Franck BIANCHERI <fbianch@club-internet.fr>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dr. Marco Antonio R. Dias <mardias@club-internet.fr>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Professor Jim Hines <jhines@mit.edu>
Dr. Dalia Moawad <dmoawad@ritsec2.com.eg>
Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
Dr. Gerald O. Barney <gbarney@igc.apc.org>
Dear Franck:
============
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my
previous
listserve distribution of
"Global Peace Gaming (Part II) - April 21,
2000" which can be found at
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>.
I will reply to your subject of our presenting
the Global University
System (GUS) project at your conference first,
and then reply to your
inquiry on the possibility of demonstrating
a Global Peace Gaming during
your conference.
(2) Many thanks for your accepting our proposition to present
our GUS
project at your exciting Newropeans Congress
on October 5 to 7, 2000 in
Paris -- <http://www.newropeans.org>.
During the board mtg of our GLOSAS/USA on 4/20th,
Tapio and David have
agreed to attend your conference to present
our GUS project. They will
appreciate your generous offer of free food
and accommodations.
I am very happy to learn that you know Marco.
Dear Marco:
===========
Pls reserve the
dates for Franck's conference, though we will meet
and discuss
at our mini-workshop in Manaus, Amazona, Brazil on
5/31st to June
2 -- see
<http://www.argo.com.br/~alex_mau/workshop/workshop.htm>.
Tapio and David would appreciate it if your
conference will provide them
with Internet/web access at high speed (preferably
better than 56 Kbps)
and a projector/large screen, etc.
Dear Dalia:
===========
If you can attend
this conference, you may join Tapio and David to
present your
InfoDev project.
I would be very happy to publicize your conference
in our listserve
distributions and web.
(3) About your inquiry if we can make a small scale global peace
gaming
during your conference:
This depends on the replies to the outline
of my following propositions
from Prof. Jime Hines (M.I.T.), Dr. Dalia
Moawad (RITSEC), and if
necessary, Prof. Roger Boston (Houston Community
College System).
(4) The participants of this demonstration will be students in
seven Arab
countries, which are Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait,
Emirates, Tunisia,
Morocco, and Egypt.
They took Prof. Hines' distance learning courses
on Managing Complex
Systems" <http://www.ritsec.com.eg/learnnet/html/system_dynamics.html>.
This distance learning project was funded by
the InfoDev of the World
Bank.
Dear Dalia:
===========
Pls consider
this event with your people and reply to me ASAP.
This can be
a very good publicity of your project to develop many
partners in
European countries and also a good starting point of
our collaboration
which you proposed -- see "Connection with Egypt
and Arabic countries
- April 28, 2000" at <http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>.
(5) During the demonstration, all of those students will be linked
with a
videoconferencing (say, CU-SeeMe or NetMeeting,
etc.) -- or if video is
not possible, with audio conference or chat,
at least.
This means that
they need to have a camera and higher speed
Internet access
than 56 Kbps.
Dear Roger:
===========
Pls consider
the possibility of connecting them via Internet, for
video, audio,
whiteboard, slide show, etc. as similar to the one
you did during
our Tampere event -- see
<http://www.teched.org/finland/Aug_09.htm>.
If Franck can
provide broadband Internet line at the demo site
(there is more
than 165 Mbps line between the US and France), you
may also do
streaming audio/video as you did with Colette and
David Johnson
-- see <http://www.teched.org/starlink>.
If Franck provides us with enough time, say, 1.5 hour, you
may use 0.5 hour for your presentation of your distance
learning courses, too, and you then keep watch the
connection with the Arabic students during the following
demo by Prof. Hines for about one hour.
Dear Prof. Hines:
=================
(6) It was my great pleasure to talk with you over the phone a few hours ago.
In response to Franck's request, I wonder if
you can demonstrate World
Dynamics model which you used in your distance
learning course on
Managing Complex Systems" with the Arabic
students of RITSEC project.
I would appreciate it if you can kindly emphasize
the use of "Cause-and-Effect"
diagram for better understanding of interdependence
among world
phenomena -- see STRUCTURE OF THRESHOLD 21
at
<http://www.threshold21.com/>.
Jay Forrester of M.I.T. once said (when I took his course in
1967) that the primary purpose of systems dynamics
simulation is NOT for its prediction/forecasting, but for
the clearer understanding of such interdependent
relationship of social factors. I thought that this, with
scientific and rational analysis and critical thinking,
ought to be the basic principle of global education for peace
Incidentally,
Dr. G. O. Barney of the Millennium Institute (which
has the above
web site) has been a strong advocate of Systems
Dynamics methodology
since early 1970s. He produced a report on
the 21st century
for President Jimmy Carter just prior to his
leaving the
White House.
His Millennium
Institute has constructed many national models for
Bangladesh,
Benin, Cambodia, China, Italy, Malawi, Somaliland,
Tunisia, US,
etc. However, alas, they have not linked each other
yet, though
the interdependence among them is apparent -- more so
with globalization
in the 21st century.
As mentioned
in my previous listserves (ATTACHMENT II), our next
task is to link
those national models which will be resided in the
computers in
their individual countries (in distributed computer
simulation mode)
for our Globally Collaborative Environmental
Peace Gaming
-- see Chapter 5 "Global Peace Gaming" of my book
draft "Electronic
Global University System and Services" at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/Contents_of_Book.html>
--
especially,
see its Figures 1 and 2. However, we have to make
further development
for this next task in the future.
(7) The ideal execution mode of your World Dynamics model for
gaming would
be the so-called man-in-the-loop" interactive
one which is similar to
the flight simulation.
In this mode, you start your model from the
initial point, say, the Year
2000. Your model's execution output
will be seen in graphic form by
Arabic students as their accessing your web
site of the model.
According to the pre-set scenario, the students
will stop the model
execution, to discuss the new situation and
set new policy parameters
for the next execution period by the consensus
among the game players,
and so on.
The scenario
may have the change of population growth rate (say,
due to worldwide
epidemic), or energy shortage (say, due to
political upheaval
in an oil producing country), etc.
Refer to Figure 2 of the Chapter 5 of my book draft mentioned above.
If your World Dynamics model cannot have such
real-time interaction
capability, you may execute the model for
certain time interval, say,
every 10 years to change the policy parameters,
and continue the
execution for the next time period.
During those parameter changes, the aforementioned
videoconferencing
connection will provide you with direct discussion
with your students in
those Arabic countries via Internet.
(Their videoconferencing may be
done with another PC than the one of accessing
your web site.)
(8) The above is the outline of my proposition for this demo on
Global Peace
Gaming at Franck's conference. Pls feel
free to call me if you have any questions.
Franck and I look forward to hearing your favorable response soon.
Dear Franck:
============
(9) The above is not quite complete format of our planned Global
Peace
Gaming yet. However, it can be another
significant development toward
the end, after our cumulative effort in the
past quarter century as
mentioned in my book draft.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:50:16 -0400
To: f.biancheri@cybercable.fr
Cc: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Subject: Error Condition Re: Re: Global Peace Gaming (Part II)
Dear Tak,
Thank you veru much for your answer. As it seems that this game cannot
be
demonstrated on real scale at the occasion of the Newropeans congress,
is it
maybe possible to think of a small demo version?
Concerning a presentation of Glosas at the conference, it is of course
possible. I have to see with the organisation committee by next week.
What
could be envisaged is GLOSAS/Newropeans cooperation. on our side, we
could
inform about Glosas and create links on our website, offer to two of
your
officer to speak at one or two sessions dealing with Internet and Education
(we take in charge food and accomodation, but not travels) and find
a slot
in our programme to demonstrate what this university system can look
like.
Have you some 10 mn demo available? or something we can have online
for 10mn?
We would then expect GLOSAS in exchange to publicize the Newropeans
congress
to its members and partners.
What do you think?
By the way, I am happy to meet again with Marco Antonio DIAS whom I
happen
to know for a few years already.
Best regards
Franck BIANCHERI
****************************************
ATTACHMENT II
Other related listserve distributions on Global Peace Gaming
which can be found at
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>
(1) "Global Peace Gaming (Part II) - April 21, 2000,"
(2) "Global Peace Gaming / Past and future possibilities - April 17, 2000,"
(3) "Scenario USED for peace gaming at 1986 GLH - April 14, 2000,"
(4) "Class on Peace Gaming at Univ. of Hawaii - April 10, 2000."
****************************************
ATTACHMENT III
Reference web sites:
(1) GLOSAS/USA:
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>
(2) Tampere conference:
(3) Global University System:
(4) Global University System: Asia-Pacific Framework:
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/index.html>
and
"Draft of Travel Grant Application to the National
Science Foundation
for the Manila Mini-Workshop -- 1 of 5: Travel
Grant Application / 2 of
5: Workshop Schedule / 3 of 5: Grant Nominees
/ 4 of 5: Philippine
Counterparts / 5 of 5: GUS in the Philippines
Pilot Project Proposal -
February 16-17, 2000" at
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>
(5) Global broadband Internet networks:
(6) Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF):
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/GSTF/Synopsis_2-15-00.html>
and
<http://www.informatics.org/clarke/projects.html>
(7) Manaus workshop:
<http://www.argo.com.br/~alex_mau/workshop/workshop.htm>
and
Draft of Travel Grant Application to
the NSF for the Manaus Mini-Workshop - March 30, 2000" at
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>.
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