[gu-new] (04/19/06) Establishing GUS/Altai Mir in Siberia with broadband Internet of GLORIAD

Wed Apr 19 15:15:50 EDT 2006

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Marina Tyasto <tyasto at sapa.nsk.su>

Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi at earthlink.net>

Greg Cole, Ph.D. <gcole at gloriad.org>

Susan S. Witte, Ph.D. <ssw12 at columbia.edu>

Jennifer Oxenford <jmacdoug at isc.upenn.edu>

Arif Khan <akhan at oar.net>

Dear Ms. Tyasto:

(1) I sincerely thank you for your letter (*) which Ms. Linda Hawkin Israel
kindly forwarded to me, as indicating your enthusiastic willingness to
create Global University System in your Altai Mir region (GUS/Altai Mir) in
Siberia (**) for e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine.  This
infrastructure and model will be in collaboration with Linda¹s Mobil
Assessment & Media System (MAMAS) project.

> (*) I am taking the liberty of attaching it with this list distribution,
> <Appeal for GUS in Siberia.pdf>,
> <http://makeashorterlink.com/?R17B22BFC>
> 
> (**) See map of Altai region in Siberia,
> <Russia2006[1].jpg>
> <http://makeashorterlink.com/?K29B12BFC>

(2) Global University System (GUS) aims to build a higher level of humanity
with mutual understanding across national and cultural boundaries for global
peace.  The mission of GUS is to create a worldwide consortium of higher
learning and healthcare institutions in remote/rural areas of developing
countries with access to broadband Internet technologies.  The aim is to
achieve ³education and healthcare for all,² anywhere, anytime and at any
pace.  Those institutions affiliated with GUS become members of the
GUS/UNESCO/UNITWIN Networking Chair Program located at the University of
Tampere in Finland.  These institutions will also act as the knowledge
center of their community for the eradication of poverty and isolation
through the use of advanced Information and Communications Technologies
(ICTs).  I propose that development of both E-Learning and
E-Health/Telemedicine in your region would be similar to our ongoing
projects in various developing countries, e.g., Mongolia, China, Nigeria,
Sierra Leone, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, etc.

(3) You may firstly locate high official (say, vice president or dean) of a
federal university, and ask him/her to be the Principal Organizer of this
project ‹ I to be the Co-Principal Organizer ‹ you can be the local
coordinator assisting him/her.

> This is because our project later will ask the Japanese government¹s Official
> Development Assistant (ODA) fund which goes only through the government
> channels.

(4) This federal university is to act as a secretariat of the GUS/Altai Mir
which will be a consortium of higher learning and healthcare institutions.
This university would also serve as teachers/medical personnel training
centers and also provide the gateway to the outside world.

This university is to interconnect with higher learning and healthcare
institutions with broadband Internet, each of which would then be a hub of
their Local Community Development Network (LCDN) which will connect the
universities with secondary and elementary schools, libraries, hospitals,
local government offices and NGOs, etc., by broadband wireless Internet at
drastically discounted rates with the use of wireless transmissions. The use
of broadband wireless Internet for the LCDN will make their participation
feasible, especially for the so-called "last-mile" connectivity.

(5) In order to expedite these mutual efforts, we suggest you to conduct the
following steps to realize this project as Ms. Israel might have already
told you;

> 1)     My fact-finding and assessment trip in order to formulate a specific
> agenda for joint activities to explore the following opportunities;
> * Identification of research, development and implementation of optimal
> pedagogy as well as applications of technology in the delivery of education
> and training for students and professionals in Altai Mir region,
> * Opportunities to work on the development of advanced training and
> professional development programs that would enhance economic development in
> Altai Mir region,
> * Joint research and development on programs for cost effective applications
> of wireless technologies in meeting the development needs of Altai Mir region,
> * Joint programs and studies of the role of ICT in economic development of
> Altai Mir region and in particular the facilitation of entrepreneurial
> initiatives.
> 2)     Planning workshop which would form task force teams.  In the period of
> six months after this workshop is over, the teams with participatory
> discussions and consultations will produce a well-developed proposal for
> GUS/Altai Mir and LCDN projects with the precise action plan and budget for
> the next design phase of the project, as conducting market survey, feasibility
> study, system design of infrastructure, design of support system and
> administration structure, and also constructing business model for maximum
> effectiveness and sustainability and replication in other locations with the
> use of wireless broadband Internet.
> 3)     Design phase project which would produce next deployment phase project
> proposal for which your government may ask the Japanese government¹s Official
> Development Assistant (ODA) fund.

(6) During my fact-finding and assessment trip, I would like to visit, at
least, a half dozen higher learning and healthcare institutions, which would
be willing to join in the consortium of GUS/Altai Mir, which visits may take
one week or so.
>> 
For the global e-learning, I will distribute the following questionnaires
during my fact-finding and assessment trip to find out what kind of courses
your people wish to have from North America and Europe (one or two courses
per each institution as the initial step);

> Brief Questionnaires for Importing E-Learning Courses from Developed Countries
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?V2C232439

After we receive the replies to this questionnaires, we will locate
appropriate course providers, who will be invited to the planning workshop
where they will meet with facilitators of your universities to discuss how
to provide the courses to learners and setting up administrative structure,
etc.  Some of those courses may be provided through currently available
narrowband Internet at their institutions prior to the deployment of
broadband Internet.

As for the global e-healthcare/telemedicine, we are currently working to
initiate the followings at a state university teaching hospital in Nigeria,
which may be emulated in your Altai Mir region;

> (a) Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV/AIDS Transmission,
> (b) Creation of a course on nutrition at a school of nursing,
> (c) Creation of Continuing Medical Education (CME) program.

The reasons why we have global e-heatlhcare/telemedicine program are;

> (a) most of universities have schools of medicine and nursing which often
> desire to enhance their teaching capabilities, including Continuing Medical
> Education (CME) for practitioners in remote/rural areas,
> (b) telemedicine always be forerunner to e-learning with the use of broadband
> media, because of its absolute necessity,
> (c) since transmission of high resolution images for telemedicine is mostly
> burst form so that the rest of vacant time slot can be used for e-learning,
> (d) e-healthcare/telemedicine has immediate need, especially in remote/rural
> areas of developing countries,
> (e) thus, broadband media would be more readily sustainable with willing
> donors, etc.
> 
(7) GUS is prepared to support an innovative distance learning and e-health
infrastructure in your Altai Mir region, based in the University system and
extending out to community learning centers and to schools via LCDN.  GUS
will contribute to the social, economic and technical benefits of the
country by providing interactive e-learning and e-healthcare/telemedicine
services to the local people.  The economic benefits will be realized
through job creation and a broadband network infrastructure.

(8) Referring to Greg Cole¹s msg (ATTACHMENT I), your region already has
broadband Internet trunk line connecting around the world out of GLORIAD
(currently 155 Mbps and soon to be 2.5 Gbps as surpassing any of African
countries!!) <http://www.gloriad.org/>.  This means that you do not need to
have dish antennas for satellite linkage ‹ satellite approach is anyway
getting out of phase in the near future to be replaced with optical fiber
networks.

You may then concentrate on the deployment of LCDN ‹ see Figure 1 of Item
(4) of ANNEX I.

Your activities would also then be focused on the delivery of contents with
advanced multimedia web teaching courses and multicasting videoconferencing,
etc., for example;

> (a) Susan¹s HIV/AIDS education program;
> http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/draft/lizday/sig/preview.html
> 
> (b) Jennifer and Arif¹s Megaconference, Jr. 2006;
> http://www.megaconferencejr.org/
> 
>> I would be very much interested to hear of your result by joining in this
>> event ‹ it will be on May 18th.

(8) ANNEX I below is the list of papers about our projects for your
reference.

Our paper in the Items (4) and (9)-(c) may be of some interest to you.

(9) Again, we are very delighted to work with you to establish GUS/Altai
Mir.  We look forward to implementing the productive relationships for the
benefits and betterment of the people in your Altai Mir region and attaining
global peace for the benefit of humankind.  Our GUS is a service
organization, and we would be very happy to serve you and your consortium
members.

Looking forward to receiving your response soon,

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I 

> From: Greg Cole <gcole at gloriad.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:47:18 -0400
> To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi at columbia.edu>
> Cc: Natasha Bulashova <natasha at gloriad.org>
> Subject: Re: Inquiry
> 

> Tak, there is very good connectivity (GLORIAD has 155 Mbps across all of
> Russia currently - this will be upgraded this year - at least to 622 Mbps and
> perhaps to 2.5 Gbps) to the Novosibirsk universities via GLORIAD today (we see
> huge traffic flows to/from Novosibirsk today). Should be plenty sufficient for
> video-conferencing assuming the end point networks (i.e., local networks) are
> sufficiently provisioned (and not overloaded with local traffic).  Thanks,
> Greg

ANNX I 

I. Our Projects:

(1) We have been working on the following projects for the past three
decades;

> (a) Global University System (GUS),
> (b) Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG),
> (c) Globally Collaborative Innovation Network (GCIN).

The GUS is a worldwide initiative to create advanced telecom infrastructure
for accessing educational resources across national and cultural boundaries
for global peace. The aim is to achieve "education and healthcare for all,"
anywhere, anytime and at any pace.

The GCEPG is to train would-be decision makers in crisis management,
conflict resolution, and negotiation techniques with a globally distributed
computer simulation system through a grid computer network.

The GCIN is an extension of GCEPG and will foster creativity of youngsters
around the world.

(2) You may be interested in our recent book at;

> Global Peace Through The Global University System
> Tapio Varis - Takeshi! Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
> University of Tampere, Finland 2003
> ISBN 951-44-5695-5
> The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?M2D252E09
>   
>> In the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
>> ³Interview with Takeshi Utsumi² by Parker Rossman

(3) In its Part I, you can find greetings and encouragements from
world-renowned dignitaries of international organizations.

(4) The opening chapter of the Part II is;

> Takeshi Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
> "Creating Global University System"
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2F231019
>   
>> Incidentally, this GUS project was initiated at the workshop held at the
>> University of Tampere in August of 1999, with generous fund from the InfoDev
>> of the World Bank, the US National Science Foundation, Soros Foundation, etc.
>> <http://www.uta.fi/%7etitava/EGEDL/>.

(5) In Part IV, you can find my following paper;

> Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
> "Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1D121E09

II. Historical Development and Our Aim for Global Peace:

(6) In the first half of this paper, you can find my saga of extending the
predecessor of Internet to various Asian countries, particularly to Japan
(*), and my effort of de-regulating the Japanese telecom policies for the
use of email and the de-monopolization and privatization of Japanese telecom
industries, which have been emulated in most of other countries since then.
I made this effort more than a quarter century ago.  By this effort, there
are more than one billion people using email around the world nowadays.

> (*) which I started right after I saw the demo of DARPANET (the first
> packet-switching data telecom network, which is the basis of the current
> Internet) at Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC in October, 1972
> 
> See also Chapter 1 of my book draft (with some Japanese newspaper articles);
> ³Electronic Global University System and Services²
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?E62612919

I then had an honor to receive Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance
Education from Lord Perry himself personally in November of 1994.  Lord
Perry established the U.K. Open University which has been emulated in more
than 50 countries.  One year senior of the award was Dr. Chavitz, former
Minister of Education and UN Ambassador from Colombia, and two year senior
was Arthur C. Clarke, the inventor of satellite.

(7) You may be interested in reading two episodes how important to foster
friendship during young age, at the end of this my paper; the uncle of my
schoolmate was the chief of resistance in Manila, the Philippines, during
the Japanese occupation.  His life was saved by the chief of the Japanese
Army Police who happed to be his classmate at Yale University.  You can also
find my wife¹s father¹s episode whose life was also saved by his classmate
during his high school, who was happened to be the Commanding General of the
British Army, at the end of the last WWII.

(8) Our GUS and GCEPG projects are to create an environment for fostering
friendship among youngsters across national, oceanic and continental
boundaries with the use of ³distributed experiential (or the so-called
hands-on) learning² with the use of now emerging GRID networking technology
and distributed computer simulation system (**) for the creation of new
knowledge by them in the Knowledge Age of the 21st Century.  The principle
of packet-switching technology (the basis of Internet) is ³SHARING² -- we
are extending this principle for the sharing of knowledge and even wisdom
with GUS project.  The principle of GRID networking technology is
³COLLABORATION.²  Those two principles are the key ingredients for attaining
global peace ‹ Senator Fulbright once said ³Learning together and working
together are the first steps toward global peace.²

> (**) which concept I initiated in 1972 ‹ see;
> McLeod, J., "Power (?) Grid!," Simulation in the Service of Society,
> Simulation, September 2000
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?H241159B9

(9) Albeit rather technical, the following my paper is the direction how to
achieve this dream;

> (a)
> Global University System with Globally Collaborative Innovation Network
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?W2F412E1B
> 
> (b)
> "Global e-Learning for Global Peace," Paper for opening speech at the American
> Society for Cybernetics in Washington, D.C., October 28, 2005,
> <http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2005/index.htm> (MS/WORD file, 224 KB)
> ! 
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%2
> 0System/List%20Distributions/2005/MTI1697_09-24-05/GEL+GP_v3%20copy.htm
> Or
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?F44621BDB
> 
> (c)
> Oji, D. E., T. Utsumi and C. Uwaje, "International Centers of Excellence for
> e-Health in Africa with Global University System in Nigeria," Paper published
> in the eHealth International Journal, International eHealth Association
> (IeHA), University of Michigan Health System, September 25, 2005 (MS/WORD
> file, ! 748 KB)
> http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Global_University/Global%20University%2
> 0System/Africa/Nigeria/Abia%20Univ.%20Teaching%20Hospital/Paper/GUS+ICETA-v11-
> RR092405%20copy.htm
> Or
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?V60C217EB

> (d)
> Utsumi, T. (2005); "Global E-Learning for Global Peace with Global University
> System," Paper for the forthcoming publication "Communicat! ion and Learning
> in the Multicultural World," University of Tampere, Finland, (Edited by Pekka
> Ruohotie), to celebrate the 60th birthday of the GUS Acting President Tapio
> Varis in June 2006; December 29, 2005
> http://makeashorterlink.com/?W29E26D9C

III. Financing:

(10) During the Okinawa Summit in July of 2000, Japanese government pledged
US$15 billion to close the digital divide in developing countries and for
the eradication of poverty and isolation.  During the G8 Summit in Canada in
June of 2002, and at the Environment Summit in South Africa in September of
2002, they also pledged another US$2 billion to aid education and healthcare
in developing countries, respectively.  I initiated those pledges in late
1990s.  They are now available through the Japan Social Development Fund at
the! World Bank, Japan Special Fund at the Inter-American Development Bank,
Japan Fund at the Asian Development Bank, etc.  The Japanese government is
now doubling their aid particularly to African countries, especially to help
their education and healthcare.

GUS projects will combine (1) the Japanese government's Official Development
Assistance (ODA) funds and (2) Japanese electronic equipment with (a) the
Internet technology and (b) content development of North America and Europe,
to help underserved people in rural and remote areas of developing countries
by closing the digital divide.

List of Distribution

Marina Tyasto
Director on International Projects and Programs
Siberian Education Consulting Center
Tel/Fax: 7-383-210-12-52
tyasto at sapa.nsk.su

Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
MAMAS E-HealthNet
Executive Director
1525 NW 57th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98107
206-784-0887
lindahi at earthlink.net
http://www.discoverytel.com/

Greg Cole, Ph.D.
Research Director
UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Science
US Principal Investigator
Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building 5100, Mail Stop 6173, Room 212
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173
Phone: 865-241-3702
FAX:  865-576-4368
gcole at gloriad.org
gcole at friends-partners.org
http://www.gloriad.org/
http://www.friends-partners.org/

Susan S. Witte, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Associate Director, Social Intervention Group
Columbia University
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 813
Mail Code 4600
New York, NY 10027-3997
212-851-2394
Fax: 212-851-2126
ssw12 at columbia.edu 
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/sig/
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/draft/lizday/sig/preview.html -- HIV/AIDS
education program
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/presentations/connect/cdc/s5_ecomap.html -- same
as above.

Jennifer Oxenford
Associate Director, MAGPI
phone: 215.898.0341
cell: 267.322.0036 
fax: 215.898.9348
jmacdoug at isc.upenn.edu
jmacdoug at magpi.net
www.magpi.net
215-74MAGPI (215-746-2474)

Arif Khan
Global Internet2 H.323 Services NOC
OARnet - A Division of Ohio Supercomputer Center
800-627-6420 or 614-292-9191
614-292-9087
akhan at oar.net
Ohio Supercomputer Center http://www.osc.edu
OARnet http://www.oar.net
Third Frontier Network http://www.osc.edu/oarnet/tfn/
Internet2 Commons http://commons.internet2.edu

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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
*
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)
*
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
*
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of
*
*   Global University System (GUS)
*
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A.
*
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi at columbia.edu
*
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*
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