Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:58:58 -0600
From: Roger Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org, utsumi@columbia.edu, tapio.varis@uta.fi
Subject: Opening to China

Tak
you may be interested to visit the web construction I made for the All China Conference just concluded at Huanggang, Hubei Province:

http://www.teched.org/ChinaLive

We were successful in meeting the goals of that conference, which included my extended teachings of low cost and affordable delivery systems, and which included the formation of an ALL CHINA organization dedicated to computer assisted instruction of English using multimedia and internet connected pc labs.

We had the support of the Hubei Province educational administration and the Ministry of Education in Beijiing as well.

My host university at Huanggang managed to draw participants from 2/3 of the provinces in China and we seem to have made a permanent differrence there. Their president will travel to Texas after the Holidays to seek stronger ties to the west and there are serious overtures from China that they are wanting to become a part of the movement represented by those who gathered in Tampere last August.

I have been made "Senior Sdvisor" to the new All-China MCALL Organization,

With your permission I would like to make the introductions between you and the principals of this newly formed organization -- we may have just found the opening opportunity to help bring infrastructure and "content" to more than a billion of the earth's citizens, in my opinion an extraordinary opportunity, and a great addition to the energies still flowing from Tampere.

Roger Boston
Rockwell Chair/ Instructor
Houston Community College System
http://www.rboston.com

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