a competition for diplomatic and
economic sway between Russia and China. And if Moscow and Washington draw
closer, that would only accelerate Japan's declining influence in Asia, and
make Japan less able to serve as a counterweight to China.
IF the Japanese really lost hope, they might start thinking more about
acquiescing in Chinese power," said Robyn Lim, an expert in international
relations at Nanzan University in Nagoya, "so Japan's return to some
semblance of economic health is a vital interest of the U.S. for both
security and economic reasons.
"How to influence Japanese policy is the big problem, since the leadership
is now completely paralyzed."
Japan's stalemate is especially striking when compared to the energetic
diplomacy of Russia, another diminished Asian power, and one with virtually
no economic hand to play. Still, by virtue of its nuclear prowess and
proximity to central Asia, the Caucasus and eastern Europe, Russia has gone
in the blink of an eye from nuclear enemy of the United States to strategic
partner, even contemplating cooperation on missile shield development. Over
that same stretch, Japan, which was disarmed by the United States in 1945
and remains pacifist, has never overcome its ambivalence about American
missile shields, despite its longstanding alliance with Washington.
The rise of China presents Japan with its greatest challenge since the
Second World War, but has left Tokyo seeming both intimidated and confused,
shifting nervously between appeasement with generous development assistance=
,
and provocations. These include visits by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
to a controversial shrine, Japan's imperial army veterans and trade spats.
Japan's discomfort reflects what experts say are the painful choices that
loom as its population shrinks and ages dramatically.
Some Japanese may be tempted to rearm and go it alone behind a leader like
Tokyo's popular governor Shintaro Ishihara. Mr. Ishihara is a sort of East
Asian Jean-Marie Le Pen, who demonizes ethnic minorities and taunts China a=
s
well as the West, as in his famous 1989 book, "The Japan That Can Say No."
But with low economic growth its best-case outcome, realism will oblige
Japan to cling ever more tightly to the United States for its security.
Japan's recent failure of dynamism is of a piece with a pattern seen at
least since 1868, when the Meiji Restoration threw off feudalism and two
centuries of isolationism to meet the challenge from the West. The country
has veered between catastrophes, marshaling its energies fantastically well
toward recovery, as after World War II, and then blindly holding on until
the next crash.
What's changed is that the world moves far faster now, and squandered
moments, even Japan's lost decade, may be irretrievable. The country's
moment of truth may have been in the Persian Gulf war in 1991, when, as
Yoichi Funabashi, the international affairs commentator of the Asahi Shimbu=
n
newspaper, wrote, "Japan found itself merely an automatic teller machine,
one that needed a kick before dispensing the cash."
AS inadequate as mere checkbook diplomacy is, the Japan that is being
written off today is increasingly unable even to play that game the way it
once did because of its huge debt and pension woes. But even when Japan had
wealth to spare, it was unable to overcome the deep historic wounds left
over from its imperial conquests of the 1930's, or to systematically
strengthen its political and economic ties with Asian neighbors.
"If you look beyond the United States, the countries that have been able to
play a significant role in the world of ideas are all rather second-rate
European countries: the British, the French, even the Swedish," said Sheldo=
n
M. Garon, a historian of Japan at Princeton University. "Japan has
contributed very little to the discussion. They don't really have the visio=
n
to become world citizens, and have done a really horrible job of promoting
alternatives to American dominance."
Perhaps the most essential element in Japan's relative decline is its
insularity. Although familiar, this feature of the country reflects a great
irony. With its mastery of the production and marketing of consumer
electronics, Japan was an early mover in globalization. And yet here again
it has failed to adjust, placing alongside isolated North Korea in
international rankings of English-speaking ability. Meanwhile, even Japan's
coming population crunch has failed to open the country to immigrants.
As the country's bureaucrats cook up one costly high tech plan after anothe=
r
in hopes of putting Japan back into the driver's seat, few here seem to hav=
e
realized that money alone doesn't build Silicon Valleys. No, that is a task
for open societies that draw on the world's best brains.
"I see only two things Japan can do, and they are inseparable: opening up
the country and its institutions," said Jean-Pierre Lehmann, a longtime
Japan specialist at I.M.D., a graduate management school in Lausanne,
Switzerland. "But I don't see this happening, because Japan just doesn't
want foreigners. Meanwhile, you can't rebel in Japan, so the most talented
young people are leaving the country or are simply resigned."
Copyright 2002 The New York Times Company
ATTACHMENT II=20
Subject: [Fwd: World Bank - Documents & Reports - Indonesia - Global
Development Learning Netw]
Date: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:17 AM
From: Horace Crowe <horacecrowe@csi.com>
To: <gu-l-admin@friends-partners.org>
Hello Tak,
I hope this message finds you well and business good. Even though you
and I haven't been in touch directly for quite some time I have been
following your progress with the various partners on a regular basis
through your emails. Thank you for continuing to include me as part of
the network.
I am forwarding some information about a World Bank distance learning
project in Indonesia. I don't know if you are familiar or not with this
project and/or if you would be interested in pursuing it. I will also
be forwarding another short description which includes the latest date
for the update to the project.
Hope to hear from you soon, and see you in Manila sometime.
Best regards, Horace.
ATTACHMENT III=20
Subject: Re: [gu-mmoa] (06/15/02) UN ICT Task Force Meeting - Africa
Date: Sunday, July 7, 2002 10:18 PM
From: G. Ernest Anderson <GEAND@EDUC.UMass.EDU>
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dr. Takeshi Utsumi: It is rare that I can do anything more than look on
with
interest at the work you are doing. However, in this case, I can raise wha=
t
might turn out to be ridiculously simple questions, but which might also
Provide an active user's perspective.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- -
Your posting of June 15 raises a couple of questions. I am online to
Mt. Selinda, Zimbabwe, quite often - a Church-sponsored hospital, orphanage=
,
school, and Church. WorldLinks for Development has underwritten a sizeable
computer/internet installation there, as they have in many other places
Throughout Africa. For details, see: www.world-links.org
Question ONE for you, at least in Zimbabwe, is WHAT lack of
Internet/Communication infrastructure? While I am sure that a lot more
could be done, the=20
barriers I see are human understanding of how to use this new resource, not
lack thereof.
Question TWO for you is that I understand the UN has an Undersecretary
General
for Least Developed Countries, Ambassador Chaudhury, who has a somewhat
Similar initiative, one the World Bank / WorldLinks for Development is
working with.
Are these apparently separate efforts working together? Or did I miss
something
in your communication on the subject?
Ernie GEAND@EDUC.UMass.EDU
ATTACHMENT IV=20
Subject: Global E-Learning
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:31 AM
From: Naoyuki TOKUDA <tokuda_n@sunflare.co.jp>
Reply-To: "Naoyuki TOKUDA" <tokuda@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: Takeshi Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Naoyuki TOKUDA <tokuda_n@sunflare.co.jp>
Professor Utsumi
=20
Thank you calling me from New York.
Professor Yamasawa has not called me as yet.
Do you happen to know what has been the situation
at Shinshu University since then.
I am of opinion that Japanese universities should be
more open to the world in the field of education and
the project seems most promising depending on the
state of global cooperation around the world.
List of Distribution
Don Nilson, Ph.D.
Provost & Professor of Humanities
Minnesota State University - Akita
193-2 Okutsubakidai, Yuwa-machi
Akita 010-1211 JAPAN
+81-18-886-5000
Fax: ( 018 ) 886-5011
nilson@msua.ac.jp
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
Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng.
Professor
Dept. Of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Shinshu University
4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano 380-8553
Japan
Tel: +81-26-269 51 96
Fax: +81-26-223 77 54
Isdn:+81-26-223-0228
Yamasaw@Gipwc.shinshu-U.ac.jp
Http://Yslab.shinshu-U.ac.jp
Naoyuki Tokuda, Ph.D & D.Sc
Director
Research & Development Center
SunFlare Academy
Sunflare Co., Ltd.
Shinjuku Hirose Bldg. 5F,
4-7 Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku
Tokyo 160-0004
Phone: 03-3355-1383 (Direct)
Fax: 03-3355-1204
tokuda_n@sunflare.co.jp
http://alfin.mine.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp/tokuda/
Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College
President, World Association for Online Education (WAOE):
Residence: 3717-33 Nii, Kokubunji, Kagawa 769-0101 JAPAN
Tel: +81-877-49-8041 (office, direct); Fax: +81-877-49-5252
E-mail: steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp, mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp
Website Map: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/
In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/
http://www.waoe.org/president/index.html
http://www.waoe.org/steve/index.html
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/projects-j.html -- about
GUS
Mr. Sachio Iinuma
224, Hora
Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken 390-0317
JAPAN
Office Phone:
81-263-32-0005
Home Phone:
81-263-46-1291
sachi888@arion.ocn.ne.jp
Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga
Manager
Global Development Learning Network Project
The World Bank
1850 Eye Street
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
202-473-3927
Fax: (202) 522 3186
cbraga@worldbank.org
Horace A. Crowe
Unit 206, Residencia 8888, Pearl Drive
Ortigas Center, Pasig City
Metro Manila
PHILIPPINES
632.633.7555
632.634.5560 (fax)
horacecrowe@csi.com
hcrowe@mozcom.com
www.aae.com
Mr. G. Ernest (Ernie) Anderson
Professor of Education
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-3010
413-545-1534
413-545-2155
geand@educ.umass.edu
Sarbuland Khan
Director, Division for ECOSOC Support and Coordination
United Nations
1 UN Plaza, Room DC 1-1428
New York, NY 10017, USA
(212) 963-4628
Fax: (212) 963-1712
khan2@un.org
Mrs. Yoko Takagi
Japan Representative
Teleclass International Japan
I*EARN JAPAN
1-11-25 Tsukawaki
Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1036
JAPAN
+81-726-88-3415
Fax: +81-726-80-2115
yoko@jearn.jp
http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/Teleclas
http://www.jearn.jp
**********************************************************************
* 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 *
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of *
* =A0=A0Global University System (GUS) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi@columbia.edu *
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/ *
* Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
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Date," <BR>
For example. The most recent archives are the bottom line. <BR>
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Don Nilson, Ph.D. <nilson@msua.ac.jp><BR>
<BR>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi><BR>
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Yamasawa, Kiyohito, Dr.Eng. <Yamasaw@Gipwc.shinshu-U.ac.jp><BR>
<BR>
Naoyuki Tokuda, Ph.D & D.Sc <tokuda_n@sunflare.co.jp><BR>
<BR>
Steve McCarty <<U>steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp><BR>
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Mr. Sachio Iinuma <sachi888@arion.ocn.ne.jp><BR>
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Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga <cbraga@worldbank.org><BR>
<BR>
Horace A. Crowe <horacecrowe@csi.com><BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#0000FF"><BR>
</FONT>Mr. G. Ernest (Ernie) Anderson <geand@educ.umass.edu><BR>
<BR>
Sarbuland Khan <khan2@un.org><BR>
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Mrs. Yoko Takagi <yoko@jearn.jp><BR>
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<BR>
<B><U>Dear Don:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
<B><U>I. YOUR PARA (A), (B), (C) AND (D): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Copyright a=
nd Japanese culture<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) Many thanks for your msg — especially asking me if the “Glo=
bal University” has been copyrighted or not.<BR>
<BR>
(2) My answer is YES by our GLOSAS/USA — I forgot when, but in early =
1980s. Pls visit the draft of my book "Electronic Global Universi=
ty System and Services" at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html<BR=
>
<BR>
Its Chapter 1 tells how this project of creating “Global University S=
ystem (GUS)” was evolved from early 1970s, including my saga on the ex=
tension of Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to Japan and the deregulation=
of the Japanese telecom policies for the use of email in 1970s to early 198=
0s -- because of this effort, more than 550 million people around the =
world (including you) can use email nowadays.<BR>
<BR>
(3) I know several parties have been using the same, but they will face our=
litigation in due course in the near future — one of our Polish colle=
agues has already been suggesting me to do so several times.<BR>
<BR>
(4) I noticed the one you mentioned, a Biblical School in Midwest, USA a fe=
w years back — one of its creators was one of our list members a dozen=
years ago — I was really puzzled with their moral and educational pri=
nciples. How can they teach Bible’s principle which says “=
Blessed are the ones who believe in intangible and invisible (God or Truth),=
” while stealing intangible intellectual property?<BR>
<BR>
(5) Japanese are the same with traditional idolatry culture — they on=
ly recently established a professional society on the protection of the inte=
llectual property.<BR>
<BR>
Steve McCarty’s web aptly mentions that the use of Internet in Japan =
has been stagnated due to the direct confrontation of the principle of Inter=
net against with the Japanese traditional culture.<BR>
<BR>
Sachio Iinuma recently told me that Mr. Tanaka, a junior graduate of Fukash=
i High School in Matsumoto in Nagano (my alma mater) and Sachio’s stud=
ent, has been struggling with Pork Barrel type political system of Nagano Pr=
efecture while he was its governor with his Christian family background. &nb=
sp;Internet revealed all secret payments to house representatives. As =
you may know, he was then kicked out by the house members and is now fightin=
g for his re-election on September 1st.<BR>
<BR>
My experience with Mitsubishi Research Institute (MRI) was the same. =
I raised about $1,000,000 in early 1970s (almost $10,000,000 nowadays) for m=
y project of global peace gaming. My boss then kicked me out. Bu=
t, alas, they could not proceed with the money, and had to return it. =
They could not figure out how deep things involved behind the invisibl=
e, intangible intellectual matters. How stupid and shameful it was to =
them, as many of Japanese now perceived the incidence!! -- see Section 2.2 o=
f Chapter 1 of my book draft mentioned above. They did not realize tha=
t their act was injustice because of the Japanese traditional culture with a=
vertical hierarchical society by Confucianism (*) and Shintoism — lik=
e the vertical pyramid type, hierarchy of elite Imperial University system &=
#8212; see my acceptance speech of Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in Di=
stance Education in Chapter 3/Section 2 of my book draft. <BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">(*) Sachio told me that=
, when he visited Beijing recently, he was surprised to find no visitors at =
the shrine of Confucian in contrast to many people at the grave of Chairman =
Mao.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I recently appalled and was aghast =
to learn that the World Bank picked such a dubious organization as MRI=
as their Japanese partner for their Global Development Learning Network Pro=
ject — or I am sorry that there is no other organization in Japan whic=
h can suit to the project’s objectives — picking the right party=
is the key to the success of such a project.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">My sister married to a great grands=
on of Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi cartel which may be more tha=
n the combination of Standard Oil of John D. Rockefeller and Ford Motor Comp=
any of Henry Ford nowadays. However, Mitsubishi does not have any worl=
d renowned philanthropic organizations as Rockefeller Foundation nor Ford Fo=
undation — to my view, due to the difference of the Japanese tradition=
al culture and Judeo-Christianity, and sun is now setting over them (<B><U>A=
TTACHMENT I</U></B>) -- for example, main street front of Tokyo station was =
used to be the center of Mitsubishi, but now those buildings along the stree=
t are occupied by foreign firms — just opposite of the time when Mitsu=
bishi purchased the estate of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan and then bankr=
upted and sold back to the Rockefeller Foundation again. Another examp=
le; the president of Mitsubishi Motor is now an American — after Nissa=
n was headed by a French — both of them produced Zero fighters during =
the last war!!<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
<B><U>Dear Horace:<BR>
</U></B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Many thanks for your msg (<B><U>ATT=
ACHMENT II</U></B>) about the Global Development Learning Network Project of=
the World Bank in Indonesia. Pls let me know if you want to revive GU=
S/Philippine project.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Ernie:<BR>
</U></B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Many thanks for your msg (<B><U>ATT=
ACHMENT III</U></B>) in response to my previous list distribution of “=
(06/15/02) UN ICT Task Force Meeting – Africa” which can now be =
retrieved at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q2/000132.html<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Many thanks also for your informati=
on about the UN’s activity with Ambassador Chaudhury, an Undersecretar=
y General for Least Developed Countries. After the mtg at the UN, I vi=
sited Mr. Khan of ECOSOC, and received his strong interest and support to ou=
r GUS project. I think that he is one of the chiefs of the UN’s =
ICT Task Force.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
I visited the World Bank’s web at <http://www.world-links.org/engl=
ish/> with great interest, and appreciated greatly how they are enjoying =
the use of email which is the basis of world-wide collaboration.<BR>
<BR>
You asked me what their World Link project is missing.<BR>
<BR>
Pls visit Section XVI: Proponent Capability Statement/B. Global University =
System (GUS) which will be mentioned in Item III-(1) below — our goal =
is larger and long range, but their World Link project is the basis to be en=
hanced to meet with our goal in the future. For example, have you visi=
ted their page “Tips for those with Internet slow connections” a=
t <http://www.world-links.org/english/html/slow.html>? When I ca=
me to this page, I burst into a big laugh!! It is completely BLANK and=
they are certainly MISSING a very key component!! Our GUS project is =
to interconnect members of our GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORKING Chair Program a=
round the world with Global Broadband Internet (GBI) -- see its diagram at;<=
BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Global_Broadband_=
Internet/Global_Broadband_Diagram.html<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Our Indonesian colleague once told =
me that they are still using 28.8 Kbps dial-up modem to access Internet!!<BR=
>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
The World Bank projects, including InfoDev program, are good for pilot proj=
ect to open eyes for the value of using Internet for which we have done with=
many “Global Lecture Hall (GLH)” videoconferencings spanning ar=
ound the world in the past over one dozen years — see Chapter 2 of my =
book draft mentioned above. However, I completely agree with your obse=
rvation of how important to have good “human understanding of how to u=
se this new resource, not lack thereof.” Our GUS is particularly=
interested in promoting this mutual understanding with the use of advanced =
ICT, among the people of various cultures for the world peace — we are=
especially lucky to have Tapio Varis, world renowned specialist in this fie=
ld, as the Acting President of our GUS.<BR>
<BR>
Our GUS project with broadband Internet for multimedia web teaching aims th=
e next stage developments than the World Bank’s. We will have a =
lot of things to do (*)!! Our Croatian colleague once said that our pr=
oject is the Archimedes' lever -- see 3.12 Remarks of my book draft Ch=
apter 1 mentioned above.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">(*) See the agenda of our strategic=
mtg of GUS at the University of Tampere in “(07/17/02) GUS Stra=
tegic Mtg in Tampere, Finland in June, 2003” which can now be retrieve=
d at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q3/000138.html<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>II. YOUR PARA (B): <FONT COL=
OR=3D"#FF0000">Creation of your new university<BR>
</FONT><BR>
</U></B>(1) My heartfelt congratulation to your effort of establishing a un=
iversity in Akita Prefecture as an extension of Minnesota State Colleges and=
Universities System (MnSCU).<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I once approached to House Represen=
tative, Mr. Susumu Nikaido (from Kagoshima Prefecture and who were educated =
at the UCLA or the University of Southern California) on the same idea of ex=
tending branch campuses of American universities to Japan more than a dozen =
years ago — using Telenet at that time.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">(2) As mentioned above, Japanese c=
ompanies are now being managed by westerners for their survival in global ec=
onomy. Next, their educational institutions will be needed to be the s=
ame to produce youngsters with capabilities to serve for global village. &nb=
sp;Spreading Internet in Japan is also bound to cause the social and spiritu=
al revolution. Your presence in Japan will be very valuable with this =
regard — as exemplified with your inquiry on the intangible intellectu=
al property. As mentioned above, Japanese idolatry culture does not re=
cognize the value of intangible matters, your inquiry is teaching them the j=
ustice. Teaching the principles of western value is now urgent and vit=
al necessity to Japanese in order for them to become more creative in the kn=
owledge society of the 21st century.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">(a) Pls visit my previous list dist=
ribution “Re: (05/18/02) E-universities (Part #2)” at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q2/000125.html<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">In its Item (2), I described my exp=
eriences of encountering wisdom of American teachers which changed the cours=
e of my life, and Japan.<BR>
<BR>
I quoted a word by an Englishman in this list distribution; “(Japan t=
he) Country sun never rises.”<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(b) Pls also visit my previous list distribution “(07/20/02) GUS/Nige=
ria project” at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q3/000140.html<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">In its Item (4), I described how a =
word made by Prof. Clark from Amhurst College in Massachusetts inspire=
d young Japanese students for their nation building in Meiji Era more than a=
century ago.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
I hope you will inspire young Japanese for rational analysis and critical t=
hinking, justice, liberty and equality, i.e., American “intangibleR=
21; value, so that a tide will be turned to have sun rising again over Japan=
— I wrote an article “Japan at a turning point” in 1986, =
in the hey day of the so-called Japanese bubble economy, and distributed it =
to many echelons of Japanese parliament and government, but in vain.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
See the plan of our Japan project in Item V below. <BR>
<BR>
<B><U>III. YOUR PARA (G): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Our GUS project<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) Pls visit;<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">“Full Proposal”<BR>
at<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Tinker%20Foundatio=
n/Application%20Form/Tinker_Proposal_Web/Application_to_Tinker.html<BR>
then.<BR>
“International Workshop for The Community Development with E-Learning=
and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil”<BR>
and<BR>
Section XVI: Proponent Capability Statement<BR>
B. Global University System (GUS)<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Pls also visit its APPENDIX IX: =
220;List of Participants.”<BR>
<BR>
Pls also visit 3.12 Remarks of my book draft Chapter 1 mentioned above.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(2) We are now creating GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN/NETWORKIING Chair Program with i=
ts headquarters at the University of Tampere, Finland — see its agreem=
ent signed by Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO and Tapio Va=
ris of the University of Tampere at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20Universit=
y%20System/UNESCO_NGO/UNITWIN/UNITWIN_Agreement/UNITWIN_Agreement.html<BR>
<BR>
(3) As mentioned in the above Item I-(4)-(*), we are now planning to hold a=
strategic mtg of GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORKING Chair Program at the Univers=
ity of Tampere in Finland next June in order to solidify our GUS activities.=
<BR>
<BR>
The member university of this chair program is then naturally entitled to u=
se “Global University System,” if they wish — with proper =
affix to distinguish from other members.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>IV. YOUR PARA (G): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Spreading Internet, i.e., Cl=
osing Digital Divide<BR>
</FONT><BR>
</U></B>(1) My zeal of spreading Internet is to destroy the University of T=
okyo, as suggested by Late US Ambassador Edwin O. Reishauer to Japan, in ord=
er to save Japan (<B><U>ATTACHMENT I</U></B>).<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I was very surprised and amazed to =
hear of his very fluent Japanese when my mother and I visited him in his off=
ice at Harvard University — anyway, he was born in Japan and my mother=
was taught by his father at the Tokyo Women’s Christian University.<B=
R>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(2) This is not the matter of destroying the bricks and mortars of the Univ=
ersity of Tokyo. Traditional Japanese thinking is that any universitie=
s or colleges other than the old “Imperial University” system ar=
e “junk” -- including your university and my alma mater, Tokyo I=
nstitute of Technology.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">BTW, the father of my brother-in-la=
w was a professor of my alma mater. However, he could not get through =
its entrance exam. He then got into the University of Tokyo next year,=
and became the dean of engineering, and recently had an honor to have given=
a lecture to Emperor (go-shin-ko in Japanese). He is now the presiden=
t of the Japanese National Environment Institute in Tsukuba.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(3) In order to crack this thinking, Late Dr. Shigeru Nambara, then Rector =
of the University of Tokyo, introduced American educational system to Japan =
right after the last war, with Late Dr. James Conant, then President of Harv=
ard University.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">BTW, when I had a teaching job offe=
r at the university, Dr. Nambara told me “Don’t come here!  =
;Too stifle!!” This is another motivation of mine to create a be=
tter university than the University of Tokyo with our GUS.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(4) For this, I am taking the same strategy as of my previous effort of der=
egulating Japanese telecom policies for the use of email as mentioned above,=
i.e., I helped to extend Telenet (a predecessor of Internet) to various Asi=
an countries first. When it came to Taiwan, KDD, the overseas telecom =
authority of Japan, felt competition and got started working on importing th=
e telecom equipment of Telenet. This is in a sense, “Sotobori wo=
umetekara, Uchibori wo umeru” in Japanese — translating that, i=
n order to crack down a fort, you need to fill up the outer moat first and t=
hen inner moat.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">You may visit Section III “Gl=
obal Peace Gaming”/E: “De-regulation of Japanese Telecommunicati=
ons Policies for the Use of E-mail” in my paper “Quest for Globa=
l Peace” to find out what exclaimed by Mr. Yoshio Utsumi, my long-dist=
ance relative, current Director-General of the International Telecommunicati=
ons Union (ITU) and then the counterpart at the Japanese Ministry of Posts a=
nd Telecommunications when I pressured him with a help of Late Commerce Secr=
etary Malcom Baldridge at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/GPA-Taipei_8-15-01/Quest_for_GP.html=
#anchor2588182<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(5) Subsequently, I have been working with various developing countries, e.=
g., our Amazon project mentioned in Item III-(1) above.<FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000"=
> </FONT>In order for them to have broadband Internet, we need to have=
huge money. I then helped the Japanese government pledge US$15 billio=
n to close the digital divide in developing countries during the Okinawa Sum=
mit in July of 2000. Mr. Koizumi, Prime Minister of Japan, made another pled=
ge of US$2 billion to aid education in developing countries during the G8 Su=
mmit in Canada on June 26-27, 2002. <BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">For the former pledge, I worked wit=
h Late Dr. Hiroshi Inose, then Director General of the National Center for S=
cience Information System (NACSIS), the highest authority of Internet in Jap=
an, and Dr. Taro Nakayama, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and others.<B=
R>
<BR>
For the latter, I gave a newspaper clip of the comment made by Dr. Inose ab=
out our GUS project, to Ms. Atsuko Toyama, current Minister of Education and=
Science and my long-time acquaintance, a few years ago. The clip of t=
he Nikkei (an equivalent to Wall Street Journal) (February 9, 1992) said;<BR=
>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I ask to those people who wish to b=
uild artificial intelligence machine; “which of the machine or human b=
rain is superior?” Everybody answer “Of course, human brai=
n is superior.” I then say to them “If so, rather than spe=
nding huge money to develop such machine, wouldn’t it be wise and bene=
ficial to world society to spend such money for education of excellent, capa=
ble youngsters in developing countries?”<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Around that time, my project with G=
lobally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming lost to the so-called 5th G=
eneration Computer Project which spent about $500 million (10 years) of Japa=
nese taxpayers’ money and did not produce any tangible results and hen=
ce became an internationally laughable project. After losing it, I sai=
d to myself, “Oh well, I’m going to do it by myself even without=
money,” and the rest became a history.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">I later suggested those Japanese e=
chelons to direct Japanese ODA fund for e-learning and e-healthcare to impro=
ve the image of Japan, whenever I visited Japan in the past several years &#=
8212; I said to them that many of Japanese ODA projects were ill-reputed, ex=
pect only one, i.e., the human genome project for which the Japanese governm=
ent gave the first $1 billion, British the second and the US the third and o=
thers to become the total $5 billion project with tremendous success. =
I then said to them to follow the suit, and asked $5 billion (10 years) (as =
ten times of $500 million I lost) which was multiplied by them later to beco=
me $15 billion (3 years).<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(6) The Amazon projects will then combine (1) the Japanese government's Off=
icial Development Assistance (ODA) funds and (2) electronic equipment (compu=
ter, tranceiver, dish antenna, etc.) of Japan with (a) the Internet technolo=
gy and (b) content development of the north America to help underserved peop=
le in rural and remote areas of developing countries — see APPENDIX VI=
II of the URL mentioned in the above Item III-(1).<BR>
<BR>
<FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000"><B><U>V. Outline of our proposed Japan Project:<BR>
</U></B></FONT><BR>
(1) We are now start contemplating to establish a global e-learning and e-h=
ealthcare center for Asia and the Pacific which is to be located in Nagano P=
refecture (my home) -- hopefully with the cooperation of Shinshu University =
(my alma mater in its old system). Should you wish to join in this eff=
ort, pls let me know.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">BTW, you may start joining in this =
movement/project as participating in our videoconferencing from Manaus, Amaz=
on in the evening of 3/18th (Brazil time) -- see the workshop program in Sec=
tion VII/E of the full proposal to Tinker Foundation which can be retrieved =
at the same URL mentioned in Item III-(1) above.<BR>
<BR>
Its main purpose is to connect a Japanese school in Manaus with their count=
erparts in Japan — see “Application for Grass Root Fund for the =
Manaus Community Development Network” at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Grass_Root_Fund/Ap=
plication_Form/Appl_for_GRF_7-18-02.html<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Prof. Yamasawa:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
If you want to join in this event, pls let me know, also.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Don and Prof. Yamasawa:<BR>
</U></B></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Japanese contact person for this ev=
ent is Yoko Tagaki. Pls feel free to contact her for instructions.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(2) Missions:<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">(a) To be the hub of broadband Inte=
rnet for e-learning and e-healthcare, as connecting to remote/rural areas of=
Asia and the Pacific via digital satellite linkages,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">This center could be a relay point =
between the US and those areas to build private virtual network for non-prof=
it organizations.<BR>
<BR>
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is now starting to provid=
e J-Net at 1.5 Mbps to various Asian countries (e.g., the University of the =
Philippines, etc.) free of charge, from KDD’s satellite stations in Ib=
aragi and Okinawa. We may consolidate with them to provide broader ban=
dwidth.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(b) To be the test bed of advanced ICT for deployment in those areas,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Those are hardware and software mad=
e not only by Japanese but also by Americans and elsewhere.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(c) To be the collaborative research and development center of multimedia w=
eb teaching platforms, curriculum design for intercultural issues, e-health =
and peace studies, etc., for those areas,<BR>
<BR>
(d) To train trainers and teachers from those areas by expert instructors f=
rom the US and Canada, etc., who are familiar with e-learning and e-healthca=
re,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">These training will be made in Engl=
ish.<BR>
<BR>
Japanese university professors and K-12 school teachers will join them as o=
bservers and assistants to learn the teaching principles and wisdoms of Amer=
ican and Canadian instructors — some of which were mentioned in Item I=
I-(2) above.<BR>
<BR>
JICA now has a training center in Komagane City (the next town from my home=
town), but it is for training of Japanese by Japanese instructors. Th=
is center may be enhanced with the proposed scheme and with the broadband In=
ternet connection.<BR>
<BR>
This direction of teaching lessons in English will match with the new progr=
am of the Ministry of Education and Science, since those joining Japanese ca=
n have the on-the-job training of English-as-Second-Language lessons.<BR>
<BR>
Bringing trainers and teachers from those areas may also meet with the pled=
ge made by then Prime Minister, Mr. Nakasone, who proposed to have 100,000 f=
oreign students to Japan — which is now about 60,000, compared with 60=
0,000 in the US.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">BTW, Mr. Nakasone was a good friend=
of my second cousin when they were at Shizuoka High School (old system) and=
at the political science dept of the University of Tokyo under Dr. Nambara.=
<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(e) To promote GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN NETWORKING Chair Program,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">See Item III-(2) above.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(f) To build a model of smart community with nearby organizations,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">See APPENDIX VIII-5 of the web for =
our Amazon project mentioned in Item III-(1) above.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(g) To be a service center to spread Systems Dynamics approach,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">See my previous list distribution &=
#8220;(03/27/02) System Dynamics simulation and its K-12 education” at=
;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/pipermail/gu-l/2002q1/000108.html<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">"System Dynamics and K-12 Teac=
hers" by Prof. Jay Forrester at;<BR>
http://sysdyn.mit.edu/people/jay-forrester.html<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(h) To be the Japanese center of the global Beowulf mini-supercomputer netw=
ork with Access Grid project,<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">See APPENDIX VIII-8 at;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manaus%20Workshop/Tinker%20Foundatio=
n/Application%20Form/Tinker_Proposal_Web/Appendices/Appendix-VIII_Joint_Prog=
rams/APPENDIX%20VIII-8_Access-Grid/Access%20Grid%20Project.htm<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(i) To be the Japanese center of the Globally Collaborating Environmental P=
eace Gaming.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">See Chapter 5 of my book draft ment=
ioned above.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
(3) Financing:<BR>
<BR>
To be made out of those pledged funds mentioned in Item IV-(5) above in the=
magnitude equivalent (or more) to the 5th Generation Computer Project menti=
oned in the Item IV-(5) above, also.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>Dear Prof. Yamasawa and Dr. Tokuda:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
(4) As discussed over the phones, I would like to have your cooperation to =
compose our brief proposal of this project — firstly in English which =
is to be translated into Japanese (say, up to 5 pages).<BR>
<BR>
Tapio is invited to a conference of UNESCO/Chair program in Paris in Novemb=
er, and he is now preparing his paper on our GUS for intercultural education=
— probably within 10 pages and to be completed by the end of Septembe=
r. I would suggest that we should receive it from Tapio and condense f=
urther and translated into Japanese.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><B><U>Dear Dr. Tokuda:<BR>
</U></B><BR>
Many thanks for your msg (<B><U>ATTACHMENT IV</U></B>). Pls see last =
few para of <B><U>ATTACHMENT I</U></B>, -- as you say, Japan really and urge=
ntly needs to open her country in many aspects. Pls feel free to solic=
it the interest of your former employer, Utsunomiya University.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">As said also, I would like to disc=
uss with you on its first draft in the coming December when I will be in Jap=
an.<BR>
<BR>
(5) Its final version is to be submitted in next April to;<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">Mr. Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime=
Minister,<BR>
Ms. Atsuko Toyama, Minister of Education and Science,<BR>
Dr. Taro Nakayama, former Minister of Foreign Affairs,<BR>
Mr. Sohei Miyashita, former Minister of Health and Welfare, etc.<BR>
<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">(6) My time may be allocated for t=
his project as follows;<BR>
<BR>
</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana">6 month residence at the center,<BR=
>
3 month for on-the-road, including stay at the headquarters of GUS in Tampe=
re, Finland,<BR>
3 month in New York.<BR>
</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana"><BR>
Pls feel free to send me your comments and suggestions..<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>VI. YOUR PARA (B): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Akita Prefecture<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) Father of my another second cousin was “Kyouiku Iincho =3D Commissi=
oner of Education” of Akita almost a half century ago. My second=
cousin graduated from the political science dept of the University of Tokyo=
, came to Los Angeles with the UN’s scholarship right after the last w=
ar. Dr. Nambara (mentioned above) gave him $80 left over duirng his tr=
ip when he was departing back to Japan by President Wilson passenger boat. &=
nbsp;With it, he took a bus ride to New York and received a master degree in=
political science from Columbia University. He has now his school in =
Boston to teach estern culture and macro-biotics, as spreading vegiterian fo=
od around the world.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>VII. YOUR PARA (F): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">GLH/Hungary/1996<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) Pls visit Chapter 2: “Global Lecture Hall (GLH)”/Section 1.=
11: “GLH in August, 1996,” which was held with Central European =
University in Budapest, Hungary.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>VIII. YOUR PARA (H): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Columbia seminar<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) I belong to the monthly seminar of “Computer, Man and SocietyR=
21; of the faculty club of the Columbia University with many privileges as t=
heir faculty members. I think that I am out of their retirement age. &=
nbsp;Pls visit the following for my brief bio;<BR>
http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/GLOSAS_USA_Directors/Addresses/GLOSA=
S_Directors.html<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>IX. YOUR PARA (I): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Your phone msg<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) I am very sorry to have missed an opportunity to meet with you in Manha=
ttan.<BR>
<BR>
(2) Sorry also to say that your phone msg did not appear in my answering ma=
chine — maybe its fault.<BR>
<BR>
<B><U>X. YOUR PARA (J): <FONT COLOR=3D"#FF0000">Admitting into our list<BR>
</FONT></U></B><BR>
(1) I took the liberty of admitting you into our list (now more than 1,600 =
members, including Dr. Paul Baran, the inventor of packet-switching technolo=
gy, the basis of Internet) so that you will be kept updated with our daily p=
rogress.<BR>
<BR>
I wish you a very good luck for your endeavor of establishing a new univers=
ity in Akita. Keep in touch.<BR>
<BR>
Best, Tak<BR&g