[gu-new] (02/17/07) Possible creation of GUS/Poland

[Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.]

<<February 17, 2007>>
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Bert van Lamoen <dean at ebbs.eu>

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D. <kaisa.kautto-koivula at kolumbus.fi>

Prof. Dr. Ali YAZICI <aliyazici at etu.edu.tr>

Igor N. Dubina, Ph.D. <igor_dubina at yahoo.com>

Jaroslaw K. Ponder <Jaroslaw.Ponder at itu.int>


Dear Bert:

(1) Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT I and III).

Very sorry for my belated reply.

(2) I am taking the liberty of distributing your following very interesting
and excellent paper to our list members;

> New Education for the 21st Century
> How to build sustainable networks and communities
> <http://tinyurl.com/ynk7d8>
> 
>> On the other hand, pls visit my following paper in Polish at your leisure
>> time;
>> 
>>> "Globalization of Higher Education" -- Paper by Takeshi Utsumi, Parker
>>> Rossman, and Aristide H. Esser, in Projektowanie I Systemy: Zagadnienia
>>> metodologiczne dyscyplin praktycznych tom XII, (translated from English to
>>> Polish by Kazimierz Frieskie), 1990
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/25f783>
>> 
>> Pls convey my best personal regards to Prof. Frieskie when you will have a
>> chance to meet — BYW, I have never met him and do not know where he lives.  I
>> greatly appreciated his translation of our paper into Polish.

(3) You mentioned in your paper as;

> “One important finding: all real innovation comes from small groups at the
> edge of a system. Talking about education, we should not look at the
> mainstream, well established educational organizations if we want fundamental
> innovation and change. Deep change will come from the edge, from small,
> flexible, innovative groups at the fringe of the educational system.”

This reminds me Margaret Mead’s famous word on the change of the world
<http://tinyurl.com/29be9r>.

As any infant has to change his/her clothes to one size larger as they grow,
our world has to grow, i.e., change its social system as its technology
advances.

> BTW, this contradicts with Confucianism of Japan which tries to preserve
> traditional culture even with subservient obedience.  This is a main reason
> why Japan cannot be at the forefront of science and technology.

(4) You also mentioned in it as;

> “The learning strategy and methodology is focused on ‘learning to think in and
> with models’. Model thinking stresses the connection to the whole instead of
> concentrating on the parts. And model thinking enables us to combine - and
> gives us insight into - many facts. Last but not least model thinking helps in
> creating and focusing on a next level of thinking, Albert Einstein refers to
> when he says:  “The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by
> the level of thinking that created them.” “
> 
Along this line, pls visit following web sites;

> (a)
> Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
> "Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming"
> http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a

> (b)
> “Global University System for Engineering Education in the Age of
> Globalization"; European Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 31, No.3, June
> 2006, Pages 339-348 (pdf file, 2 MB)
> http://tinyurl.com/wfkr6
> 
> (c) 
> "Globally Collaborative Innovation Network with Global University System,"
> Paper for Learning Technology, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 8, Issue 3, July,
> 2006
> http://tinyurl.com/fuwg6

(5) You also made very interesting comparison of hierarchy and network.  You
may be interested in my following slide <http://tinyurl.com/2u8s22>;

Dear Kaisa:

(6) You may find Bert’s paper of some interest to you.
>> 
> Kaisa Kautto-Koivula and Marita Huhtaniemi, Nokia Ventures Organizatio
> “Evolution Towards Human-Centric Knowledge Society. Can Societies Learn from
> Global Corporations?"
> http://tinyurl.com/y5ja49
> 
> The last words of your paper says;
> 
>> “The biggest barrier for new development of Human-Centric Knowledge Society
>> is our Industrial Age mindset!”
>> 
Bert’s paper may indicate the future direction of industrial society with
“gift economy,” “Fourth Sector” or “for-benefit sector” which terms Bert
coined.  This may then be some extension of your thesis developed in your
paper.  Incidentally, how is your new book is coming along, as extending
your theses into future?  When will it be available in English?
>> 
> BTW, this Kaisa’s paper is in our following book;
> 
> 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://tinyurl.com/kofpf
> 
>> In the bottom line of this page, you can find the following;
>> “Interview with Takeshi Utsumi” by Parker Rossman
>>>> 
Dear Prof. Yazici:
>> 
(7) When I made my talk at the conference at your university last October
(*), you asked me about the need of teaching business Ethics.  Bert’s paper
mentioned above may be of some interest to you since it mentioned Enron and
WorldCom scandals, etc.
>> 
> (*)
> (12/04/06) Trip to Turkey for creating GUS/Turkey
> http://tinyurl.com/wy5xz and
> 
> My slide presentation at this occasion:
> Utsumi, T., "Global Collaborative Research and Development"
> http://tinyurl.com/2vy7he
>> 
Dear Igor:
>> 
(8) You may also be interested in his new business school as fostering
entrepreneurship, along with your project on “creativity” -- see Section
IV-4 of the narrative text and ANNEX 6 of;
>> 
> “Creative Climate in Altai Firms and Innovative Potential of Altai Region and
> Republic of Altai: Assessment, Analysis, Activation, and Effective
> Realization”
> 
>> This is in our following report;
>> 
>> “Report on Fact-Finding and Assessment Trip to Create Global University
>> System/Altai Mir (web version)”
>> http://tinyurl.com/te6sb
>> 
Dear Bert:

(9) As you suggest, you may create GUS/Poland.

Pls visit the following write-up, in which I outlined how to proceed your
project;

Concept Paper
on
the Creation of Global University System (GUS)
in Ghana and later in Countries of ECOWAS
http://tinyurl.com/3a2erg

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
<http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/int-ecws.html>

This was prepared for the meeting of the Director-General of Kofi Annan
Center in Ghana with the high official of the ECOWAS — with my hope that
each of the ECOWAS would create their GUS.

(10) You may then start constructing a concept paper (about 4 page long) for
funding inquiry;

> (a) to make my fact-finding and assessment trip,
> (b) to organize a planning workshop.
> 
You can find their samples at our web site <http://tinyurl.com/b475v>,
particularly in the Section V-A-4 (GUS/Sierra Leone) and Section V-C-1
(GUS/Siberia/Russia).

Pls send me your first draft so that we can work on it together.

(11) Should you plan to apply for the Request For Proposal (RFP) of the
European Commission, pls visit the following previous list distribution,

> (02/08/07) Request For Proposals (RFP) of European Commission for ICT projects
> http://tinyurl.com/yrmgeo

> and select an appropriate program in;
> 
> Work Programme 2007-08 (124 pages)
> <ict-wp-2007-08_en.pdf><http://tinyurl.com/39ur3x>

You may also be able to raise some fund from the Japanese government as
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (Polsko-Japonska Wyzsza
Szkola Technik Komputerowych) in Warsaw did.

(12) As establishing GUS/Poland, you may have more leverage to promote your
unique business school courses for fostering entrepreneurship.  I know that
entrepreneurs are very important as the cutting-edge for exploring and
changing the world.

Dear Jaroslaw:

(13) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you at Prof. Eli
Noam’s seminar on International Network at Columbia University in the
afternoon of 2/14th.

I was glad to know that you came from Poland.  You may then be interested in
joining Bert’s project of creating GUS/Poland.

> Dear Bert:
> 
> ATTACHMENT IV below is Jaroslaw’s brief bio.
> 
> You may be very interested in visiting <http://tinyurl.com/396vh6>, and his
> next “New Initiatives” project
> <http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/>.
> 
> My following list distributions mentioned of his works;
> 
> (a) (12/02/06) Report on Fact-Finding and Assessment Trip To Create Global
> University System/Siberia (formerly Altai Mir)
> (b) (05/31/06) Next Generation Network (NGN)
> (c) (02/05/06) Final report of ITU about the WSIS in Tunis, Tunisia in
> November 16-18, 2005
> 
> They can be found at <http://tinyurl.com/yld9v9>.

(14) BTW, pls inform me of your full address (e.g., snail address,
phone/fax, etc.), so that we can place you at an appropriate location in our
main mailing book.

Pls feel free to contact me for any questions.

Keep in touch.

Best, Tak



ATTACHMENT I 

> From: <vlamoen at planet.nl>
> Reply-To: <vlamoen at planet.nl>
> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:24:26 +0100
> To: <utsumi at columbia.edu>, <tapio.varis at uta.fi>
> Cc: <dean at ebbs.eu>
> Subject: collaboration
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I've got your address through Leslaw Michnowski, Poland.
> We seem to share the same vision/mission and we (EBBS) focus on
> entrepreneurship and creating what we call KINO's (Knowledge Intensive
> Network Organisations) or sustainable communities.
> We believe we are one of the first change agent business school in the
> world - truly innovative.
> We are developing a global educational, cultural and entrepreneurial
> network with focus on modern, value based entrepreneurship. And the
> first business school to use all the advantages of complementary
> currencies (as change agent). We specialize in new education for the
> 21st century.
> For more info please check: www.ebbs.eu
> We are interested in developing a mutually beneficial collaboration.
> 
> Looking forward hearing from you.
> 
> Warm regards,
> Bert van Lamoen
> Dean
> EBBS International Business school


ATTACHMENT II 

> From: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi at columbia.edu>
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:46:43 -0500
> To: <vlamoen at planet.nl>, Tapio Varis <tapio.varis at uta.fi>
> Cc: <dean at ebbs.eu>, Tak Utsumi <utsumi at columbia.edu>
> Conversation: collaboration
> Subject: Re: collaboration
> 

> Dear Bert:
> 
> (1) Many thanks for your msg.
> 
> (2) I went through your web site with great interest.
> 
> Your visions and missions are very much similar to our Global University
> System (GUS).
> 
> (3) We may “Think Globally, and Act Globally,” -- see;
> 
>> (a)
>> "Globally Collaborative Innovation Network with Global University System,"
>> Paper for Learning Technology, IEEE Computer Society, Vol. 8, Issue 3, July,
>> 2006
>> http://tinyurl.com/fuwg6
>> 
>> (b)
>> Utsumi, T. (2005); "Global E-Learning for Global Peace with Global University
>> System," Paper for the forthcoming publication "Communication 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://tinyurl.com/nevvj
> 
> (4) Pls tell us how we would collaborate, with terms and conditions.
> 
> (5) BTW, pls inform me of your full address (e.g., snail address, phone/fax,
> etc.), so that we can place you at an appropriate location in our main mailing
> book.
> 
> We will then admit you into our list so that you will be kept updated with our
> daily progress.  Pls enjoy reading it.
> 
> Pls have a very pleasant holiday season.
> 
> Best, Tak


ATTACHMENT III 

> From: Bert van Lamoen <dean at ebbs.eu>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:36:42 +0100
> To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi at columbia.edu>
> Subject: Re: collaboration
> 
> Dear Tak,
> Thanks very much for your positive response.
> Let's continue our discussion on how we could develop a mutually
> beneficial collaboration.
> 1.We (www.ebbs.eu) can be a knowledge partner of GUS; delivering content
> and coaches/teachers
> 2. can we use your e-learning facilities?
> 3. we could be your local partners in several countries; to start with:
> Poland (Eastern-Europe)
> 4. We focus on action learning/education for entrepreneurs; and develop
> a new accreditation for new education for the 21st century (attached you
> find my latest paper for the Polish government).
> a. do you know of other highly innovative action learning
> schools/institutes that could be interesting for EBBS? b. do you know of
> an institute/university that is interested in collaborating with EBBS,
> and (for the short term, untill we have developed our own new
> accreditation) could deliver us their diploma issuing ability?
> 5. who are the main sponsors of GUS? and can we be part of this?
> 6. we also develop state of the art holistic health care modalities -
> with top scientists and practitioners - here as well we could deliver
> content;but other ways of collaboration are possible as well
> 7. because GUS has such a broad scope; can you please suggest to us your
> short list of concrete possibilities for collaboration; what do you suggest?
> 8. do you have a GUS contact person in Western Europe; if yes, please
> give us his/her mailaddress
> 9. where can I find a list of partner organizations of GUS
> 10. a first step could be: creating a link to EBBS on your website, we
> could do the same for GUS at our site.
> 
> If you want we could arrange a skype meeting/call: my contact address:
> bertvanlamoen980; what's yours?
> Really looking forward to your response,
> Warm regards,
> Bert
> 
> EBBS International Business School
> Head office: The Netherlands
> mail: dean at ebbs.eu
> 
> ATTACHMENT IV
> 
> Biography of Mr. Jaroslaw Ponder, Policy Analyst Strategy and Policy Unit, ITU
> <http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/ni/voice/speaker_bios.html>
> (You can get his photo at this web site.)
> 
> 
> Jaroslaw Ponder works for Strategy and Policy Unit at the International
> Telecommunication Union (SPU/ITU). Within the last years Mr. Ponder has been
> taking an active role in numerous international conferences and summits
> dealing with development of information society and advancements of new
> economy in both Western and Eastern European countries as well as USA. The
> spectrum of his direct research interest includes business development,
> process optimization, telecommunication economics, information and
> communication technology dynamics, next generation networks, the Internet of
> things, digital divide, information society development, EU enlargement
> processes and human capital problematic.
> 
> Along the professional career Mr. Ponder held official positions in the public
> sector and was a contributor to the legislative projects having impact on the
> public policy. Since 2004 Mr. Ponder has been working for the International
> Telecommunication Union (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2004 he was consultant at
> the Market, Economics and Finance Unit (MEF/ITU). In 2005 he moved to ITU
> Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU/ITU).


List of Distribution

Bert van Lamoen
Dean
EBBS International Business School
Head office: The Netherlands
mail: dean at ebbs.eu

Kaisa Kautto-Koivula, Lic.Techn., Ph.D.
Docent, New Learning Environments
Tampere University
Finland
Mobile: +358 400 403 632
kaisa.kautto-koivula at kolumbus.fi

Prof. Dr. Ali YAZICI
Chairman, Computer Engineering Department
TOBB ECONOMICS AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB)
Sögutozu Cad. No: 43 06560
Sogutozu ‑ ANKARA – TURKEY
Tel: +90 (312) 292 4063 (Direct)
       +90 (312) 292 4000 (Santral)
Fax: +90 (312) 287 1946
aliyazici at etu.edu.tr
http://www.etu.edu.tr/~aliyazici

Igor N. Dubina, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and International Cooperation
Associate Professor of Economic Information Systems
Economics Faculty
School of Economics and Management
Altai State University
pr. Sozialisticheski, 68
Barnaul. 656049. Russia
Tel: +7 (385 2) 246558 or 480122
Fax: +7 (385 2) 366490
din at asu.ru
igor_dubina at yahoo.com

Jaroslaw K. Ponder 
Policy Analysist
Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU)
International Telecommunication Union
Place des Nations 
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland 
Tel: 00 41 22 730 60 65
Fax: +41-22-730-6453
Jaroslaw.Ponder at itu.int
http://www.itu.int


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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
*
* 
http://www.itu.int/wsis/goldenbook/search/display.asp?Quest=8032562&lang=en
*
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*
* Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676
*
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