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P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 229
FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
+358-3-3551-3608
+358-827-469-2747
Tel: +358-3-614-5608--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611 or +358-3-3551-3611
tapio.varis@uta.fi
tapio.varis@hamk.fi
tapio.varis@helsinki.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
www.ecml-eu.org -- about ECML project.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/mediaskills/

References:

(a) Takeshi Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)"
http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a
This is now out-grown to the GEWS project — see below.

(b) Takeshi Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System (GUS)"
http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7

The above two papers are in the following book;
(c) 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;
(d) “Interview with Takeshi Utsumi” by Parker Rossman
http://tinyurl.com/fnxxt

(e) The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) with The Global University System (GUS): Their Use Within ECOWAS Countries; A Priority Agenda Item of the First GEWS/GUS Planning Workshop at School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, and The Stevens Institute of Technology (August 2, 2012)
<http://tinyurl.com/bmo9ljj>

(f) “Q. and A. With Viviane Reding”
The New York Times, February 2, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/b2n9obb>

(g) “Data Protection Laws, an Ocean Apart”
The New York Times, February 2, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/aeesn6c>

(h) Viviane Reding, Commissioner of European Commission
"The Global University System and the European Union"
<http://tinyurl.com/2epu3k>

(i) (20121222) Tapio Varis' talk at our Columbia University seminar in the evening of April 17th (Wednesday)
<http://tinyurl.com/cnc5c2y>

(j) (20121223) Proposed GEWS/GUS conference at Stevens Institute of Technology on April 18th (Thursday)
<http://tinyurl.com/cbjsmzl>

Dear Tapio:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I below).

My wholehearted congratulations to your receiving the prestigious Golden Rule Award!!

One of its previous laureate is President of Finland Tarja Halonen. You are certainly deserve for it!!

(2) The Wikipedia says that the definition of the rule is the ethic of reciprocity. This concept describes a "reciprocal", or "two-way", relationship between one's self and others that involves both sides equally, and in a mutual fashion.

The “Reciprocity” is the lubricant for smooth functioning of society, which is vital necessity to attain global peace.

This is then also the basic concept of our GCEPG project (Reference (a) above), which is now outgrown to GEWS project (Reference (e) above).

Dear e-Colleagues:

(3) You may also be interested in reading References (f) and (g). This is because our GEWS project will heavily involve on the inter-linkage of various distributed simulation models scattered around the world with inter-exchange of massive exogenous data (which may correspond to the big data of World Trade Organization (WTO)) -- though those may not be quite same level as discussed in those references.

When we produced our book (Reference (c) above), Tapio kindly arranged to get an excellent greeting paper (Reference (h) above) from H.E. Ms. Viviane Reding, who was then the commissioner of telecommunications of the European Commission. As you see in the Reference (f) and (g), she is now the vice president of the European Commission and the justice commissioner of the European Union. She is certainly a remarkable person, and we had an extraordinary privilege to have her paper in our book.

Dear Tapio:

(4) Tapio, once again, very congratulations, indeed!!

Will see you at our Columbia University seminar in the evening of April 17th (Reference (i) above), and at the GEWS conference at the Stevens Institute of Technology on April 18th (Reference (j) above). We now start preparing to conduct “Global Lecture Hall (GLH)™” multipoint-to-multipoint, multimedia, interactive videoconference with selected ECOWAS countries members at this occasion.

Keep in touch.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: Tapio Varis <Tapio.Varis@uta.fi>
Subject: Tapio awarded
Date: February 8, 2013 2:30:35 PM EST
To: Tak Utsumi <takutsumi0@gmail.com>

Dear Tak,

I am happy to inform you of this Award I received yesterday.

Yours,

Tapio

ATTACHMENT II
GOLDEN RULE AWARD TO UNESCO-PROFESSOR TAPIO VARIS

Golden Rule Award (Kultainen sääntö -palkinto) has been awarded to Finnish UNESCO-professor Tapio Varis. He has greatly contributed four decades to create culture of peace, in promoting dialogue and values of new humanism. Tapio Varis has served as UNESCO Chair in global e-learning with applications to multiple domains.

"Internationalism and acceptance of cultural diversity mean having citizens who are committed to what happens to the planet and who are aware of the global scope of its problems. Only a media-based public sphere that promotes and gives direction to people´s participation can foster this new type of citizenship. This requires profound reform in the organization of the current communication networks as well as in their flows," says Tapio Varis.

Tapio Varis thinks, that education programs must be the fruit of cooperation and communication between people. Present day technologies are starting to enable this and global media literacy can help us to achieve this.

The Award was given at the Syria, dialogue and media -event organized by The Faiths Without Borders (Uskot ilman rajoja ry.) and netmedia Baabeli in co operation with Myllypuro media library in Helsinki, during the 2013 World Interfaith Harmony Week.

The Golden Rule Award was awarded by the Interfaith Dialogue Network, which consists of Helsinki Religious Forum of The United Religions Initiative (URI), Religions for Peace Women of Faith Network in Finland, Living together in Cities (Kaupunki yhteisönä ry.) and multiregional Faiths Without Borders (Uskot ilman rajoja ry.), Netmedia Baabeli has joined to this network. The Network works in fellowship with Parliament of the World’s Religions, which has named Helsinki as one of its Cities of Peace.

"The Golden Rule Award is a stone given as a sign of gratitude to people who try to implement The Golden Rule in practice. The Golden Rule is the ground for dialogue but it is actually the process of dialogue that leads people to really walk on the path of Golden Rule", says Heidi Rautionmaa, Finland’s Interfaith Dialogue Network Coordinator.

Previous Golden Rule awardees:
Professor Emeritus Reijo E. Heinonen, 2009
President of Finland Tarja Halonen, 2010
Fr. James Channan, OP and Grand Imam Maulana Abd-ul Khabir Azad, 2011

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Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman
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Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
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