From: "John Afele" <jafele@plant.uoguelph.ca>
Organization: Plant Agriculture, Univ. of Guelph
To: afroz@khi.compol.com
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:38:45 EST
Subject: Our Framework
CC: utsumi@columbia.edu, kanani@uoguelph.ca

Dear Shahab,

Thanks for yours.
1) I discussed your messages with my colleague Kofi Anani, with whom I have developed the themes, some of which I have passed on to you, and I am now able to send you our comprehensive framework. For the specific issue of school connectivity, I thought the project proposals would be adequate but after reading your message yesterday, we thought if you saw the over-arching scheme, it MIGHT give you some perspectives on the wider dimension of connectivity. Particularly, even if your government was interested in connectivity for architectural engineering, what implications would that have in relation to alleviating housing crises, especially if the building material and other input were not based on the local assets of the target groups. Or first, whom is the design to benefit - 20% of the population or the majority who might be rural people or urban destitutes?

2) I have a hyper-linked Table of Contents (it might not work for you) to guide you through for selective reading. The file is aki.rtf (you already have specific proposals in health and education which we synthesized from the overall plan.

I will try to answer your other questions as soon as I find a bit more time.

Best wishes for the day.

John Afele

> Hello John
>
> Thanks very much for the attachment . I would apprecaite if you could also
> send me a letter from the University or by you stating that you would be
> willing to assocaite with PLANWEL in the SMART SCHOOL project.being
> implemented by the goverment of Pakistan. Would you be participating on this
> project or would the University be also involved. Both ways it is fine with
> us, although the University particpation would be better.
>
> BTW I am not in contact with Mr. Don for quite sometime and if you come
> along him , pls convey my regards.
>
> Regards
> ______________________________
> Shahab Khan, Director
> Planwel University,
> A-1, L.C.H.S., Block-20,
> Gulistan-e-Jauhar,
> Karachi-75290
> Pakistan
> http://www.planwel.edu
> afroz@planwel.edu
> afroz@khi.compol.com
> PH: (92-21)811-5094, (92-21)811-5851
> FAX: (92-21)811-6178


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Afele <jafele@plant.uoguelph.ca>
> To: afroz@khi.compol.com <afroz@khi.compol.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 7:16 PM
> Subject: Re: Dr. DON RICHARDSON
>
>
> Dear Shahab,
>
> I received your earlier message and will study it later today and
> comment/reply. I am sending you a file (aki-bio) which includes the
> framework idea, network (informal) including a list of faculty here.
> Please let me know if you need more information. I Yes, I know Dr.
> Richardson and I admire his knowledge of the hardware in the
> communications field. I would recommend him for that however I
> concentrate on content development, which I think he doesn't have
> enough of. Therefore, you may find out from the globalknowledge
> listserv that I debated him on issues as such (last year's messages,
> say summer time). The site is http://www.globalknowledge.org and look
> for mail archives.
>
> My design of the information feeder route system (Mobile project) I
> sent you stems from my experiences and knowledge of rurality in the
> South. That we need to find a way to connect rural schools by that
> method until we can provide physical and stand-alone
> connectivity stations. The future lies in children and many children
> of the South might not be connected in the manner Westerners are
> familiar with for some time to come but they also need access to the
> global knowledge grid - now!
>
> regards,
>
> John
>
>
> > Dear John
> >
> > I have checked our data base and it appears that we have been in touch
> with the following gentleman of the University of Guelph who had the
> oppurtunity of visiting Pakistan. Perhaps you could also>
> >
> > Dr. Don Richardson
> > Director
> > Don Snowden Program for Development Communication
> > School of Rural Extension Studies
> > Faculty of Environmental Design and Rural Development
> > University of Guelph
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > ______________________________
> > Shahab Khan, Director
> > Planwel University,
> > A-1, L.C.H.S., Block-20,
> > Gulistan-e-Jauhar,
> > Karachi-75290
> > Pakistan
> > http://www.planwel.edu
> > afroz@planwel.edu
> > afroz@khi.compol.com
> > PH: (92-21)811-5094, (92-21)811-5851
> > FAX: (92-21)811-6178

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