<<October 28, 1999>>
Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Dr. Marco Antonio R. Dias <mardias@club-internet.fr>
Robert J. Rodrigues, M.D. <rrodrigues@paho.org>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Dear Alex:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
I included their bio's in your draft proposal of the pilot
project for
the South American region at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Final_Report/Pilot_Project_Proposals/South_America/infoDev_Proposal_Form.html>.
Dear Marco:
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(2) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II).
Pls visit the above web site. Pls feel free to send your
additional
write-up or comments to Alex, -- referring to your msg.
(3) Many thanks also for your introduction of our Global University
System
project to UNAMAZ people.
Dear Alex and Marco:
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(4) During our Strategic Mtg on Fund Raising held at Pan American
Health
Organization (PAHO) in D.C. on 10/18th, Bob Rodrigues kindly
offered his
conference rooms for our follow-up workshop/conference to
our Tampere
event.
This is a similar one as the Tokyo workshop for the
Asia/Pacific
group in next April (or May).
This event at the PAHO is to be held in early October
(or November) of
2000, and to brainstorm on the feasibility study, action
plan and
institutionalization of the South American group activities.
David Johnson also kindly agreed to make his University
of
Tennessee/Knoxville (UTK) as the counterpart to your South
American
group activities, and to be the grantee for the fund raising
of the
event at the PAHO.
(5) David and Robert also suggested that we should have a
small workshop in
conjunction with the UNAMAZ's conference in Bogota, Colombia
next
February to prepare the event at the PAHO.
This is a similar mini workshop of our European group
which is to
be held at the Open University next spring for their
follow-up
workshop/conference in Lviv, Ukraine in the spring of
2001.
(a) This workshop is;
1. to introduce our Global University System and
your South
American regional project to UNAMAZ people,
2. to prepare for the event at the PAHO,
3. to have a small demonstration videoconferencing.
(b) The proposed attendees would be;
1. Alex Rivas,
2. Marco Antonio Dias (confirmed),
3. Tapio Varis,
4. David Johnson,
5. Tak Utsumi,
6. Bob Rodrigues (confirmed),
7. Bob's colleagues in education field (confirmed).
David and Bob is now working on their proposal for this
mini workshop in
Bogota, and will be sent to Alex for his forwarding to UNAMAZ.
David
and I will work to get our travel funds from NSF.
Dear Alex:
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Pls find out the exact dates of the conference in
Bogota from
Professor Seixas Louren·o, emeritus president of UNAMAZ,
and
inform it to David.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
From: "Alex Rivas" <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: "Marco Antonio Dias" <mardias@club-internet.fr>
Subject: Vitae
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:07:04 -0200
Dr. Utsumi,
Here are the vitas. As of now, I have not received Lincoln's
vitae because he
is out of town (I wrote down something though). I hope this finish
this part.
I read the rest of the proposal and agree with the changes.
Thanks,
Alex
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ATTACHMENT II
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 10:01:58 +0200
From: Marco Antonio Dias <mardias@club-internet.fr>
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org, Tapio Varis <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Subject: AMAZONIA
Dear Dr. Utsumi and Tapio Varis,
Attached, you can find a copy of my "plan of action"
for this year. It is
written in French, but there is no problem of understanding.
You will understand why I had doubts in Tampere about the kind
and generous
proposal you adressed to me during the Tampere meeting. I just
came back olnce
again from Brazil and tomorrow I am going to Cincinatti to open
another
international conference, in which there will be representatives
from more
than 30 countries. Today, I am invited for discussion with experts
in charge
of an external evaluation of UNESCO's UNITWIN programme.
During my trip to Brazil, I benefited from a journey travel
and read the
majority of long messages from Dr. Utsumi. Next week, when I come
back I
intend to adress you a note with some comments and proposals.
I intend also to
discuss with you what real contribution I can give to your extraordinary
project. Please, be patient until next week.
For the moment, I would like to tell you that during my permanence
in Brasilia
last week where I opened a forum of Brazilian Rectors Conference,
I had
important and useful contacts to the project in Latin America
and in
particular in Amazonia. Alex Rivas with whom I had two long discussions
by
telephone will probably tell you about this.
In synthesis, the main discussions took place with Professor
Seixas Louren·o,
emmeritus president of UNAMAZ, withe one of the vgice-presidents
of this
organization and with his secretary-general. Concrete measures
are being taken
and were reinforced to restructure UNAMAZ, a general conference
will take
p;lace in Columbia next February, a new president will be elected
and the
plans of the organization rfevised. There is a great motivation
amongt the
participants in the eight Amazonian countries. I am invited to
make one of the
key speeches in this meeting. I decided to reduce my participations
in
meetings next year, but I did accept this invitation for evident
reasons.
Dr. Seixas Louren·o and others are very interested in the proposed
Global
University System Structure, he is directly linked with the minister
in charge
of Science and Technology in Brazil and he will meet Alex Rivas
in Manaus very
soon to discuss this subject and the participation of UNAMAZ in
it. I don't
think there is need of more details at this moment, but I am convinced
that
there are good prospects. Conceptually, UNAMAZ projects are always
based in
principles I exposed in my paper presented in Tampere.
One detail, Tapio, is that Nokia established a strong partnership
with
Gradiente, one traditional and powerfull Brazilian company in
the field of
production of equipements for telecommunications. Its legal basis
is S o
Paulo, I think, but the most important factory is in Manaus. Normally,
Nokia
should be inerested in a concrete action (with clear multiplier
effect) in the
eight Amazonian countries.
Best wishes and we will discuss next week.
Marco Antonio
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Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences
University of Amazonas - Brazil
C.P. 4208, Manaus 69053-140
BRAZIL
+55-92-635 32 33
+55-92-644 23 22
Fax: +55-92-644 23 84
alex_mau@argo.com.br
http://www.argo.com.br/~alex_mau/alex.htm
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
Robert J. Rodrigues, M.D.
Program Coordinator
Health Services Information System Program
Division of Health Systems and Services Development
Pan American Health Organization
Regional Office of the World Health Organization
525 Twenty-Third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
202-974-3812
202-974-3826
Fax: 202-974-3614
rrodrigues@paho.org
NetMeeting Server: ils.paho.org
http://www.paho.org
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Former President of Fulbright Association
Professor of School of Planning
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Tenneseee
108-I Hoskins Library
Knoxville, TN 37996-4051
USA
Tel: +1-423-974 5227
Fax: +1-423-974 5229
daj@utk.edu
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
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