Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Peter T. Knight <ptknight@attglobal.net>
John L. Mack <jlmack@erols.com>
Gary Garriott <garyg@vita.org>
Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>
Dear David:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I). Thanks also
for the very
exciting info (ATTACHMENT II).
(2) I asked John Mack to set a date and workshop place in D.C.
for the
Rescue Iridium" project after 6/16th
when Peter Knight will come back from Brazil.
Dear Peter:
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(3) Your final report to the InfoDev of the World Bank highly
commended our
Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF) project in
the order of several billion dollars.
See "Peter Knight's
final report Lessons_from_infoDev_Projects - April
23, 2000" at
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve/global-univ-2000.html>.
(4) As I said for the report, $5 million/year budget of the InfoDev
is not
sufficient for the establishment of global
wireless and satellite broadband Internet.
I hope you will suggest the InfoDev people to expand their budget at this occasion.
(5) Inconspicuously, this new $2 billion fund seems not to include
global
distance learning and telehealth/telemedicine
via narrow- and broad-band Internet.
This fund also seems loan-basis instead of grant-basis.
(6) Subsequently, global e-rate with severe discount (or even
free access)
with GSTF, as you envisioned, still needs
to be established.
(7) I would like to have a mtg on next step of the GSTF project
with you,
David, and Joe Pelton after 6/16th and before
you leave for your summer
cottage in Main in early July.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 21:07:17 -0400
From: djohnutk <djohnutk@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Iridium project
Tak:
As I mentioned today in our phone conversation, the World Bank has announced
a
very large grant program for education in developing countries.
The article
is in the New York Times, April 27. I will forward a copy to
you.
It seems to me very timely to invite the Bank to provide a fund to GUS
to
adapt and utilize the Iridium satellite system for this purpose.
The Bank
gets credit for doing some good works and the massive investments in
this
system is preserved for beneficial purposes. I hope we can have
the Bank's
participation in the DC meeting. Peter Knight will be a good
bridge, but we
might want to get someone from Wolfensohn's office, too, since Peter
is now
off the payroll.
Regards,
Dave
David A. Johnson, Ph.D., AICP
Professor Emeritus of Planning
University of Tennessee
108 Hoskins Library
Knoxville, TN 37996-4015
Fax 423 974-5229
Home: 8 Hilltop Rd, Asheville, NC 28803
Home tel: 828 277-5792
Mail: PO Box 1647, Knoxville, TN 37901
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ATTACHMENT II
Excerpt from
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/global/042700world-bank-edu.html>
April 27, 2000
World Bank Chief
to Unveil an
Ambitious Education
Program
By JOSEPH KAHN
[W] ASHINGTON,
April 26 -- As world
education ministers gather in
Senegal today
to discuss how they have
fallen far short
of their targets in
poor nations,
the World Bank plans to
announce a broad
new commitment to
schooling and
literacy programs.
James D. Wolfensohn,
the World Bank
president, will
announce in a speech
Thursday at
the World Education Forum
in Dakar, the
Senegalese capital, that
the bank is
prepared to lend
"multiples"
more than the $2 billion
it now devotes
to education programs
each year, bank
officials said today.
The resources
will focus on poor
nations that
produce a comprehensive
blueprint for
enrolling more children
in school, for
eliminating illiteracy
and for ensuring
that girls have equal
access to education.
The initiative
will be the bank's
second sweeping
commitment in two
weeks to fighting
poverty at the
grass-roots
level. Last week finance
ministers endorsed
a World Bank plan
to spend much
more to fight AIDS in
developing countries.
The bank has
pledged to shift
resources it once
devoted to large-scale
projects like
dams and highways
to programs that
directly help
poor people. In total,
it makes about
$30 billion in loans
each year.
The commitments
have come at a time of
unusual public
pressure on the bank
and the International
Monetary Fund,
its sister lending
agency, to do more
to alleviate
poverty and protect the
environment.
Protesters declaring that
these lenders
often do more harm than
good tried to
shut down the spring
meetings of
the institutions in
Washington this
month.
Bank and fund
officials say they are
wary of a backlash
against
globalization
that could undermine
their political
support in the richer
countries that
provide their money.
The World Bank
is already the single
largest source
of international aid
for education,
having doubled its
annual lending
to $1.9 billion last
year from $900
million in 1990. Bank
officials said
they were now prepared
to devote many
times that amount in
coming years
to a group of nations,
perhaps as many
as 20, that produce
"business plans"
demonstrating how
they will use
foreign aid for certain
goals. These
are to train teachers,
buy textbooks,
build schools and
subsidize families,
so that children
who would otherwise
be relied on to
work can attend
classes.
"This is about
how we move from
rhetoric to
concrete action," said
Eduardo A. Doryan,
the World Bank's
vice president
for human development.
"The constraints
on this program will
not be money."
Rather, he said, the
constraints
will be "the political
will in developing
countries to
produce a viable
and sustainable plan
to transform
education."
The commitment
comes as ministers
convene in Senegal
for talks organized
by the United
Nations.
When they met
in Thailand in 1990, the
ministers vowed
to put every child in
school by this
year. But they have
made only modest
progress. Some 125
million children,
mostly girls,
receive no formal
education today.
Poor countries
have made few gains in
wiping out adult
illiteracy, with an
estimated 880
million adults still
unable to read.
And foreign aid for
education in
Africa has actually
dropped since
the early 1990's,
private groups
that follow education
trends estimated.
Education officials
are now moving
some of those
goals ahead to 2015.
The bank said
it would work with four
United Nations
agencies and a number
of international
citizens groups in
pursuing the
programs. Oxfam and
Education International
are among the
private groups.
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Copyright 2000 The New York
Times Company
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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 Tennessee
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/
Peter T. Knight
Knight, Moore - Telematics for Education and Development
Communications Development Incorporated (CDI)
Strategy, Policy, Design, Implementation, Evaluation
1808 I Street, NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20006, USA
Tel: 1-202-775-2132 (secretary), 1-202-721-0348 (direct)
Fax: 1-202-775-2135 (office), 1-202-362-8482 (home)
ptknight@attglobal.net
peter@knight-moore.com
webmail: ptknight@netscape.net
http://www.knight-moore.com
http://www.cdinet.com
IP for CU-SeeMe: 198.77.80.46
http://www.knight-moore.com/projects/GSTF.html -- about GSTF
Rio Office
Avenida Atlantica 4002/501
Copacabana
22070-002 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Tel/Fax: 55-21-522-7068 Call first to fax
Cellular: 55-21-9752-5972
John L. Mack, CEO
John L. Mack & Associates
International Telecommunications Investment Consultant
P.O. Box 567
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773-0567
301-627-2188
Fax: 301-627-2188
jlmack@erols.com
Gary Garriott
Director, Informatics
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
1600 Wilson Blvd., Suite 500
P.O. Box 12438
Arlington, VA 22209-8438
703-276-1800 X19
Fax: 703-243-1865
garyg@vita.org
vita@vita.org
ECONET: VITA
Telex: 440192 VITAUI
Cable: VITAINC
www.vita.org/satvitpo.htm -- Press release on Consorcio SAT/SatelLife/VITA
www.vita.org/consort.htm -- Press release on satellite-users coalition
www.vita.org/slife.htm -- Press release on SatelLife-VITA
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
Or,
Acting Executive Director of CITI
Vice-Chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S. (ACCFUS)
Arthur C. Clark Institute for Telecommunication and Information (CITI)
4025 40th Street North
Arlington, VA 22207
(703) 536-6985
ecjpelton@aol.com
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http://www.informatics.org/clarke/projects.html
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