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January 27, 2002

infoDev Work Program Administrator

The World Bank

1818 H Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20433

Phone: (202) 458-5153

Fax: (202) 522-3186

E-mail: infodev@worldbank.org

http://www.infodev.org/

Dear Sir :

On behalf of Professor Alex Rivas of the University of Amazonia, I am respectfully submitting you our joint project proposal "Community Development with E-Learning and E-Healthcare in Amazon, Brazil." Professor Rivas is the Principal Investigator and I am the Co-Principal Investigator of this project.

I am sending the proposal in the following three formats,

1. Attachments to the email of this letter,

2. Hard copy by a separate, express delivery mail with

3. CD-R diskette.

The CD-R diskette will provide you with full hyperlinkages in the document, which cannot be done with the attachments to the email. The files in the folders in the CD-R diskette are either in Microsoft WORD or Rich Text Format (RTF) as you specified.

You will also receive an official letter from Dr. Hidembergue Frota, Rector of the University of Amazonia, with regard to this submission.

We look forward to receiving your favorable response soon.

Very sincerely yours,

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.

V.P. for Technology and Coordination of Global University System (GUS)

Chairman, GLOSAS/USA

cc: Prof. Alex Rivas

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Secretariat, Emerging GLOBAL UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (GUS) CONSORTIUM
Chairman: Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.; Vice Chairman: Louis Padulo, Ph.D.;
Board Members: David Johnson, Ph.D., Peter Knight, Ph.D., Joseph Pelton, Ph.D., Tapio Varis, Ph.D.;
Secretary: Ben Haraguchi, J.D.; Treasurer: Hisae Utsumi