1. Summit Meeting of World Leaders
2. Needed Technologies
3. Guidelines of Market Survey and of Technical Feasibility Study
4. Assessment of Market Demand for GSTF
5. Requirements and Conditionalities
6. Contributing Organizations for Bandwidth Source
7. Compilation of Explicit Expressions of Support or Commitments

1. Summit Meeting of World Leaders

The [Sir Arthur C.] Clarke Institute of Telecommunications and Information (CITI) now plans to hold a Global Summit Meeting of World Leaders for the Establishment of Global Services Trust Fund (GSTF) in Washington, D.C. in December, 2000, which will gather the leaders of major international organizations, governmental agencies, philanthropic foundations, academics, tele-education, tele-health or aid organizations, and industry.

At this meeting, there will be presentations from the key organizations that have made the most important commitments, and vision speeches by world renown dignitaries. The meeting will be followed by a high profile press conference that will announce the formation and nature of the GSTF. Sir Arthur C. Clarke may be invited to participate via satellite relay to talk about his initial vision of the “electronic tutor” and how the GSTF might be able to accomplish some of the goals he had envisioned some two decades ago.

In order to prepare for this meeting, there will be workshops in Europe and in Washington, D.C. with key personnels of major international organizations, e.g., UNESCO, WHO, ITU, World Bank, etc. which will produce following documents.
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2. Needed Technologies

The purpose of this comprehensive document will be to identify the various options of technology and service capabilities that are available or will be available through existing and planned systems within two years to provide national, regional, or global tele-education services, tele-health/tele-medicine services (and possibly emergency warning and rescue operations).

The technical options for delivering such services and a “typical profile” for each delivery system are;

Option One: Service delivery to a remote village via conventional communications satellite and local wireless loop systems where village does (and does not) have electricity. This would include asymmetric services between 4.8 Kbps to 64 Kbps upstream and 64 Kbps to 2 Mbps downstream (i.e., INTELSAT, EUTELSAT, PANAMSAT, Cyberstar).

Option Two: Digital video broadcast service to remote villages with upstream via little Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite messaging or 2.4 Kbps via mobile satellite systems and downstreaming at speeds up to 6 Mbps. (Orbcom (upstream) and INTELSAT or Cyberstar (downstream), VITASAT (upstream) and Regional Satellite systems (downstream), etc.)

Option Three: Radio and multimedia broadcast with alternative downstream services to request different educational and health programming to be broadcast. (Orbcom or Recovered Iridium or Globalstar upstream at 2.4 Kbps and WorldSpace downstream at 16 Kbps and 128 Kbps).

Option Four: Asymmetric mobile satellite service via INMARSAT or ICO Ltd. (144 Kbps upstream and 432 Kbps downstream).

Option Five: Other option to be identified.

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3. Guidelines of Market Survey and of Technical Feasibility Study

These guidelines are for deploying broadband Internet with the GSTF, which are to be made by the regional groups of our Global University System (GUS) at their planned large workshops at which time they will tailor them to meet with their specific local needs and conditions.

This market survey will be broken down by function as to tele-education (primary, secondary, higher), tele-health services (general), tele-medicine (diagnostic, training, and direct medical services), and other (emergency warning, emergency recovery, peace keeping, other). This format would allow anyone to see what regions are covered as well as which activities are covered on a functional basis. This analysis would indicate:

1. The educational or health care purpose that could be served via each option mentioned above,
   
   
2. The bandwidth (and time periods of service) associated with each option,
   
   
3. The type of remote village terminal equipment access and connectivity required to deliver the service,
   
   
4. The earth station and telecommunications equipment required,
   
   
5. The power requirements that would need to be supported by battery or solar or other means,
   
   
6. The local human resource needed to deliver the service (and the skill level and training that would be required),
   
   
7. The cost of the equipment and human resources that would be required. (This should give consideration to such costs as transportation, shipping, insurance, maintenance and repair, and duties or tariffs that might apply.)

   (Note: It should be noted that one of the objectives of the GSTF would not only be to have equipment donated or made available at reduced cost but to have local duties and tariffs associated with tele-education, tele-health and emergency communications to be eliminated.)

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4. Assessment of Market Demand for GSTF

The document would record which organizations would like to benefit from the GSTF by providing tele-education, tele-health or other services. This information would be recorded in the form of interviews, survey results, firm letters of intent or commitment that would not only indicate interest but would commit resources to the GSTF.
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5. Requirements and Conditionalities

This document includes the outlining of the requirements of recipients of the GSTF, telecommunications policy conditionality, tele-education/tele-learning policy conditionality, tele-health/tele-medicine policy conditionality, and operational aspects of the Fund.
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6. Contributing Organizations for Bandwidth Source

This document will list satellite or telecommunications service providers, ground terminal equipment providers, or telecommunication and computer equipment providers which would be willing to make a commitment to the GSTF (by means of a letter, contract, other) and the time period and scope of this commitment.
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7. Compilation of Explicit Expressions of Support or Commitments

This will include specific commitments from organizations to support the effort in terms of in-kind and financial support for tele-education, tele-health or related programs.
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