<<September 14, 1999>>
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Peter T. Knight <ptknight@ibm.net>
Jonathan Peizer <jpeizer@sorosny.org>
Juergen Hess <jhess@sorosny.org>
Mr. Larry Forgy <Lforgy@worldbank.org>
(1) Many thanks for your msgs.
ATTACHMENT I from P. Tapio Varis
ATTACHMENT II from Peter T. Knight
ATTACHMENT III from Peter T. Knight
(2) Dear Tapio:
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Pls convey my heartfelt condolence to Ritta for her mother's death.
Pls proceed your incorporation of GUS ASAP with less cost,
as mentioned
in my previous msg.
We need Timo's help and cooperation until we finish our
report,
particularly on his web about the handout of our event --
see below. I
would like to make this as much complete as possible.
ATTACHMENT IV is my idea on the outline of our report
to the InfoDev.
Pls give me your comments to that.
Dear Electronic Colleagues:
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Pls give me your comments to that, too.
(3) Dear Peter:
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I haven't received comments from any other participants yet.
Although your inquiry might be well suited to the ordinary
paper
presentation conferences on distance education where many
academicians
present their findings and opinions, you are probaly asking
wrong
question to wrong people.
Many of funding sources and international organizations
(including
InfoDev) we approached were hesitant to finance such paper
presentation
conferences -- they preferred to give their funds to workshop
which
outcome would continue to the implementations of proposed
projects --
they preferred doers" rather than talkers."
The doers" are those who
learned the lessons which were given by the talkers"
before.
The title of our event was the international workshop
and
conference on Emerging Global Electronic Distance Learning."
When we visited Soros Foundation on July 9, 1997,
they
specifically emphasized the importance of doers' mtg.
We
therefore kept the word workshop" for the demonstrations
of
distance education with low cost videoconferencing and
of
telemedicine.
I thought that we should change the word conference"
to
brainstorming," but it might be too strong
so that we kept
the word conference" which was misnomer for
our event.
During our brainstorming sessions, we subsequently
decided
not to use the word conference" but workshop"
for our
follow-up mtgs.
Soros people then kindly agreed to provide us with
their fund,
particularly for our telemedicine demonstrations. However,
since
the InfoDev's decision to provide us with their fund
took so long
time, Soros dropped out their pledge. Anyway, I wanted
to keep my
words of having the telemedicine demo so that I proceeded
it with
our own funds and produced tremendous success with it
-- of
course, thanks to the help and cooperation of many people
at
Presbyterian Hospital, Finn-Medi, PictureTel in U.K.,
etc.
Our Tampere event was the gathering of the doers who were
willing to
discuss how to implement lessons and principles (which they
have learned
before elsewhere) to our new project of creating our Global
University
System -- in a sense, ours is the engineering" approach
with the use of
the so-called off-the-shelf" principles and lessons.
(4) Dear Electronic Colleagues:
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If your name appear in Part II of ATTACHMENT IV, pls expedite
your
write-up of the draft of your pilot project proposal as I
requested to
you in my previous msg, and send to me ASAP so that Tapio
can submit his
report to the InfoDev.
If your name appear in Part III of ATTACHMENT IV, pls
visit
<www.uta.fi/EGEDL/outline> and take a look on your
material. If it is
not O.K. with you, pls inform me or send me its alternative
ASAP.
Otherwise, we will print them as they are.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:44:22 +0000
To: utsumi@columbia.edu, hotipo@uta.fi
From: Tapio Varis <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Subject: EGEDL Final Report
Tak,
How shall we proceed with the Report to InforDev? Timo is working
with the
materials tomorrow and Wednesday and I will see him on Wednesday.
I am now back to swork after the funeral of Riitta s mother.
My intention
is to have GUS registered in Finland etc. Regards,
Tapio
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ATTACHMENT II
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 22:46:41 -0400
From: "Peter T. Knight" <ptknight@ibm.net>
Organization: Knight-Moore Telematics for Education and Development,
CDI
To: gu-l@www.friends-partners.org, utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Requesting succinct review comment of Tampere event
Thanks, Tak, for your statement. I see it as more of a statement
of your
convictions prior to the conference as well as during it. I am
interested in seeing what new came out of the conference itself,
in
terms of "lessons". That doesn't make what you said
irrelevant at all,
just I would like to hear what people took away from the conference
that
they didn't bring to it. Thus your circulation of my request is
much
appreciated.
With best regards,
Peter
--
Peter T. Knight
Knight, Moore - Telematics for Education and Development
Communications Development Incorporated (CDI)
Strategy, Policy, Design, Implementation, Evaluation
1825 Eye Street, NW, Suite 1075
Washington, DC 20006, USA
Tel: 1-202-775-2132 (secretary), 202-721-0348 (direct)
Fax: 1-202-775-2135 (office) 1-202-362-8482 (home)
email: ptknight@ibm.net webmail: ptknight@netscape.net
www: http://www.knight-moore.com http://www.cdinet.com
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ATTACHMENT III
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 05:04:05 -0400
From: "Peter T. Knight" <ptknight@ibm.net>
Organization: Knight-Moore: Telematics for Education and Development/CDI
To: gu-l@www.friends-partners.org, utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Re: Request to Tampere event attendees
Thank you, Tak, David, and Shahab for your comments. I hope
other
participants will add theirs. Again, let me ask you to provide
a
succinct statement of the major lessons learned as a result of
organizing and funding the conference, but even more importantly,
the
what was learned as a result of the conference which has relevance
for
distance learning practicioners, infrastructure providers, software
developers, and students whether or not involved in the specific
projects developed as an outcome of the conference.
With best regards,
Peter
--
Peter T. Knight
Knight-Moore - Telematics for Education and Development
Communications Development Incorporated (CDI)
International Square Suite 1075
1825 I Street, NW
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)
Email: ptknight@ibm.net
Webmail: ptknight@netscape.net
http://www.knight-moore.com
http://cdinet.com
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ATTACHMENT IV
Outline of Report to InfoDev
PART I
This part will be the summary of our Tampere event.
I. Purposes:
Excerpt from Agreement with InfoDev:
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Excerpt_frm_Agreement/Excerpt_frm_Agreement.html>
II. How the event was conducted:
Excerpt from my listserve distributions.
A. Videoconferencing via narrowband Internet
B. Videoconferencing via broadband Internet
C. Telemedicine demonstrations
D. Session keynote speeches
E. Brainstormings
III. What we achieved:
A. Formation of Global University System
B. Formations of regional groups
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/maui.html>
C. World Regional Pilot Project Summaries
<http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/finland.html>
D. Setting next steps with follow-up workshops by regional groups
E. List of URLs about the event
1. Event program:
<http://www.uta.fi//EGEDL/>
2. Handout with all relevant materials:
<http://www.uta.fi//EGEDL/outline>
3. Photos, audio, music and video -- which was
made by Roger
Boston:
<http://www.teched.org/finland/>
4. Summary diagrams (not completed yet) -- which
was made by
Ken Roko:
<http://www.teched.org/finland/msu.ppt>
IV. Compilation of comments:
PART II
This part will be the compilation of the drafts of pilot
project
proposal (without budget) which will be written in the form
of the
InfoDev grant application as basing on their outlines appeared
in World
Regional Pilot Project Summaries" at <http://www.kagawa
-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/finland.html>. They
are from the chief
of the following regions;
I. South America Initiative: Amazonas Region Project
To be prepared by Alexandre Rivas
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II. European Group: Ukraine Pilot Project
To be prepared by Ihor B. Katerniak
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III. Asia-Pacific/Montana State University Group: Philippines/ASEAN/Pacific
Islands Project
To be prepared by Ben Haraguchi and Kim Obbink
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IV. Central America Initiative: University Consortium for Central America
To be prepared by Jose Brenes Andre
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V. African Initiative:
To be prepared by John C. Afele
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PART III
This part will be the complete print out of the handout
<http://www.uta.fi//EGEDL/outline/> including the background
materials
which are;
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS *
INFRASTRUCTURE *
PACKET RADIO TECHNOLOGY *
Prepared by Mr. Barry McLarnon
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KARLNET BROADBAND WIRELESS INTERNET UNIT *
Prepared by Doug Karl
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Trends in Satellite Tele-education *
Prepared by Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
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Datacasting, Proposed Plan for Africa *
Prepared by Marcel Kooiman and Walter van Opzeeland
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GLOBAL PROJECTS *
We need a Global Learning Society! *
Prepared by Dr. Alfred Bork
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U.N. Space Conference in Vienna, Austria for a U.N. Fund *
ABIN PROJECT *
Prepared by Vladimir A. ZOLOTAREV
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"FRIENDS AND PARTNERS" PROJECTS *
Prepared by Greg Cole
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REGIONAL PROJECTS *
PACIFIC/ASIA GROUP *
Mission Statement on the Pacific/Asia Operation *
Prepared by Ben I. Haraguchi
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MINCS-UH *
Prepared by Takahiro Kiuchi
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Japanese Culture Meets Online Education *
Prepared by Steve McCarty
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Sky Bridge Interactive TV *
Prepared by Robert Converse
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NORTH/SOUTH AMERICA GROUP *
COSTA RICA: Distance Learning Activities in Costa Rica
*
Prepared by Jose Brenes Andre
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EUROPE/AFRICA GROUP *
RUSSIA: MIRNET PROJECT *
Prepared by Greg Cole
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RUSSIA: "Joint Cultural Heritage Without Borders".
*
Prepared by Andrey Narvsky
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UKRAINE: Mission Statement of Pilot Project for Electronic
Distance
Education Development in Ukraine *
Prepared by Ihor B. Katerniak
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AFRICA: USAID Leland Initiative, Africa Global Information
Infrastructure Project: *
AFRICA: Telehealth in Twenty-First Century Africa: African
Knowledge and
Ideas as Integral *
Prepared by John C. Afele
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PAKISTAN: Establishment Of A Regional Center (POP) For
Distance Learning
/ Virtual University At Karachi, Pakistan *
Prepared by Shahab Khan
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List of Distribution
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
Peter T. Knight
Knight, Moore - Telematics for Education and Development
Communications Development Incorporated (CDI)
Strategy, Policy, Design, Implementation, Evaluation
1825 Eye Street, NW, Suite 1075
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)
Email: ptknight@ibm.net
webmail: ptknight@netscape.net
http://www.knight-moore.com
http://www.cdinet.com
IP for CU-SeeMe: 198.77.80.46
Jonathan Peizer
Chief Information Officer
Open Society Institute
888 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10106
212-548-0642
Fax: 212-397-3944
jpeizer@sorosny.org
http://www.soros.org
Juergen Hess
Director of Public and Corporate Affairs
Internet Program
Open Society Institute
Soros Foundation
400 West 59th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-548-0602
Fax: 212-548-4632
jhess@sorosny.org
Mr. Larry Forgy
Work Program Administrator
infoDev Program
Information for Development
The World Bank, F3K-268
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
202-473-7462
202-458-5153
Fax: (202) 522 3186
Lforgy@worldbank.org
infodev@Worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/infodev
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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