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Sidiki Traore <straore@deafrica.org>
Prof. Edwin Scott Asemota, MD.,
DTMPH <Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de>
Chris Uwaje, (Fncs, Fiap) <uwajenet@gmail.com>
References:
(a) (20130603) Dear Dr. Utsumi - a
humble request for information
<http://tinyurl.com/lq9d32m>
(b) JapanÕs Assistance Package for Africa at TICADV (*)
<http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000005505.pdf>
(*) Tokyo International Conference on
African Development
(c) Philosophy
and Realization of Global (electronic) University (GU) System
Acceptance Speech by Dr. Takeshi Utsum
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Perry-Award/Page/Perry1A.htm>
Dear Sidiki:
(1) Many thanks for your msg
(ATTACHMENT I below), in response to the Reference (a) above.
(2) My wholehearted congratulations to your successful launch of DeAfrica e-learning project.
You may visit the Japanese Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, and ask about their newly
announced assistance (Reference (b) above(*)).
They may be able to introduce you some Japanese e-learning courses, which
may be able for your students in Kenya be able to receive.
(*) As
you see in this web site, at the TICAD in Yokohama in Japan on June 1-3, the
Japanese government announced US$32 billion
assistance to Africa — including US$14 billion out of the Japanese
governmentÕs Official Development Assistance (ODA) fund — in the next 5
years. This is in addition of US$6.5 billion for construction of
transportation highways — the TICAD-IV in 2008 did announced
US$4 billion for the same.
Dear Edwin:
(3) Many thanks for your msg
with kind words (ATTACHMENT II below), in response to the
Reference (a) above.
Figure 1: <http://tinyurl.com/kuku4ae>
The leader ought to be at the
bottom of the inverse pyramid to energize youngstersÕ creativity — as
boiling water with a fire so that water molecules jumps
vigorously — as the so-called ÒBrown Movement.Ó This is
particularly necessary for Africa where there are abundantly
available young brainpower, which is the raw material of the Knowledge
Society in the 21st Century.
BTW, the original of this figure was appeared in the Reference (c) above.
Dear Chris:
(4) Many thanks for your msg
with kind words (ATTACHMENT III below), in response to the
Reference (a) above.
Your observation of our GEWS project sounds like ÒZenÓ Buddhism. Thank
you very much, indeed!!
As you may recall, the Late Steve Jobs of Apple was a firm Zen Buddhist as
often taking his kids to Kyoto to learn its simplicity and serenity for
building the world largest technological giant in just a few decades. -- his firm believing in eastern culture prevented him to take
western medical care, and hence led to his death.
On the other hand, Ibuka, the founder of SONY, took
the transistor technology out of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ
which became the essence of Walkman tape-recorder. According a
legend, Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris recorded his teaching into the Walkman and
sent its tape to Teheran for mass distribution which
subsequently brought the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Some then call it
the SONY revolution. As seeing the demise of SONY in recent years, a New
York Times article said that SONY should have acquired Apple instead of going
to Hollywood. In a sense, this is the symbol of the failure of transition
from analog to digital culture in Japan.
You may be interested in this Japanese phenomena, as
the President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).
(5) Yes, Òwe have much more work ahead of us all,Ó as you aptly say. I am
now preparing the grant application for the planning workshop which will have a
demonstration to verify the energy proposition made by Obama/Gore — see
its brief below;
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We will conduct a gaming/simulation demonstration on the following two GKCN
(GEWS) concepts under the auspices of the Center for International Conflict
Resolution in the School of International and Public Affair (SIPA) of Columbia
University in New York City in the first day of the workshop (*) to be
organized;
(*) This workshop
is to be after the one at the Stevens Institute of Technology — for
which, we already submitted our grant application to the NSF.
(a) Paradigm shift in the international political
science field with the combined use of normative (role-playing) gaming and
quantitative (model-based) simulation,
(b) Distributed simulation as using both of Nigerian and US simulation
models, which will be interlinked through broadband Internet with the
GLOSAS/USAÕs patent pending procedure.
The objective is to verify the energy policy proposed by President Barack Obama
and former Vice President Al Gore, specifically, their emphasis on replacing
fossil fuels with renewable sources (e.g., wind and/or solar energy) to
generate electricity in the USA in ten years <http://tinyurl.com/66sk9d>
in relation to appropriate allocation of oil revenue in Niger Delta of Nigeria
<http://tinyurl.com/2df8ybu>.
We will examine how this would affect oil revenue in Niger Delta of Nigeria,
and the consequences to other economic and social structures, particularly in
Nigeria. We will ask if this is a viable direction with global
perspectives.
If their policies succeed, there would be a change in revenue to the Nigerian
government. Also, what would be the consequences to other economic and social
structures in the US and in other countries, particularly Nigeria? Would
this be a viable direction with global perspectives?
This is because 97% of total Nigerian federal government revenue comes from oil
export, 40% of which is exported to North America — another 23% to Europe
and 16% to the Far Eastern countries, including Japan, South Korea, and China.
Thus, if Gore and ObamaÕs proposals succeed in the U.S. (and are emulated in
Far Eastern countries later), it would mean the end of oil revenue for the
Nigerian government — in a sense, a severe blow to them.
We will balance the global consequences of the proposal with the national
consequences for Nigeria, which could be devastating, particularly when the US
is expected to become energy independent with the use of hydraulic fracturing
technology for producing shale oil and gas by 2030, in addition to Gore/Obama
energy proposition mentioned above.
A remedy to cope with this devastating crisis could be as follows: the money
saved by the US and the Far Eastern countries as a consequence of not importing
oil from Nigeria may be reserved as credits for the Cap and Trade system, which
would be donated to:
(a) Nigeria, to establish the so-called Education Center
in Niger Delta region emulating Qatar, to export educational services to nearby
countries as Cuba does,
(b) ECOWAS (which includes Nigeria) to foster e-learning, e-healthcare
and e-governance, etc. in its member and other African countries with
ÒPeace-CorpsÓ type help from Nigeria, particularly with the use of newly
launched Nigerian domestic satellite.
This would be the win-win solution at a global scale.
After this event, we plan to continue this gaming/simulation exercise in
collaborative fashion between Columbia University and Nigerian universities,
e.g., Obafemi Awolowo
University, Rivers State University of Science and Technology in Port Harcourt,
etc.
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Keep in touch.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From: Sidiki Traore <straore@deafrica.org>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20130603) Dear
Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for information
Date: June 3, 2013 2:01:29 PM EDT
To: Takeshi Utsumi
<takutsumi0@gmail.com>
Cc: waoe@waoe.org, waoestev@pdx.edu, benjamin.peterson@gmail.com
Dear Tak
Hope you are doing well. I am still in Nairobi, Kenya. Distance Education For
Africa (deafrica) has launched its courses and
services.
We offer courses in IT, Journalism, English Language. Our programs are offered in both French and English.
We also collaborate with African Universities to provide capacity building for
their staff and we seek funding jointly to work on projects.
Deafrica would like to collaborate with some
institutions dealing with Online Learning and Teaching in Japan to do joint
projects.
Any suggestion will be welcome.
Regards
Sidiki
ATTACHMENT
II
From: "Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de" <Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20130603) Dear
Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for information
Date: June 3, 2013 7:37:44 PM EDT
To: takutsumi0@gmail.com
Reply-To:
"Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de" <Scotta-Help-point@t-online.de>
Dear Tak,
Again and again, I feel privileged to be linked to an outstanding humanitarian
and visionary, humble facilitator of the better ' World We Want', your
humble self !
Your efforts will not be in vain !!!
Benjamin Peterson, now trailing the path of history close to Hiroshima indeed
knows how lucky he is to be in your good company.
Your work with Prof. Tapio
Varis,
' 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 in http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
or better yet at <http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7> -- this line was added by Tak Utaumi on 6/5/13.
is a ' Must read material' and is my priority for
tomorrow.
Now is 1.40 am in Germany and is time to go to bed.
Kindest regards,
Edwin.
ATTACHMENT
III
From: uwajenet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20130603) Dear
Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for information
Date: June 3, 2013 4:04:27 PM EDT
To: takutsumi0@gmail.com,"gu-new"
<gu-new@friends-partners.org>
Cc: waoe@waoe.org,waoestev@pdx.edu
Reply-To:
uwajenet@gmail.com
Dear Prof. Utsumi,
Greetings. Great engagement
I read the submission of Benjamin Peterson with great delight.
His thought process has confirmed once more - and vividly so, that, though
'human live will eventually be irreversibly and positively transformed' to a
point that there will be no difference between human and machine or between
physical and virtual reality.
But the hard fact remains that as laudable as the above goal is, it may not be
achieved without World Peace Gaming strategy;and by extension - sustained by collective
Broad-minded service mission.
For this and other reasonsn we must appreciate the deeply
commited knowledge advocacy efforts
promoted by a formidably dynamic group such as GEWS and
Associates, under the leadership of Prof. Tak Utsumi.
Thank you Prof.- there are much more work ahead of us all.
Best Regards,
Chris Uwaje (FNCS)
President, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria
(ISPON)
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Sidiki Traore
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Enseignement ˆ Distance pour lÕAfrique (EdAfrique)
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Nairobi, Kenya
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Bio and
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CV: http://tiny.cc/egfsq
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
Chris Uwaje, (Fncs, Fiap)
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