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<<August 27, 1997>>

Ms. Tina Evans Greenwood
Managing Editor, GLOSAS News and
Library Instruction Coordinator
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(1) Tina:

Attached is the outline of the paper to be contributed by Bill
Klemm.

Pls include it in the web site of our book publishing project,
after your editorial check.

(2) Bill:

Many thanks for your very interesting description.

I hope that, if your FORUM can be accessed via Internet, we
can utilize this scheme for our book.

Thanks in advance.

Best, Tak
**************************************
Outline of Paper

Electronically Interactive Academic Publishing

Professor W. R. Klemm, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Texas A&M University

At Texas A&M University, we are developing a new kind of
Internet-based, electronic academic publishing environment in which
a given textbook or symposium is fully interactive. That is, unlike
typical World Wide Web or CD -ROM publications today, where readers
usually can only click on "hot buttons" to navigate the text, our
new collaboration software (FORUM, version 3.0) allows readers to
create their own links within a book, "write in the margins," make
in-context linked comments on shared documents, and link associated
files (even from other software applications). In short, FORUM
makes electronic academic publishing FULLY interactive. This form
of publishing is illustrated herein by adapting a chapter from the
author's recently published textbook, Understanding Neuroscience
(1995, Mosby-Year Book Inc.).

When it comes to state-of-the art electronic publishing, most
people think of the Internet's World Wide Web. But the Web has some
major disadvantages, which include the following:
* Not fully interactive. Typically, users can only click on
icons and high lighted text to follow links.
* User's can't share documents. Readers cannot "write in the
margins" on either the publication being read or the e-mail notes
sent in by other readers. Readers cannot put into the group's
database such things as comments, whole documents, graphics, sound
clips, video clips, and links to files belonging to other software.
* Users can't annotate in context. Although some Web documents
have a "form" that allows a user to attach an e-mail message, the
message is associated with the entire document, not to a particular
part or character string within the document .
* Users can't import files. The "Web Master" is the only one
who can put documents on a Web site, and somebody has to mark up
the documents with html code.
* Security Issues. Web sites are notoriously vulnerable to
attack. Publishers also run a high risk of having their materials
stolen. Any person with a browser can right click on graphics to
download them. The source code for whole text files are downloaded
from the browser menu.
* Web documents do not have multiple levels of access control on
each document. Some documents should have read-only access. Other
documents may need to be locked up temporarily with no-access. For
other documents, readers will need to create hypertext links to
other material. And for some documents, readers may need the
ability to edit and change the document being read.
* Web documents are related to each other by hypertext links.
They lack any other organizing principle. There is no logic
undergirding what can be linked to what to help build in coherency
and keep a group of collaborators focused.
* Users can not attach and run files created in other Windows'
software. True, the Web Master can write code scripts that perform
such functions, but readers can only do that if they send the
materials to the Web Master and provide instructions on where the
links are to be made.
**************************************
Biography of William R. Klemm

Dr. W. R. Klemm, has had 35 years of research and teaching
experience at three universities: Notre Dame, Iowa State, and Texas
A&M. Dr. Klemm is an active scientist, with special experience in
neuroscience. Klemm has received the highest research award at
Texas A&M and another outstanding achievement award in research from
the Texas A&M chapter of Sigma Xi. He also received the "Science
Communicator Award" from the A&M chapter of Sigma Xi. He has served
on the Editorial Boards of five scientific journals (2 currently),
has had over 330 publications, including 5 books. He has presented
several papers and workshops on collaborative learning in medical
education and has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the
Telemedicine Training Institute administered out of Oklahoma State
University.
**************************************
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College Station, TX 77843-4458
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Dear Tak,

Thanks for your message. Sorry to have taken so long to get back to you.
I will be co-authoring the chapter with John Lawrence
<john.lawrence@undp.org>, from UNDP. The outline below is fine. John
Lawrence will be sending you a short biography.

Could you kindly let me and John know who will be publishing the book,
who the editor is, and what the timetable is -- also, are you planning
on creating a CD-ROM as well?

Thanks so much.

Janice Brodman

______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Next-to-final of outline of your proposed paper
Author: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@solar.cini.utk.edu> at Internet
Date: 8/6/97 6:09 PM

<<August 6, 1997>>

Dear Janice:

(1) Attached below is the next-to-final of the outline of your
proposed paper which I constructed out of your previous msg.

I would appreciate it very much if you can check it and return
to me with any changes/revisions, at your earliest
convenience.

Thank you very much for your very interesting and important
paper.

Best, Tak
**************************************
Outline of Paper

Use of Networking to Deliver and Support Informal Learning

Education Development Center (EDC), Inc.
and
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

This paper discusses the work EDC has been done in collaboration
with UNDP, which mission is to promote human development and to
utilize networking as a tool. The proposed paper would examine four
major areas related to the use of electronic networking to support
informal learning and skill-building:

* Networking to extend access to information among people within
developing and industrialized countries who are usually bypassed by
economic and technological development.

* Networking to expand participation in decisions made in
international fora, such as the Women's Conference and the Social
Summit, especially by those who are directly affected by the summit
resolutions.

* Networking to support informal training -- which contributes
significantly to building the skills people need to establish
sustainable livelihoods and to do any job well.

* Use of a comprehensive model EDC has developed to maximize the
positive impact of networking on formal and informal
education/training

We envision a paper that will focus on discussion of concrete
projects, and examine the outcomes and lessons that have been
learned from them.
**************************************
Biographies of Janice Brodman

EDC was founded in 1958 by faculty from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and Harvard University and is one of America's
leading educational research and development organizations. EDC
currently employs over 350 professionals who work on a wide range of
projects around the world that address educational needs across the
human lifespan, with particular attention to the use of information,
education, and communications technologies. To date, EDC's
international work includes projects in more than 85 countries.

Janice Brodman is the Director of EDC's Center for Innovative
Management and Training Technologies (CIMTT). She has been working
on the use of microcomputers in development since the early 1980s.
She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University in political economy with
particular focus on the impact of new technology adoption in
developing countries (Thesis: "Technology Change, Equity, and
Growth"). During the past 14 years, she has conducted projects
introducing and utilizing multimedia and electronic networks in a
range of developing countries.
**************************************
Address

Janice Brodman
Director, Center for Innovative Management and Training Technologies
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street
Newton, MA 02158-1060
617-969-7100 EXT. 2620
FAX: 617-332-6405
JaniceB@edc.org
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<<September 3, 1997>>

John Lawrence
Principal Technical Adviser, UNDP
Social Development Division
1 UN Plaza
New York NY 10017
212 906 5014
Fax: 212 906 5365
john.lawrence@undp.org

Dear Tina:

(1) Attached below is the final of the outline of paper by Janice
and John.

Pls include it in the web site of our book publishing project,
after your editorial check.

(2) Pls let me know your side progress.

Thanks in advance.

Best, Tak
**************************************
Outline of Paper

Use of Networking to Deliver and Support Informal Learning

Education Development Center (EDC), Inc.
and
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

* Networking to extend access to information among people within
developing and industrialized countries who are usually bypassed by
economic and technological development.

* Networking to support informal training -- which contributes
significantly to building the skills people need to establish
sustainable livelihoods and to do any job well.

* Use of a comprehensive model EDC has developed to maximize the
positive impact of networking on formal and informal
education/training

EDC was founded in 1958 by faculty from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University and is one of
America's leading educational research and development
organizations. EDC currently employs over 350 professionals who
work on a wide range of projects around the world that address
educational needs across the human lifespan, with particular
attention to the use of information, education, and communications
technologies. To date, EDC's international work includes projects
in more than 85 countries.

Biographies of John E.S. Lawrence

John E.S. Lawrence is Principal Technical Adviser in Human
Resources Development (HRD) with the United Nations Development
Program in New York. His substantive specialty is in integrated
human resources policy and programming linking education/training
with health, employment and social/economic development. He
currently heads the Sustainable Livelihoods Unit in UNDP. He
coordinated UNDP efforts in preparation for the World Conference on
Education for All in Jomtien, Thailand in March 1990. He was
responsible for working with the Educational Development Center in
design and management of UNDP's first INTERNET LISTSERV project on
the Social Summit, which has now been expanded into a worldwide
electronic discussion on the Fourth World Conference on Women in
Beijing, involving more than 1000 respondents from around 60
countries. He initiated a similar process for developing a virtual
conferencing dimension to the Toronto Global Knowledge 97 meeting.

Dr. Lawrence has extensive research and development experience
in the social sectors, with a variety of public and private groups
and agencies in the field of human resources development. This work
has included education, training and health system design, HRD
policy research and program evaluation, assessment of the impacts of
technological change on occupational requirements, and occupational
classification, job analysis and labour market information. Most
recently, his HRD focus has been increasingly on the world's poorer
countries. He has published widely in books, scientific and
technical journals, and reports on various aspects of social sector
policy. He was responsible for the preparation of the UN Secretary
General's 1995 Report to the UN General Assembly on Human Resources
Development, and has recently published (on the INTERNET and in
journals) several articles on the sustainable livelihoods concept.

Dr. Lawrence received the M.A. (Hons) from Oxford University,
England in 1968, and a M.Sc and Ph.D in Psychology/HRD from North
Carolina State University, USA in 1977.
**************************************
Address

John Lawrence
Principal Technical Adviser, UNDP
Social Development Division
1 UN Plaza
New York NY 10017
212 906 5014
Fax: 212 906 5365
john.lawrence@undp.org
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(1) Many thanks for your msg.

ATTACHMENT I from John Hibbs

ATTACHMENT III from Roger Boston

ATTACHMENT IV from Roger Boston

ATTACHMENT V from Claudio Menezes

ATTACHMENT VI from Andrey Narvsky

Electronic Colleagues:
I urge you to visit his webs -- they are really interesting!!

Andrey:
Big congratulations!!

ATTACHMENT VII from John Southworth

ATTACHMENT VIII from David Johnson

ATTACHMENT IX from Roger Boston

ATTACHMENT X from Jose Brenes

Roger:
Pls note his remarks/trouble encountered, and give us your
thoughts.

ATTACHMENT XI from John Hibbs

My replies/comments are in << >>.

(2) Claudio Menezes in Brazilia:

Sorry I haven t received your fax of the transcript of your talk yet,
to include it in this distribution.

Electronic Colleagues:

Claudio is using Word of Microsoft, but cannot find the way to
convert its file into ASCII format. Does anyone use it and let him
know how to do it? (I am using WordPerfect so that I cannot help
him.)

Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I

Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 06:04:57 -0800
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
From: "hibbs@bfranklin.edu" <hibbs@bfranklin.edu>
Subject: Thank You
Cc: rboston@tenet.edu

Dear Dr. Utsumi: With the possible exception of Roger Boston, you are the
only person I *ever* met who could handle the crush of *several* events and
still find time to answer questions from even the most remote source.

Long ago, you quickly responded to a note from me, which lead to me finding
out more about CAADE, which ultimately lead to the demonstration on Sunday
morning, easily the greatest technological feat of our global voyage.
Later, we will be sending some things by snail mail to Very Important
Persons - Dr. Tak Utsumi will be at the top of the list.

<<Many, many thanks for your compliment -- looking forward to
receiving it.>>

But for now, I just wanted to take a few seconds to tell you how proud I
was to be the one who moderated your show last Sunday. The Certificates of
Appreciation we will be sending will indicate Harbor Masters and Harbor
Hosts in 23 countries...but what are we going to call the place we stopped
at between 8 and 9 a.m. October 12, 1997? Planet Earth?

<<My wholehearted congratulations to your very intriguing event of
GLOBAL LEARN DAY event!!

I was simply amazing with your capability of gathering so many
prominent people around the world.

When I was making a remark to close my session, your phone operator
cut the connection short, to finish it. What I wanted to say was;

Slide #7 is a quotation from FORTUNE. This is the goal of our
Global (electronic) University System. I would like to
dedicate this to Mr. John Hibbs, since he has already done
this, as we witnessed with this great event of GLOBAL LEARN
DAY.

Sorry to say that the slide #7 was not in Roger s web
site at that time, but it says as follows;

THE GREAT LEADERS OF TOMORROW WILL BE THE ONES WHO UNDERSTAND
HOW TO GET EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE. >>

<<My observations on the technicality of your event were as follows;

(a) I started to participate in your event very early morning of
12th as accessing a node at Columbia University in New York
with a 28.8 Kbps dial-up modem, when the session from South
Africa was going on. Audio with RealAudio via Internet was
very clear (though it was garbled one or two minutes in
occasions), and I thought that it was much better than the
MAVEN audio conferencing system of CU-SeeMe or Iphone of
VocalTec.

In my many GLHs in the past several years, I had to use
analog audio conferencing system via POTS whenever we
used CU-SeeMe to supplement the poor MAVEN performance.

During our GLH last June, I ventured to use Iphone (an
Internet telephony) after I confirmed its sufficient
quality with my trials with Japanese and Finnish
colleagues. The occasion was to use it from Brazil.
However, I found that its audio quality was not quite
sufficient so that I had to switch to ordinary analog
POTS for our presenters from New York, Finland, Houston,
and Portugal. This was probably due to the congestion of
the international Internet line between Brazil and the
U.S. and between the U.S. and Finland.

However, when your GLOBAL LEARN DAY session moved to South
America after 9:00 am (EDT/USA), the audio started getting
worse, though it from Peru was better than the one from
Argentina -- the latter was almost un-decipherable.

Just before our session to start on 11:00 am, the director of
Netscape started making his talk. This was totally un-decipherable.
This was probably many people started to
accessing your web site and started congested it.
Incidentally, my connection with it was often cut off, saying
that too many people had accessed to it.

During my session, Peter Knight in Washington, D.C. sent
his msg through CU-SeeMe s chat window saying that he
could not hear my talk well with the RealAudio through
Internet.

John Southworth in Honolulu could not also have audio
during his closing session -- see blow.

As mentioned elsewhere, (1) audio/voice, (2) content (text,
graphics, etc. in web), and (3) video is the order of
importance, particularly in distance education field. If there
is no audio (even with a few minutes blanks), it is no use for
distance education.

As also mentioned elsewhere, in order to cope with this
difficulty, we need (1) advancement of data compression
technology and (2) quest for bandwidth. I feel that the rate
of the advancement of the former is now getting peaked out, so
that we need to concentrate to figure out how to accomplish the
latter.

NSF s Internet-2 and the U.S. Congress Next Generation
Internet are in this direction -- albeit both are in the
U.S. domestic domain. Our approach is to create Global
Service Fund (say, $5 billion) to emulate the U.S. FCC s
Universal Service Fund ($2.6 Billion) -- see ATTACHMENT
II.

For local access, we are now forming local
coalitions of academia, secondary schools,
libraries, hospitals, etc. which will be hooked
with inexpensive wireless broad-band (128 Kbps to 3
Mbps) Internet. This can be used for telephony and
videoconferencing with advanced web technologies.
The locations are Philadelphia/PA, Denton/TX,
Honolulu/HI in the U.S., Florianopolis, Manaus,
Porto Velho in Brazli, etc. This broad-band will
assure good quality of audio and videoconferencing.

Although still in experimental stage with the Internet-2,
if they (its participants among universities in the U.S.)
can devise the so-called Quality of Service (QoS)
guarantee and reservation systems, the participants of
audio conferencing through Internet may be able to have
sufficient bandwidth. However, it may require to pay
higher cost, as UUNET has already started such services
to large companies. Yet, I don t know how to provide
such reservation or guarantee system to the unlimited,
unknown participants of the GLOBAL LEARN DAY around the
world.

On the other hand, as you see with the extraordinary
buying spree of MCI by WorldCom ($30 billion) and GTE
($28 billion), the telecom industry now finally start
realizing that the Internet is the only way for
multimedia telecommunication, including Internet
telephony. Therefore, I am more convinced that, if we
want to have good audio quality through Internet,
particularly in international arena, we need to have more
broad-bandwidth, and to have it, we would need huge funds
which may be accomplished by the creation of Global
Service Fund by an International Coalition of Global
Electronic Distance Education and Healthcare,
particularly for the use of it by the people in
developing countries. This will be the main agenda of
our planned Tampere workshop/conference in Finland next
May.

You may read following article;
Armstrong, L, N. Sandler and P. Elstrom, You re
Coming Over Loud -- and Almost Clear, Business
Week, October 27, 1997, Page 116 and 118.

You may find it at <www.businessweek.com>.

Internet telephony is now getting a very hot topic
among telecom companies.

You also need to have backup system whenever you organize a
videoconferencing -- when I did a GLH last June and when I
found that Iphone was not working quite well, I could
immediately switch to ordinary analog telephone. This enable
us in Brazil to hear well from presenters in other countries.
However, since the GLOBAL LEARN DAY event was to broadcast such
talks via Internet worldwide, I cannot figure out any
appropriate backup system for the unlimited, unknown audiences.

In a nut shell, John, you have done tremendous event -- which I
wished to do, but was hesitant to do so due to the above
mentioned, anticipated technical difficulties. Therefore, I
learned a great deal from this event. Thank you very much.

Only things I can suggest that you may have several
mirror sites of your web around the world, and urge
audiences to access the mirror web nearby to them. This
will at least reduce Internet backbone congestion,
especially across oceans.

One other thing is that have you archived the audio of
presenters? If so, how can we log on to them? -- I tried
to visit your web to hear the sessions, but I could not
find where. Your web also said that you archived the
talk in text format with simultaneous transcripts. Where
can we find them? Your previous msg also said the use of
simultaneous translation software. Was it used? Is
there any way to check its accuracy?

(b) From the experiences of my previous GLHs and with the
anticipation of those technical difficulties, I accepted John s
invitation to organize a mini GLH with the use of CU-SeeMe in
condition that an audio-teleconferencing bridge with ordinary
analog telephone was to be provided among our presenters (i.e.,
active participants), -- which John confirmed with up to 15
ports -- thanks to the in-kind service provided by the
Pacific Telesis.

Thanks to this provision, our mini GLH went smoothly among its
participants, i.e., me in New York, Peter Knight in D.C., Roger
Boston in Houston, and Claudio Menezes in Brazilia, Brazil, in
addition to John Hibbs in San Diego. All of us could hear each
other very well.

However, the operator of the bridge had to re-connect all
of them a couple of times whenever one of us
disconnected. He also mentioned that whenever a new
person was added, the volume of audio was degraded or
lowered.

John:
On this point of using an audio conferencing bridge, you
may consider to use Alliance of AT&T next time. I used
it a couple of times before with their in-kind service,
and I did not have such re-connection problem -- i.e.,
whenever one was disconnected, we could still have
connected with other parties while its operator was
re-connecting with the one disconnected. Also, we did not
have such problem of lowering the volume by additional
connection -- at that time, it said that they could
connect up to 40 parties -- and later date they said up
to 120. You may vist following web for more information;

http://www.att.com/teleconference/

(3) The most significant technical achievement on this occasion was
made by Roger Boston for the transfer of CU-SeeMe video window
to web site which can be refreshed every 15 seconds or so.

Roger:
I was particularly amazed with your split screen approach --
having four participants video appearing in one web screen!!
Yet, each of them were very clear!!

My CU-SeeMe (Enhanced 2.0 version) did not show clear
video of all participants -- probably due to my 28.8 Kbps
modem.

By this way, everybody could see video of presenters at Roger s
web and hear his talk with RealAudio from John s web (albeit
troublesome as mentioned above).

If the audio of RealAudio will work in good condition,
this scheme can replace very expensive satellite
broadcasting!!

This scheme may also be applicable to single instructor
with a little investment to post his video at his web and
broadcast his talk with RealAudio -- without requiring
expensive studio set-up and no cost to his students with
CU-SeeMe software.

(4) Roger, Peter, Claudio:

Many, many thanks for your excellent talk!!

Ermanno Pietrosemoli in Venezuela:
Very sorry we could not have your participation -- I wished to
hear of your VSAT satellite Internet connection and your local
Internet network. If you have any write-up about them in
English, pls send it to me.

(5) John:

Lastly, you may distribute your press release, particularly
with the technical requirement of audience, much earlier. You
may also run testing a couple of times prior to the event.

Anyway, it was very exciting event, and again, I would like to
congratulate you wholeheartedly!!>>

JOHN W. HIBBS
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
OF GLOBAL EDUCATION
Creators of GLOBAL LEARN DAY
Headquarters of
The Franklin Knowledge Corps
TEL: 619 270 2352
FAX: 619 270 2667
URL: http://www.bfranklin.edu

RE: LEARN DAY, Saturday October 11- Sunday Oct. 12.
For instant email response re: topics/schedule about GLOBAL
LEARN DAY, please send an email to <learn@jjplaza.com> - no subject or
text is required; our autoresponder will give you a Summary of LEARN DAY

Please visit http://www.bfranklin.edu/agenda.html - for more information
about GLOBAL LEARN DAY
Please visit http://www.bfranklin.edu/learnd.html - for FAQ's to commonly
asked questions.

"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein-
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ATTACHMENT II

International Coalition for Global Information Infrastructure (GII) in
Education and Healthcare

Education and healthcare are the basis of any society. The main goal
of this coalition is to foster global citizenship of global village with
global electronic distance education and global-healthcare/telemedicine,
especially to achieve "Education for All" from anywhere to anywhere at
anytime.

The main objective is to produce policy recommendations for promoting
and accelerating the establishment and use of the GII, as looking toward
the year 2005, 2010, and 2015. This is to be done with international and
interdisciplinary collaboration in the fields of non-profit organizations,
especially for benefitting underserved people in remote and rural areas of
less developed countries with educational and healthcare services from the
finest and willing sources around the world.

The purposes are;
a. to formulate collaborative arrangements in each country or region to
achieve the goal and objective affordably, with multi-lateral
cooperation,
b. to devise guidelines in each individual field for collaboration and
execution of their objectives,
c. to raise governmental and industrial funds to achieve this goal,
mainly from Japan, North America, Europe.

Internet, with its extending and improving infrastructure, will be
the main telecommunication media of tomorrow. It has been extended to most
of countries, albeit with slow-to-medium speed yet. The rapid advancement
of videoconferencing, telephony, World Wide Web in distance education and
high resolution image transfer for telemedicine require broad-band Internet
via international satellite. The deployment of this to less developing
countries needs joint support in the magnitude of several billion dollars
by the Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) of major countries. By
working together, both fields of global electronic distance education and
global healthcare/telemedicine can share the cost. Without this
international cooperation for broad-band Internet, GII will become an empty
dream.
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ATTACHMENT III

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:06:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
Subject: Room 201D via VPhone (fwd)

This former HCCS Counsellor learned about VFONE from "Learn Day" and
then returned to Texas via telecom from Grand Rapids Michigan to visit my
classroom from his home! today. Since I wore a wireless mic the sound was
perfect no matter how far I wandered, he said later even the rustling of
seats nearby came through well.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:12:18 -0400
From: Arend Vander Pols <vande118@pilot.msu.edu>
To: Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
Subject: Room 201D via VPhone

Hello Roger,

Well I feel like we just spent the week together what with Global LEARN
conference last weekend and all. But it surely was a thrill to be able to
attend your class today via VPhone. We had a few problems because of net
traffic and my 'older' computer, but I certainly could see the lab very
clearly, see the monitors in the lab refresh, see your students and you
moving about the room. I also could hear you _very_ clearly, interacting
with your students, even hear them typing! The sound did drop out quite a
bit, play for 5 or 10 seconds, stop, and then play again. Also the video
sometimes broke up or wouldn't refresh for a minute or two. But when it
worked it was great to see and hear your class in session.

And to think I can revisit my old haunts from over 1000 miles away, live!
I did this with what many would consider 'outdated' hardware (486/100 mhz)
and 33.6 modem. I say we are just on the edge of perfection in video
conferencing-- and the potential for education is unlimited.

Thanks for the invite to your class and spending time with me today.

Arend
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ATTACHMENT IV

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 06:37:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
cc: Utsumi Takeshi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Alternative to CU-SeeMe

On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Tak Utsumi wrote:

> (2) Pls visit <www.ivisit.com>. This was recently announced alternative
> to CU-SeeMe -- no need of central reflector, black & white demo version
is

** Tak I took a look at this product last night -- was impressed that it
did what it claimed and that it supports both MAC and PC platform -- the
video motion and multiuser presence seemed faster than what I have
achieved with CuSeeMe at modem speeds. I saw only b&w however.

** Another appeal of this product is its much simpler "look and feel" --
less hassle than CuSeeMe and a shorter learning curve to becoming
operational. Much easier to use.

** Today I will place it on several Pentium machines at work to see how
it performs with sound at ethernet speeds, and also how effectively one of
my laptops can talk to others when limited to modem speeds.

ON ANOTHER NOTE

I was impressed with the Global L.E.A.R.N. Day event, and especially our
CAADE contribution. I think we added real substance to the event with
both our presentation content and the delivery method we employed --
simplicity yet powerfully effective.

In terms of reach we really did touch at wide areas and the event touched
even my extended family:

- during my closing remarks Sunday night my 77 year old mother
watched and listened from Louisiana, my sister from Delaware,
a brother from Austin, two brothers from Dallas, a close friend
from Michigan, and how many OTHERS around the world may also
have been tuned in?

<<That was a quite party!! I am sure that they must have been quite
impressed with your accomplishement of web video.>>

Surely we are at the dawning of a new age of truly global delivery for
instruction!
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ATTACHMENT V

From: "CLAUDIO MENEZES" <claudio@unesco.org.br>
Organization: Unesco Brasil
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:42:00 GMT-3
Subject: Question

Dear Tak,

I am still not understanding why the Mini-GLH was not broadcasted in
Cu-SeeMe, as we had experienced during the week before the
Video-Conference. Is there a misunderstanding from Objetivo or from
my side ? Regards, CM

<<Roger s CU-SeeMe reflector has a capability of hooking up 50
participants.

I, Peter Knight, Roger Boston and you were the so-called active
(receive/send) participants, and others were passive (receive-only)
participants. If anyone accessed to it with their CU-SeeMe software,
they could have seen us from anywhere around the world.

Roger s web with the CU-SeeMe video could have been accessed from
anywhere via Internet without the use of CU-SeeMe software.

Anyone could also receive our talk from John s web with the use of
RealAudio plug-in software.

During our session, Luiz sent us his msg through CU-SeeMe chat
window saying that he and you did not have a second computer to
access those web sites, -- as he had it during our testing
period before the event. This was probably the reason why you
did not hear from John s web and see your video from Roger s
web.

All of our talk through analog audio teleconferencing bridge was
hooked with the RealAudio so that those people who accessed to John s
web should have heard us.>>

Claudio Menezes
UNESCO Brasilia
SAS Q5 Bl. H lt. 6
Ed. CNPq/IBICT/UNESCO - 9. andar
http://www.unesco.org/webworld and http://www.education.unesco.org
e-mail: claudio@unesco.org.br
fax: (5561)322 4261
Tels: (5561)223 8684, 223 1923 or 217 6470
70070-914 Brasilia, Df, Brasil
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ATTACHMENT VI

From: "Dr. Andrey Narvsky" <narvsky@soft.lanck.ru>
To: <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
Subject: Learn Day
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 08:39:49 +0300

Dear Tak,
I just would like to thank you very much, that you have provided my address
to Mr.John Hibbs - that is why I had a chance to participate in Learn Day.

<<I did not know till I noticed you in John s schedule.

I am happy that the colleagues of my listserve are now
communicating/contacting each other using their addresses appeared in
my distributions, since this is what I intended/expected to happen --
the first step for collaboration, friendship, and world peace-keeping.
This is what our GLOSAS/USA membership counts.

For example, Bill Klemm visited Roger Boston this past spring
to learn about videoconfeencing, and he also met Anton Ljutic
in Ottawa a few days ago; Seth G. Neugroschl of Columbia
University met Tapio Varis in Helsinki when he visited this
summer, etc., etc.>>

By the way, you may find the last version of our PANGAEA Project ( Joint
Virtual City ) on http://www.ctriver.com/stanis/default.htm

<<I also visited your other web <www.lanck.com>.

First of all, you clock on the web is about 10 minutes late.

City category is interesting -- I visited the street of your
office, and witnessed the web video was refreshed -- every 90
seconds. It said that we can change it to 18 seconds -- how can we
do that? I also visited Tokyo, too -- I think that it is Shinjuku
Tower (?), but not Tokyo Tower.

When I visited Virtual St. Petersburg, but it was bombed out after
keyboard arrow warning. The culture icon did the same, too.>>

It contains the VRML version of the Palace Square in St.Petersburg with the
URL to Hermitage; panoram views of the central part of St.Petersburg; Joint
Virtual School; Childrean Art Gallery; Virtual School Street with virtual
houses of the Schools and Universities from diffrent countries ( Russia,
Finland, Netherlands ).

We plan to open the site with Joint Virtual City in November and we invite
the Schools, Universities and individuals to place their virtual houses in
Joint Virtual City.

<<Electronic Colleagues:
Pls contact Andrey if you are interested in participating in his
project.>>

Would you have time to visit it, let me tell you the suggested navigation
tour:

1. Run http://www.ctriver.com/stanis/default.htm
2. You will see the screen with the World map.
3. Be sure you have all necessary software indicated on the bottom side of
the screen.

<<Whenever I visited Central Square, Children Art Gallery, and
School Street, I was bombed out. This was even after I installed
WorldView 2.0 plug-in -- but not Surround Video Plug-in Support.
Do we need to have this? When I tried to dowload it, I found that
they don t provide Mac version. I am using Netscape Gold 3.02 on Mac
OS 8.>>

4. Click the red dot on St.Petersburg location ( North-East Europe ).

<<I did this just now, and bombed out.>>

5. VRML files with the Palace Square is loading. It takes some time (
two minutes on my computer ).
6. You are on Palace Square. Use the mouse or arrow keys of the keyboard to
"walk"and look around.
7. Click the left part of long green Palace ( Winter Palace or
the Hermitage).
8.You are in Virtual Children Art Gallery.

<<Is this same as the one in your other web site? If so, I could go
there. It is very interesting.>>

The idea of Childrean Art Gallery is, that we want to place all together
Art works of kids from different countries togehter with the hypertext
about the young paintists.

<<Very good, indeed!!>>

9. Click "Back" to return to Place Square.
10. You are on Palace SQuare.
11. Click the right part of Winter place to go to the Web site of the
Hermitage.
Select"English" and select some items from the collection of the famous
museum.
Return to Palace Square.
12. You are on Palace Square. Click the building on right hand site from
the Winter Palace. You go to the Virtual School.
13. You are in Virtual School. It looks like sort of underwater Scientific
Center, which contains many room. Each room is connected with the defenite
subject.
It looks like a game - you may explore it and enter some rooms:"Classics of
Hydrodynamics", "Life of Drop", "Electronic Cinema" ( the text is in
Russian at the moment )

The idea of Virtual School is, that we suggest teachers from different
countries to develop the class rooms on different subjects - History, Art,
Physics, etc., etc. and place them into the Virtual School. The older
students may develop the lessons for younger students also.

<<You may contact following person and link your web with his;

Mr. Mauricio Manhaes
Creative Director
Traducao Grafica
terrAvista Computer Arts
(Formerly EXTRA Graph)
Rua Lauro Linhares, 589
2 andar
Condominio de Informatica
Trindade, Florianopolis, SC
CEP 88036-971
BRAZIL
Tel: +55-48-234-4963
Fax: +55-48-234-3745
manhaes@terravista.com.br
http://www.terravista.com.br/global/home01.htm>>

13. Click the Panoramas on the left side of the screen to see the panoramas
of St.Petersburg.
14. Click "The Map" on the left part of the screen to get the World map.
15. Click the icon of Joint Virtual City on the North Pole - on the Top of
the World.
You go to the School Street, which contains virtual houses of the Schools
and Universities from different countries.
16. You are on School Street in Virtual City. You see the house of Turku
Politechnic, Finland. If you click it, you go to its Web site.
17. Go along the School Street - you may see the houses of School 204 from
St.Petersburg, Russia; Delft University, The Netherlands; Schools from
Finland.
18. Click the second house from the left end of School Street. You go to
Virtual Dwelling House, which contains virtual apartments of many famous
people from different countries.
Click "John Hibbs" line. You go to his modest apartment.

The idea of joint Virtual City is to place all together virtual Museums,
Schools, private houses from different countries. We also provide the
software tools to create the 3D apartments and other not too dificult 3D
spaces.

We believe our PANGAEA project will help not only to find new friends, but
also will help to study multimedia, telecommunications (to create your own
virtual house ), foreign languages, history,culture and art.

<<This is truly wonderful project!!

Keep up with your good work!!>>

Sincerely Yours,
Andrey
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ATTACHMENT VII

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 17:15:20 -1000 (HST)
From: ARC Associates - Pacific <arc2@aloha.net>
To: Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
cc: John Southworth <south@hawaii.edu>, webspin@webcom.com,
hibbs@bfranklin.edu, utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Update from Hawaii

Roger, et al,
*Phew* it's over!!! Really appreciate the web support. The CU
See-Web link was highly successful. Will that site be there to use? If
so, hope the few points could be edited.

Overall the success of the web was nearly balanced out by the poor
audio. Wow...what did you use? We really didn't have any backup as we
couldn't seem to get the RealAudio to work. That is ONE think we spent
a lot of time on but still need to get some help.

Will the event be "archived" someway so we can eventually get to
see/hear all the other sites....as well as how ours came across. I have
heard of one-way video but this was two way video and almost one-way
audio!!!

Anyway, congratulations on the event. Sorry we couldn't have had
a smoother presentation but the lack of reliable audio really made it
hard.

JHS

P.S. After we ended we had live LUmaphone point-to-point contacts with
Pat Taylor (in Hawaii) and Yoko Tagaki (who had been waiting in Japan to
participate). If we ONLY had been able to use the conferencing unit and
kept the Lumaphone free on the second line I think it would have gone
smoothly.

<<Yes, those good Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) are really GOOD
backup, but, alas, it is only for limited number of participants --
in contrast, John s GLOBAL LEARN DAY attempted to broadcast to
unlimited number of audiences worldwide!! As I said above, I cannot
figure out how to provide them with any backup system -- John could
have said in his press release to hear the RealAudio with the risk of
participants.>>
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ATTACHMENT VIII

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 97 22:27:50 EDT
From: "David Johnson" <daj@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: Visit to Civic at Yale
Reply-To: daj@utk.edu
To: "Tak Utsumi" <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>

Tak:
=================================================
OMITTED HERE BY T. UTSUMI <<October 17, 1997>>
=================================================

The Global Learning Day was a big success. Congratulations on your good
contribution.

Regards,

Dave
David A. Johnson
School of Planning
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1401 Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996
Tel 423 974-5227
FAX 423 974-5229
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ATTACHMENT IX

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 10:29:57 -0400
Sender: gu-glh@www.friends-partners.org
From: Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: Mini GLH on 10/12th == "MUST SEE" show!!

Tak,
We go "on the air" shortly but am camped on our web page early .. can
see your power pont slide show on the right and in the left frame I see
Objectivo, Peter Knight, Yourself and my own video updating to the web
every 15 seconds or so. I am even amazed myself to see this working for
us -- it is so simple I don't know why we did not think of this sooner!
We will try to use the "zoom" feature to isolate each speaker as the
proceedings get underway, and hopefully ENEN's feed to worldwide
Realaudio will be working for us as well as it did for the Mexican and
Consta Ricans and right now the keynoter from Netscape.

I must say this long "Global LEARN Day weekend is proving to be *most*
fascinating!
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ATTACHMENT X

From: Jose Brenes <jbrenes@cariari.ucr.ac.cr>
Subject: LEARND DAY
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org (takeshi utsumi)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:07:43 -0600 (CST)
Cc: jbrenes@cariari.ucr.ac.cr (Jose Brenes)

Dear Tak

Greetings from Costa Rica.

Let me first thank you for calling my attention to such a wonderful event
as LEARN DAY was.

A few hours before it started I realized I was looking to the wrong
address, but managed to dowload the required software to follow it.
VOXWARE, V-PHONE, and REAL PLAYER.
I learn through using, as we in CAADE use to say. It was not that
difficult.

Right now I have only the receiving part. I am trying to get some money to
buy the broadcast part, so as to set up a mini conference.

I managed to hear your speech, that of Claudio, and part of Peter Knight.

<<Very good. This means that the hookup of audio conferencing to
RealAudio was working.>>

Unfortunately the refreshing slides did not come through.

<<Sorry about it -- probably your side did not have enough
bandwidth.>>

Using chat, I found that Claudio was one of the participants, so we started
to chat about the project.

<<That is funny, because I did not see your chatting with Claudio in
our CU-SeeMe s chat window.>>

He pointed out to me that the people in Brasilia did NOT received the CU-SeeMe
picture either.

<<We saw Claudio in the beginning, but not the last part of our
session, and I thought he lost his connection. Claudio s video was
even snapshot and transferred to Roger s web in the first part of our
session.>>

I am not sure, but once I received the signal from Ben Franklin that CAADE
was on the air, I launched my CU-SeeMe and found that I got the same answer
as before: the reflector is not receiving your call.

<<That s probably because Roger thought that everybody was listening
from Franklin s web, but not through MAVEN audio conference of CU-SeeMe,
and he probably did not connect our audio conferencing to the
MAVEN.>>

It all point to the fact that the reflector (198.64.57.8) was NOt active
during the last 3 or 4 days.

<<It was working, since I could log on to it during our session.>>

Claudio was to sent you some remarks on this point also.

<<Roger in Houston:
Do you have any other thought?>>

Should you need help with the excercise with Finland just tell me.

<<Thanks, anyway, I am glad to learn that you had some experience
with the event.>>

I have active:

CU-SeeMe (color version from White Pine)
REAL PLAYER, so I can receive audio with no problem. Know how to use it.
I can not traansmit at this moment, as I told you.
VOXWARE is also active. Do not know if I can transmit with it, but will
test that idea on the week end.

<<Pls test them with Roger for the case of our Tampere
workshop/conference next May.>>

<<Also, you may test iVisit -- see above.>>

Comunicator (version 4) (Netscape version 3.01 has been uninstall)

<<Is this better than 3.02 -- I am using its Gold 3.02 version.>>

Have also access to JAVA applets. As a matter of fact I am trying to get
EGWIE chat programs, and have dowloaded the Windows version for JAVA
Development Kit. Have also some addresses that I will try soon.

<<Pls go to Andrey s web -- see above. I am now downloading its
necessary plug-ins -- it is 5 Meg large!!.>>

Last but not least, it occurss to me that Costa Ricaa may be part of the
UNESCO regional program being carried out in Brasil.
If you allow me I will discussed this idea with Claudio. I do NOT want to
interfere your effort with Santa Catarina people.

<<Santa Catarina project is not with UNESCO, so that pls go ahead
your contact with Claudio.>>

If you need more info on CAADE participation on LEARN DAY just ask me.

<<O.K., I hope next time will be more fun!!>>

Best regards

Jose Brenes
CAADE Overseas Collaborator
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ATTACHMENT XI

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 07:22:46 -0800
To: rboston@tenet.edu
From: "hibbs@bfranklin.edu" <hibbs@bfranklin.edu>
Subject: caade demonstration/P.R./ and Simple Writings?
Cc: lkordus@wausau.com, archive@e-oasis.com, webspin@webcom.com,
utsumi@www.friends-partners.org

How about some help?

One: Roger: I think there were a whole lot of people, myself included, who
did not appreciate the CAADE experiment on Sunday. Can you explain it in
words that dumb guys like me can understand?

Two: Lynn: I would like you to develop a press release about the the
demonstration, including some background about CAADE, which you can find at
their website - however, plan on spending several days there as it is
really awesome.

Three: Tak: Somewhere in your massive (CAADE) writings and postings, is
there a one page "standard" Press Release about CAADE; I would like to
include it in our Media Kit which is now getting downloaded by lots of
people...let Lynn know where, she will do her magic.

<<How are ATTACHMENT II above and XII below, which were attached to
our fund inquiry letter to Soros Foundation. I am also sending you
in my following msg the Synopsis of Global University (one page).>>

<<Many thanks for your publicity effort!!>>

> As you might have seen during our mini GLH on the occasion of
> the GLOBAL LEARN DAY event on 10/12th, we can conduct very
> inexpensive videoconferences via Internet. We would be very
> happy if we can be of any help to your project. Pls feel free
> to contact me if you have any further questions.
>
> Wishing you a very good luck to your mtg in Amsterdam on
> October 23-24!!
>
> Best, Tak>>

GLOSAS ACTIVITIES

2 GLOSAS

GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association (GLOSAS) is a
publicly supported, nonprofit, educational service organization. It is a
consortium of organizations dedicated to the use of evolving
telecommunications and information technologies to further advance world
peace through global education. GLOSAS fosters science and technology
based economic development to improve the quality of life.

Over the past quarter century GLOSAS/USA played a major pioneering
role in extending U.S. data communication networks to other countries and
deregulating Japanese telecommunication policies for the use of e-mail
(thanks to a help from the Late Commerce Secretary Malcom Baldrige). This
triggered de-monopolization and privatization of Japanese telecommunication
industry. These have been emulated in many other countries (now over 75
for Internet access and over 175 for e-mail).

This effort was to establish later a globally distributed decision
support system. This infrastructure will enable an interactive computer
gaming simulation for problem analysis, policy assessment and formation.
This global peace gaming is designed to train would-be decision makers in
crisis management, conflict resolution, and negotiation techniques
especially in countries where such expertise is nonexistent. This goal
will be met through integrated use of computer conferencing, databases and
simulation systems distributed among various countries. Several systems
will be interconnected to form a global neural computer network [a term
coined by Utsumi in 1981 and used by Vice President Al Gore in his speech].
The total system will act as one system with parallel processing of those
subsystems in individual countries. Here each game player with his/her
submodel and database corresponds to a neuron, an Internet node to a
synapsis, and the Internet to the nerves of a global brain.

In the belief that GLOSAS' Global University, an outgrowth of these
peace gaming activities, seeks to improve the quality and availability of
international educational exchanges, by providing underserved people in
less developed countries with access to educational excellence from the
world's finest resources through the use of telecommunication and
information technologies.

GLOSAS' experience with its Global University and "Global Lecture
Hall (GLH)" worldwide videoconferencing activities in the past decade has
been the development of new models for distance education using interactive
videoconferences with various delivery technologies and several teacher
training workshops to establish countrywide or region-based electronic
universities around the world. The Consortium for Affordable and
Accessible Distance Education (CAADE) established by GLOSAS and comprised
of educational institutions, government and quasi-government agencies,
foundations and corporations will develop and demonstrate a new high
performance electronic communications infrastructure which combines the
efficiency and affordability of computer-mediated multimedia conferencing
systems via plain old telephone service (POTS), low-to-medium speed
terrestrial Internet, wireless board-band Internet, satellite broadcasting
technologies. This approach will help to take the demand for high
bandwidth off the now overburdened Internet system.

Dr. Takeshi Utsumi is the founder and chairman of GLOSAS and its
consortial organizations. For his contributions to distance education, Dr.
Utsumi received the prestigious Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance
Education in 1994.

3 GLHs

3.1.0 GLH/Costa Rica in October, 1995

GLOSAS/USA organized a large scale Global Lecture Hall (GLH)
videoconference on October 25, 1995, on the occasion of the VIth
International Conference on Distance Education: "Technology and Distance
Education: Sharing Experiences around the World," (October 24, to 27, 1995,
in San Jose, Costa Rica). Its signal was sent from our videoconference
center at Ohio University to Central and South America, and to the
Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and its
neighboring countries, Africa and Japan using several INTELSAT channels and
via Internet. Individuals involved in the conferences include prominent
educators and government officials (e.g., Dr. Federico Mayor, Director
General of UNESCO) as well as individuals from both the private and not-for-
profit sectors.

This GLH also connected student group in Helsinki with the support of
local universities and telephone companies.

3.2.0 GLH/Hungary in August, 1996

The Hungarian Fulbright Association and the Hungarian Fulbright
Commission held an international conference "The Spirit of Global
Understanding" on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Fulbright
exchange program and of the 1100th anniversary of the Nation of Hungary in
Budapest, Hungary from August 14 to 18, 1996. This conference was a
dissemination of the Fulbright spirit even under the altered conditions of
Central Europe. The main subjects were [1] the role of the Fulbright
Program in fostering the mutual understanding among nations through
cultural and scientific collaboration; [2] the prospective role of the
Fulbright Program, regarding the challenges of the 21st century.

In cooperation with the U.S. Fulbright Association Task Force on East
Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union, GLOSAS/USA assisted Hungarian
colleagues in organizing a large scale GLH, which focussed on medical
information, telemedicine and nurse training with electronic distance
education.

Mr. George Soros sent his greetings from his home in New York to
audiences in Budapest via Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) line, which
was distributed by satellite, PictureTel via ISDN and CU-SeeMe via
worldwide Internet. (See more information see
<http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/HCCS/glh.htm> and
<http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/HCCS/glhlink.htm>.)

4 GENERAL IDEA

Technological advances have made global communication accessible and
easy for some; but the lives of so many people, particularly in
disadvantaged countries, remain untouched by the educational possibilities
of distance learning, communication and collaboration. These issues are
scarcely discussed as a matter of public policy. The emerging Global
University (GU) System can provide collaborative, experiential learning
opportunities on the widest possible scale for the purpose of fostering
peace and sustainable development.

GU has already gained wide support of prominent educational
institutions, information technology specialists and industry in many
countries. Global (electronic) University is an evolutionary concept with
no precedent. The time is ripe for global electronic distance education.

Our work has been supported for years by a combination of ad hoc
grants from the Americas Society, AT&T, Colorado Video, Fetzer Foundation,
GE American Communications, Hughes Communications, INTEC of Japan,
Mitsubishi Electric, National Technological University, NEC, NHK, NYNEX,
Pacific Telesis, PAN AM Satellites, Private Satellite Network, the Public
Service Satellite Consortium, Radio Televizja Beograd, Telespazio, Sony of
America, Sprintnet/ SprintMail and others and personal funds, to name but a
few.
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D. *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
* Founder of CAADE *
* (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education) *
* President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA) *
* A Divisional Activity of GLOSAS/USA *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
* INTERNET: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
* FTP://champlaincollege.qc.ca (IP 198.168.102.231) *
* http://www.wiu.edu/users/milibo/wiu/resource/glosas/cont.htm *
* http://www.friends- *
* partners.org/oldfriends/education/globaluniv/synopsis.html *
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Originally posted at the Website: http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/GN/ by Tina Evans Greenwood, Library Instruction Coordinator, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado 81301, e-mail: greenwood_t@fortlewis.edu, and last updated May 7, 1999. By her permission the whole Website has been archived here at the University of Tennessee server directory of GLOSAS Chair Dr. Takeshi Utsumi from August 9, 2000 by Steve McCarty in Japan.