<<July 13, 2000>>
Laure Charvin <lcharvin@worldbank.org>
P. Tapio Varis <tapio.varis@uta.fi>
Dear Ms. Charvin:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to
my list
distribution
"Grant application to IREX for mini-workshop
at UK Open University
- February 23, 2000" which can now be retrieved
at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/early-2000/2-23-a.html>.
(2) This grant application to hold a mini-workshop at the
UK Open University
for our Global University System (GUS)/European (and possibly
Arabic)
Regional activities was unfortunately turned down.
However, this unfortunate situation turned out to produce
a very good
promising result to make a larger workshop by the UK Open
University in
Sheffield, England next March with full support of the British
Council
and also possible support from the European Science Foundation.
See also;
"UK Open University: Ihor's visit & Paul's
paper - July 8, 2000" at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/index.html>.
The workshop is to have brainstorming on the establishment
of Global
University System/Eastern European (and if possible, Arabic)
operations.
This is to initiate global distance learning and telemedicine
across
national boundaries; (a) firstly with the use of currently
available
narrow band Internet, and (b) secondly with the use of broadband
Internet when it is available as setting up global broadband
wireless
and satellite Internet private virtual networks -- hopefully,
with the
funds from the Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF).
(3) Our workshop will be held in conjunction with the conference
on Virtual
Universities which is now being organized by the British
Council.
Our colleague at the UK Open University is now organizing this workshop.
Many thanks for your offer of help for this workshop
(ATTACHMENT
I). We will come back to you as our UK Open University
colleague
firms it up further -- particularly for the travel grants
of
attendees from Eastern European, African and Arabic
countries.
Our colleague, Chairman of the Task Force for Eastern
European Countries of
the Fulbright Association, is soliciting interest of his
colleagues in those
countries to attend this workshop. Our colleague in Egypt
(who received
the InfoDev grant) is also doing the same among her colleagues
in Arabic countries.
The UK Open University will assist the establishment of
the Finnish National
Virtual University whose headquarters will be located at
the University
of Tampere in Finland.
Since the headquarters of our GUS is also located at the
University of
Tampere, our GUS will assist the international operation
of the Finnish
National Virtual University.
(4) This is to mention just a few of our European regional
activities out of our
GUS project, which was initiated with the creation of our
GUS at the
highly successful international workshop and conference on
"Emerging
Global Electronic Distance Learning (EGEDL/'99)" held
at the University
of Tampere last August, thanks to the grants from the InfoDev
of the
World Bank, the US National Science Foundation, and many
others.
Pls retrieve my following paper for the current status of our GUS/GSTF projects;
"Global University System"
Paper to be presented at The 14th Annual Conference
of The Asian
Association of Open Universities at The University of
Philippines/Open University, Manila, Philippines, 25-27
October 2000 at <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/GUS_Paper/Manila_conf_10-00/GUS_Paper_Manila_conf.html>.
As mentioned in this paper, we had a very successful workshop
in Manaus,
Amazonas, Brazil from May 31 to June 2, 2000 for the people
of UNAMAZ (a
consortium of 77 universities in 8 Amazonian countries).
(5) As the initiator/coordinator/integrator (ATTACHMENT II)
(*) of our
GUS/GSTF projects, I have been requested to attend a series
of workshops
and conferences as listed in ATTACHMENT III.
(*) See also; Sao Paulo ICDE/ABED conference / possible August Roraima workshop - July 1, 2000" at <http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/index.html>.
I would like to know if I can be entitled to apply for
your infoDev
Conference Scholarship Fund to attend those workshops and
conferences --
particularly those marked (*) in ATTACHMENT III at approximately
a total
of US$15,000.
If affirmative, I will be very happy to submit a formal application to you.
I look forward to hearing your favorable reply soon.
Dear Tapio and Electronic Colleagues:
=====================================
(6) I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly send your
brief support
email msg to Ms. Charvin -- cc to me, pls. Thanks.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
From: Lcharvin@worldbank.org
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:52:58 -0400
Subject: DRAFT/Grant application to IREX for mini-workshop at
Open University
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Dear Mr. Utsumi,
I was forwarded your message lately. Thank you very much for
informing us of
your activity. I think your initiative (the mini-workshop) is
a very interesting one.
I do not really get the purpose of this email. Please let me
know what we can
do for you. We will be happy to work things out with you.
infoDev has three grants initiatives:
1- the Y2K initiative now closed and was helping developing countries
to cope
with the Y2K problem by giving grants and methodology advice and
technical assistance.
2- the infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund which is closed for
this fiscal
year (till July 2000) for financial reasons (we are out of resources
for this
program). This facility assist conference organizers in bringing
individuals
from developing countries to their conference by paying for airfares
and per
diem. To qualify a conference has among other things to be information
and
communication technology (ICT) related (applied to health, education,
environment, governance...etc).
3- the core infoDev program receives, evaluates and grants, if
qualified,
innovative ICT oriented proposals. You can apply anytime. I invite
you to read
the guidelines for application and get an application form on
our web site at
http://www.infoDev.org.
Please do not hesitate to ask me or infoDev@worldbank.org if
you need any
more details.
best regards,
Laure Charvin
infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund
tel: +1 202 473 2417
fax: +1 202 522 3186
email: lcharvin@worldbank.org
infoDev program: http://www.infodev.org
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ATTACHMENT II
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 III
Schedules of Forthcoming Workshops
(As of July 13, 2000)
(Some of them are still tentative.)
(* marked are to apply for the infoDev Conference Scholarship
Fund)
Summer, 2000
Mini-workshop by the Burns Telecommunication Center (BTC)
of Montana
State University/Bozeman for the feasibility study of deploying
broadband Internet in the Native American community in Montana.
8/13/00 - 8/18/00 (*)
Attendances at the workshop/conference of the Association
of Brazilian
Distance Education and the International Council of Distance
Education
in Sao Paulo, Brazil to brief our GUS/GSTF projects and configure
partnership.
September, 2000
Full workshop (similar to our Tampere event) by the United
Nations
Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Fall, 2000
Workshops in Europe and Washington, D.C. for GSTF project
Fall, 2000 (*)
Coordination trip to Europe, Ukraine and Egypt, etc.
Early October, 2000
Invitational visit to McGill University in Montreal, Canada
10/25/00 - 10/27/00 (*)
The 14th Annual Conference of The Asian Association of
Open Universities
at The University of Philippines/Open University, Manila,
Philippines
10/29/00 - 10/31/00
Mini-workshop by Asia-Pacific Group of GUS at St. Luke's
College of
Medicine and at the University of Philippines/Open University
in Manila, Philippines.
11/26/00 - 11/29/00 (*)
Mini-workshop with delegates of UNAMAZ, PanAmerican Federation
of
Associations of Medical Schools, Brazilian Association of
Distance
Learning, distance learning universities in Latin America
and the
Caribbean, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), United
Nations
University of Peace in Costa Rica, Global University System,
[Arthur C.]
Clark Institute for Telecommunication and Information (CITI)
on the
initiation of feasibility study to deploy broadband Internet
for
education and healthcare in Caracas, Venezuela.
December, 2000
Global Summit Meeting of world Leaders for the Establishment of GSTF in Washington, D.C.
February, 2001
Full workshop by GUS/Africa/Ghana Group at the University
of Guelph in
Canada after it will have 2.4 Gbps Internet connection to
the outside
world in the fall of 2000.
March, 2001
Full workshop in Shefield, UK by the Open University,
the University of
Tampere and colleagues from Ukraine, Egypt, Pakistan, etc.
for European
Group activities with full support of the British Council
and possibly
European Science Foundation, too.
Spring, 2001
Mini-workshop by the UN University of Peace in Costa Rica.
Summer, 2001
Full workshop in Latin America by South American Group.
Summer, 2001
Full workshop in Cairo, Egypt for Arabic Group in cooperation
with the
Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering
Center (RITSEC)
which received the InfoDev fund for their international distance
learning project with colleagues in several Arabic countries.
September, 2001
Full workshop in Lviv, Ukraine by European Group.
Fall, 2001
Full workshop in Japan by Asia/Pacific Group.
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ATTACHMENT IV
Reference web sites
(As of July 12, 2000)
1. GLOSAS/USA
2. Tampere conference (Finland, August 1999)
3. Global University System:
Paper on GUS for the Manaus, Amazon mini-workshop (May 2000)
Memorandum of Understanding for GUS Partnerships
4. Global University System Asia-Pacific Framework
5. Global broadband Internet networks
6. Global Service Trust Fund (GSTF):
GSTF as [Arthur C.] Clarke telecommunications project
7. Manaus workshop
Amazon photos, MPEG & streaming video
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List of Distribution
Laure Charvin
infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
U.S.A.
tel: +1 202 473 2417
fax: +1 202 522 3186
lcharvin@worldbank.org
http://www.infodev.org
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D, Professor
Acting President, Global University System
Chairman, GLOSAS/Finland
Professor and Chair
Media Culture and Communication Education
Hypermedia laboratory
University of Tampere
P.O.Box 607
FIN-33101 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel: +358-3-215 6110
Tel: +358-3-614-5247--office in Hameenlinna
Tel: +358-3-215 6243--mass media lab in Tampere
GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-215 7503
tapio.varis@uta.fi
http://www.uta.fi/~titava
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
*
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)
*
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
*
* Founder of CAADE
*
* (Consortium for Affordable and Accessible Distance Education)
*
* President Emeritus and V.P. for Technology and Coordination
of *
* Global University System (GUS)
*
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A.
*
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only--prefer
email) *
* Email: utsumi@columbia.edu; Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676
*
* http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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