<<July 1, 2000>>
Prof. Dr. Fredric Michael Litto <frmlitto@usp.br>
Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com>
Robert J. Rodrigues, M.D. <rrodrigues@paho.org>
Mrs. Maria Alice Roschke <roschkem@paho.org>
Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga <cbraga@worldbank.org>
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. <ptknight@attglobal.net>
Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D. <alex_mau@argo.com.br>
Dr. Fernando Antonio Menezes <fernando_menezes@hotmail.com>
Roger Lee Boston <rboston@tenet.edu>
Dr. David A. Johnson, AICP <daj@utk.edu>
Marcos Costa <marcos_costa@agilent.com>
Alexandre Tunes <alexandre_tunes@agilent.com>
Drisha Leggitt <drisha_leggitt@agilent.com>
Dr. Edward A. Friedman <FRIEDMAN@STEVENS-TECH.EDU>
Francisco Evangelista Vieira <franciscov@iadb.org>
Dear Fred:
==========
(1) Many thanks for your msg with your kind word for our Manaus event (ATTACHMENT I).
Your msg was in response to my listserve distribution
of "Possible
brainstorming in Caracas, Venezuela in November - June
6, 2000"
which is now retrievable at <http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/index.html>.
(2) I also greatly appreciated your and Brazilian Association
of Distance
Education's (ABED's) enthusiastic and strong interest and
willingness to
participate in our GLOSAS/GUS/GSTF projects.
(3) Yes, I agree and welcome your starting e-brainstorming
on the deployment
of broadband wireless and satellite Internet private virtual
network in
Amazon, South Brazil, South and Latin America, and the Caribbean.
This e-brainstorming can produce a draft of fund raising
application for
the feasibility study for the deployment of broadband Internet
in those
regions and areas which will be finalized at the proposed
mtg in
Caracas, Venezuela in November, if Pablo will convene it
there.
Dear Pablo:
===========
Pls inform me of your decision ASAP -- also about
your invitation
for my visit to Caracas in this summer which you proposed
me
during our mtg in NYC.
As mentioned in my distribution, this deployment is for
the benefit of
your Brazilian Association of Distance Education, UNAMAZ
consortium
members, Pablo's PanAmerican Federation of Associations of
Medical
Schools and PAHO, etc.
(4) Since I came back from Manaus, I was very busy with;
(a) our brainstorming workshop on "Rescue Iridium" and GSTF on 6/20th,
this was reported in "GLOSAS Board, Rescue
Iridium report &
GSTF Summit plan - June 24, 2000" which can
be retrievable
at the aforementioned web
site.
and
(b) my paper on "Global University System"
for The 14th Annual
Conference of The Asian Association of Open Universities
at The
University of Philippines/Open University, Manila, Philippines,
25-27 October 2000.
This is now retrievable at <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/GUS_Paper/Manila_conf_10-00/GUS_Paper_Manila_conf.html>.
This is a comprehensive summary of the current status
of our
projects on the Global University System (GUS) and the
Global
Service Trust Fund (GSTF).
Your e-brainstorming can start (or utilize) from this paper.
(5) The deployment of broadband Internet requires huge investment,
thus, we
need to come up a very good and solid feasibility study.
Therefor, our
fund raising for the study will be very important which may
be submitted
to the InfoDev of the World Bank. This can be a starting
point of our
GSTF project, too.
BTW, Carlos Braga's (who is the manager of the InfoDev
and came
from your Univ. of Sao Paulo) msg to Peter Knight once
suggested
that we should have a project to test the concept of
the GSTF. I
think that Brazil can become a good example to do it
-- asking the
fund to Japanese government, as the University of South
Pacific
did for their USPNet (about $11 million).
(6) With the above in mind, I am very happy to receive your
cordial
invitation to attend your ICDE/ABED conference in Sao Paulo
13-19,
August -- especially even with your kind offer of setting
up a session
for our project.
I would very much like to accept your invitation to have
an excellent
occasion to meet with your ABED people to discuss a formal
relationship
between us, should you kindly arrange my travel and hotel
expenses.
This is because our highly successful Tampere event
in Finland
last August has necessitated me to meet many people
at many
locations for our further developments, thus many travels
which
start straining our limited resources.
If I can attend, my wife would also like to accompany
with me --
with her own fund -- to witness the celebrations of
500 years
since the first Portuguese landed Brazil.
Peter told me the other day that he would attend your
conference. Alex
Rivas told me that he was not sure yet, but by a copy of
this msg, I am
urging him to do so.
Dear Fernando:
==============
(7) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II).
I look forward to receiving your proposal. Roger Boston
would be very
happy to hear of your use of his template for your course
-- after you
saw his exciting demonstration during our Manaus workshop.
(8) ATTACHMENT III is an excerpt from ANNEX II: "Global
University System in
South America/Amazon Region" in my aforementioned paper
for Manila conference.
(9) During your invitational visit after the Manaus event,
you told me that
your university will have 45 Mbps Internet-2 line from this
month, and
you would like to have a workshop with Roger Boston's demonstration
as
utilizing the newly installed broadband Internet.
I would suggest that you talk with Fred to share the cost
of my and
Roger's travel, if you can have the workshop after Fred's
conference in Sao Paulo.
BTW, David Johnson, one of our GLOSAS board members,
is very much
interested in the planning of your new university set-up
in 560
acres -- he is a world renown scholar on community/city
planning.
I also made a preliminary inquiry to one of the largest
landscape
design firms in England through my relative who lived
in
Edinburgh, Scotland. They would like to participate
in this
project, and would like to have;
Brief
1 site photo
2 square meter of building
3 what kind of facilities
4 site survey map
5 boundary of the site
6 location plan, etc.
Their rep also would like to visit your university for the site survey.
You may configure their (David and the rep) visits
at the same
time with the workshop (or after the workshop) at your
university.
Dear Fred and Fernando:
=======================
(10) During our Tampere event last August, we successfully
tested NetMeeting
videoconferencing between the University of Tampere in Finland
and
Montana State University. The former had 165 Mbps and the
latter 45
Mbps linkage to outside Internet. The demonstration site
at the former
was at 10 Mbps through their campus LAN.
Both of you witnessed another successful NetMeeting demonstration
by
Roger Boston during our Manaus workshop in a conference room
of the TV
Amazonas which had 1.5 Mbps line to the outside Internet.
However, it
trickled down to 70 Kbps during Roger's demonstration, yet,
the audio
and video were very good even from NYC, Houston and England.
During our Manaus workshop, you also witnessed the successful
telemedicine demonstration as sending echocardiogram image
of diagnostic
quality to the University of Michigan which was made through
ISDN at 384 Kbps.
The ISDN line is a combination of ordinary telephone
line at 64
Kbps, thus, 384 Kbps is 6 times of ordinary telephone
cost from
Brazil to the US. It is cheaper than satellite, but
still expensive.
(11) Subsequently, I am very much interested in a possibility
of
demonstrating echocardiogram image transmission through broadband
(165
Mbps or 45 Mbps) Internet as mentioned in ATTACHMENT III,
since this
possibility will reduce the transmission cost to near zero,
yet having a
very good High Definition TV like video quality.
Since the image signal from the echocardiogram goes into
a video input
of a PC in the same way as from a camera for NetMeeting
videoconferencing, what we would need for this demonstration
is only the
echocardiogram machine -- you can download the NetMeeting
software free
of charge from <www.microsoft.com>.
Pls let me know your interest in this demo. I will then
ask Agilent
Technology people if they still have the same echocardiogram
machine as
we had during the Manaus workshop, and if they can bring
it to your location.
Since time is very short, pls let me know your decision
ASAP.
Thanks.
Dear Ed:
========
(12) It was my great pleasure to have met with you at JFK airport on 6/9th.
Referring to our conversation at that time, I wonder if
you would be
interested in attending Fred's conference in Sao Paulo.
You may be able to meet with many people from Latin American
countries
for your project -- with support from the Inter-American
Development
Bank, BellAtlantic, and AT&T, etc.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:46:48 -0400
From: "Fredric M. Litto" <frmlitto@usp.br>
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Subject: Re: Possible brainstorming in Caracas, Venezuela in November
dear Tak and other friends:
i also enjoyed participating in the manaus meeting, and thought
it was
highly useful. please consider that abed-the brazilian distance
education
association is highly interested in supporting and collaborating
with the
actions developed below.....
but i don't understand why it is necessary to wait for november
to brainstorm.....
(1) we can start a discussion list specifically for this purpose......
(2) i can arrange rooms for F2F discussions during the ICDE/ABED
meetings
here in sao paulo 13-18 august...i can even put it on the agenda
of the abed
meeting (16-18 august) if Tak wishes me to do so.....i think there
is
something to be said for bringing tak's work as an integrator
into a
regular, formal setting, such as the abed congresses (and others)....i
remember attending tak's demo sessions at the icde scop meeting
in moscow
(1994?)...but there wasn't continuity within icde for this work....my
proposal is to develop a formal relationship between abed and
glosas, such
that there is a glosas interest/working group permanently within
abed,
working all year round, and with a permanent place on the annual
congress
program....i think alex rivas could be an excellent group leader
for this
task, involving brazilians from all over the country, both in
the specific
amazonia tasks, and in other tasks within brazil using the glosas
leadership, international personal networking and projects....the
idea would
be to grow from the stage of demos and move up to the higher stage
of
full-blown glosas projects, either within a single country, or
extended over
several countries.....make sense?
cheers to all
fred litto
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ATTACHMENT II
From: "Fernando Menezes" <fernando_menezes@hotmail.com>
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
Subject: Message received
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 07:49:35 WST
Dear Takeshi,
Thanks for your message
(1) Just now, we are working to send you a proposal of using internet
in our medical school
(2) I decide to use Roger Boston's template to create my own surgical
oncology course
Best wishes,
Fernando
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ATTACHMENT III
(a) University of Roraima:
The federal universities in Brazil will soon have the
broadband (45
Mbps) Internet. It will come to the University of Roraima in
Boa Vista (about
one and a half hour flight from Manaus to north) via satellite
from Sao Paulo
to the EMBRATEL in Boa Vista, and microwaved to the university.
It may be
extended further to a nearby hospital with the use of a spread
spectrum (2 to
10 Mbps) wireless approach.
As soon as there is the broadband Internet, a mini-workshop
will be held
at the university with the use of NetMeeting videoconferencing
and Internet
telephony. A similar telemedicine demonstration may also be held,
but via the
broadband Internet instead of ISDN. This will be a very unique
demonstration
of collaborative telemedicine with one of the world most advanced
medical
schools in the US and the world remotest corner in the middle
of Amazon, yet
utilizing the most advanced broadband Internet -- and most inexpensively.
As being the youngest among the Brazilian federal universities,
the
University of Roraima has a very unique privilege. Although there
are several
campuses in the middle of town, the university has a completely
empty real
estate of 560 acres in a plateau savanna outskirts of the town
with a large
lake and a nearby river.
Our Global University System was requested to be involved
in formulating
its vision as the future of the university, looking into a next
millennium.
The vision will then be articulated for designing the surroundings,
environment and facilities for the world class educational and
research
institution.
It could be several campuses of theme-park style setting
(e.g.,
environment, agriculture, healthcare, international study, etc.)
with
multimedia seminar and conference rooms with global connections
where outreach
students gather occasionally. The university should take into
account of
cherishing the special conditions in its locality, e.g., indigenous
community
and the Amazon jungle as the source of new pharmacology, etc.
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Prof. Dr. Fredric Michael Litto
President, Brazilian Association of Distance Education
Professor and General Coordinator
Technologies as Applied to Education
Research Nucleus Investigating the New Communications
The School of the Future
University of Sao Paulo
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No. 33 - Bloco 18 - Cidade Universitaria
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BRAZIL
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Fax: +55+11+815.3083
frmlitto@usp.br
www.futuro.usp.br
Dr. Pablo Pulido
Executive Director
PanAmerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools
Apartado de Correos 60411
Caracus 1060-A
VENEZUELA
+58-2-945-0857
Fax: +58-2-945-4275
pablopulido1@compuserve.com
or
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Caracas, VENEZUELA
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Fax: +58-2-943-285-40
73000.1447@compuserve.com
http://www.fepafem.org.vp
Robert J. Rodrigues, M.D.
Regional Advisor in Health Services Information Technology
Essential Drugs and Technology 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
Mrs. Maria Alice Roschke
Human Resource Development Program
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Regional Office of the World Health Organization
525 Twenty-Third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037
roschkem@paho.org
Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga
Program Manager
Information for Development (InfoDev)
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
202-473-3927
Fax: (202) 522 3186
cbraga@worldbank.org
http://www.worldbank.org/infodev
Peter T. Knight, Ph.D.
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)
IP for CU-SeeMe: 198.77.80.46
ptknight@attglobal.net
peter@knight-moore.com
webmail: ptknight@netscape.net
http://www.knight-moore.com
http://www.cdinet.com
http://www.knight-moore.com/partners/partnerindex.htm -- bio
http://www.knight-moore.com/projects/GSTF.html -- about GSTF
Alexandre Rivas, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences
University of Amazonas - Brazil
C.P. 4208, Manaus 69053-140
BRAZIL
+55-92-644 23 22
Fax: +55-92-644 23 84
alex_mau@argo.com.br
http://www.argo.com.br/~alex_mau/alex.htm
http://lab-tiama.pop-am.rnp.br/cca/workshop/English/wksp_E.htm
Dr. Fernando Antonio Menezes
University of Roraima
Universidade Federal de Roraima
Campus do Paricarana/BR 174 S/N
Boa Vista, RORAIMA
Tel: 95-623-9067, 9065
Fax: 95-623-9063
fernando_menezes@hotmail.com
Roger Lee Boston
Rockwell Chair/Instructor
Distance Education/Technology Center
Houston Community College System
4310 Dunlavy Street
P.O.Box 7849
Houston, Texas 77006
USA
Tel: +1-713-718 5224
Fax: +1-713-718 5301
rboston@tenet.edu
boston_r@hccs.cc.tx.us (secondary)
http://www.rboston.com
http://www.teched.org/
http://www.hccs.cc.tx.us
http://www.teched.org/Finland
http://www.teched.org/ChinaLive
http://www.teched.org/starlink
http://www.teched.org/hist00/brazil/
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: +1-865-974 5227
Fax: +1-865-974 5229
daj@utk.edu
davidj@buncombe.main.nc.us
http://web.utk.edu/~djohnutk/
Marcos Costa
Presidente
Agilent Technologies Brasil Ltda.
Alameda Araguaia, 1142 - 2 Andar
06455-000 - Barueri - SP - Brasil
+55-11-7297-3690
Fax: +55-11-7297-3793
marcos_costa@agilent.com
Alexandre Tunes
Director, International Business Development
Agilent Technologies Brasil Ltda.
SCN Qd 2 - Bl. A - Ed. Corporate
Finan. Center - 5 Andar - Sl. 33
70712-900 - Brasilia -DF - Brazil
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Fax: +55-61-329-6199
Cel: +55-61-9965-3545
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Drisha Leggitt
Corporate Community Relations Manager
US Community Relations Manager
Agilent Technologies
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Roseville, CA 95747-5778
(916) 748-3826 phone
(916) 785-9236 fax
drisha_leggitt@agilent.com
http://www.agilent.com/philanthropy/
Dr. Edward A. Friedman
Director
Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (CIESE)
Professor of Technology Management
Stevens Institute of Technology
Castle Point on Hudson
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201-216-5188
Fax: 201-216-8069
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FRIEDMAN@STEVENS-TECH.EDU
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Francisco Evangelista Vieira
Consultant of Education, Health, Science & Technology
Information Technology for Development Unit (ROS/IDU)
c/o, Inter-American Development Bank
1300 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20577
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Fax: 202-623-1862
franciscov@iadb.org
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