Letter of Commitment and Support
for
CampusNet
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Manaus Community Development Network
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Subject: letter of support
re InfoDev application... Date: Sunday, February
10, 2002 1:38 PM From: David Levy
<axel@conted.lan.mcgill.ca> To:
<utsumi@columbia.edu> Priority: urgent Takeshi Utsumi Ph.D. Chair, GLOSAS/USA Dr.Utsumi: This is to offer our strong support for your InfoDev grant application. The work the grant will help sustain is absolutely critical. Now more than ever it is crucial to make clear the role global education must play in a world increasing inclined to war and violent resolutions of social and economic problems. David Levy McGill University |
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Subject: Letter of Commitment
to "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil" Date: Friday, February 8,
2002 3:56 PM From: Tapio Varis
<tapio.varis@uta.fi> To: <infodev@worldbank.org> Bruno Lanvin Executive Secretary
of DOT Force infoDev Work Program
Administrator The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
20433 8 February 2002 Dear Sir, This letter is to
express my personal commitment and institutional support to the Grant
application "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon,
Brazil" submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02). This Grant would make it
possible to continue our 1999 Tampere Workshop and promote the creation of
Global University System (GUS) as drafted in our 1999 workshop on
"Emerging global electronic distance learning" conference in
Tampere and proposed to be the basis of our UNESCO-TWIN programme. Tapio Varis Unesco Chair on
Global E-Learning, University of Tampere, Finland Acting President of Global University System |
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Subject: application of Amazon
project Date: Tuesday, February 5,
2002 7:18 PM From: McCarty
<mccarty@pop06.odn.ne.jp> Concerning the
"Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon,
Brazil" Grant application being submitted to the InfoDev, rest assured
that this is a labor of love for Global University System volunteers. So
please give this humanitarian project your utmost consideration. Steve McCarty Professor, Kagawa
Junior College, Japan President, World
Association for Online Education (WAOE): Residence: 3717-33
Nii, Kokubunji, Kagawa 769-0101 JAPAN Tel: +81-877-49-8041
(office, direct); Fax: +81-877-49-5252 E-mail:
steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp, mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp Website Map:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/ In Japanese:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/ http://www.waoe.org/president/index.html Global University
System Asia-Pacific Framework: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/ |
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Subject: RE: [gu-mmoa]
(02/10/02) Commitment and support letter to the InfoDev Date: Wednesday, February
13, 2002 6:51 AM From: daj
<daj@utk.edu> Tak: I have sent a letter
of support and commitment by FAX to Bruno Lanvin per your request. As I am not connected and this is
being sent from a Cybercafe, I cannot send a copy herewith to you. Please be assured, though, that it
strongly supports the project. I
do hope the application will be successful. Regards, Dave Johnson Bangalore, India David A. Johnson,
Ph.D., AICP Professor Emeritus of
Planning University of
Tennessee e-mail address:
daj@utk.edu web page:
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/ mailing address: 8
Hilltop Road
Asheville, NC 28803 telephone: 828 277 5792 |
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From: mardias
<mailto:mardias@wanadoo.fr>
To:
infodev@worldbank.org Sent: Tuesday, February
12, 2002 12:02 PM Subject: Community Development in Amazon 13 February 2002 To Bruno Lanvin Executive Secretary
of DOT Force Infodev Work Program
Administrator The World Bank 1818 H Street. N.W. Washington, D.C.
20433 Dear Sir, This message is to
manifestate my personal commitment and support to the Grant application
"Community Development with E-learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon,
Brazil, submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02). As you know, the idea
for this project was raised in Tampere during a conference organized in 1999,
in Tampere, Finland, by a group
of experts, under the leadership of drs. Tak Utsumi and Tapio Varis. At this occasion, the
basis were launched for the creation of a network of institutions dealing
with e-learning, in particular in the field of health. The network was called
GUS -Global University System- and, among its aim, we can find the idea of
giving more relevance to higher education institutions trough the utilization
of new technologies for contributing to the solution of pressing problems of
societies, in particular in developping countries. This particular
project in Amazon raised the enthousiasm of the academic community in the
Brazilian Amazonia. All public universities in the region decided to follow
the proposals made by dr. Alexandre Rivas from the Federal University of
Amazonia in Brazil to work together in this field, helping to find solution
to a serious problem of a population not well served in the field of health. This project, if
correctly implemented, will increase the relevance of higher education
institutions, will stimulate a social utilization of new technologies and
will deserve the interest of thousands of citizens not well covered by health
systems. In addition, it will be instrumental in consolidating a good idea:
the Global University
System, now having a solid basis in the University of Tampere trough the
UNESCO's chair on e-learning recently created. My best wishes Marco Antonio R. Dias United Nations
University Consultant Former Director of
the Division of Higher Education of UNESCO (1981-1999) Former Vice-Rector of the Univesity of Brasilia (1976-1980) |
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Subject: Re: Community
Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare Date: Sunday, February 10,
2002 11:14 PM From: Ermanno Pietrosemoli
<ermanno@ing.ula.ve> To: <Blanvin@worldbank.org>,
<i.nfodev@worldbank.org> > Mr. Bruno Lanvin > Executive
Secretary of DOT Force > infoDev Work
Program Administrator > The World Bank > 1818 H Street,
N.W. > Washington, D.C.
20433 > > > February 11,
2002 > > Dear Sir, > > This letter is
to express EsLaRed institutional support to the Grant > application
"Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in > Amazon,
Brazil" submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02). > > For the last 10
years, the Latin American Networking School (EsLaRed) > has organized
training activities directed to reap the benefits of > networking
technologies mainly in the fields of education, health and > community
networks. We grateful recognize the economic support of > InfoDev to
several of these efforts. > The proposed
activity in Brazil is directed to the same aims. > Furthermore, we
have been using wireless long range networking since > 1992 with
excellent results (it is part of the curriculum of our > training as
well), and believe that is particularly well suited to the > needs of many
areas where the communications infrastructure is > limited. > > So, we think
that the resources that InfoDev might apply to this > program will
have a profound impact on the lives of the amazonian > people. > Yours Truly, Ermanno Pietrosemoli President Latin American
Networking School (Fundacion Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes) Merida, Venezuela www.eslared.org |
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Subject: Commitment and
support Date: Monday, February 11,
2002 4:21 AM From: Salah Mandil
<salah@wisekey.ch> To: "'infodev@worldbank.org'"
<infodev@worldbank.org> Dear colleagues, This is to offer our
strong support for the InfoDev grant application by GLOSAS/USA. The grant is
to sustain the founding steps for a network to support critical work for
Amazonia - its people and its rich but dwindling nature. In my global,
extensive work in eHealth, TeleHealth and TeleMedicine, I have seen ample
proof of the great value of Information and Communication technologies, to
meet challenges such as those in Amazonia and which the project seeks to
address. And, I have also known
quite well how absolutely critical, indeed a requisite, is
"education" for such work.
Hence, our commitment and support for the Project. Our present world of
spectacular conflicts, and inhumanity, needs projects and work such as this
Amazonia project aims to do, so that we purposely divert those frustrations
and energies to address the socio-economic challenges. Salah MANDIL Geneva Salah Mandil, PhD Previously: Director, Health Informatics
& Telematics, World Health
Organisation, 1211 Geneva Switzerland. and, at present: Vice President
eStrategies, WiseKey S.A., 29, Route de
Prés-Bois, 1215 Geneva, Switzerland. tel: +41.22 929 5757 fax: +41.22 929 5702 eMail: salah@wisekey.ch |
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Subject: Letter of Commitment
to "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare Date: Sunday, February 10,
2002 9:57 PM From: Profitinafrica@aol.com To: <infodev@worldbank.org>,
<Blanvin@worldbank.org>, <vchaudhry1@worldbank.org>,
<ealavi@worldbank.org> Cc: <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
kirimik@atcnet.org Bruno Lanvin infoDev Work Program
Administrator The World Bank 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.
20433 10 February 2002 Dear Sir I am writing on
behalf of ATCnet to express our support for the Grant application
"Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon,
Brazil" recently submitted to the World Bank (1/25/02). This Grant makes
it possible for the Global University System (GUS) as drafted in a 1999
workshop on "Emerging global electronic distance learning" to move
further forward. ATCnet sees considerable value in what this next step will
facilitate, not only with reference to the specific area and country (Amazon
/ Brazil), but also in the broader international context. ATCnet anticipates
being able to take advantage of the lessons learned to accelerate its own
program of E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Africa in collaboration with the
GUS and its global collaborators. Sincerely Peter Burgess ______________ T. Peter Burgess VP and CFO ATCnet New York USA Tel 212 772 6918 ---------------------------- ATCnet Project for
Universal Accountability ATCnet Community
Cyber Networks ATCnet Database on
African Development and Enterprise ATCnet Database on
the African Health and HIV-AIDS Crisis ---------------------------- |
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Subject:
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Subject:
RE: [gu-l]
(02/27/02) UNESCO conference in Havana and possible GU S/Cuba project
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Subject: RE: [gu-mmoa] (03/14/02) Commitment and support letter to
the InfoDev (#3) and Decline of our InfoDev grant application Date: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:03 AM From: daj <daj@utk.edu> To: Tak Utsumi utsumi@columbia.edu February 10, 2002 Mr. Bruno Lanvin Executive Secretary of DOT Force InfoDev Work Program Administration The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC
20433 Re: "Community Development with E-Learning and
E-Healthcare-Amazonas, Brazil" Dear Mr. Lanvin: As a Board Member of the Global University System, I wish
to convey to you my personal commitment and institutional supprot for the
application referenced above that we have submitted to the InfoDev Program of
the World Bank. I am especially pleased to add my endorsement to this proposal
as it is the result, in part, of the linkage association of the University of
Tennessee and the University of Amazonas, which I helped institute more
than a decade ago. The proposal as developed by Dr. Tak Utsumi, Dr. Tapio Varis,
and Dr. Alexander Rivas is well-conceived and could have significat
multiplier effects throughout the Amazon basin and across national boundaries. It may also serve as a demonstration model for other areas in the
developing world where distances are great and landline connectivity is
limited. I am currently working in Central India, where similar problems and
opportunities exist. I do hope that the initial approval of our Infodev
submission will be granted. The Global
University System consists of some of the leading educators and technical resource people in the area of broadband
wirelesss applications to community and regional development. I have every confidence that the
proposal will have significant payoffs and wide
applicability. Please be assured
of my strong personal commitment to and support for the
project. Sincerely, David A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP Professor Emeritus of Planning The University of Tenness, Knoxville Lead Faculty Member, International Honors Program on Globalization, 2002 David A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP Professor Emeritus of Planning University of Tennessee e-mail address: daj@utk.edu web page: http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/ mailing address: 8 Hilltop Road
Asheville, NC 28803 telephone: 828 277 5792 |