Tampere Workshop preparation correspondence, 11/97-1/98

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 17:18:54 -0500 (EST)
From: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@solar.cini.utk.edu>
To: Steve Kohn <steve_kohn@nynex.com>
Cc: Utsumi Takeshi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Current status of Tampere workshop/conference preparation (fwd)

Dear Steve:
(1) This is to keep you up-dated with our progress/current status of our
GSTF project, as you requested.
Best, Tak

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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:22:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@solar.cini.utk.edu>
To: Vladimir Andreev <vandr@mim.kiev.ua>, Agnes Nagpal <anagpal@sorosny.org>,
Varis Tapio <tapio.varis@helsinki.fi>, Russ Pipe <pipe@tdrs.com>,
Sreedhan Nair <sreenair@aol.com>,
Slava Shkarupin <slava@isf.freenet.kiev.ua>,
Ihor Katernyak <tt&mc@lim.lviv.ua>, Salah Mandil <mandils@who.ch>,
Farnbach George <farnbach@libertynet.org>
Subject: Current status of Tampere workshop/conference preparation

<<January 19, 1998>>

Mr. George C. Farnbach
Former Executive Director, Center for NIS Cooperation
University CIty Science Center
3624 Market
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215 387 3924
Fax: 215 387 4833
farnbach@libertynet.org
http://www.libertynet.org:80/~niscntr

Slava Shkarupin
Director
International Science Foundation
4 Bogomoltca ul, Ste 129
Kiev, Ukraine
Tel: +38 044 293 2686
Fax: +38 044 293 7378
slava@isf.freenet.kiev.us

Slava Ignatov
Deputy Vice Rector - International Affairs
Donetsk State Tech University
ul Artyom No. 58
+38 062 291 0825
Fax +38 062 292 1278
osv@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua

Ihor Katernyak
Director
Technology Promotion Center
Lviv Institute of Management
57 700-Richa Lvov St. (7th Floor)
Lviv, 290601 Ukraine
Tel: +38 032 252 4463
Fax: +38 032 252 4463
tt&mc@lim.lviv.ua

Salah H. Mondil, Ph.D.
Director-Advisor on Informatics
World Health Organization
20, Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
SWITZERLAND
+41-22-791-2426 (direct)
+41-22-791-2111
Fax: +41-22-791-0746
mandils@who.ch

Dr. Sreedhar Nair
Head, Hinds Research Center
Beulah Hinds Center for Lung Studies and Health Informatics,
World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Health Informatics
Norwalk Hospital/Yale Univ. School of Medicine
Norwalk,CT 06856 USA
203-852-2474
Fax: 203-854-9191
sreenair@aol.com

Mr. Russ Pipe
Deputy Director
Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
202-775-3138
pipe@tdrs.com

P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Professor and Chair
Media Culture and Communication Education
Hypermedia laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
Finland
tel: +358-3-215 6111
Direct (24 hour availability) mobile phone:
GSM +358-50-5679833
fax: +358-3-215 7503
tapio.varis@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/hyper/

Mr. Noah Simmons
Deputy Director
Regional Programs
Open Society Institute
888 7th Avenue
New York, NYC 10106
212-757-2323
Fax: 212-974-0367
and
Agnes Nagpal
anagpal@sorosny.org

(1) Dear George C. Farnbach in Philadelphia:

Many thanks for your introduction to your Ukrainian colleagues.

Thanks also for your forwarding Mr. Ihor Katernyak's msg (ANNEX II) to
me.

(2) Dear Mr. Ihor Katernyak in Ukraine:

Many thanks for your excellent feedback.

Yes, as you indicated in your msg, most of higher educational
institutions have been connected with broadband (at least, at 2 Mbps)
Internet. Our next tasks to establish global learning infrastructure
(GLI) are;

(a) to have broadband Internet across national boundaries as you urged
in your msg, and
(b) to extend such broadband Internet to local elementary and
secondary schools.

We look forward to meeting with you at Tampere conference to discuss
further those matters.

ANNEX I is the current status of this project.

(3) Dear Mr. Slava Shkarupin in Ukraine:

According to George, Mr. Ignatov has to pay to receive email msgs, so
that I would not send this lengthy msg to him. Pls kindly convey our
best regards to him. Thank you.

(4) Dear Salah H. Mondil in Geneva:

Many thanks for your introduction of this project to Dr. S. Litvinov,
Director of Programmes Management, WHO Regional Office for Europe and
Mr. Steinar Pedersen in Tromso, Norway (ATTACHMENT IV of ANNEX I).

Pls forward this msg to them.

(5) Dear Dr. Sreedhar Nair in Connecticut:

Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT V of ANNEX I).

Pls call me when you come back from India around this week to discuss
further our technical arrangement of your demo. Thanks.

(6) Dear Mr. Russ Pipe in Washington D.C.:

ANNEX IV is a reply from Mr. Utsumi to my fax (ATTACHMENT II of ANNEX
III).

We would appreciate to hear of the response of Mr. Young, Director of
your GIIC, for our GSTF project. Thank you.

Best, Tak
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ANNEX I

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:55:54 +0200 (EET)
From: Tapio Varis <titava@uta.fi>
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Requesting ASCII version (fwd)

Dear Tak,

Please find enclosed the requested letter to Mr. Simmons.

Tapio

--Message-Boundary-17916

Mr. Noah Simmons
Deputy Director
Regional Programs
Open Society Institute
888 7th Avenue
New York, NYC 10106
212-757-2323
Fax: 212-974-0367

Dear Mr. Simmons:

(2) We are greatly delighted to hear of your pledge of $15,000 which is to
be used for telemedicine activities of participants from Eastern
European countries during our planned workshop/conference on "Emerging
Global Distance Education" in next May in Tampere, Finland.

(3) Please visit http://www.dds.nl/hypermail/ties-list/ to see the outline
of this event, though it is the same as the one we sent to Mr. Jonathan
Peizer of your organization. We want to discuss at this event the
followings;

(a) Infrastructure:

1. Local:
We will encourage the attendees the formation of their local
coalition of academia, secondary schools, public organizations
(libraries, hospitals, training centers, etc.) which will be
linked with inexpensive wireless broad-band Internet to enable
them use advanced web, Internet telephony, videoconferencing,
computer conferencing, etc. -- to solve the last-mile problem by
"do-it-yourself" approach.

2. International:
Those local coalitions are to be linked internationally with the
use of very small aperture terminal (VSAT) and broad-band
satellite in the future, and this is to be financed with the
Global Service Trust Fund (which is the emulation of the Universal
Service Fund of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
and which will be a pool of Overseas Development Assistant (ODA)
funds of G7 countries). The creation of the Global Service Trust
Fund is to be made by the International Coalition for Global
Information Infrastructure in Education and Healthcare.

The availability of broad-band Internet in international
arena is vital necessity to secure high quality, reliable
audio which is the most important component of global
electronic distance education.

We would need to foster the use of Internet in multi-lingual
and multi-cultural mode, which arrangement would require
multi-lateral approach with the Global Service Trust Fund.

ATTACHMENT I below is a brief description of this Global Service
Trust Fund project.

(b) Content:

1. Pilot project,

2. Standardization of courses, credits, accreditation,

3. Institutionalization of the International Coalition for
Global Information Infrastructure in Education and
Healthcare. -- see ATTACHMENT VII in the outline of this
event in the aforementioned TIES web.

(4) We would like to respectfully propose to utilize the $15,000 for the
following three activities;

(a) $5,000 for the participation costs by medical and telecom experts
from Ukraine;

The University City Science Center (UCSC) in Philadelphia, PA,
(see ATTACHMENT II) has a good connection with Ukrainians. The
UCSC is the home base of GLOSAS/USA, our U.S. counterpart.

After seeing the demo of ShareVision by GLOSAS, they bought a half
dozen of it with a grant from the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID), and shipped 4 units to Ukrainians for
conducting industrial training from UCSC via Plain Old Telephone
Service (POTS) network. They planned a project of sending X-ray
photos for breast cancer diagnosis from Ukraine to Philadelphia.

This breast cancer diagnosis field definitely requires broadband
Internet satellite linkage, since it requires very high-resolution.

Mr. George Farnbach, former researcher at the UCSC, kindly
introduced your generous offer to his Ukrainian colleagues
(ATTACHMENT III) and we are waiting their reply.

(b) $5,000 for the participation costs by medical and telecom experts
from a country in Eastern Europe whose mission, after attending
our Tampere workshop/conference, is to form a local coalition,
which will later be linked with the U.S. with a broad-band
Internet satellite (as mentioned above). They will also work with
us for the creation of Global Service Trust Fund and joint fund
raising for global distance education and telemedicine/healthcare
projects.

The delegates from a selected country will have following two
groups of attendees;

1. technical expert with knowledge/experience on wireline,
wireless and satellite Internet,

2. high ranking administrative person in government and/or
industry who can help the technical experts for their local
demonstrations, international cooperation, and the formation
of local coalition.

Dr. Salah H. Mondil, Director-Advisor on Informatics at the World
Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, kindly introduced your
generous offer to (ATTACHMENT IV);

1. Dr. S. Litvinov
Director of Programmes Management
WHO Regional Office for Europe
(the office in charge of WHO work in Eastern Europe)

2. Steinar Pedersen
Tromso, Norway

Incidentally, Dr. Mondil is a strong supporter of GLOSAS project,
particularly its Global Service Trust Fund project. He also has
close relation with people at the Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut.

(c) $5,000 for a demo of transmission/reception of high-resolution
image/photo (say, breast cancer X-ray) for telemedicine diagnosis
through broadband Internet between Tampere and Norwalk Hospital in
Connecticut which is the Yale University School of Medicine and
the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Health
Informatics.

Dr. Sreedhar Nair, Head, Hinds Research Center of the Norwalk
Hospital has already indicated his willingness to conduct this
demo (ATTACHMENT V).

If this is successful, this demo will legitimatize the need of
establishing the Global Service Trust Fund. Such an expensive
telecom channel can then be shared with global distance education.

For this demo, we need T1 (1.5 Mbps or up) linkage
(terrestrial wired- or wireless-line) to Internet at both
ends, i.e., Tampere conference site and Norwalk
Hospital/Yale University, and will rely on the open Internet
between them.

During the "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" videoconference
conducted by GLOSAS in August of 1996, Norwalk Hospital
acted the videoconference center as linking with Central
European University in Budapest, Hungary, Michigan State
University, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville,
Houston Community College, etc. Mr. George Soros' greeting
was transmitted from his home in Long Island, NY, to CEU,
and his voice and photo were sent back to Norwalk Hospital
for worldwide dissemination via ISDN, Internet and
satellite.

(5) After receiving favorable responses from Global Information
Infrastructure Commission (GIIC) and the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission to our Global Service Trust Fund project and Tampere
workshop/conference, we are now working to solicit funds from the
InfoDev of the World Bank, American Scandinavian Foundation, USAID,
USIA/USIS, CIDA of Canada, UNDP, etc.

Please be aware that this event is still in condition that we will
receive a favorable reply to our application to the InfoDev --
which we haven't received yet.

(6) We would respectfully request your agreement with the aforementioned
activities. I would be very happy to provide you with any further
materials about our activities, should you be interested in.

Looking forward to receiving your response soon,

Tapio Varis, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Tampere University
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Hypermedia laboratory
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
GSM: +358-50-567 9833
e-mail: tapio.varis@uta.fi
**************************************
ATTACHMENT I
December 6, 1997

Global Service Trust Fund
and
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
is to be financed with the Global Service Trust Fund which is the emulation of
the Universal Service Fund of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
and which will be a pool of the Overseas Development Assistant (ODA) funds of
G7 countries in the magnitude of several billion dollars for ten years. The
creation of the Global Service Trust Fund is to be made by the International
Coalition for Global Information Infrastructure in Education and Healthcare.
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.

GLOSAS/USA encourages the formation of local coalition of academia,
secondary schools, public organizations (libraries, hospitals, training
centers, etc.) which will be connected with inexpensive wireless broad-band
Internet to enable them use advanced web, Internet telephony,
videoconferencing, computer conferencing, etc. -- to solve the last-mile
problem by "do-it-yourself" approach. Those local coalitions are to be linked
internationally with the use of very small aperture terminal (VSAT) and
broad-band satellite in the future.

The availability of broad-band Internet in international arena is vital
necessity to secure high quality, reliable audio which is the most important
component of global electronic distance education. We would also need to
foster the use of Internet in multi-lingual and multi-cultural mode, which
arrangement would require multi-lateral approach with the Global Service Trust
Fund.

Institutionalization of the International Coalition for Global
Information Infrastructure in Education and Healthcare and other relevant
matters will be discussed at our planned workshop/conference on the "Emerging
Global Electronic Distance Education" in Tampere, Finland, next May. Please
visit
<http://www.dds.nl/hypermail/ties-list/> to see the outline of this event.
========================================

Activities of GLOSAS

The GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.
(GLOSAS/USA) is a publicly supported, non-profit, educational service
organization and is a consortium of organizations dedicated to the use of
evolving telecommunications and information technologies to further advance
world peace through global communications. GLOSAS fosters science and
technology based economic development to improve the quality of life.
Over the past two decades 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 the
de-monopolization and privatization of Japanese telecommunications industries.
This movement has later been emulated in many other countries (now over 80
with Internet access and 180 with e-mail). This effort was to establish later
a globally distributed decision support system through global neural computer
network (a term coined by Dr. Utsumi in 1981 and used by Vice President Al
Gore in his speech). 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. GLOSAS' Global University
(GU), 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. This is "the 21st century
version of the Fulbright exchange program."
GLOSAS' experience with its GU 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 systems via plain old telephone service (POTS), low to
medium speed terrestrial Internet, wireless telecommunications, satellite
broadcasting and computer conferencing technologies. This approach will help
to take the demand for high bandwidth off the now overburdened Internet
system.
Global University is an evolutionary concept with no global precedent.
GU has already gained wide support of prominent educational institutions,
information technology specialists and industry in many countries. The time
is ripe for global electronic distance education.

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, after Dr. Arthur C. Clarke's receipt of the same in 1992.
**************************************
ATTACHMENT II

UNIVERSITY CITY SCIENCE CENTER

The University City Science Center is a regional non-profit consortium
of 27 academic and scientific organizations in the greater Philadelphia area.
UCSC is one of the world's largest and most successful research parks and
business incubators providing office and laboratory facilities, research
assistance and business development services to science and technology-based
companies. UCSC's mission is the application of scientific and technical
knowledge to improve the quality of life and to foster science and technology
based economic development. It focuses on training, entrepreneurship and
technology activities.

UCSC MEMBER INSTITUTIONS

The American College
Bryn Mawr College
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Delaware State College
Drexel University
Haverford College
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
Lincoln University
Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University
Mercy Health Corporation
The Penjerdel Corporation
Pennsylvania College of Optometry
Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine
Pennsylvania Hospital
Phila. College of Osteopathic Medicine
Phila. College of Pharmacy and Science
Phila. College of Textiles and Science
Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia
Swarthmore College
Temple University
Thomas Jefferson University
University of Delaware
University of Pennsylvania
Villanova University
The West Philadelphia Partnership
Widener University

UNIVERSITY CITY SCIENCE CENTER

CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
3624 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-2614
For further information, please call
Phone: (215) 387-2255
Fax: (215) 382-0056
Email: ucsc@libertynet.org
URL: http://libertynet.org/ucsc.html
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ATTACHMENT III

Date: Thu, 08 Jan 1998 11:55:54 -0500
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
From: George Farnbach <farnbach@philadelphia.libertynet.org>
Subject: Telemedicine

Dear Tak:

(1) Thank you very much for your provision of allocating a portion of the
funding pledge to our Ukrainian colleagues in telemedicine field, that
Professor Tapio Varis received from the Open Society Institute, for
assisting delegates' attending the international workshop/conference on
"Emerging Global Distance Education" in next May in Tampere, Finland.

(2) I have forwarded the OSI's generous offer to the following people:

(a) Slava Shkarupin
Director
International Science Foundation
4 Bogomoltca ul, Ste 129
Kiev, Ukraine
Tel: +38 044 293 2686
Fax: +38 044 293 7378
slava@isf.freenet.kiev.us

(b) Slava Ignatov
Deputy Vice Rector - International Affairs
Donetsk State Tech University
ul Artyom No. 58
+38 062 291 0825
Fax +38 062 292 1278
osv@info.dgtu.donetsk.ua

(c) Ihor Katernyak
Director
Technology Promotion Center
Lviv Institute of Management
57 700-Richa Lvov St. (7th Floor)
Lviv, 290601 Ukraine
Tel: +38 032 252 4463
Fax: +38 032 252 4463
tt&mc@lim.lviv.ua

(3) Upon your request, I forwarded them your msg saying that their
mission, after attending your Tampere workshop/conference, will be to form
a local coalition, which will later be linked with the U.S. with a
broad-band Internet satellite.

Our Ukrainian colleagues may form following two groups of attendees;

(a) technical expert with knowledge/experience on wireline, wireless
and satellite Internet,

(b) high ranking administrative person in government and/or industry
who can help the technical experts for their local demonstrations,
international cooperation, and the formation of local coalition.

Sincerely yours,

George C. Farnbach
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ATTACHMENT IV

From: mandils@who.ch
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:41:44 +0100
Subject: Re: Respectfully requesting your suggestion/help
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
Cc: Utsumi Takeshi <utsumi@columbia.edu>,
Varis Tapio <tapio.varis@helsinki.fi>

Dear Tak,

This is to acknowledge your message and to confirm
that I have forwarded it, with my recommendation, to Dr
S Litvinov, Director of Programmes Management, WHO
Regional Office for Europe, the office in charge of WHO
work in Eastern Europe.

I also copied the same to Steinar Pedersen, Tromso,
Norway, whose department has an active TeleMedicine
project between health care institutions in the North
of Norway and in the North-West of Russia.

As this is the near-end of the year, it may take time
before you get a response. With my best regards,

Salah MANDIL
Director AOI
WHO Geneva
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ATTACHMENT V

From: SreeNair <SreeNair@aol.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:15:24 EST
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: Respectfully requesting your demo

Dear Dr. Utsumi,
I read your e-mail letter. I will be willing to hold a demonstration on May 13
and 14. I think I will be able to do it for about $5000 in expenses and may
not need any additional funds since I may have the equipment myself and may
not need to rent it.
So you can include us as a demonstration site. T-1 line is a problem. We have
three ISDN lines. Will that suffice? Also will this be on line or store and
forward?
Please let me know.
Sincerely yours,
Sree

--Message-Boundary-17916--
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ANNEX II

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:34:32 -0500
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
From: George Farnbach <farnbach@philadelphia.libertynet.org>
Subject: Finland conference

Tak:

Here are comments and thoughts from Ihor Katernyak in Ukraine regarding the
conference in Finland.
George

>Comments: Authenticated sender is <vandr@pop.mim.kiev.ua>
>From: "Vladimir Andreev" <vandr@mim.kiev..ua>
>To: farnbach@philadelphia.libertynet.org
>Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 10:26:42 EET
>Subject: Finland conference
>Reply-to: vandr@mim.kiev.ua
>X-Confirm-Reading-To: vandr@mim.kiev.ua
>X-pmrqc: 1
>Return-receipt-to: vandr@mim.kiev.ua
>Priority: normal
>
>Dear George,
>
>If you'll send this information to Mr. Utsumi <utsumi@columbia.edu> ,
>please let me know.
>
>Such a local Coalition in Ukraine can be really formed through the
USAID-funded
>Ukrainian-American B.I.D. Program. The main goals of the Program are
>closer integration of scientific and business communities, encourage
>and development of technology-based small business, promotion of the
>scientific potential and academic resources of Universities, science
>and research institutions. The partners of the Program are the
>Ministry for Education and the Ministry for Science and Technologies
>of Ukraine, leading Universities and research institutions of 3 major
>Ukrainian cities, hi-tech companie including major Internet service
>providers (ISPs) and metropolitan area network service providers
>(NSPs).
>
>The program covers education, consulting, expertise, encourage of business
>and investment support in technological areas (computer software,
>telecommunications, medicine, semiconductors, etc.). The Program is
>interested in promotion and use of broadband technologies for
>knowledge transfer, information exchange and collaboration rough the
>international partnership.
>
>At present leading specialists from USA and Western Europe are invited to
> Ukraine for education program. By introduction of broadband
>videoconferencing technologies the Program can decrease travel and
>accommodation expenditures and reallocate the costs for further
>development of the broadband infrastructure and local community f
>users. In principle, extra funding can be allocated for the above
>activities.
>
>In Kiev, the local network infrastructure and technological base for the
coalition
> can be provided by International Telecommunications Center "KS-Net"
>(ITC "KS-Net"), which operates the city-scale 2mbit network
>connecting major Universities and scientific institutions. A number
>of libraries, medical and business organizations are conne ed to the
>network by leased lines, with bandwidth of up to 128Kbps. The only
>problem is international connectivity for broadband applications.
>
>ITC "KS-Net" has experience in broadband networking and videoconferencing
> technologies, through the partnership in project NICE (National
>Hosts Interconnection Experiments with Global Linkage) of European
>Commission. In the framework of NICE, several wide-scale
>international videoconferences and tele-meetings (up to 20 interac ve
>sites from different countries) have been held. The videoconferences
>were based on ATM (including ATM over satellite), MBONE and Internet
>technologies. "KS-Net" attended some of these events with temporary
>ATM connectivity over 2Mbps cable to Palermo, ich can not be used for
>frequent events and as permanent network connection.
>
>Also, the Technology Promotion Center has an experience of using ShareVision
> for videoconference between Donetsk University, Lviv Management
>Institute and University City Science Center at Philadelphia.
>
>As attendees for the Tampere Workshop and Conference, can be recommended:
>
>1. Ihor B. Katerniak. Deputy manager of Program and Director of the
> Technology Promotion Center (e-mail: TT@MC@lim.lviv.ua)
>2. Alexey V. Andreyev, qualified networking expert, leader of Ukrainian
NICE
>technical team, ITC "KS-Net" (e-mail: alexey@admin.ups.kiev.ua)
>
>We'll accept all your comments and wishes with pleasure
>
>Sincerely yours,
> Ihor
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ANNEX III

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 09:56:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
To: Russ Pipe <pipe@tdrs.com>
cc: Clement Dzidonu <clement@themba.cszim.co.zw>,
Alan Schechter <ASCHECHTER@WELLESLEY.EDU>,
Claudio Menezes <CLAUDIO@UNESCO.ORG.BR>,
Richard Kerby <richard.kerby@undp.org>,
Kenney Gerard <egkenney@magi.com>, Mack John <john.mack@itu.ch>,
Bill Bertrand <wbertran@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>,
Joe Pelton <Pelton@Boulder.Colorado.edu>,
Salah Mandil <mandils@who.ch>,
Patry Pierre <Pierre_Patry@teluq.uquebec.ca>,
Kenneth King <kmk@cren.net>, Padulo Louis <padulo@libertynet.org>,
Bowman Cutter <bcutter@warburgpincus.com>,
Mazzucelli Colette <colettegrace@earthlink.net>,
David Johnson <daj@utk.edu>, Boston Roger <rboston@tenet.edu>,
Eli Noam <noam@columbia.edu>, Varis Tapio <tapio.varis@helsinki.fi>,
Utsumi Takeshi <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Letter sent to Yoshio Utsumi at Japanese MPT

Dear Mr. Pipe:
(a) I found that my last msg sent to you yesterday was heavily damaged
during my uploading. I am now re-sending it.

Dear Electronic Colleagues in CC field above:
(b) We would greatly appreciate it if you can also kindly send your email
msg of support to Mr. Hirsch at the InfoDev.

Best, Tak
==================================================

<<November 28, 1997>>

Mr. Russ Pipe
Deputy Director
Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC)
202-775-3138
pipe@tdrs.com

Dear Mr. Pipe:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).

(2) My replies/comments are in << >>.

Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I

From: "Russ Pipe" <pipe@tdrs.com>
Organization: TDRS
To: "Tak Utsumi"<utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 06:57:48 +0000
Subject: Received Global Fund Material

Dear Prof. Utsumi:

The two e-mails have been received and I will review them as soon as
possible. However, I have already forwarded them to Mr. Joe Young,
Executive Director of GIIC.

<<I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day wherever you were on your
world trip.

Many thanks for your kind introduction of our project to Mr. Young.

Should you be able to obtain his interest and support to our project, we
would appreciate it greatly if you can kindly send your email msg of
support to following person;

Aaron Hirsch
infoDev Research Assistant
Telecommunications and Informatics Division
The World Bank, F4K-224
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
202-473-1836
Fax: (202) 522 3186
ahirsch@worldbank.org
E mail: infodev@Worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/infodev
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/infodev/infodev.html

Tapio Varis of the University of Tampere sent Mr. Hirsch his grant
application for our workshop/conference next May, and they are now in the
final evaluation phase to reply to us soon.>>

Yes, Mr. Yoshio Utsumi is a candidate for Secretary General of the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and now serves as Deputy
Minister of MPT. I think I will meet with him in Tokyo next week so
I will bring your regards. As a world leader in telecommunications,
you may wish to inform him about the Global Service Trust Fund
Project.

<<At your suggestion, I faxed my letter (ATTACHMENT II below) to him
today. Pls have a very fruitful mtg with him.

Best, Tak>>

Kind regards.
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ATTACHMENT II

November 28, 1997

Mr. Yoshio Utsumi
Deputy Minister
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
1-3-2, Kasumigaseki
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100
JAPAN
+81-3-3504-4411
Fax: +81-3-3502-2838 (c/o, Mr. Okata in Secretary's Office)

Dear Mr. Utsumi:

It has been some time since our last correspondence and
meeting. I hope this message will find you well.

I would like to wholeheartedly congratulate your deputy
ministership and a candidacy for Secretary General of the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Although I expected
the former for some time, I learned it recently from Mr. Russ
Pipe, Deputy Director of the Global Information Infrastructure
Commission (GIIC) (tel: 202-775-3138; email: pipe@tdrs.com).

At the kind suggestion of Mr. Pipe, I would like to inform
you about our Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) Project, which will
be discussed at our planned International Conference on "Emerging
Global Electronic Distance Education" in Tampere, Finland (11 - 15
May, 1998). I am attaching for your reference the copies of my
recent correspondences with Mr. Pipe which briefly described the
intention of this GSTF project and the conference. Incidentally,
he may visit you next week.

We would respectfully request your participation in this
event and support to our project. I would be very happy to update
you with any further materials about our activities in the past
two decades, should you be interested in.

Looking forward to receiving your response soon,

Sincerely yours,

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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ANNEX IV

Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications

3-2 Kasumigaseki 1-chome
Chiyoda-ku Tokyo
100-8798 JAPAN

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
43-23 Colden Street, Suite 9-L
Flushing, NY 11355-3998
USA

January 9, 1998

Dear Dr Utsumi:

Please forgive this belated response to your fax of November 28, 1997 and
subsequent papers, in which you kindly informed me about your Global Service
Trust Fund (GSTF) Project and the planned conference in Finland in May on the
topic of "Emerging Global Electronic Distance Education." lt was certainly a
great pleasure to hear again from you after such a long time!

I have only recently settled my very crowded schedule of work for May, and,
unfortunately, it seems unlikely that I will be able to attend the conference.
I very much regret this, as I strongly support the promotion of distance
education -- both in Japan and worldwide. In addition, as candidate
Secretary-General of the ITU, it would be very valuable for me to learn more
about expert views in this field, as well as the GSTF Project. Despite my not
being able to join you in Finland, I hope you will keep me up-to-date on these
matters.

Meanwhile, thank you again for your invitation. I sincerely wish you well
with the Project and the conference.

Yours sincerely,

Yoshio Utsumi
Deputy Minister
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
* 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) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email) *
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 *
* http://www2.champlaincollege.qc.ca/ljutic/glosas.htm *
* http://library.fortlewis.edu/~instruct/glosas/cont.htm *
* http://cwis.usq.edu.au/electpub/e-jist/vol2no1/klemm/caadehom.htm *
* http://198.64.57.10/tgcccc/HCCS/glh.htm *
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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.