Draft of Grant Application to IREX for a Mini-workshop at the UK Open University

<<February 23, 2000>>

Dr. Ihor Bogdan Katerniak <ik@litech.net>

Dr. Paul Lefrere <p.lefrere@open.ac.uk>

P. Tapio Varis <tapio.varis@uta.fi>

Dr. Marco Antonio R. Dias <mardias@club-internet.fr>

Docent Antti Kasvio <ttanka@poph.uta.fi>

Jusri De Vries <jdevries@uiah.fi>

Victor T. Ching <vicching@compass.com.ph>

Dear Ihor:
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(1) I am sending you my revision of your grant application to IREX for our
mini-workshop at Open University in U.K. You have done very good job.
Congratulations!!

Dear Paul, Marco, Antti and Jusri:
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(2) Pls fill-in your blank space. Pls send yours to Ihor (cc to me).

Dear Ihor and Paul:
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(3) I will send you Microsoft WORD version in my next msg.

Dear Ihor:
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(4) I will fax our support letter tomorrow, and email you my comments on budgets.

Dear Electronic Colleagues:
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(5) I am taking the liberty of distributing this to our listserve members
for the reference to the other regional groups of our GUS.

Dear Victor in Manila:
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(6) Pls read this carefully and follow Ihor's suite, if you wish to start
your new BUSINESS.

Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I

Main Activities
in
Cover Sheet.doc

Main Activities (short overview):
The project goal is to develop effective mechanisms for institutional
knowledge and information exchange in the framework of the Global University
System (GUS) . The Institutional partnership will explore technical
capabilities and options, and match educational needs of Ukraine with
affordable and accessible distance learning courses of the GUS, thus realizing
global collaboration and partnership to ensure students' learnability.

The proposed Mini-Workshop at Open University/UK is to bring together experts,
decision makers and key speakers. Partnership agreement on knowledge and
information exchanges will be signed; to develop Web-based interactive
communication platform (on-line forum and chat) for project management and
effective student-tutor communication; to test and adapt join pilot on-line
course for distance learning (in the field of humanities and social sciences).
The proposed partners are Lviv Institute of Management, Ukraine; Open
University, UK; Global University System and University of Tampere, Tampere,
Finland; Distance Education Network of the European Association for
International Education at the University of Tampere, and others.

This partnership coalition will conduct training for teachers and faculties in
Ukraine in the following subject areas: (a) principles of distance learning;
(b) technologies of distance learning; (c) new approaches to curricula
development; (d) how to create a course for distance learning; (e) effective
communication with students through up-to-date telecommunications and
information technologies. This coalition will also develop collaborative
proposals for a feasibility study, the design of infra- and administrative
structure, selection of courseware, etc. for fund raising, which includes a
detailed plan of the European Group of the Global University System.
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ATTACHMENT II

Program Proposal

1. Executive Summary

The digital revolution and economic globalization are taking us into a new
era. We are moving towards a global knowledge society where information,
skills and competencies become the driving forces of social and economic
development. The problems associated with this transformation can no longer be
solved by traditional means. The Internet, with its extending and improving
infrastructure, will be the main telecommunication media of tomorrow. It has
been extended to most countries, albeit with slow-to-medium speed. The
advancement of videoconferencing, telephony, broadband Internet, World Wide
Web, and other communication and information technologies are rapidly creating
new opportunities for establishing international distance learning and global-
healthcare/telemedicine programs that will allow us to foster global
citizenship and achieve "education and healthcare for everybody."
The project goal is to develop effective mechanisms for institutional
knowledge and information exchange in the framework of the Global University
System (GUS) . The Institutional partnership will explore technical
capabilities and options and match educational needs of Ukraine with
affordable and accessible distance learning courses of the GUS, thus realizing
global collaboration and partnership to ensure students' learnability.

During the project it has been planned to:
* conduct a Mini-Workshop at Open University/UK for bringing together
experts, decision makers and key speakers who will construct more
detailed plan for European Group of the Global University System ( )
(e.g., feasibility study, design of infra- and administrative structure,
selection of courseware, etc.), and prepare workshop/conference on
Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning'01 in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001.
Partnership agreement on knowledge and information exchanges will be
signed;
* develop Web-based interactive communication platform (on-line forum and
chat) for project management and student-tutor communication;
* adapt and test joint pilot on-line course for distance learning (in the
field of humanities and social sciences) with the partnership of Lviv
Institute of Management, Ukraine; Open University, UK; Global University
System and University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; Distance Education
Network of the European Association for International Education at the
University of Tampere, and others.
* conduct training for teachers and faculties in Ukraine in the following
subject areas: (a) principles of distance learning; (b) technologies of
distance learning; (c) new approaches to curricula development; (d) how
to create a course for distance learning; (e) effective communication
with students through up-to-date telecommunications and information
technologies.

2. Partnership Strength and Institutional Capability
<<About LIM and TPC>>
Since its founding in 1990, Lviv Institute of Management (LIM) has been
preparing individuals to be highly equipped to work in the ever-changing
economic environment in Ukraine today. The Institute provides an excellent
option for those individuals who wish to acquire a high level of theoretical
and practical knowledge in the field of business management, while learning
from global and national achievement and advanced practical experience. To
provide this unique opportunity for its students LIM has declared the
following goals:
* Promote the development of global distance learning;
* Expand partnerships at regional and international levels;
* Establish business contacts with institutions, which are able to assist;
* Maximize the network capacity and satellite connection;
* Elaborate the pilot project of Electronic Distance Learning Development
in Ukraine;
* Seek for means to reach the goals and expand the project;
* Monitor and assess the results of the project effectiveness.

The local network and management infrastructure, as well as technological
base, are provided by the Technology Promotion Center (TPC), which was created
by LIM in April 1996 for promotion of new technologies in the following areas:
* Management through information assistance and methodological provision
for project management;
* Education through introduction of innovation methods of education,
development and design of new educational programs for distance
learning;
* Production through licensing and small business development;
* E-commerce and services (tourism) through introduction of multimedia and
Internet technologies.

TPC assists universities, schools and businesses to use multimedia,
telecommunications, and networking technologies to enhance their programs and services.

<<About Open University/UK>>

(Will be added by Paul)

<<About relationship between LIM and Open University/UK >>
Lviv Institute of Management and Open University/UK have been partners in R&D
project on Electronic Distance Learning Development in the framework of the
European Group of the Global University System (GUS) (TM) since 1999. The goal
of GUS is to improve the global learning and wellness environment for people
in the global knowledge society where everybody shares the global
responsibility. GUS will coordinate and facilitate national and international
regional systems, which will support and complement the traditional
educational and healthcare institutions by using conventional methods in
tandem with advanced electronic media to further this goal.

<<About mechanisms of project management and modes of communication >>
Description of the mechanism for Project preparation and management:

Step 1. (Communication via Internet)
Key personnel from Lead Applicant writes main narrative and sends it to key
personnel of Support Partner Applicant for review and comments. After revising
and additions, it is sent to all key personnel of the Project for further
comments and suggestions.

Step 2. (Communication via Internet)
(a) Key personnel from Lead Applicant works out the budget of Ukrainian side
and sends it to the key personnel from Support Partner Applicant for review.
(b) Key personnel from Support Partner Applicant works out the budget of the
Open University side and sends it to the key personnel from Lead Applicant for review.

Step 3. (Communication via Internet)
Key personnel from Lead Applicant works on the final version of the main
narrative and sends it to all key personnel of the Project for final conclusion.

Step 4. (Communication via phone (teleconference), fax, and Internet)
Project Directors and president and vice-presidents of the Global University
System work out the next to final version of the budget.
Everybody will finalize both the main narrative and the budget, and sign the
cover sheet of Proposal.
Lead Applicant sends out the final application to the IREX office in Kyiv.

Step 5. (Communication via on-line forum and face-to-face meeting at mini
workshop in Open University/UK)
Global University System plays role of Advisory Board during the project implementation.
Also, during the project, a Web-based interaction communication platform
(on-line forums and chat, etc.) will be used to support the seminars. These
discussions will advance our understanding of online learning,
knowledge-building and collaborative processes, as well as teaching and
learning strategies in the field of humanities and social sciences.

3. Goals and Objectives
The project goal is to develop effective mechanisms for institutional
knowledge and information exchange in the framework of the Global University
System (GUS). The Institutional partnership will explore technical
capabilities and options, and match educational needs of Ukraine with
affordable and accessible distance learning courses of the GUS, thus realizing
global collaboration and partnership to ensure students'
learnability.Implementation of distance learning technologies and elaboration
of new distance learning syllabi will enable us to reach efficient
informational and knowledge exchange within the partnership.

Technology Promotion Center (TPC) of Lviv Institute of Management started
working a few years ago and since then a lot has been done in the direction of
promotion and use of broad band technologies for knowledge transfer,
information exchange and creation of the system of Global Electronic Distance
Learning in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Coalition for Information Infrastructure in Education and Health
Care "Business, Medical, and Telecommunication Coalition/Ukraine (BMTC/UA)"
was created in 1998 by the initiative of Dr. Takeshi Utsumi (Chairman of the
GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A., President of
Global University in the U.S.A.), and Dr. Ihor Katernyak (Director of the
Technology Promotion Center of Lviv Institute of Management, Ukraine). Today
the Coalition unites representatives from universities, business and medical
schools, hospitals, specialized secondary schools, entrepreneurs and technical
experts in telecommunications from various regions of Ukraine, as well as
representatives of the highest authorities and international donor's programs.
The mission of "BMTC/UA" is to promote the ideas related to the use of
broadband technologies for distance learning, knowledge transfer and
collaboration through the international partnership in business and medicine.
The main tasks of the Coalition are to:
* promote the development of Global Electronic Distance Learning and TeleMedicine;
* expand partnerships at regional and international levels;
* establish business contacts with institutions, which are able to assist
in maximizing the network capacity and satellite connection;
* elaborate the pilot project of Electronic Distance Education Development
in Ukraine and other NIS;
* seek funds to expand and reach the goals of the project;
* monitor and assess the results of the project effectiveness.

The first actual step for Ukraine in the Global University System was the
participation and presentation of "BMTC/UA" (Dr. I.Katerniak with technical
assistance of Dr. A.Saban) during the "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)"
videoconference on NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DISTANCE EDUCATION from Manaus,
Amazona, Brazil (October 21, 1998) and Emerging Electronic Distance Education
(EEDE) in Ukrainian Interactive Workshops and Demonstrations in Lviv, Ukraine
(October 22, 1998). There was a face-to-face meeting with people from various
regions of Ukraine who can benefit most from our next step of development
(web-site is located at http://www.uar.net/conference/). It was an
extraordinary historical event; with panelists located from Tokyo, Japan to
Lviv, Ukraine, spanning almost 18 time zones. BMTC/UA's participation in the
Internet Active Conference has attracted great interest on the part of
business circles in the U.S.A., UK, Spain, Italy and Germany in establishing
partnership relations in Distance Learning development.

At the International Conference on Emerging Global Electronic Distance
Learning '99 (Tampere, Finland, August 9-13, 1999), TPC made a successful
presentation of the Concept of the Distance Learning Development in Ukraine.
Subsequently a decision was made to expand Global University System(TM) in
Ukraine, and the European workgroup (Open University/UK, Temper
University/Finland and others) was formed for the distance learning pilot
project development in Ukraine within the Global University System(TM). Other
regional groups are for the Asia/Pacific, North, Central and South America,
and Africa (see <http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/>.

The International conference on "Topical Questions of Innovation Activity
Development in the States with Transitional Economy" (Alushta, Ukraine,
September 14-18, 1999) supported and confirmed this initiative to extend
electronic distance learning in Ukraine at the level of secondary and higher
education, and in staff retraining systems. Resources of five leading business
schools (LIM, IMI-Kyiv, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv Financial Institute and
Dnipropetrovsk Business School) known as the "L'viv Initiative" are used as a
base. Geographically they cover Ukraine from east to west. The business school
of Jagellonian University (Krakow, Poland), Lublin Business School (Poland),
CEU (Budapest, Hungary) and Economic University (Prague, Czech) will represent
Central Europe. The important role of supervising will be up to the American
universities that are currently members of Global University System. All
American universities have well-developed systems for distance learning and
will play the role of technical and methodological tutors. The
telecommunication industry of the CEE countries will be evaluated jointly in
relation to instructional delivery.

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 is interested in distance learning. It includes 6
universities, 9 business schools, 8 business support centers, 1 bank, 1 ISP,
and 2 leading research institutes of National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine
(Y.Paton Electric Welding Institute and Institute of Monocrystals). They come
from all over 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 in the following directions:

I. Development of New Technologies in Learning.
A. Promotion of the new and future technologies of the distance
learning into academic processes.
B. Collaboration in the development of informational exchange in networks.
C. First stage: implementation of distance learning to Partner
Organizations Bachelor's and Master's degrees
D. Second stage: expansion of degree-granting opportunities through distance learning.
E. Implementation of distance learning in specialized secondary schools.
F. Partner Organization participation in and support of the efforts
to establish a Global University System (TM) in Ukraine.
G. Exchange and adaptation of existing materials and design of new
materials for distance learning training.
H. Collaborative efforts to revise the curricula, methodology, and
subject matter of the distance learning courses.
I. Simulation Business Game organized via INTERNET.
J. Experience exchange and analysis of models of institutional
administration of distance learning.
K. Opportunities for faculties and students to study and earn degrees
at international Partner Organizations within distance learning programs.
L. Regular conferences/workshops on distance learning development
issues for faculties and students.
M. Representatives of the Partner Organizations perform coordination
of activities with informational support from Technology Promotion
Center of Lviv Institute of Management.
II. Formation of the database for electronic libraries with possible access
to databases of the international informational consortiums.
III. Comparative Analysis of Academic Accreditation.
A. Comparison of curricula offerings to determine degree of
equivalence.
B. Examination of criteria and standards of accreditation and quality
assessment.
IV. Relationships between educational institutions and Industry.
A. Collaboration with Small Businesses, Small Business Support
Centers, Business Incubators and Technology Parks on retraining
and professional development issues.
B. Collaboration with Scientific and Research Institutions on
technology commercialization issues.
C. Collaboration with hospitals on Telemedicine and Health Care
development issues.
D. Collaboration with ISPs to set up the basis for the incoming
INTERNET-2 systems.
E. Collaboration with Investment Companies and Venture Funds to
expand the information space and to prepare investment proposals.
V. Close collaboration with public institutions for a program of the
nation-wide development of distance learning in Ukraine.
VI. Creation of a newsletter featuring ongoing collaborative activity to be
published in English and Ukrainian.

Hence, today many talented Ukrainian specialists are experienced in
Computer-Mediated Multimedia Systems (CMMS) [e.g., ShareVision, NetMeeting,
etc.] through telecom media [e.g., TCP/IP-oriented Internet, etc.] and we have
established international relations, which ensure practical implementation of
broadband technologies for expanding distance learning in Ukraine through
Global University System (TM).

4. Proposed Activities
All proposed activities in the framework of the current Project will help meet
project's goal and objectives.
* Conduct 3 Day Mini-Workshop at Open University/UK. The workshop is to
bring together experts, decision makers and key speakers who will
construct more detailed plan for European Group of the Global University
System (TM) (e.g., feasibility study, design of infra- and administrative
structure, selection of courseware, etc.), and prepare
workshop/conference on Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning'01
in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001. Partnership agreement on knowledge and
information exchanges will be signed;
* Develop and test Web-based interactive communication platform in the
INTERNET (on-line forum and chat) for project management and
student-tutor communication;
* Adapt and test join pilot on-line course for distance learning (in the
field of humanities and social sciences) with the partnership of the
Lviv Institute of Management, Ukraine; Open University, UK; Global
University System and University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland; Distance
Education Network of the European Association for International
Education at the University of Tampere, and others. The course on
interactive communication platform will be provided for a wide circle of
consumers in Ukraine. This pilot course will be a model for further course developers;
* Conduct training for teachers and faculties in Ukraine in the following
subject areas: (a) principles of distance learning; (b) technologies of
distance learning; (c) new approaches to curricula development; (d) how
to create a course for distance learning; (e) effective communication
with students through up-to-date telecommunications and information technologies;
* Develop suitable plan for implementing and expanding institutional
partnership, project for creating a regional distance leaning center and fund-raising.

5. Plans for Sustainability
One of the purposes of the planned mini-workshop at Open University/UK is to
formalize the draft of the pilot project proposal of the European Group of the
GUS for partnership's sustainability. The result of this joint pilot project
will be the Global University System in Ukraine, whose goal is to spearhead
the linkage of existing distance education networks for establishing equal
access to education in Ukraine, NIS, between them and the counterparts in
Western (Finland, the U.K), Central (Poland, Hungary and Czech), Eastern
Europe (Ukraine and other NIS) and in the U.S, by using conventional methods
in tandem with advanced electronic media.
It is to improve the global learning and wellness environment for people in
the global knowledge society where the global responsibility is shared by
everybody. The Global University System will coordinate and facilitate
national and international regional systems, which will support and complement
the traditional educational and healthcare institutions.
The purpose of the Global University System in Ukraine is to collaborate with
people in Ukraine to identify and assess their needs for education,
professional development, technical training, and to learn how technology can
be used in creating a knowledge-sharing network to meet those needs. The
Global University System in Ukraine will promote sustained international
cooperation, capacity building, and an inter-cultural foundation for the
education through the electronic sharing and exchange of information.
For accomplishing this vision, the Global University System in Ukraine will
build up on progress that has already been made in order to:
* Promote accessible, affordable global distance education;
* Increase understanding of diverse cultural values and needs;
* Emphasize values of sustainability, equity and global peace.
This project will develop distance learning partnerships in the framework of
the Global University System with the goals to join efforts and resources for
distance learning promotion in NIS and fund-raising.

6. Self-Evaluation
One of the expected results of the Mini-workshop is an outline of the program
of the workshop/conference on Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning'01
to be held in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001 for promotion of the distance learning in
Ukraine and the NIS. During the Workshop in Lviv we are going to present the
existing low-cost teleconferencing technologies, fully functional web-based
course delivery platforms and advanced web-teaching materials. The goals of
the conference will be to introduce the Global University System, to discuss
the role of telecommunications in the global information society and to
promote distance learning in Ukraine and the NIS, as well as the role of
broadband Internet technologies in the future of global tele-education.

After the grant time limit, Web-based interactive communication platform is
going to be further applied for holding on-line forum within the bounds of
created partnership, and new partners are to be involved in the discussion as
well. It will enable the existing partnership to promote the idea of distance
learning, to discuss important problems of this area as well as to exchange
information and gained experience.

After developing the pilot course of distance learning, it is going to be
integrated into on-line course delivery platform (WebCT) as a sample in order
to demonstrate the possibilities of applying distance learning technologies.

After finishing the planned training on "New Information Technologies for
Collaborative Learning and Communication", teachers will obtain basic skills
for creating on-line courses, will be able to use up-to-date technologies
effectively for interactive communication with students during the educational
process. After demonstrating the sample on-line course, teachers will be
proposed to create their own course and to place it on LIM's On-line course
delivery platform (WebCT).

7. Personnel Qualifications
Project oversight and coordination will be the responsibility of Project
Director from Lead Applicant, Ihor Katernyak, Director of the Technology
Promotion Center at Lviv Institute of Management, and Project Coordinator from
Support Partner Applicant, Paul Lefrere, Senior Lecturer of the Institute of
Educational Technology at the Open University/UK. The Program Assistant will
be Mykola Tomyn, Coordinator of Distance Learning program at Lviv Institute of
Management. The Assistant Project Coordinator from Support Partner Applicant
will be ____________________________

<<Ihor:
The above space is still missing.>>

The resumes of all key personnel are included in the attachment - Personnel Resumes.
The proposed program incorporates review and evaluation in all aspects, step
by step, after each project phase, and the final one - at the end of the
project - as a report to IREX.

8. Work Plan
For its successful implementation, the project is to be divided into four
phases. At the end of each phase the conducted work will be assessed in order
to direct the project towards accomplishment of its objectives.
Phase I.
May-June 2000
3 day Mini-Workshop at Open University
For more information see ANNEX I "A 3 Day Mini-Workshop at Open
University/U.K. on Towards the Global University System(TM) - European Group
Partnership agreement on knowledge and information exchanges will be signed.
Phase II.
June August 2000
Developing Web-based interactive communication platform.
In order to improve interaction we will develop a Web-based interactive
communication platform for on-line forum and chat, and on-line course and
instruction delivery.
Phase III.
September October 2000
During this Project phase we will adapt and test join pilot on-line course for
distance learning (in the field of humanities and social sciences) and
demonstrate and promote opportunities of the distance learning technologies.
Phase IV.
November December 2000
Conduct training in distance learning methodology and course development for
Ukrainian lecturers. For more information see ANNEX II "New Information
Technologies for Collaborative Learning and Communication".
Develop suitable plan for implementing and expanding institutional
partnership, project for creating a regional distance leaning center and
fund-raising.
Final project evaluation, public dissemination and report to IREX.
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ATTACHMENT III

A 3 Day Mini-Workshop at Open University, U.K.
Towards the Global University System (TM) - European Group
MM/DD/2000

Workshop information

Contact Persons:

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/

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/

Workshop Title:
Towards the Global University System - European Group

Dates of Workshop:
MM/DD/2000

Venue and Location:
Open University, U.K.

Workshop Organisers:
Open University/U.K.
University of Tampere
Technology Promotion Center of Lviv Institute of Management/UKRAINE
Global University System (GUS)
GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.
(GLOSAS/USA)

Size of the Workshop:
up to 20 participants

Introduction
Now on the verge of the next millennium, processes of economic globalization
are developing rapidly and are closely connected with science-consuming
high-tech production, knowledge transfer, advanced management and the
development of modern telecommunication and information technologies. Today
the fields of education and medicine lag seriously behind other areas in the
use of new technology and telecommunications, even though the emerging global
information society will be dependent on knowledgeable consumers.

Digitalization and the growing use of computers are creating new forms of
illiteracy and poverty resulting in unprecedented discrimination between
countries and groups equipped to enter modern information and knowledge
society and those who are not. Emerging electronic distance learning offers
many advantages for the project's participants and the world as a whole.
Promoting distance learning and tele-medicine allows for the exchange of
ideas, values and knowledge throughout the world. It opens areas of
communication and cooperation previously unrealized, contributing to world
peace. The individuals whom we help educate today will be our leaders tomorrow.

Scope
The workshop is to bring together experts, decision makers and key speakers
who will construct more detailed plan for European Group of the Global
University System (TM) (e.g., feasibility study, design of infra- and
administrative structure, selection of courseware, etc.), discuss the basic
principles of functioning, administration and infrastructure of the Regional
Academic Center of Distance Learning (Global University - Ukraine) within the
framework of the European Group of the Global University system (TM), and
prepare workshop/conference on Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning '01
in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001.

Purpose of the Workshop
1. to construct more detailed plan of the Global University System (TM) for
European Group (e.g., feasibility study, design of infra- and administrative
structure, selection of courseware, etc.),
2. to discuss the basic principles of functioning, administration and
infrastructure of the Regional Academic Center of Distance Learning (Global
University - Ukraine) within the framework of the Europe Group of the Global
University system (TM),
3. to formalize the draft of the pilot project proposal of the European
Group for joint fund rising, and
4. to prepare the workshop/conference on Emerging Global Electronic
Distance Learning '01 to be held in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001 (as the follow-up to
Tampere event) and to plan joint fund raising for it.

Statement of why the Workshop is important for each participants
In August of 1999, we held a highly successful International Workshop and
Conference on the Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning (EGEDL'99) at
the University of Tampere, Finland <http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/>. EGEDL was
sponsored by Alprint, the British Council. Finnair, Finnish Broadcasting
Company, Foundation for The Support of The United Nations (FSUN), Japanese
Medical Society of America, Ministry of Education Finland, Pan American Health
Organization (PAHO), PictureTel, Sonera, Soros Foundation/Open Society
Institute, United States Information Agency (USIA), United States National
Science Foundation, and the Information and Development Program (infoDev)
administered by the World Bank.

At this occasion, we formulated a project of establishing the Global
University System (GUS) with global broadband Internet which are to be
financed with Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF). Substantial momentum is
now being built up by the regional groups of the GUS around the world,
e.g., Asia-Pacific, North America, Central America, Amazonas, European
and African regions -- see PART II in the final report of the workshop
at the above mentioned web site. Each of those regional groups are now
planning to hold mini-workshops to prepare for their large workshop
similar to our Tampere event in the near future in order to formalize
the pilot projects listed in the PART II. For example;

(a) For Asia/Pacific -- see "Manila Mini-Workshop Plan - February 2, 2000"
at <http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>,
(b) For South America -- see "Revised schedule of mini-workshop in Manaus:
May 31-June 2 - February 8, 2000" at the same web site as above.

This workshop at the Open University is to do the same for our European Group
which has selected Ukraine as the first targeted country of the group at the
Tampere event.

We also initiated a Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) project to finance these
activities -- see <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/GSTF/Synopsis_2-15-00.html>.

Outcome of the mini-workshop
* Formation of project/partnership teams
* Direction for collaboratively furthering global electronic distance education
* Assessment of the technical capacity and infrastructure set-up in Ukraine
* Needs assessment and content for pilot projects
* Enhancement of human and infrastructure capacity (whenever required)
* Organization and implementation of distance learning (DL) courses
* Assessment of the effectiveness and sustainability of the approach established
* Development of a wider programme to broaden the utilization of DL to
other sector and specialties
* Detailed strategy of joint fund raising for the project of implementing
selected DL courses, as a pilot project of European Group
* Outline of program of the workshop/conference on Emerging Global
Electronic Distance Learning'01 to be held in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001
* Fund raising proposal for workshop/conference on Emerging Global
Electronic Distance Learning'01 to be held in Lviv, Ukraine, 2001
* Conference report for public dissemination

Attachments:

a) Tentative Schedule and Outcome of Mini-workshop on Towards the Global
University System - European Group

DRAFT #2

Tentative Schedule of Mini-workshop on
Towards the Global University System - European Group
Open University, U.K.
(Early summer, 2000)

Workshop organizers:
Open University/U.K.
University of Tampere
Technology Promotion Center of Lviv Institute of Management/UKRAINE
Global University System (GUS)
GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)

FIRST DAY

08:30 Reception

09:00 Greetings by delegates

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Global University System

Dr. Tapio Varis
Acting President
Global University System (GUS)
Tampere, Finland

11:30 Education and Learning in the 21st Century

Dr. Marco Antonio Dias
Vice President for Administration
Global University System (GUS)
Tampere, Finland

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Technological Future of Global University System

Dr. Takeshi Utsumi
Vice President for Technology and Coordination
Global University System (GUS)
Tampere, Finland

14:30 Discussions on the pilot project proposal of European Regional Group of
GUS

* Current status of distance learning and telemedicine
(including the delivery infrastructure)
* Needs in the future, particularly when a broadband Internet
will be available

Moderator:

Docent Antti Kasvio
University of Tampere
Tampere, Finland

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Presentation of what can be (or will be) available from North America,
Open University, University of Tampere to Ukraine;
* Via narrow-band Internet and ISDN, i.e., through currently
available telecom infrastructure
* Via broad-band Internet when it is available

Distance Learning and Exchange on Sustainable Environment

Dr. David A. Johnson
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
USA

Title: (about courses available from Open University)

Dr. Paul Lefrere
Open University
Milton Keynes, U.K.

Title: (about courses available from the University of Tampere)

Docent Antti Kasvio
University of Tampere
Tampere, Finland

17:00 Dinner

SECOND DAY

09:00 Brainstorming on Technical Capacity and Infrastructure (Present and Future)

Moderator:

Dr. Takeshi Utsumi
Vice President for Technology and Coordination
Global University System (GUS)
Tampere, Finland

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Brainstorming on Implementation of International Distance Learning
(Administrative Infrastructure)

Moderators:

Dr. David A. Johnson
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
USA

Dr. Paul Lefrere
Open University
Milton Keynes, U.K.

Docent Antti Kasvio
University of Tampere
Tampere, Finland

12:00 Lunch

14:00 Discussion and plan of the theme and program of the larger
workshop/conference (as to the follow-up to the Tampere event -- for 3
to 4 or 5 days)

* To formalize the draft of the pilot project proposal at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Final_Report/Pilot_Project_Proposals/Europe/infoDev_Proposal_Form.html>.
* To make the feasibility study, action plan, etc. to realize the
project of establishing the Regional Academic Center of Distance
Learning (Global University - Ukraine) for domestic and
international distance learning and telemedicine:
1. via the currently available narrow-band Internet.
2. in the near future, via the proposed broad-band Internet.
* To configure administrative and business schemes
* To construct joint funding proposals

Moderators:

Dr. David A. Johnson
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
USA

Dr. Paul Lefrere
Open University
Milton Keynes, U.K.

Docent Antti Kasvio
University of Tampere
Tampere, Finland

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Brainstorming on Summary of Achievements

17:00 Adjourn

(b) Organiser information (capability statements)

1. Open University, UK

<<To be filled in by Paul Lafrere.>>

2. Technology Promotion Center of Lviv Institute of Management, Lviv, Ukraine

Technology Promotion Center (TPC) was created in April 1996 in the partnership
of the Philadelphia University City Science Center/UCSC and Lviv Institute of
Management/LIM. The mission is to develop and commercialize new technologies
and innovations to increase the competitiveness of products and services in
Ukraine. TPC assists universities, schools and businesses in using multimedia,
telecommunications, and networking technologies to enhance their programs and
services. TPC promotes new technologies in the following systems:
* Management through informational assistance and methodological
provision for project management;
* Education through introduction of innovational methods of
education, development and design of new educational programs for
Distance Learning;
* Production through licensing and small business development;
* Commerce (electronic commerce) and services (tourism) through the
introduction of multimedia and Internet technologies.
Lviv Institute of Management was created in 1990 and seeks to be the premier
institute of management education in Ukraine, supplying innovative academic
programs such as the MBA program, and short-term courses for people in the
community who wish to enlarge or update their business skills.

3. GLOSAS/USA

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 Malcolm Baldridge). 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 Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming with globally distributed
computer simulation system through global neural computer network (a term
coined by Dr. Utsumi in 1981 and used by Vice President Al Gore in his
speech). His effort helped extending American and other countries' university
courses to under-served developing countries and the conduct of innovative
distance teaching trials with "Global Lecture Hall (GLH)" (TM)
videoconferences using hybrid delivery technologies.

(c) Participant information

Paul Lefrere

Brief Biography:

<<To be filled in by Paul.>>

P. Tapio Varis

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

Brief Biography:

Tapio Varis is currently Professor and Chair of Media Culture and
Communication Education at the University of Tampere Finland (Journalism and
Mass Communication and Department of Teacher Education), consultant on new
learning technologies for the Finnish Ministry of Education and advisor to
several international organizations. In 1996-97, he was UNESCO Chair of
Communication Studies at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has
also been a faculty member of the European Peace University, the University of
Art and Design in Helsinki and Communication and Media Scholar at the
University of Helsinki.

Tapio Varis is a former Rector of the University for Peace in Costa Rica and
Professor of Media Studies in the University of Lapland, Finland. He has
published approximately 200 scientific contributions, the latest being Media
of the Knowledge Age, published by Helsinki University Press 1995 (in
Finnish). He is listed in Who's Who in the World (1984 & 1995) and Men of
Achievement (1986 & 1995).

Antti Kasvio

Docent Antti Kasvio
Research Director
Information Society Research Centre
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-215 7633
Tel: +358 40 5551362
Fax: +358-3-215 7932
ttanka@poph.uta.fi

Brief Biography:

<<To be filled by Antti.>>

Marco Antonio R. Dias

Dr. Marco Antonio R. Dias
Vice President, Global University System
Consultant of United Nations University
Former Director, Division of Higher Education of UNESCO
36, Rue Ernest Renan
92.190 Meudon
FRANCE
Tel: +33-1-45 34 3509
Fax: +33-1-45 34 3509
mardias@club-internet.fr
m.dias@unesco.org

Brief Biography:

<<To be filled by Marco.>>

Takeshi Utsumi

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of Global
University System (GUS) 43-23 Colden Street
Flushing, NY 11355-3998
Tel: 718-939-0928
Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer email)
utsumi@columbia.edu
http://friends-partners.org/GLOSAS

Brief Biography:

Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., is Chairman of the GLObal Systems Analysis and
Simulation Association in the USA (GLOSAS/USA) and President of the Global
electronic) University (GU/USA) System (a divisional activity of GLOSAS/USA).

He is the 1994 Laureate of Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in Distance
Education. His public service has included political work for the deregulation
of global telecommunications and the use of e-mail through ARPANET, Telenet
and the Internet; working to extend American university courses to the Third
World; the conduct of innovative distance teaching trials with "Global Lecture
Hall(GLH)" multipoint-to multipoint multimedia interactive videoconferences
using hybrid technologies; and lectures, consultation and research in process
control, management science, systems science and engineering at the University
of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, M.I.T. and many universities,
governmental agencies and large firms in Japan and other countries.

Highlights among his more than 150 related scientific papers and books are
presentations at the Summer Computer Simulation Conferences (which he created
and named) and the Society for Computer Simulation International. He is a
member of various scientific and professional groups, including the Chemists
Club (New York, NY); Columbia University Seminar on Computers, Man and
Society New York, NY); Fulbright Association (Washington, D.C.); International
Center for Integrative Studies (ICIS) (New York, NY); and the Society of
Satellite Professionals International (Washington, D.C.).

He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Polytechnic University
in New York and his M.S.in Ch.E. from Montana State University, after studying
at the University of Nebraska under a Fulbright scholarship. His professional
experience in simulation and optimization of petrochemical and refinery
processes was gained at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo; Stone & Webster
Engineering Corp., Boston; Mobil Oil Corporation and Shell Chemical Company,
New York; and Asahi Chemical Industry, Inc., Tokyo.

David A. Johnson

Dr. David A. Johnson
Professor Emeritus
School of Planning
108 Hoskins Library
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4015
tel 423 974-5227
fax 423 974-5229
e-mail: daj@utk.edu
web page: http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/

Brief Biography:

David A. Johnson, AICP, is Professor Emeritus of Planning at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, where he served for 19 years. He was also an elected
faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at
Tennessee. Previously he taught in and directed planning departments at
Syracuse University and Ball State University.

Prof. Johnson received bachelors and masters degrees in architecture and city
planning from Yale University and a PhD in regional planning from Cornell
University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Cyprus, India, Thailand, and
the Soviet Union. He is a past President of the Fulbright Association of the
United States. Johnson has directed university linkage projects in a number
of countries including Manaus, Brazil and Coimbra, Portugal. Most recently,
he has been active in reconstruction efforts in Bosnia and bicommunal
peace-making in Cyprus.

Prior to embarking on a teaching career Prof. Johnson served as a professional
planner on the staffs of the Washington National Capital Planning Commission
and the Regional Plan Association of New York. His published writings have
focused on planning theory and history. He has written numerous articles on
the planning activities of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the development
of the New York Metropolitan Region. He has served on the editorial board of
the Journal of the American Planning Association and is the author of Planning
the Great Metropolis, London: Chapman & Hall, 1996. Dr. Johnson is active in
international distance education and is an advisor to the Global University
System, based in Tampere, Finland.

Dr. Johnson has participated in GLOSAS distance learning workshops between the
University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Moscow and Budapest. He presented a
paper at the EGEDL conference in Tampere, Finland in August 1999. Dr. Johnson
is developing an on-line version of a four-week training program offered by
the University of Tennessee on "Management for Sustainable Natural Resource
Development and Environmental Protection."

Jusri De Vries

Jusri De Vries, MFA, IDEC, EAIE
Coordinator, Distance Learning
Chairman, Distance Education Network
European Association for International Education
Department of Art Education
University of Art and Design - Helsinki
Hameentie 135 C
FIN-00560 Helsinki
Finland
Tel: +358 9 7563 0531
Fax: +358 9 7563 0250
Mob: +358 40 533 4204
jdevries@uiah.fi
http://www.uiah.fi/~jdevries
http://www.eaie.nl/activities/ps/DEN/

Brief Biography:

<<To be filled by Jusri.>>

Ihor Bohdan Katerniak

Brief Biography:

Project Manager of the "Business, Medical, and Telecommunication Coalition in
Ukraine". Currently Director of the Technology Promotion Center-LIM
(technology commercialization, technology based small business assistance,
project management consulting, design of educational programs for distance
learning and train in teleconference techniques) and Project Management Course
lecturer at the Lviv Institute of Management and International Management
Institute (IMI-Kyiv). He is Director for Development of the Business Incubator
Development Program in Ukraine BID/ USAID with responsibility for expending
the technology business incubator network in Ukraine and strategy of
sustainability. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics from Lviv State
University and an MBA from Lviv Institute of Management. He also took business
courses and was an intern at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, University
City Seance Center, Philadelphia and Loyola College, Maryland. He has
extensive experience in technology transfer, business consulting and project
development, and has worked on several USAID and TACIS sponsored programs. Dr.
Katerniak is initiator of creation "Business, Medical, and Telecommunication
Coalition/Ukraine" for Electronic Distance Education Development in Ukraine.

Mykola Tomyn

Mykola B. Tomyn, Dr.
Information Manager
Technology Promotion Center
Lviv Institute of Management
57, 700-ritcha Lvova Str., Room 706
Lviv, 290601
UKRAINE
Tel: +380-322-52 26 81
Fax: +380-322-52 44 63
tomyn@lim.lviv.ua
http://www.lim.lviv.ua/

Brief Biography:

Currently an Information Manager of the Technology Promotion Center-LIM
(technology commercialization, technology based small business assistance,
project management consulting, design of educational programs for distance
learning and training in teleconference techniques) and Co-ordinator of
Distance Learning Program at Lviv Institute of Management. He is the member of
the initiative group on emerging and development of the Global University -
Ukraine. He holds a Master in Physics and Mathematics degree from Lviv State
University, and an MBA from Lviv Institute of Management. He has successfully
completed the Distance Learning Internship Program at the University
Television Center of Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, and the course on
Wired Education in the CEENET'99 Workshop on Network Technology, Budapest,
Hungary. From the previous experience: Administrative Assistant of the
Interactive Workshop and Conference "Emerging Electronic Distance Education in
Ukraine".

Serhiy Hvozdiov

Serhiy Hvozdiov
Job Title:
Email Address:
Mail Address:

<<Ihor:
The above address is missing.>>

Brief Biography:

<<To be filled in by Serhiy Hvozdiov.>>

Victoriya Loboda

<<Ihor:
The above address is missing.>>

Brief Biography:

<<To be filled in by Victoriya Loboda.>>
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List of Other Prospective Participants

Dr. Gilles Seguin
Senior Education Marketing Strategist
Education Marketing Unit (ACET)
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2
(613) 992-6289
FAX (613) 995-3238
gilles.seguin@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/culture/educationmarketing/menu-e.htm

Bulgarians (Academy of Science) to be introduced by;

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
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ATTACHMENT IV

Training on "New Information Technologies for Collaborative Learning and Communication"

Description:
This training will focus on the techniques and skills needed for effecting
successful collaborative learning in distance programs. Training will be
emphasized (1) pedagogy and methodology of non-hierarchical, collaborative
learning in the fields of humanities and social sciences; and (2) design of
collaborative learning at a distance. The training will demonstrate that
emerging, cost-effective, computer information technologies offer new
breakthroughs for collaborative learning and communication at a distance.
Instructional techniques will include lectures, demonstrations, hands-on
Internet training sessions, and collaborative project design for web learning.

Objectives:
At the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Explain why knowledge of information technologies is important for
humanities and social sciences
2. Understand how they can use Internet for communications and
collaboration, information publishing and sharing, business operations and
management, and distance learning and data base accessing
3. Identify several of the hardware, software, date, and network components
of an on-line course delivery platform's architecture
4. Provide an overview of major issues involved in design and development
for distance learning programs
5. Describe how to set up effective training programs for instructors and
support staff for distance delivery
6. Develop an awareness of intellectual property and ethics related to
distance delivery
7. Describe various technologies and media used in electronic distance
learning
8. Develop a course for distance learning within on-line course delivery
platform
9. Use the Internet to research virtually any topic.

Teaching methods:
lectures, demonstrations, hands-on Internet training sessions, and
collaborative project design for web-learning.

Materials:
slides, handouts, templates for on-line course design, Web-site, questionnaire.

Contents:
First Day.
Lecture: Education, Training and Research in the Information Society.
Demonstration: Low cost video conferencing demonstration.
* Introduction and Portfolio Summary of low cost video conferencing experiences;
* Overview of low cost Conferencing/Collaborative Tools:
1. SYNC,
a. ASYNC.
Practice: Internet surf session (Web-courses in Internet) and low cost video
conferencing (NetMeeting, CU-SeeMe, V-Fone, etc.).

Second Day.
Lecture: Electronic Distance Education Development in Ukraine.
* Web-learning in Ukraine;
* Pedagogy and methodology of non-hierarchical, collaborative learning in
the fields of Economics and Business Education.
Demonstration: On-Line Course Delivery Platforms and WebCT tools for
Web-course design.
Practice: On-line course development collaborative project.

Third Day.
Lecture: Internet for communications and collaboration, information publishing
and sharing, business operations and management, and joint database accessing.
Discussion: Opportunity for further development of the Distance Learning in Ukraine.
Practice: Presentation of the collaborative projects.
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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/

Victor T. Ching
President, Philippine Office
Foundation for the Support of the United Nations (FSUN)
President
Chinatown Broadcasting Network
Rm. 1908 Cityland 10 Tower 1
6815 H. V. Dela Costa St., cor. Ayala Ave.
Salcedo Village, Makati City
Philippines
867-4490 to 92
Fax: 00632-812-7733
00632-718-1814
vicching@compass.com.ph
265397@easycall.com.ph
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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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