Bruce Best
University of Guam

Roger Boston
Houston Community College System

G. Robert Converse
Maui Community College

Renee A Ebert
UCLA School of Public Health

Sherrilynne Fuller
University of Washington

Daniel Hague
University of Michigan

Ben I. Haraguchi
Foundation for the Support of the United Nations (FSUN)

David A. Johnson
University of Tennessee/Knoxville

Bill Klemm
Texas A&M University

Steve McCarty
Kagawa Junior College

Kimberly K. Obbink
Montana State University

Norman H. Okamura
University of Hawaii

Nels D. Sanddal
Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation

John H. Southworth
University of Hawaii

Takeshi Utsumi
GLOSAS/USA

Richard Wah
University of South Pacific

Roger Boston

I. Address:

Roger Lee Boston
Rockwell Chair Instructor and Consultant for Creativity
Distance Education/Technology Center
Office of the Presiden
Houston Community College System
4310 Dunlavy Street
P.O.Box 7849
Houston, TX 77270-7849
USA
Tel: +1-713-718 5224
Page Unit 713 765 9494 and in 24hr/day
Fax: +1-713-718 5301
rboston@tenet.edu
boston_r@hccs.cc.tx.us (secondary)
http://www.rboston.com
http://www.teched.org/
http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

He will be the instructor for the workshop on “Low Cost Teleconferencing" which will demonstrate various synchronous videoconferencing technologies with the effective use of currently available narrowband Internet. He will also introduce several distance learning courses available from his Houston Community College.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

His college will engage in the exchange of educational/vocational training
courses with the counterpart educational institutions in the Philippines through the global narrowband (and broadband later when available) Internet networks.

IV. Bio:

Roger Boston is currently with the faculty of the Houston Community College System and holds the joint titles of "Rockwell Chair" and "Consultant for Creativity", an innovation supported by the Rockwell Foundation since 1985.

A transplant from private industry a decade and a half ago where he was involved as an information systems manager, he has built an international reputation in distance learning since helping his organization to go "online" with their credit courses in the late 1980's.

He is a member of the PBS Going the Distance Advisory Group, the State of Texas Distance Learning Master planning group, a teacher with the Virtual College of Texas, and is instrumental in the restructuring efforts now ongoing within the Houston Community College System to deliver distance courses more effectively.

He has worked with more than four dozen organizations coast to coast to help them in their efforts to implement electronic and multimedia instructional delivery systems and is a frequent presenter at gatherings of the ITC and other groups interested in Distance Learning. He is pioneering in the use of low-bandwidth collaborative tools for instruction delivery across the internet and often teaches his classes from remote areas to test the technology.

Frequently on-camera and behind the scenes for the Texas STARLINK group (e.g., http://www.teched.org/starlink), hosting and moderating satellite teleconferences and internet webcasts, he is also active in the CAADE (Consortium for the Advancement of Affordable Distance Education) and assists that group in its efforts to deliver instruction worldwide via internet and via lower-bandwidth POTS connections.

Since 1997 he has been an active participant in the "Global LEARN Day" movement, working behind the scenes and on camera in numerous global events to help user in the age of truly world wide delivery of instruction.

He was the 1995 recipient of the ACCT Western Region Faculty Award, and his former students have built up a scholarship fund in his name of more than sixty thousand dollars, going to deserving students electing a career in computers and information technology.
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G. Robert Converse

I. Address:

G. Robert Converse
Project Director/Principal Investigator
National Science Foundation Advanced Technology Education Project
Project Director – USDOE Title III Project
EdTech Support Coordinator – UH-UK Faulkes Telescope Project
Co-PI MCC-CalTech Super Computing Specialties Project
Beowulf Cluster Project Director
Special Assistant to the Dean
Maui Community College
310 Ka'a Humanu Ave.
Kahului, Hawaii 96732
USA
Tel: +1-808-984 3447
Fax: +1-808-244 0862
bob.converse@mauicc.Hawaii.Edu
http://www.ecet.mauicc.hawaii.edu
http://www.ecet.mauicc.hawaii.edu/ecet/presentations/
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

1. He will actively participate in the construction of the pilot project proposal for the establishment of the global broadband wireless/satellite Internet in the Philippines.
   
2. He will make a presentation on Hawaii's SkyBridge System (a microwave network among Hawaiian islands) which may be applicable to many locations in the Philippines.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

1. He will be the major coordinator in Hawaii for the project of establishing the Pacific/Asia broadband Internet,
   
2. His college will help the operation of the Maui Research and Technology Center and also engage in the exchange of educational/vocational training courses with the counterpart educational institutions in the Philippines.

Programs currently offered by Maui Community College via Distance Education include but are not limited to the following; Administration of Justice, Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology and Practical Nursing. In addition there are several individual classes in the humanities, language arts and the sciences including mathematics. MCC also has a RN Program on campus. Several courses are offered on line including English, mathematics and economics. MCC is in the planning stages for an on-line AA Degree in liberal arts and a new program and the AS Degree in Disaster Management which is being developed in cooperation with George Washington University. Another program in the planning stages is the AS Degree in Super Computing Specialties. This program will have some on-line courses and will include a 6 month certificate program for individuals already degreed in ICS. This is being developed in cooperation with ISI at USC and NSF. MCC is also implementing an on-line English tutoring program.

IV. Bio:

G. Robert Converse has been a community college administrator and resource developer for over 25 years. He has written and administered over ten million dollars in funded projects. He has over twenty years experience as an academic administrator in Pacific Rim Education having served as Academic Dean at American Samoa Community College and as Learning Center Director and Special Assistant to the Academic Dean at Maui Community College. He has also served as a student services administrator at Penn State’s Pennsylvania College of Technology. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the State of Hawaii DOE-NSF Project.

His experience with Pacific Rim Education includes high technology and telecourse program development for diverse populations including Pacific Islanders in American Samoa and the large population of Native Hawaiians, Oriental and Filipino students at Maui Community College.

Mr. Converse is currently active in the implementation of distance education delivery of English, Computer Engineering Technology and Electronics Engineering Technology Programs via interactive television and the world wide web. Components of the ECET Program that have been adopted internationally include the NIDA workstation interactive CU-SeeMe laboratory and the QuizCenter web-based test center. Converse has been a presenter at seven national conferences in the past three years including three by the League for Innovation and one international conference. He is the author and developer of the Bootstraps developmental education program for minority students.
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Renee A Ebert, MPH

I. Address:

Renee A Ebert, MPH
Coordinator for International Distance Learning Project
UCLA School of Public Health
409 Colton Street
Newport Beach, California 92663
Phone: 949-642-4650
Fax: 949-646-2289
Email: rebert@ucla.edu
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

A Speaker at the mini-workshop.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Extend distance learning courses on public health to the Philippines -- see below.

IV. Bio:

Nationality: US Citizen

Education:
UCLA Masters Degree in Public Health
Applicant to UCLA Doctoral Program for distance learning to rural U.S. and developing countries

Current Post: Coordinator for International Distance Learning. Public Health Education curriculum for a global community through satellite live lectures from UCLA to initial contact, Ministries of Health in Cairo, Egypt and Uganda. Purpose of project: to use telecommunications for live including Internet connectivity in its newest formats (webcasting) to developing nations. Position is as coordinator working with Osman Galal, MD, PhD and Paul Torrens, MD, MPH at UCLA. Work consists of identifying corporations to support the project, creating a public health dialogue for corporations that helps define the importance of the project.

Past Post: Hughes Satellite & Telecommunications – Research of healthcare industry at large for telecommunications. Included developing nations seeking access to twenty-first century health care for application at the community level to educate populations.

Current Research Interests include identifying the best ways to achieve satisfactory telecommunications links to developing nations for public health education. The purpose of the project is to increase education while decrease serious attrition of physicians from developing countries. Work closely with telecommunications industry to fine tune delivery of live lectures, use of Internet II via satellite signal for live, broadcast (webcasting) quality seminar and interaction between UCLA and Ministry of Health in Cairo and Natal University Medical School in Durban, South Africa. Interface with UCLA technical group. Communicate with consultant staff at WHO where project will be evaluated for content among other criteria. Work closely with the principal investigators on issues of curriculum content, aides to teaching students. Meet and make presentations to physician delegations from Indonesia, Egypt and Saudi Arabia to introduce the distance learning concept. Write speeches on distance learning for important meetings.

Experience as it relates to current work is extensive in rural health care needs in terms of education as a means to improve rural health. Work includes direct contact through consulting with rural hospitals throughout the United States to build medical and nursing staff and educational programs. As part of consulting I have conferred directly with a cross section of community leaders, physicians administrators and those representative of the population, conducting needs assessments and implementing and improving health care delivery programs.

Publications, Abstracts, Presentations:

Role of University in Developed Country Toward Interface/Development with University in Developing Country, Speech, January 1999

Distance Learning for Public Health Education, Lecture at Chapman University for graduate students, December 1998

Internet connectivity via satellite for public health distance learning, Lecture at UCLA to visiting delegation of Obstetricians from Egypt. July 1998

Public Health Education to Developing Countries using Satellite and other Telecommunications Technologies, Renee Ebert, MPH, copyright November 1997.

Health Practices for the Village – health education/applications for nurses and paramedics. Lecture at UCLA Library to Indonesian Hospital Association, Directors of Hospitals, June 1997

Telecommunications in integrated systems to address total education needs – from physician to patient. Panel discussion at Telemedicine Summit, May 1997

Interactive Distance Learning and the Masters in Public Health Degree, Lecture presented at UCLA to Egyptian Physician Delegation, 1996

Similarities in Health Care Needs for Developing Countries and Rural America, Presentation at University of Southern California to Hungarian Medical Society President and Officers, August, 1993

Collaborative efforts with Health and Human Services & Public Health Scholarship: Matching physicians to communities. Presentation to American Rural Health Association, Washington, DC, 1983
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Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D.

I. Address:

Sherrilynne Fuller, Ph.D.
Head, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Department of Medical Education
School of Medicine  35-7155
Director, Health Sciences Libraries 35-7155
University of Washington
Seattle, WA  98195
206-543-5531
Fax: 206-543-3389
sfuller@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/sfuller/

II. Reason for selection:

Dr. Fuller already has an excellent program with the University of the Philippines which can be strengthen with her attendance at this workshop, including a possible distance learning project. Her precedence can also be a good example to others to follow.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Dr. Fuller has been working with Dr. Herman Tollentino and his colleagues as the University of the Philippines in Manila to develop a graduate student and faculty exchange program with her institution, the University of Washington, Seattle in the area of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Dr. Herman Tollentino was a fellow in biomedical informatics at the UW and as a result of the work he did while at UW and our mutual interest in developing further relationships between our institutions, in November, 1999. Dr. Fuller was invited to visit the University of the Philippines in Manila to plan for this exchange program. While there she did two lectures and met with a number of faculty and librarians to discuss the further development of educational programs and potential telemedicine activities. Information regarding the UW graduation program in Biomedical and Health Informatics can be found at: http://depts.washington.edu/uwmeded/dbi/dbi.html.

Participation in the workshop will assist in the further development of the graduate student and faculty exchange program including discussion of potential online educational offerings that might be developed to support this program.

IV. Bio:

Sherrilynne Fuller is Head, Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, School of Medicine and Coordinator, Health Sciences Information Systems Integration, Health Sciences Center, University of Washington, Seattle. Her other responsibilities at UW include; Director, Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center at the University of Washington; Director, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region, and Assistant Director of Libraries. Dr. Fuller holds joint faculty appointments in the Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine and School of Library and Information Science and has an adjunct appointment in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Dr. Fuller has a BA degree in Biology, a Master's in Library Science from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern California. Dr. Fuller's areas of research interests include analysis and representation of text, integrated health information systems design and evaluation of information technology in support of improved health information access and healthcare.

Dr. Fuller is the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded grants and contracts including Bench to Bedside and Beyond: Building and Testing a Regional Telemedicine Testbed, a Connections Program to link Pacific Northwest Native American tribes to the internet in support of health information access and is co-principal investigator of a Next Generation Internet contract to develop Patient-Centric Tools for Regional Collaborative Cancer Care with the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

Dr. Fuller is a member of the President's (White House) Information Technology Advisory Committee and a member of the Board of Directors of the Internet Policy Institute. She has served on the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine and as a Board Member of the American Medical Informatics Association. She is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
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R. Daniel Hague

I. Address:

R. Daniel Hague, BSEE, FE
Director of Video Services
Information Technology Division
The University of Michigan Health System
4251 Plymouth Road #2235
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785
Tel: 734-763-0698
Fax: 734 615-1727
Video: 2x64 734.615.2756/57
dhague@umich.edu
dhague@netscape.net
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dhague
http://www.ns.itd.umich.edu/groups/Engin/Digital_Video/digvid.html
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

He is a key person (loaned from the University of Michigan) for our telemedicine demonstration during our Manila workshop which is to open the eyes of decision-makers for the value of broadband Internet so that they will deploy it in the Philippines at their earliest possible time.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

He can integrate technology providers together very quickly and with a high degree of success. The following article about the Manaus/Amazona/Brazil workshop on May 31st, 2000 was based on a three 16 hour days with anywhere from 6 to 20 technologists pulling together the event. He would consider himself the Project Manager / Engineer for these technologists. On day one they had to build a digital microwave link between the local telephone company (EMBRATEL) and one of the local television stations (TV AMAZONAS). On day two they had to install a PBX to convert the fractional T-1 signal to 4 each BRI signals. The PBX manufacturer (Phillips) representatives were under a lot of pressure to complete an entire PBX installation in one day. They had some real challanges since the PBX was missing a power supply and had at least one bad CPU card. Finally, on day three they installed the video conferencing equipment and started testing the EMBRATEL trunks, digital microwave, PBX and video conferencing gear as a complete system. The entire system came together at 6 pm that evening for a 7 pm event.

What the workshop coordinators were told by EMBRATEL and Phillips was that the digital microwave and the PBX would be installed before he arrived on site. His role was to have three days to interconnect the Aligent Echocardiograph with the video conferencing system and make sure the University of Michigan physician and technologist in Ann Arbor were solidly connected to the Manaus studio. A solid connection was required because of the images from Manaus were to be commented on in real time by the physician in Ann Arbor. What happened was very difficult to complete inside such a short time frame, but he was told by many that this was the highlight of the workshop and that makes it worth the effort. He would like to have the same success at the Philippines workshop if possible, but much of the work can be done before he gets there this time. We need 3 each ISDN BRI lines configured for International Order Code (IOC) "S".

On May 31, 2000 Dr. Starling from the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) and Dr. Mariano from University of Amazonas Hospital performed a telemedicine consult between the Michigan and Amazon. The consultation was over a young man with a severe heart problem requiring prompt surgury. The specific type of heart problem is an area of study by the National Institute of Health (NIH). Dr. Starling is currently working under two of these NIH grants and was very willing to share his findings with Dr. Mariano over the video conferencing link. While the physcians simultaneously studied the echocardiograph they dialoged with each other and the medical technologists operating the equipment. The technologists manipulated various heart scanners, cardio microphones and electrical impulse monitors. The physicians spoke through an interpreter in Manaus. The interpreter remained close to the video conferencing speakers and microphones to brige the gap between English and Portuguese. No translation was required for medical terms; subjective dialog was greatly enhanced by the presence of the interpreter. The physicians consultated with each other for about 30 minutes concluding with a treatment plan specific to the patient. The consultation was very successful based on post consultation interviews with the physicians.

The entire telemedicine consultation was televised and streamed over the internet. The local television company (TV AMAZONAS) uplinked the feed to AMAZONSAT who broadcast the signal to the entire country of Brasil and beyond to Venezuela and Columbia. The TV station packaged the telemedicine consultation as a prime time program with a live 10 man crew, studio with lights and cameras, control room, uplink and many more resources. The TV crew created picture in picture images of the attending and referring physicians, close up shots of the diagnostic equipment and close ups of a studio audience asking questions about the technology and how to be able to use such resources for business and distance learning as well as telemedicine.

IV. Bio:

Mr. Hague's major deployment interest is using existing and new communication networks for the interconnection of distance learning and telemedicine equipment that will facilitate bridging the gap between people that have educational and medical needs and those that want to provide that education and medical consultation.

He hold B.S.E.E. degree (1983) from the Michigan Technological University and is a Certified Limited Journeyman Limited Energy (LELJ) License Instructor.

In addition to his successful deployment of hundreds of network backbones for Fortune 500 companies and universities since 1985, he has held various training classes on the operation of these installations for medical and educational personnel.

Selected Installations and Classes:

US West National Electrical Code training - 435 students

AT&T National Electrical Code training - 100 students

Bronson Total Health - Main Hospital to Remote Clinic telemed system design, implementation, install and maintenance

University of Michigan Business School - MCU video server: engineering, design, installation and implementation.

REMEC TeleHealth / Munson Medical Center - EFI Emergency room telemedicine solution including support agreement and maintenance

University of Michigan Athletics - Video streamer: engineering, design and implementation.

St. Jude's Children's Hospital - Satellite link for telemedicine outreach in Beirut, Lebanon design and implementation.

University of Michigan main campus - EFI shared T-1 codec solution including complete campus digital video service level agreement and web based product offering

St. Jude's Children's Hospital - ISDN for telemedicine outreach in Racifeí, Brazil design and implementation.

University of Michigan Medical Center - Lead Engineer for specialized interactive television system design for 800 patient rooms and staff areas to be integrated with various digital video sources and destinations.

University of Michigan Medical Center - EFI Centrex ISDN PRI Digital Video Boardroom/Desktop Telemedicine systems (on going)

University of Michigan main campus - EFI 750 MHz hybrid fiber/coax CATV system to 5,400 dorm rooms and 600 lecture halls, auditoriums and staff offices

NIKE corporate headquarters - EFI 2,500 faceplate net (tele/data/video)

National Semi Conductor headquarters - EFI 1,100 Ethernet nodes in 10 buildings

University of Michigan main Campus - Furnish and install fiber optics to 45 buildings
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Ben I. Haraguchi

I. Address:

Ben I. Haraguchi
Former President
Foundation for the Support of the United Nations (FSUN)
809 United Nations Plaza, Suite 1200
New York, NY 10017
USA
Tel: +1-212-986 8114
Fax: +1-212-986 8131
haralaw@cs.com
http://www.fsun.org

II. Reason for selection:

He and his colleagues of his organization in Manila are spearheading this project with Kim Obbink.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Coordination and administration of this project.

IV. Bio:

Mr. Haraguchi received his A.B. degree (with distinction) from Stanford University in 1964, an M.A. degree from the University of Hawaii (East West Center) in 1966, and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1969.

He is a partner at the Law Firm of Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, which he joined in 1993 from his previous Law Firm of Morrison & Forester at which he was also a partner.

Mr. Haraguchi's corporate practice includes extensive experience in negotiating and documenting asset and stock acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, technical assistance and licensing agreements, corporate reorganizations and divestitures, and financing of all kinds. He has represented firms in establishing manufacturing facilities throughout the United States, assisting in site selection and acquisition, state and local economic development assistance, construction and financing and has organized a number of seminars for Japanese companies with the New York State Department of Commerce and JETRO in Tokyo and New York City on investing in the United States.

His representation of international clients in joint ventures covers the fields of new materials, auto parts, steel products, machinery and machine tools, heavy industrial equipment, computers, software, smelting, refining, and mining. He has also been extensively involved in the work out of troubled joint ventures.

Mr. Haraguchi's real estate practice includes extensive experience in the acquisition, development, environmental clean-up and disposition of real estate of all kinds. He has been involved in a number of office building acquisitions, ski resort and golf course acquisitions and the organization and sale of golf club memberships and has advised clients with respect to the securities and tax aspects of such sales.

Mr. Haraguchi is a co-founder, officer and director of the Foundation for the Support of the United Nations and a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
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Dr. David A. Johnson

I. Address:

Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Former President of Fulbright Association
Professor Emeritus of Planning
School of Planning
College of Arts and Sciences
The University of Tennessee
108 Hoskins Library
1401 Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4015
tel 423 974-5227
fax 423 974-5229
e-mail: daj@utk.edu
web page: http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

Board member of GLOSAS/USA, and a Speaker at the mini-workshop. He will also present available courses on environment from his university.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Coordination and administration of this project.

Dr. Johnson has participated in GLOSAS distance learning workshops between the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Moscow and Budapest. He presented a paper at the EGEDL conference in Tampere, Finland in August 1999. Dr. Johnson is developing an on-line version of a four week training program offered by the University of Tennessee on "Management for Sustainable Natural Resource Development and Environmental Protection." His participation in the workshop would provide an opportunity to match the course with needs in the Philippines and the South Pacific region.

IV. Bio:

Born: New York, NY, Dec 8, 1935

Education: Yale University, (BA, 1957); Yale University, (MCP, 1963);
Cornell University (PhD, Regional Planning, 1974).

Biosketch of David A. Johnson

David A. Johnson, AICP, is Professor Emeritus of Planning at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he served for 19 years. He was also an elected faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tennessee. Previously he taught in and directed planning departments at Syracuse University and Ball State University.

Prof. Johnson received bachelors and masters degrees in architecture and city planning from Yale University and a PhD in regional planning from Cornell University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus, India, Thailand, and the Soviet Union. He is a past President of the Fulbright Association of the United States. Johnson has directed university linkage projects in a number of countries including Manaus, Brazil and Coimbra, Portugal. Most recently, he has been active in reconstruction efforts in Bosnia and bicommunal peace-making in Cyprus.

Prior to embarking on a teaching career Prof. Johnson served as a professional planner on the staffs of the Washington National Capital Planning Commission and the Regional Plan Association of New York. His published writings have focused on planning theory and history. He has written numerous articles on the planning activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the development of the New York Metropolitan Region.

He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Planning Association and is the author of PLANNING THE GREAT METROPOLIS, London: Chapman & Hall, 1996. Dr. Johnson is active in international distance education and is an advisor to the Global University System, based in Tampere, Finland.
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W. R. (Bill) Klemm

I. Address:

W. R. (Bill) Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Dept. VAPH, Mail Stop 4458
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4458
Phone: 409-845-4201
wklemm@cvm.tamu.edu
www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm
www.foruminc.com
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

Professor Bill Klemm will present his FORUM computer mediated multimedia conferencing system at the workshop. This system will be one of key distance learning tools for the export of the U.S. courses to various overseas countries which hopefully will become educational exchange among countries in the near future. He will also present many available courses from his university to learners in Amazon areas of the South America.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

After the conference Prof. Klemm will perform training of trainers on the use of his FORUM at the subsequent workshops to ensure its effective use.

IV. Bio:

Dr. W. R. (Bill) Klemm is a graduate veterinarian (1958, Auburn), with a Ph.D. in Biology (1963, Notre Dame). He is a widely published and cited neuroscientist. In recent years, the electronic information age has captured his attention, particularly toward applying technology to improve educational practice. He serves on the Editorial Board of an Internet journal, The Technology Source. Dr. Klemm is a pioneer in the use of computer conferencing environments for collaborative learning, winning in 1993 the 1st Prize, in the international contest for "Best New Idea in Electronic Distance Education" awarded by the Center for Pedagocial Informatics, Geneva, Switzerland. This idea created the design principles for development of a unique asynchronous conferencing system (FORUM98, www.foruminc.com). He gives numerous presentations and publishes widely on collaborative learning and computer conferencing (see www.cvm.tamu.edu/wklemm/contents.htm).

Bill uses FORUM in two courses over the Internet. One course, "Science and Technology Practices and Policies in Biomedical Research," focuses on careers in S&T, how research is done, ethics, communication in science, and science policy. See www.cvm.tamu.edu/bims470. The other course is taught in a traditional way, except that FORUM98 is used for out-of-class group work that is structured to improve student creativity and insightfulness skills. This course, "Introduction to Neuroscience," emphasizes 80 core principles of neuroscience. See www.cvm.tamu.edu/vaph451.

He currently has grants from the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the State of Texas to help develop and deploy FORUM98 for teaching at levels ranging from grade 6 to public health professionals and graduate veterinarians.
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Steve McCarty

I. Address:

Steve McCarty
Professor, Kagawa Junior College
President, World Association for Online Education: http://waoe.org/
Residence: 3717-33 Nii, Kokubunji, Kagawa 769-0101 JAPAN
Tel: +81-877-49-8041 (office, direct)
Fax: +81-877-49-5252 (any time)
E-mail: <<steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>, <<steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp>;
home: <<mccarty@pop06.odn.ne.jp>; Web mail: <<mccarty@mail.goo.ne.jp>
Website Map: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/
Mirror Site: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/7197/
In Japanese: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/
Mirror Site: http://www.geocities.co.jp/CollegeLife-Labo/4001/
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

A Speaker at the mini-workshop.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Work on the preparation of a large event in Japan -- see below.

Steve McCarty joined the Global University Consortium in 1998, and it has become a long-term commitment, working closely with colleagues from around the world, especially in the Asia Pacific region. Steve has been assisting Dr. Takeshi Utsumi more and more with clerical work such as developing Global University System (GUS) Websites, translating documents into Japanese, and editing documents written in English as a second language. Representing GUS to an extent in Japan, Steve has been asked to help organize a subsequent GUS Workshop in Tokyo. By attending the Manila Workshop, Steve could gain valuable first-hand experience to serve delegates to Tokyo from the Philippines and elsewhere in the region.

Long study and experience of intercultural communication points to being helpful without being patronizing. This experience included an internship with Benjamin Cayetano, now Governor of Hawaii, the highest-ranking American of Philippine ancestry. Having edited books and many other writings by non-native users of English, Steve can maintain their style while getting their intended meaning across more clearly. Again, by going to the Philippines, Steve can assess where his skills may be needed as the University of the Philippines Open University and other scholarly institutions in the Philippines work more closely in the future with the Global University System. The general pattern is liable to continue where Asia-Pacific nations including the Philippines look to Japan for economic and technical assistance. Steve's Japan base, contacts, fluency and literacy in Japanese may prove helpful in long-term trust-building negotiations, as English does not provide an effective enough link between Japan and other countries.

Steve is an American with permanent residency status and the only resident of Japan among those nominated to the NSF to attend the Manila Workshop. Steve maintains the following GUS Web pages and directories, with related information on the Philippines appearing throughout the Website:

Global University System Asia-Pacific Framework:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/
Global University System Asia-Pacific News and Links:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/links.html

Global University System Background Documents in Japanese:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/projects-j.html

Global University System Late 1999 Correspondence:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/global-univ-99/

Global University System Early 2000 Correspondence:
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html

IV. Bio:

Steve McCarty, born in Boston, specialized in Asia (B.A.) and then Japan (M.A.) at the University of Hawaii. He resides on the island of Shikoku in southwestern Japan with his wife Chisato and two sons in a local elementary school. A rare foreign full Professor in Japan, Steve teaches English as a Foreign Language in Mac, Windows and Language Labs. Since 1983 he has been nationally active in the Japan Association for Language Teaching, including the highest appointed office representing all research groups. In 1996 he organized a colloquium on cross cultural communication at the University of Hong Kong Knowledge and Discourse Conference. In 1997 his multilingual online library of publications was given a 4-star rating "very useful for research" by the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library based at the Australian National University. His electronic text initiative with Japanese and European collaboration, including an online guidebook to the region in 5 languages, also was linked from the Japan WWW Virtual Library at Stanford University. From 1997 to 1998 he wrote a series on computing in Asia for Humanist, based at London University. In 1998 he delivered the opening Keynote Address of the Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference based at the University of Hawaii. He also presented in Japanese on distance education at Kyushu Institute of Technology, at a conference session broadcast by two-way satellite to 15 universities. He was elected President of the World Association for Online Education, an NPO registered in California, from 1998-2001. In 1999 his research on Japanese-English bilingualism and biculturalism appeared in a Japanese language collection of papers by a major linguistics publisher. His article on online education in Japan also appeared in the major U.S. educational technology magazine Educom Review. Steve's three articles on Japan and 12 photos have been accepted by an encyclopedia forthcoming in 2000. Over 100 of Steve's publications and Websites are available from:
<<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html>.
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Kimberly K. Obbink

I. Address:

Kimberly K. Obbink
Director
Burns Telecommunications Center and Extended Studies
128 EPS Building,
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717-3860
USA
Tel: +1-406-994 6550
Fax: +1-406-994 7856
kobbink@montana.edu
http://btc.montana.edu

II. Reason for selection:

As the director of BTC, she will actively participate in the construction of the pilot project proposal for the establishment of the global broadband wireless/satellite Internet in the Philippines and the Pacific/Asia region. She will also present/market available courses from her MSU to students in the Philippines, e.g, nurse training, emergency medical services, environment/water treatment, etc.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

1. BTC is to become the major administrative center of the Pacific/Asia operation of the global broadband Internet,
   
2. Coordinate the activities of MSU for the educational/vocational training course exchange with the counterparts in the Philippines and later in the Pacific/Asian countries.

IV. Bio:

Kim Obbink is Director of the Burns Telecommunications Center at Montana State University. The Center, named for Montana U.S. Senator Conrad Burns, is an innovative, self-supporting outreach and distance learning facility that works with campus, state, regional and national constituents to make education opportunities and resources available to all citizens. Kim currently directs all activities of the Center and oversees the telecommunications portion of the Second Century fund raising campaign that was instrumental in establishing the Center.

Kim has recently completed her Ph.D. in adult and higher education at MSU and has a masters degree in education from Iowa State University. Kim has worked in outreach and distance learning for the past 15 years. She has received numerous competitive grants for programs related to science education, distance learning and telecommunications, with a particular focus on meeting the needs of citizens living in rural and underserved areas. She is currently Co-PI on the NSF funded National Teachers Enhancement Network which delivers online graduate credit science courses to science teachers internationally and served as Co-PI for six years on an NSF funded Young Scholars program using telecommunications to support rural Montana youth interested in science careers. Other current funding includes HHS and TIIAP funds for distance learning for rural emergency medical technicians and a NASA grant for the development of K-12 online courses and multimedia materials using NASA data. A previous TIIAP grant provided funds for telecommunications training and outreach to Montana Tribal Colleges.
As Director of the Burns Telecommunications Center, Kim also oversees a number of corporate funded programs including support from AT&T to provide teachers, parents, and rural community leaders with Internet training, and funding from US West to establish a distance learning masters degree in science education. Kim also serves as a consultant to numerous distance learning programs including the Suicide Prevention Center CDC project at the University of Nevada, Genentech Inc. Access Excellence Program for science teachers, and state liaison to the US West Pathways Program.
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Norman H. Okamura

I. Address:

Norman H. Okamura, Ph.D.
Associate Specialist
Peacesat
Social Science Research Institute
University of Hawaii
Porteus Hall 704
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
tel: (808) 956-2909; (808) 956-8848
fax: (808) 956-8019; (808) 956-2512
pager: 680-5215; cell: 227-9339
norman@elele.peacesat.hawaii.edu

II. Reason for selection:

PEACESAT will be a critical component for establishing the Pacific/Asia broadband Internet connection, allowing connections via satellite to the Philippines and the Pacific islands. Dr. Okamura has a significant amount of experience in the technical, legal, and cultural issues surrounding the use of satellite broadcast to Pacific islands.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Dr. Okamura will participate in the technical design and proposal development following the workshop. He will serve as a project liaison with PEACESAT for establishing satellite broadcast for the broadband Internet connection.

Dr. Okamura will provide program and technical insight in discussing the many alternatives for developing global distance learning networks and network applications. He will also discuss principles of Global Networking that are based on experiences in optimizing distance learning and development telecommunications networks.

IV. Bio:

Norman Okamura, Ph.D., is a Faculty Specialist in telecommunication policy, planning, technology systems, and management with the Social Science Research Institute of the University of Hawaii. Dr. Okamura formerly the Administrator of the Hawaii Sate government Information and Communication Services Division. During this tenure with the State, he was the primary technical and program architect for the development of a multi-use, shared telecommunications network supporting distance learning and many other applications. The network consisted of DS-3 microwave links among the Hawaiian Islands with add-drop multiplexing, a OC-3 SONET fiber optics network that interconnects K-12, higher education, and state government organizations, and the Hawaii Interactive Television system. Today, Dr. Okamura is the Principal Investigator of PEACESAT (http://obake.peacesat.hawaii.edu) a satellite telecommunications network that interconnects 22 Pacific Island entities with narrowband satellite links and directs the State Telehealth Access Network that interconnects 27 sites in Hawaii. The network interconnects Hawaii and the Pacific Islands region with narrowband and wide-band, multi-protocol distance learning and telehealth links. Most recently, Dr. Okamura and the Telecommunications and Information Policy Group has implemented an OC-3 ATM network for 41 public and private K-12 schools, a community college, a hospital, and government agencies. Dr. Okamura is in the process of implementing new digital voice, data, and compressed video teleconferencing links to the Guam, Palau, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands and other Pacific Island jurisdictions.
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Nels D. Sanddal

I. Address:

Nels D. Sanddal
President & CEO
Critical Illness and Trauma Foundation
300 North Wilson Avenue, Suite 3002
Bozeman, MT 59715
USA
Tel: +1-406-585 2659
Fax: +1-406-585 2741
nsanddal@citmt.org
www.citmt.org

II. Reason for selection:

A Speaker at the mini-workshop.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Extend distance learning courses on Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training to the Philippines.

IV. Bio:

Nels D. Sanddal, MS, REMT-B. Mr. Sanddal is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Critical Illness and Trauma (CIT) Foundation in Bozeman, Montana, USA. CIT is a private non-profit organization that seeks to improve emergency medicine through programs of research, training and prevention. Mr. Sanddal has been a prehospital care provider for more than 25 years and has served the State of Montana as their Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training Coordinator. He has authored many articles and books on EMS training and has been involved in distance learning activities for nearly two decades.
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Mr. John H. Southworth

I. Address:

Mr. John H. Southworth
University of Hawaii
Research Associate, Curriculum Research & Development Group
Director, Distance Education, UH Laboratory School
Work: 1776 University Avenue, Honolulu, HI, 96822
Home: 1543 Kaminaka Drive, Honolulu, HI, 96816
Phones: 808-956-6871(w), 808-732-1647(h)
Fax: 808-956-4933
Email: south@hawaii.edu
http://www.hawaii.edu/crdg
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

A Speaker at the mini-workshop.

Title: THREE DECADES OF DISTANCE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FROM ELEMENTARY TO POST SECONDARY

My experiences with distance learning go back to the early 1970s and continue to the present day in Hawaii. The PEACESAT network provided my earliest opportunities to link my students with others throughout the Pacific. In early days it was audio only; now we can use digital videoconferencing with places like Samoa and Guam. This SYNCHRONOUS experience has been complemented by the use of phone-based and Internet-based systems. Included have been Slow Scan (freeze frame) TV, CU-SeeMe, and NetMeeting types of systems.

ASYNCHRONOUS communication has included networking with systems such as PLATO (now known as NovaNET) and EIES (the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Electronic Information Exchange System). More recently I have been using Internet based systems such as Nicenet's Internet Classroom Assistant for classes and other special projects.

In the area of telehealth, I would like to focus on the Electronic Field Trip model we at the University of Hawaii Laboratory School have developed with the UH Medical Technology program. In this we use a combination of asynchronous and synchronous methods. A "What's Med Tech?" topic is created with links to web sites on medical technology. My students post introductions and questions that are answered (as replies) by the UH Med Tech staff. Then a synchronous teleconference is held in conjunction with showing a videotape in class. The students can ask further questions during the live teleconference. The project ends with students posting e-mail thanks with mention of something they learned. Follow-up invitations to visit an actual med tech lab have resulted for students interested in learning more about the field.

The above is only one of many possible adaptions to the Electronic Field Trip model than could be run using only e-mail and extended to more sophisticated synchronous videoconferencing systems than we have had available but the concepts would be the same.

Other experience with educational technology has included use of various computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases for a variety of educational management tasks.
The above could be demonstrated or discussed depending on the on-site arrangements in Manila.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Extend distance learning courses for secondary schools to the Philippines.

His extensive background with both years of work in professional development and integrating technology in the classroom provide a realistic view of the realities of educational use of technology and distance education. His international living and working experiences, especially in Asia and the Pacific region, provide additional value and understanding of the issues involved with education overseas.

IV. Bio:

Born: Pomona, California, April 20, 1939

Education:

Pomona College (Chemistry, B.A., 1961)
University of Bristol, England (Biochemistry, 1961-1962)
University of Hawaii (Oceanography, M.Sc. 1971)

Career Experience: John Southworth is a Research Associate for the University of Hawaii Curriculum Research & Development Group and a science/technology teacher at the UH Laboratory School. After his undergraduate education he served as a science and math teacher with the United States Peace Corps in Malaysia. After completing his graduate study he has worked in science and technology education at the University of Hawaii and with other educational technology projects.

In 1974 he founded the Educational Computer Unit, the original educational technology support unit on the UH campus. In 1984 he was designated as one of the "Electronics Using Educators of the Year" by the Electronic Learning magazine "for significant contribution to the advancement of education through technology." He served as co-director of the original University of Hawaii Computer-Based Education Planning Committee in the 1970's. Among results of that effort was the acquisition of services of the PLATO Computer-Based Education system. He has, since 1980, been involved with UH Lab School distance learning programs and projects. From 1985-89 he worked with the Hawaii Department of Education (HDOE) in developing the TELEclass Project that led to later development of the HDOE educational and informational technology programs.

During that time he participated as a member of the Apple Computer Education Advisory Council on telecommunications and distance learning. He has authored various papers on the topic and wrote a chapter in the Networking Volume of the Learning Tomorrow Series. From 1995-98 he worked as Coordinator for the Technology Collaborative of the Pacific (that worked with the Hawaii-Pacific educators under the Regional Technology in Education Consortium) that has been addressing the issues of equity and access to educational technology for students, teachers and administrators in the Pacific region. He helped found the Pan Pacific Distance Learning Association that annually presents programs for educators during the Pacific Telecommunications Conference in Honolulu.
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Takeshi Utsumi

I. Address:

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of Global University System (GUS) 43-23 Colden Street
Flushing, NY 11355-3998
Tel: 718-939-0928
Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email)
utsumi@columbia.edu
http://friends-partners.org/GLOSAS
Social Security Number:

II. Reason for selection:

Chairman of GLOSAS/USA, and a Speaker at the mini-workshop.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

Coordination and administration of this project.

IV. Bio:

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., is Chairman of the GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the USA (GLOSAS/USA) and President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of Global University System (GUS).

He is the 1994 Laureate of the Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education. His public services have included political work for deregulation of global telecommunications and the use of e-mail through ARPANET, Telenet and Internet; helping extend American university courses to the Third World; the conduct of innovative distance teaching trials with "Global Lecture Hall(GLH)" multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive videoconferences using hybrid technologies; as well as lectures, consultation, and research in process control, management science, systems science and engineering at the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T. and many universities, governmental agencies and large firms in Japan and other countries.

Among more than 150 related scientific papers and books are presentations to the Summer Computer Simulation Conferences (which he created and named) and the Society for Computer Simulation International. He is a member of various scientific and professional groups, including the Chemists Club (New York, NY); Columbia University Seminar on Computer, Man and Society (New York, NY); Fulbright Association (Washington, D.C.); International Center for Integrative Studies (ICIS) (New York, NY); and Society of Satellite Professionals International (Washington, D.C.).

He received Ph.D. Ch.E. from Polytechnic University in New York, M.S.Ch.E. from Montana State University, after study at the University of Nebraska with Fulbright scholarship. His professional experiences in simulation and optimization of petrochemical and refinery processes were at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo; Stone & Webster Engineering Corp., Boston; Mobil Oil Corporation and Shell Chemical Company, New York; Asahi Chemical Industry, Inc., Tokyo.
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Richard Wah

I. Address:

Richard Wah
Head of Distance Education and Deputy Director
University Extension
The University of the South Pacific (USP)
Laucala Campus
PO Box 1168
Suva, FIJI
Tel: (679) 212483
Fax: (679) 300482
wah_r@usp.ac.fj
richard.wah@usp.ac.fj
www.usp.ac.fj

II. Reason for selection:

His university recently inaugurated a digital satellite Internet link (USPNet) at 64 Kbps with a dozen consortium members in the nearby small island countries. This was made with the funds from Japanese, Australian and New Zealand governments. On the other hand, the Leland program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) (which has successfully extended a similar digital satellite Internet at 128 Kbps to about two dozen African countries) indicated their desire to emulate similar extensions to the Pacific/Asia areas. The upgrading the USPNet could be one starting point.

When Takeshi Utsumi was invited in November, 2000 to the Round Table meeting to prepare for the inauguration of the USPNet, Richard Wah indicated his interest in joining in our Global University System project as firstly importing some of distance learning courses from the U.S.

We will discuss these possibilities during the mini-workshop in Manila.

III. Expected tasks after the conference:

He will continue the above two possibilities.

IV. Bio:

Richard Wah is the Deputy Director and Head of Distance Education, University Extension, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. He has been in this position since 1991. His interests in distance education are wide. His PhD thesis was titled: 'A postcolonial perspective of distance education. A case study of the University of the South Pacific'.

Besides alternative approach and thinking about distance education, Richard is very interested in the technological (having completed a masters in computing from Essex University in the United Kingdom in 1988). He has written a number of chapters on these two perspectives ie. technology in distance education and a postcolonial perspective of distance education.

He is also interested in science teaching via distance education. His third major area of interest in distance education is cost effectiveness and efficiency.

Prior to coming to his current position he was firstly lecturer then head of the National Extension Centre of the University of the South Pacific (USP) which catered for more than 60% of all distance students of USP, the Fiji Centre.
Richard is by profession a training science teacher having completed his bachelor of science degree with double majors in Biology and Chemistry, and a Concurrent Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of the South Pacific in 1976.

Some of his individual publications include:

Wah, R. (1992, 7-8 August). Cost Effectiveness in Distance Education: The University of the South Pacific - A case in point. Paper presented at the 8th Annual Conference on Teaching at a Distance, Madison, Wisconsin.

Wah, R. T. U. (1993). Contemporary developments in the restructuring and management of distance education in the South Pacific. Seminar paper presented at the University of Southern Queensland.

Wah, R. T. U. (1994). Definition and approach to distance education. The University of the South Pacific. Paper presented at the UNESCO Study Visits and International Seminar on Distance Education and Open Learning. University of South Australia. 3 - 23rd September 1994.

Wah, R. (1995). Distance education - A conflict of interest. Paper presented at the 12th Biennial Forum of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Port Vila, Vanuatu.

Wah, R. (1997). Distance education in the South Pacific. Issues and contractions. In L. Rowan, L. Bartlett, & T. Evans (Eds.), Shifting borders. Globalization, localization and Open and Distance Education (pp. 69-82). Geelong: Deakin University Press.

Wah, R. T. U. (1997). Communications in distance education. Te Kie. A forum for distance and continuing education at USP.(2), 55 - 63.

Wah, R. T. U. (1997). Distance Education and its students. A case study from The University of the South Pacific. In M. Goos, K. Moni, & J. Knight (Eds.), Scholars in context. Prospects and transitions (pp. 67-73). Brisbane: Post Pressed.

Wah, R. T. U. (1997). Fijian renaissance. In G. Chand & V. Naidu (Eds.), Fiji: coups, crises, and reconciliation, 1987 - 1997 (pp. 151-169). Suva: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies.

Wah, R. T. U. (1998). Authentic, mimic (wo)man, postcolonial ... Re-thinking "choice" and "truth" in social science research. In B. Baker, M. Tucker, & C. Ng (Eds.), Education's new timespace (Vol. 1, pp. 11-21). Brisbane: Post Pressed.

Wah, R.T.U. (2000) To be or not to be technological. Technological change in the University of the South Pacific. In T. Evans and D. Nation. Changing University Teaching--Reflections on creating educational technologies. Kogan Page Ltd. London.
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