<<September 10, 1999>>
Yolanda Gayol, D.Ed. <ygayol@worldbank.org>
Mr. Gerard I. Kenney, Eng., Ing. <EGKENNEY@MAGI.COM>
Dr. Hans d'Orville <dorville@undp.org>
Sally Edmundson <s.edmundson@uclan.ac.uk>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
(1) Many thanks for your msgs.
ATTACHMENT I from Yolanda Gayol
ATTACHMENT II from Sally Edmundson
ATTACHMENT III from Sally Edmundson
(2) Dear Yolanda:
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RE: ATTACHMENT I:
The very first computer conferencing system was the Electronic
Information Exchange System (EIES) of New Jersey Institute
of
Technology. It was outgrowth of EMISARI made by Prof. Marry
Turoff. I
met him when there was the first demo of ARPANET (the predecessor
of
Internet) at Washington Hilton Hotel in D.C. in October of
1972. He
took me to his office in the Executive Office of the President
where he
used it for the wage and price control under the Nixon administration.
I tried to extend the ARPANET to overseas countries, particularly
to
Japan, but in vain -- due to the reason I mentioned in the
Chapter
I/Section 2 of my book draft at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Bookwriting/PART_I/Chapter_I/Total/Chapter_1_total_txt.html>.
The ARPANET was administered by Bolt, Beranek
and Newman, Inc. (BBN) in Boston.
I then learned from Prof. Jack Pugh of M.I.T. (originator
of DYNAMO
simulation language for the Systems Dynamics methodology
initiated by
Pro. Jay Forrester) in the spring of 1973 that Dr. Bolt (chairman
of the
BBN and a neighbor to Dr. Bolt's home) was considering to
establish a
commercial company using the ARPANET technology.
The commercial company, Telenet, started in the summer
of 1976. I then
helped their extension of X25 protocol based Telenet to many
overseas
countries, particularly to Japan -- see the above mentioned
book draft,
including my effort of de-regulating the Japanese telecom
policies for
the use of email -- all with my own time, effort and money.
Telenet was
then acquired by Sprint.
Sprint acknowledged my effort and gave me the privilege
of using their
email system free of charge. Their system had a very unique
feature of
mixing email address with fax address so that I could send
the same msg
to both.
I distributed the privilege of my free email accounts
to many, many
colleagues, especially in Latin America and Japan. They
really
appreciated because there weren't many people using email
at that time,
so that they could use their accounts to send their msgs
to fax
addresses of their colleagues. Some of them told me later
that they
used several rolls of fax paper every month to receive the
msgs!! Total
usage by them (including Organization of American States
(OAS), UNESCO,
etc.) run up to almost $75,000 per month or $1 million per
year in
commercial worth!!
Around that time, one of my colleague established
CREAD, a
consortium of distance education institutions in Latin
America,
with $250,000 (for 3 years) from Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA). The person used the free
email account
extensively to solicit members from Latin American countries.
The UNESCO connection later led to have greetings
of echelons from
UNESCO/Paris which were uplinked to satellites (which
were also
given to me free of charge (several tens thousands dollar
worth),
thanks to the Project ACCESS which was initiated by
Joe Pelton,
former INTELSAT spokesman and now one of the board members
of our
GLOSAS/USA).
I have never received similar privilege from Japanese
companies
nor society and understood its reason when Hans d'Orville
of UNDP
told me that such things happen only in the foundation
society"
of the U.K. and the U.S.
Those were the early days when I started using computer
mediated
communication systems in the late 1970s to the early 1980s.
(3) Dear Sally:
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RE: ATTACHMENT II and III:
Thank you very much for your people's thoughtful consideration.
Tapio
Varis would greatly appreciate it.
Your friend, Yolanda, mentioned about Parker Rossman's
book "The
Emerging Worldwide Electronic University," Greenwood
Press, 1992.
When it was made, Parker invited me to be a co-author of the book.
Parker was one of my free Sprint accounts at that
time and
received my listserve msgs so that he utilized the information
in
his book extensively -- this might be the reason why
Yolanda
mistook me as the author of the book.
I then requested its publisher if I could proof-read the
Japanese
translation when it would be translated by an employee of
their Japanese
affiliate. This was because Japanese language is my native
language,
and I had many Japanese articles and books published before.
Their
reply was negative -- I did not understand why.
Subsequently I dropped out because I knew Japanese are
very fuzzy about
the written words. Parker then kindly changed its title
from Emerging
Global Electronic University" to the present one.
Pls feel free to send me the materials of your conference.
I will be
very interested in reading them to find out mutual interest
and
cooperation with the like-minded colleagues.
I receive many, many msgs everyday, and appreciate
them because I
cherish serendipity to find key works and ideas among
them for
next steps of my future.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:11:07 -0400 (EDT)
Sender: gu-l@www.friends-partners.org
From: ygayol@worldbank.org
To: utsumi@www.friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: Yolanda's address and Parker's book
Dear Tak:
Oops! you are right! I was thinking of Parker Rossman's book.
It is bad to
move because I have all my books packed
But now that you mentioned it, I think I know why I made a
mistake having you
in my mind as a pioneer of the virtual worlds. Was it you who
maintained one
of the first electronic bulletins which kept people from all over
the world
updated on distance learning topics?
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ATTACHMENT II
From: S Edmundson <s.edmundson@uclan.ac.uk>
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
Subject: RE: Yolanda's address and Parker's book
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:43:00 +0100
Tak
many thanks for your help and the previous warning about copyright.
I
have forewarned our solicitor just in case there is a problem.
Kind regards
Sally
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ATTACHMENT III
From: S Edmundson <s.edmundson@uclan.ac.uk>
To: Tak Utsumi <utsumi@www.friends-partners.org>
Subject: Towards the Global University
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:53:00 +0100
Dear Tak
Many thanks for the addresses you forwarded. Having read your
message
thoroughly I can see why you are concerned about the use of Global
University. I have forwarded the issue to our academic committee,
who
I'm sure meant no breach of copyright when they set out on this
conference journey.
I hope you don't mind but I have copied your details onto my
mailing
list for the full brochure which will go out in early December.
I hope
it may be of interest to you. I shall also copy the call for papers
to
you as it is an international conference and we are collaborating
with
Cape Technikon and California State University, Fresno.
I look forward to hearing from you. Please let me know if I'm
sending
you "junk mail", don't wish to offend.
Kind regards
Sally
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List of Distribution
Yolanda Gayol, D.Ed.
Distance Learning Consultant
The World Bank
World Bank Institute for Distance Learning
701 18th Street NW, Room 2-171C
Washington, D.C., 20433
(202)458 7506
Fax: (202) 522 2005
ygayol@worldbank.org
Mr. Gerard I. Kenney, Eng., Ing.
Senior Advisor
Telecommunications & Information
Policy Branch
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
200, Promenade du Portage
HULL (Quibec)
Canada K1A 0G4
(819) 994 5419
819-997-7866 (his secretary)
Fax: (819) 953 3348
EGKENNEY@MAGI.COM
Dr. Hans d'Orville
Director
Information Technology for Development Programme
Bureau for Development Policy
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
One U.N. Plaza (44th and 1st Ave.), Room 2092
New York, NY 10017
212-906-3687
Fax: 212-906-5023
dorville@undp.org
www.undp.org
Sally Edmundson
Conference and Events Management Office
CCL
University of Central Lancashire
Preston
PR1 2HE
UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1772 892250
Fax: +44 (0) 1772 892938
Email: s.edmundson@uclan.ac.uk
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Professor and Chair
Media Culture and Communication Education
Hypermedia laboratory
Chairman, Scientific Council
Information Society Research Center
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
Finland
tel: +358-3-215 6111
Direct (24 hour availability) mobile phone:
GSM +358-50-567-9833
fax: +358-3-215 7503
tapio.varis@uta.fi
titava@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/hyper/
http://www.uta.fi/~titava -- Tapio's page with photo
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