<<January 30, 2000>>
Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak <ik@litech.net>
Siri Oswald <information@crdf.org>
Vladimir Kozharnovich <vkozharnovich@unido.org>
Dr. Louis Padulo <padulo@libertynet.org>
Dr. David A. Johnson <daj@utk.edu>
Victor Kotelnikov <vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at>
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>
Emilio Vento <evento@unido.org>
Dr. Paul Lefrere <p.lefrere@open.ac.uk>
Petko KANTCHEV <petko.kantchev@itu.int>
P. Tapio Varis <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dear Ihor:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
(2) I am taking the liberty of distributing a copy of your
grant application
to CRDF (ATTACHMENT II) to our listserve members.
(3) Upon your request, I mailed out my support letter (ATTACHMENT
III) to
CRDF yesterday.
Dear Vladimir Kozharnovich:
===========================
(4) Once again, many thanks for your hospitality given to
me at my visit to
your office on 1/17th and 18th.
At that time, you indicated your interest in Ihor's activities
which may
be in line with yours, as you see in his project proposal.
His
Technology Promotion Center (TPC) was created in April 1996
in the
partnership of the University City Science Center (UCSC)
(Philadelphia,
USA) and his institute.
The world renowned Buckminster Fuller was once a
resident
scientist of the UCSC who created geo-dome, global electric
network grid, world map, etc., etc. He was the futurist
in
architect and city/community planning.
I was once very flattered by David Johnson who
said to me
Tak Utsumi is the Bucky of the Information/Knowledge
Age"!!
The UCSC was once the home base of our GLOSAS/USA.
It was the
oldest and largest organization specialized in the technology
transfer as having established TPCs in several countries,
e.g.,
Japan, Brazil, Ukraine, France, etc., etc., -- until
Louis Padulo
retired its presidency to become the Vice Chairman of
our
GLOSAS/USA.
Dear Victor Kotelnikov:
=======================
(5) You may be interested in Ihor's activities in Ukraine (your country).
Dear Joe Pelton:
================
Your friend, Victor, asked me to convey his best personal regards to you.
Dear Emilio Vento:
==================
(6) Your planned workshop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia may be similar to Ihor's workshop.
As mentioned to you in my previous msg, I hope your and
his workshops
would be held about a month apart each other so that our
colleague and I
can attend them both.
Dear Paul:
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(7) Many thanks for your agreeing to work on the grant application
to IREX
with Ihor's group (ATTACHMENT IV).
(8) I am also very happy to hear of your willingness to raise
discretionary
funding on a country-by-country basis from British Council.
Dear Petko KANTCHEV:
====================
(9) It was my great pleasure to have met with you on 1/14th in your office.
I was very glad to hear of your possibility of bringing
some
participants to the mini-workshop (ATTACHMENT III and IV)
at Paul's Open
University from the Academy of Science in Sofia, Bulgaria
(your
country).
Pls contact Paul -- they may be able to get some travel
funds from the
British Council office in Sofia.
Dear Tapio:
===========
Your friend, Petko, asked me to convey his best personal regard to you --
I showed your (and our) photo in "August 9" in left
column of Roger
Boston's web in <www.uta.fi/EGEDL/>.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Subject: Proposal to hold a scientific workshop in Lviv
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 20:05:03 +0200
From: Ihor Katernyak <ik@litech.net>
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>,
"Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Dear Tak:
Can I ask you send (ASAP) a letter of support the attached proposal
to
CRDF information@crdf.org and "Oswald, Siri" <soswald@crdf.org>,
Project
manager on our September workshop is ÁDistance learning system
in the field
of innovation management and technology transfer?.
Thanks for cooperation,
Ihor
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U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
1800 North Kent Street, Suite 1106
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Telephone: 703-526-9720
Fax: 703-526-9721
E-mail: information@crdf.org
January 13, 2000
To whom it may concern:
According to the program announcement for the Independent States
of the
Former Soviet Union from U.S. Civilian Research and Development
Foundation
(CRDF) for Joint Scientific Workshops sponsored by the U.S. National
Science
Foundation (NSF) we are pleased to submit the proposal to hold
a scientific
workshop in Lviv.
The theme of the proposed workshop is distance learning system
in the
field of innovation management and technology transfer.
Our proposal includes a three-page narrative about the subject
area and goals
of the planned workshop, the host institution, a list of proposed
U.S. and
Ukrainian attendees, and a budget summary (Look at attached MS
Word file - 3 pages).
We would appreciate the information regarding the results of
the competition
and hope for success in this project.
If you have any further requests please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
Ihor Katernyak, Ph.D
Director,
Technology Promotion Center
Lviv Institute of Management
e-mail: ik@litech.net
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ATTACHMENT II
GRANT TITLE: U.S.- Ukrainian Initiative, Joint Scientific Workshops
Workshop theme: Distance Learning System In The Field Of Innovation
Management
And Technology Transfer.
GRANT RECIPIENT: L'viv Institute of Management (LIM), Technology
Promotion
Center (TPC)
Ihor Katernyak, Ph.D., Director
57, V.Chornovil Ave., L'viv, 79601, Ukraine
Tel/fax: +380 322 52.74.92, 52.44.63, e-mail: ik@litech.net, URL:
http://www.lim.lviv.ua/
INTRODUCTION: Severe underfunding of scientific research programs
and
institutions in Ukraine and other NIS and resulting non-payment
of salaries,
under-employment, and unemployment of former defense scientists,
engineers,
and technologists caused the emigration. During last nine years
six thousands
of scientists and researchers emigrated from Ukraine. Ukrainian
specialists
lack the skills necessary to transfer technology in market place.
They are
often not properly prepared or understand how to work with U.S.
industry in
the research and product development arena and are not able to
effectively
compete in a global-oriented economy. The market for modern technology
products is growing but there are only a few Ukrainian professional
consulting
groups experienced in managing technology commercialization. There
is need for
a sustained Ukrainian countrywide system for distance learning
and consulting
in the field of innovation management and technology transfer.
To achieve a
multiplication effect in the delivery of the best quality academic
and
training programs and to facilitate truly interactive cooperation
between
industry, R&D institutions and business schools, Lviv Institute
of Management
has committed itself to the development of distance learning systems.
BACKGROUND ON GRANTEE: The L'viv Institute of Management is
the licensed high
school which was founded as an independent, non-profit educational
institution
in 1990 with the objective to provide innovative, progressive
business
education. To develop innovation management programs and commercialize
new
technologies the Technology Promotion Center (TPC) was created
in April 1996
in the partnership of University City Science Center (UCSC) (Philadelphia,
USA) and LIM.
Specialized courses that have been developed and delivered by
TPC staffs and
its partners include: (1) "Technologies transfer and technologically
oriented
small business development" training program in partnership
LIM and UCSC,
Lviv, 1996; (2) "Technological projects management"
training at LIM,
Lviv,1997; (3) "Innovation project management" course
developed and presented
for the American Academy of Sciences and presented to selected
Ukrainian
scientists and engineers at the International Management Institute,
Kyiv, May
1997; (4) "Innovation project management" at LIM for
MBA students, Lviv, 1998-99;
(5) "Innovation project management" for managers
of R&D projects in
Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, Kyiv, 1999.
Technology Promotion Center is promoting the innovational methods
of education
such as case studies and simulation business games. TPC has strong
complementary expertise in the design of software systems for
distance
learning, including participation in "Global Lecture Hall
(GLH)"
videoconference on new Technologies for Distance Learning (October
21, 1998)
(http://www.uar.net/conference/). Panelists were located from
Tokyo, Japan to
Lviv, Ukraine, spanning almost 18 time zones. First Internet service
provider
in Ukraine (since 1993, when the country's first Internet link
between Lviv
and Warsaw was established) provided technical support for this
conference.
Currently runs one of the main nodes of the Ukrainian Academic
and Research
Network UARNet (http://www.uar.net)
connecting some 40 universities and
research institutions.
LIM participated in the International conference on "Topical
Questions of
Innovation Activity in the States with Transitional Economy, held
in Alushta,
Ukraine, September 14-18, 1999, and supported an initiative to
extend
electronic distance learning in Ukraine in the framework Global
University
System (http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/maui.html
- Outline
of the Global University System Structure;
http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/outline/missionstatementukraine.html
mission
statement of the Ukrainian Project; http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/outline/
- EGEDL
conference outline/contents) on the level of education and in
scientist and
engineering retraining programs (http://www.lim.lviv.ua/english/de/).
Under
the leadership of Dr.Ihor Katernyak set up a work group and seminar
(December
4. 1999) to determine the essential principles of distance learning
for
business education in Ukraine, including: Knowledge management
(testing and
team project work), legalization, accreditation and cooperation
with Ministry
of Education; copyright; distance learning promotion in Ukraine,
virtual study
environment (tutor and students, psychology and ethics) distance
learning
platforms.
Partners to help LIM disseminate the information and coursework
will be
brought in through the Partnership for Distance Learning Development
(PDLD).
The Partnership was organized by LIM in 1998 with three members
and now has 26
organizations; each interested in distance learning. It has 6
universities, 9
business schools, 8 business support centers, 1 bank, 1 ISP, and
a leading
research institutes of National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine
(Y.Paton
Electric Welding Institute and Institute of Monocrystals). They
come from all
of Ukraine: Odesa, Dnipropertovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizzya,
Mykolayiv,
Cherkasy, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv. These organizations
and key faculty
have agreed to work together to develop and strengthen the distance
learning
system of Ukraine. PDLD will be distribution centers for the CDs,
and for
promotion the supporting program Web-site.
OBJECTIVES:
The objectives of the workshop are:
… to discuss the role of telecommunications in the virtual interactive
network
for engineering and technology between Ukraine and United States;
… demonstration of the video-conference systems (low-cost desktop
teleconferencing: ShareVision, NetMeeting, V-Fone, CuSeeMe, ProShare
VideoSystem) and tools of distance learning (On-Line Course Delivery
Platforms: WebCT, TopClass, Blackboard, Embanet, ECollege, IntraLearn,
Lotus
Learning Space, E-Education, Virtual-U);
to learn the skills of using the distance learning tools and
basic knowledge
in technologies commercialization;
to develop a cooperative proposal for distance learning development
in the
field of innovation management and technology transfer;
to promote distance learning system in Ukraine.
This workshop will enable all participants to understand better
how to use
Internet for communication and collaboration, knowledge exchange,
distance
learning and data base accessing. It will also provide participants
with the
opportunity to form important and lasting scientific and business
relationships with valuable international partners.
LIST OF U.S. AND UKRAINIAN PARTICIPANTS:
Ukrainian attendees:
Representatives of the government institutions and National Academy
of Sciences in Ukraine:
1. Boris Grinyov, Deputy Head, State Committee Of Science And
Intellectual Property
2. Boris Paton, President, National Academy Of Sciences Of Ukraine
3. Jaroslav Bolubash, Deputy Director, Department of Higher Education,
Ministry of Education.
Representatives of scientific institutions, technoparks and
inovation centers.
4. Valare Tymoshenko, Deputy Director, National Space Agency ,
Institute of
Technical Mechanics,
5. Petro Stadnik, Managing Director,, Institute for "Single
crystals"
6. Eugene Venger, President, "Semiconductors"
7. Georgiy Marinskiy, Managing Director, "Paton Institute"
8. Volodymyr Kozlovsky, Director, Javorive FEZ Technopark
9. Ihor Katernyak, Director, the Technology Promotion Center
10. Volodymyr Andreev, Director, the Center for Innovation Development
11. Inna Gagauz, Director, Kharkiv Technologies Center
Participants of the joint U.S.-Ukrainian scientific/research
projects
(recommended by CRDF representative office in Ukraine)
Representatives of the educational institutions.
12. Ivan Vasiunyk, General Director, Lviv Institute of Management
13. Ihor Nykolyn, Director of the External Relations Department,
Lviv
Institute of Management.
14. Ihor Lysyi, Coordinator of the Distance Learning Program,
Lviv Institute
of Management.
15. Sergei Belikov, Rector, Zaporizky State Technical Univetsity.
16. Daur Zukhba, Deputy dean, Donetsk State Technical University.
17. Victor Komerovsky, Academy of Telecommunication, Odesa.
18. Vira Lubchenko, Odessa State Technical University
Representatives of telecommunication companies and ISPs.
19. Ihor Protsykevich, Director, Ukrainian Academic and Research
network
Technical experts
20. Mykola Tomyn, Information Technology Specialist, Lviv Institute
of Management
21. Jacek Gajewski, Secretary General, Central and Eastern European
Networking
Association (CEENet).
U.S. partners and expert attendees:
1. Dr. Takeshi Utsumi Chairman of the Global Systems Analysis
and Simulation
Association in the U.S.A., President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology
and
Coordination of Global University System (GUS).
2. Dr. Roger Lee Boston, Rockwell Chair Instructor, Distance
Education/Technology Center, Houston Community College System.
3. Dr. George Gamota President of Science and Technology Management
Association.
4. Dr.George Farnbach former Director of University City Science
Center,
Philadelphia.
5. Ms.Halyna Petrauskas Vice President Environmental and Safety
Engineering
Ford Motor Company.
6. Mr. Bohdan Kramarzchuk Associate Dean, College of Management,
Metropolian
State University (Minnesota), founder of the U.S.-Ukrainian marketing
group in technologies.
Representatives of the donor organizations and foundations.
7. Natalya Artyukhovska, CRDF Representative
8. Vira Andrushkiw Project Director, Community Partnerships
Project, U.S.-Ukraine Foundation (Washington DC).
9. Mr. Walter Maruschak, Executive Director, Ukrainian Federation
of America.
10. Mr. Ihor Shust, Banking Consultant
EXPECTED RESULTS:
1. Development of a Web based communication platform for the distance
learning
program and global on-line forum.
2. Launching the training program "Commercialization of the
technologies"
based on multimedia technologies.
3. Producing CD-ROM with the following information: Training materials;
Profiles of the participants; Selection of legislative and normative
acts;
Information regarding search engines and database of technology
commercial,
distance learning, technology transfer and innovation management;
Photo
gallery of the workshop.
4. Development of a collaborative proposal to submit to the National
Science
Foundation (NSF) for fund raising which includes a detailed plan,
e.g.: a
feasibility study, design of infra structure and administrative
structure,
selection of courseware, etc.
BUDGET SUMMARY
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<<January 30, 2000>> Removed the rest by T.
Utsumi,
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ATTACHMENT III
Letterhead of GLOSAS/USA
January 29, 2000
Siri Oswald
Program Manager
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
1800 North Kent Street, Suite 1106
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Telephone: 703-526-9720
Fax: 703-526-9721
soswald@crdf.org
information@crdf.org
Dear Mr. Oswald:
This letter supports Dr. Katernyak's application for the workshop
project on
Distance learning systems in the field of innovation management
and technology
transfer, which he recently submitted to you.
In his country, there is a keen need for a sustained, countrywide
system for
distance learning through Internet which will make education more
efficient,
accessible, and interactive. His effort is to provide new models
for distance
learning not only to residents of Ukraine but also to people in
many other
countries in Eastern European region.
Because we foresaw that substantial social benefits would be
brought by his
effort in those countries, we invited him and his colleagues to
participate in
our "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" videoconferencing on
"New Technologies and
Distance Education" from Manaus, Brazil (October 21, 1998).
It was an
extraordinary historical event with panelists located from Tokyo,
Japan to
Lviv, Ukraine, spanning almost 18 time zones. His team demonstrated
the
cutting-edge audio/video streaming technology via Internet to
those Amazonians
in the middle of the jungle, in spite of a mere 1.5 Mbps Internet
linkage from Lviv,
Ukraine to Warsaw, Poland. We subsequently invited him and his
colleagues to
participate in our International Workshop and Conference on "Emerging
Global
Electronic Distance Learning" (Tampere, Finland, August 9-13,
1999), where
they made excellent presentations with CD-ROM on the development
of distance
learning in Ukraine.
Basing on this hard track record, we chose Ukraine as the first
targeted
country for the operation of the European Regional Group of our
Global
University System (GUS) to establish a global distance learning
system with
global broadband Internet. The other partner members of this
European Group
are the University of Tampere in Finland, Open University in the
UK, member
universities of the Distance Education Network of the European
Association for
International Education in Finland, etc. The other regional groups
are in the
Asia/Pacific, North, Central and South America, and Africa.
We now plan to have a small workshop at the Open University
in early summer to
prepare workshop/conference on "Emerging Global Electronic
Distance
Learning/2001" in Ukraine, and if possible, to construct
more detailed plans
for the European Group operation, e.g., feasibility study, design
of infra- and
administrative structure, selection of courseware, etc. Expected
results will
be (a) Outline of programs of the workshop/conference, (b) Fund
raising
proposal for the workshop/conference, (c) Detailed pilot project
proposal of
European Group for major funding. As the responsible person of
our Ukraine
operation, we definitely want to have Dr. Katernyak (and if possible,
his
colleagues, too) at this workshop at the Open University.
We hope that his workshop in September in Ukraine with your
funds is to produce
further detailed and localized project plans of our global distance
learning
through the Global University System.
By the way, should you be interested in our global initiatives,
please visit
following web sites;
(1) http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/,
(2) http://www.uta.fi//EGEDL/,
Please visit PART II of FINAL REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE
in its home
page for descriptions of regional activities.
(3) http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/index.html,
Please visit Proposed Global University System Structure,"
World
Regional Project Summaries," and Asia-Pacific
Projects," etc.
(4) http://www.knight-moore.com/projects/projectsindex.htm
About Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) Project.
I am sure that Dr. Katernyak will effectively utilize your
grant for the
substantial benefits of his and other nearby countries.
Sincerely yours,
Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.
Vice President for Technology and Coordination
Global University System
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
Cc: Dr. Ihor Katernyak
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ATTACHMENT IV
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 08:18:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Grant application to IREX for mini-workshop at Open
University
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Cc: tomyn@lim.lviv.ua, ik@litech.net, vita@cscd.lviv.ua, ttanka@uta.fi,
tapio.varis@uta.fi, p.lefrere@open.ac.uk, jdevries@uiah.fi,
saban@uar.net, utsumi@columbia.edu, daj@utk.edu
From: P.Lefrere@open.ac.uk (Paul Lefrere)
utsumi@friends-partners.org writes:
>Since this application has to be submitted by Ihor to IREX's
office in
>Ukraine, Ihor has to be the lead applicant and Paul is the
supporting applicant.
Dear Tak
I agree with all your suggestions and the timetable.
I am conscious that 10,000 dollars, while very welcome, does
not go very
far. There are other potential sources of funding we could think
about, to
complement IREX funding now and in the future.
For example, since this workshop is in the UK, we may be able
to get
additional funding from the British Council, to support a short
study trip
within the UK for some partners. We could ask for funds to allow
each of
you to meet people from other institutions, or to prolong your
visit, or
to cover some of your expenses in getting to the UK. Such a grant
might be
funded centrally by the main office of the British Council. However,
getting a large grant at short notice will be a problem. The alternative
is to apply for discretionary funding on a country-by-country
basis, to
the local office of the British Council. I think I can do this
from the
UK. Can I ask anyone who is interested in this to please mail
me the
address and contact details of their local British Council office
(ideally
with the name of the Head of Mission or the British Consul), and
I shall
explore what can be done.
Paul
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List of Distribution
Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak
Director
Lviv Institute of Management-LIM
Technology Promotion Center
57 V.Chornovil Ave.
Lviv 79601
UKRAINE
Tel: +380-322-52 2681
Fax: +380 322-52 2682
Fax: +380-322-52 4463
ik@litech.net
tpc@lim.lviv.ua
http://www.lim.lviv.ua/
http://www.uar.net/conference/
http://www.lim.lviv.ua/english/de/
Siri Oswald
Program Manager
U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)
1800 North Kent Street, Suite 1106
Arlington, Virginia 22209
Telephone: 703-526-9720
Fax: 703-526-9721
E-mail: information@crdf.org
Vladimir Kozharnovich
Programme Manager
Investment & Technology Promotion Branch
Investment Promotion & Institutional Capacity-Building Division
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
P.O. Box 300
A-1400, Vienna
Austria
Tel: (+43-1) 26026 3720/3702
Fax: (+43-1) 26026 6870
E-mail: vkozharnovich@unido.org
Dr. Louis Padulo
President Emeritus, University City Science Center
Vice Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
2020 Walnut Street, #32-A
Philadelphia, PA 19103-5645
215-564-6405
Fax: 215-564-3988
padulo@libertynet.org
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Former President of Fulbright Association
Professor Emeritus, School of Planning
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Tenneseee
108-I Hoskins Library
Knoxville, TN 37996-4015
USA
Tel: +1-423-974 5227
Fax: +1-423-974 5229
daj@utk.edu
davidj@buncombe.main.nc.us
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
Victor Kotelnikov
Political Affairs Officer
Office for Outer Space Affairs
United Nations
Vienna International Centre
P. 0. BOX 500
A - 1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: (43-1) 211-31/4955
Fax: (43-1) 213-45/5830
E-mail: vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Applied Space Research, Rm 340
George Washington University
2033 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
202-994-5507
Fax: 202-994-5505
ecjpelton@aol.com
jpelton@seas.gwu.edu
Emilio Vento
UNIDO-ICS Liaison Officer
UNITED NATIONS
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION
Vienna International Centre
P.O. Box 300
A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: (+43-1)-26026-3726
Fax: (+43-1)-26026-6811
E-mail: evento@unido.org
Dr. Paul Lefrere
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Educational Technology
Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44-1-908 65 33 88
Fax: +44-1-908 67 28 02
p.lefrere@open.ac.uk
http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/
Petko KANTCHEV
Senior Engineer, Sound and TV Broadcasting
Coordinator, Technology and Applications Group (TAG)
Counsellor on Telemedicine
Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT)
International Telecommunication Union
Place des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Tel: +41-22-730-5448
Fax: +41-22-730-6204
Telex: 421000 UIT CH
E-mail: petko.kantchev@itu.int
X.400: G=petko; S=kantchev; P=itu; A=400net; C=ch
http://www.itu.int
http://web.itu.ch/ITU-D-HRD/hrdevents/telemed/finalrep/Telemed_fr-
en.htm
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University System
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 6110
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
tapio.varis@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., 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 Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination
of *
* Global University System (GUS)
*
* 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://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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