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Prof. Edwin Scott Asemota, MD.,
DTMPH
Prof. of Medicine and CEO, Help Point International Foundation
Phone in Germany: ( + 49 ) 1578-7144-074
Phone in Nigeria ( +234) 81-6776-5921
Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de
Justin N. Seruhere
Minister Plenipotentiary
Permanent Mission of the United Republic of Tanzania to the UN
212-972-9160
Cel: 646-578-9434
jseruher@yahoo.com
Francisco (Paco) Bozzano‑Barnes
Director
Tenure & Ecology LLC
4705 Center Blvd., Apt 406
Long Island City, NY 11109
718-433-4830
Cel: 646-897-2649
francisco@tenureecology.com
www.tenureecology.com
Bio and photo: http://tinyurl.com/6jljtrd
CV: http://tinyurl.com/37fmf8v
References:
(a)
(20130218) Tom Mensah's giving a keynote speech at
the Oxford University Pan-African Conference (OUPAC) on May 4, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/b2w2olv>
(b) Items (3) and (4) of;
(20130215) Proposal to send a team of delegates to TICAD in Yokohama, Japan on
June 1 to 3, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/chvwce5>
(c) Slides "Strategic Solution for Africa Development" by Prof. Edwin
Scott Asemota
<http://tinyurl.com/arsdh7l>
(d) (20130113) Possible development of telemedicine with broadband wireless
Internet in Nigeria
<http://tinyurl.com/acg95al>
Dear Edwin:
(1) Many thanks for your msg
(ATTACHMENT I below) in response to the Reference (a) above.
(2) I greatly appreciate your extensive write-up and an
excellent slides (Reference (c) above) on our collaborative approach for
Africa Development.
This reply will be very short, since I am now spending my time for our mtg with Ambassador Justin N. Seruhere
tomorrow lunch time at his Mission in Manhattan. My intention for this mtg is to find out how we can forge ahead for sending a
team of delegates to the TICAD-V in Yokohama this June, so that GEWS/GUS projects
can be accelerated with the extension of GLORIAD/ACE into Africa continent (see
Reference (b) above).
As said before (Reference (d) above), ÒMother and Child maternal mortality
rates reduction program in AfricaÓ must be accelerated — Nelson Mandela
said ÒGiving birth is NOT to die!!Ó in relation to the death of 300,000 to
500,000 death at the child birth in Africa.
You may call one of our cell phones around 1:00 pm (Justin, Paco
and me — mineÕs in the electronic signature below) to find out if you can
come in via Skype later.
Anyway, Paco will accompany with me so that he will
summarize our mtg and inform its result to you.
Dear Justin and Paco:
(3) Pls read through EdwinÕs write-up prior to our mtg tomorrow.
Will see you,
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: "Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de"
<Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [gu-new]
(20130218) Tom Mensah's giving a keynote speech at
the Oxford University Pan-African Conference (OUPAC) on May 4, 2013
Date: February 18, 2013 3:10:08 PM
EST
To: takutsumi0@gmail.com
Reply-To: "Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de"
<Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de>
-- Dear Tak,
Thanks a million for the feed-backs !
Surely, our minds work close together.
Before your last two emails arrived, I was preparing suggestions along
the lines you sent me your last emails.
I prepared a GUS- Help Point International Foundation
Multi-national task force approach as strategic solution
and collaborative action plan on development in Africa. ( Please slides in attachment)
Therefore, I am
really glad that you have even taken things even further.
I am also glad that Dr. Justin Seruhere ( Tanzania Minister to the UN supports my malaria
elimination plans. He remains true to the visionary spirit, of Dr. Julius Nyerere, Tanzania«s and African first globally acknowledged
leader for transformation for the good of all.
Dr. Thomas mensah as well, heading to Oxford for an
august occasion to deliver key note address.
It's all wonderful news.
I am highly impressed by your summary of the targeted goals; ÔIt
would be tremendous if the high-speed
wireless Internet
as the extension of GLORIAD/ACE to remote/rural areas in African countries
would help the
skills acquisition and capacity building training programs for
Malaria eradication in addition to the same for bureaucrats and future leaders
with scientific and rational approach on their policy analysis/evaluation as of
our GEWS project. Such an extension of GLORIAD/ACE to remote/rural areas in
African countries may be done along the construction of high speed traffic
roads among
sub-Saharan African countries with the USD $4 billion pledged by the
Japanese government at the Tokyo International Conference on African
Development (TICAD-IV) in Yokohama, Japan in 2008 Õ
With this, without doubt, we should be at the Yokohama TICAD-V
conference in June, 2013 !
Beyond this conference in Yokohama, I have other result-oriented actions in
mind which are better explained below and in the
attached slides.
The UN newly formed High-Level Panel ( HLP) and
the World Bank President should know our goals.
á That is, to move now to Total Malaria
Elimination and not just controlling it!
That GUS broadband access provides the information, digital documentation,
awareness and advocacy for Malaria vaccine which will
be used in the Malaria elimination program.
á To dramatically reduce deaths of mothers and babies during birth using JapanÕs Mother and Child Health Handbook translated
also into five, widely spoken African languages such as ( Hausa, Swahili,
Yoruba , Edo and Ibo ). I will beyond translation to production of visual,
inter active format of the book to enable Mothers interact with their peers.
After introduction to mothers at the Health Clinics, this format will can then
be viewed by mothers via Smartphones and Internet made possible by GLORIAD/ACE
low cost Internet access help points in remote and rural and also some urban
areas in Africa.
This first of is kind Mother and Child maternal
mortality rates reduction program in Africa will be collaborated
with ÔJICAÕ.
The concept I borrowed from Japan will
dramatically reduce mortality rates even faster than what the United Nation
targets within the next decade. It therefore
will be collaborated with ÔJICAÕ facilitator of the Japan Mother and Child
Health Handbook and I am sure UN, Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon will greatly welcome it !
The Handbook has been recently
translated into Arabic language and is now used in Palestine.
á That extension of GLORIAD/ACE to remote/rural areas in African
countries, as you mentioned, would help the
skills acquisition and capacity building training programs , social networking,
community education , sensitization awareness program for
Malaria eradication and Reduction of the Mother and Child maternal mortality
rates in Africa.Õ
á The GUS enabled Telemedicine Community Direct Intervention guided by WHO
standard brings care to the hitherto unreachable citizens in rural and remote
areas. It enables access to appropriate care, provides health education,
psychosocial support to dramatically improve essential and basic life support
services.
It is instrumental in reducing the unacceptable, much too high
Mothers and Children deaths at birth , the unbridled
population over-growth which makes planning to improve the overall quality
difficult.
á I add that the program will help move away from the streets, untrained,
uninformed youths who are vulnerable to destructive terrorists acts, to skill
acquisition learning stations and thus serves also as counter-terrorism and
global peace measures on the long-term !
To translate our laudable plans into reality, I identified key decision makers
who we must meet to present our proposals and deliver them within the framework
of UN, Japan, World Bank , USA, UK and others
Post-2015 MDG agenda. Below are the key players in for new United
Nations â Post-2015 MDG agenda who we must meet;
1. UN Secretary General, His Excellency, . Mr.
Ban Ki-Moon the most important person behind transformation in Africa. and other developing continents.Mr.
Ki Moon has inaugurated the UN, Post- 2015 special committee, called UN
High-Level Panel (HLP) which held itÕs first meeting in Monrovia-Liberia on
Thursday , January 30th.
2. Head of the panel is Nigerian Mrs. Amina Mohammed,
the former MDG chief in Nigeria
3. President of Liberia, Dr.Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ,
President, Ellen Johnsons thinking is consistent with yours at GUS, She
believes that global standard education can best be delivered to Africa using
todayÕs, state-of-the-art information technology medium such as GLORIAD/ACE.
She delivered a lecture on this recently at the Columbia
University. ( see Picture in slide )
I I am sure you would have
participated if you knew she was coming there.
She also chaired the UN High-Level Panel meet in Monrovia, Liberia and
gave African civil society groups encouragement to present ideas for shaping
the post-2015 development agenda. She says that the next HLP meeting will be
held in Bali. She has told Africans to present a new set of goals to serve as
priorities for Africa development through the new UN- Post 2015 agenda.
Therefore, you can see Tak, that the Liberian
President will be responsible for some key interventions.
Hence we must present our proposals to her as well and partake in the
next HLP conference proposed for Bali ( The date is
not yet out, but I can get it from Mrs. Amina
Mohammed in New York when it is out ). To pre-sensitize her about our
platform, I suggest that she be included, if possible, along with others in an
expanded list I proposed for the ECOWAS nation Video-Conference.
4 The next person in the list we need to contact is President of the
World Bank, Mr. Jim Yong Kim. He is commitment to development, in particular to
stop corruption, one of the biggest to hurdle to development in Africa.
He can facilitate funds for projects he sees go to the right hands such as ours
because he sees the benefits for Africa.
5. UK prime Minister, Cameroon and her commissioner for development, These are
the most vocal of all European leaders concerning the development of Africa now ! .
6. USAID at US State Department and the guys you know there. My membership in
the American Bi-National Partnership Committee
and President Obama Organization for Action will also help.
7. Talk with JICA at the Japan Embassy.,
Washington, D.C .
This will help us drive access to the USD $4 Billion pledged by the Japanese
government at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development
(TICAD-IV) in Yokohama, Japan in 2008Õfor sub-Saharan African countries.
We sensitize them at the Embassy even before we go to the Yokohama TICAD-V conference in June, 2013.
The intervention actions plans I have in mind indeed extend beyond this
conference in Yokohama. In the Video- Conferencing presentation planned,
One of the GUS experts should present ICT facilitated
database documentation hardware.
To add to this ,I will show how elimination of Malaria
and other endemic diseases in the continent can be reduced by end of the
decade, if backed by appropriate digital Health surveillance and data
collection , (Malaria, HIV, Tuberculosis ) technical infrastructure and well
trained, knowledgeable personnel working at global standard level to manage
such information documentation. For the Telemedicine, I have request from
the Nigeria Ministry of Health to provide
on-line training for medical Doctors connecting them on web to Germany, UK and
the USA .
Any authentic proof of elimination of disease and poverty depends on
evidence-based documentation.
The Department of Labor in Nigeria has requested same to man their Vocational
training Centers nationwide. Countries like Liberia, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal,
Burkina Faso, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa etc all want same. So we have solid justification to show !.
In addition, GUS-broadband access will provide Early Warning System for natural
disaster prevention, demography and social support plans to complement the only
one system in the continent right now in Ethiopia.
- Weather tracking and reporting ;
- - Pre-warn population ahead of possible natural disaster and enable
safety measures to be pre-arranged for people, property , cattle and
crops allow timely support for disaster victims.
( the post flood disaster events right now in
Congo and in . Mozambique are classical examples where Digital early Warning
System can help safe lives and property and be instrumental for national peace
and stability.
We need to also show that GUS Low cost rural internet
access also promote economic well being and uplifting economy in the rural
regions where 75% of the population resides in Africa.
Web chats for trading for example, farmers market their
products digitally, transact cash transfers digitally.
Majority of African nations are in the lower income and lower-middle
income economic belts,. Gus Digital Training to
produce skilled personnel will help move the countries from this belt to Middle
Income and some even to Upper income zone within a decade.
It is also on record that institutional capacity building and co-ordination
have remained part of the strategies adopted by the Nigerian government for
tackling the questions of technological backwardness. For instance,
technological development in Southeast Asia was facilitated by a number of
systematic and deliberate policies directed for the building of various
institutions. The important lesson is that Asian experience has confirmed the
general view that human and institutional capacity buildings are critical to
technological development. In this context, GUS brings in the enabling
platforms through digital, global share on-line and off-line training for
Africans. And to make national natural resources be part of the global market
economic resources like every other continent. Oil Companies in Nigeria,
Angola, Mozambique, Liberia , Equatorial guinea etc all look for fast racked training vehicles to uplift
quantitatively and qualitatively, the low level indigenous competencies and
develop indigenous manpower in the Oil and natural resources industries.
All of these help fulfill hopes and the vision of a better life for millions of
Africans!
á Please Prof Tapis if he will be free to make it to Yokohama ? His input and networking will be extremely
useful.
There is a tidal wave of change and this is the time to push for this change in
Africa .
I am privileged to board this vehicle and be part of your humane and
committed team prepared to make disease, poverty and want, past history by the
end of this decade in Africa.. GUS- Help point
International foundation Partnership will be most appropriate to drive multi-
institutional Task Force under the framework of United Nations post-2015 MDG agenda .
á Secretary General, H.E .Ban Ki Moon made the honest decision that the UN
previously targeted goals for 2015 cannot be met. The challenges of corruption,
inadequate infrastructure, in-adequate trained human resource capacity in
Africa to generate reasonable income for citizens, continuous endemic and
preventable diseases, all block the chance for visible and palpable authentic
change by 2015 !
Consistent with our philosophy to bring change and transformation to
Africa and other developing nations, we must establish the enabling direct
contact and be part of the UN and other Institutions committed to change.
Please kindly consider the following as soon as you can.
(i) Extending the ECOWAS Digital Conference to key
UN, Post-2015 decision makers such as;
1. UN, Post 2015 agenda Chief Officer, Mrs. Amina
Mohammed is in New York at the UN office.
2. President Ellen Johnson in Monrovia, Liberia
3. Minister of Health
and Education in Nigeria
4. Minister of Labor and Productivity and Skills
Acquisition and Capacity Building in Nigeria
5. Presidential Adviser on Ethics and Standards
and Strategic actions in Nigeria
5. JICAÕs Chief Officer for Development at Embassy of Japan,
Washington, D.C
(ii) Official partnership agreement between your GUS and my Help Point
International Foundation
Please also see attached slides.
Thank you and best regards,
Prof. Edwin Scott Asemota, MD.,
DTMPH
Prof. of Medicine and CEO, Help Point International Foundation
Phone in Germany: ( + 49 ) 1578-7144-074
Phone in Nigeria ( +234) 81-6776-5921
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