<<August 7, 2000>>
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Rafael Bozeman Rodriguez <rbrsat@pworld.net.ph>
Kimberly K. Obbink <kobbink@montana.edu>
Victor T. Ching <vicching@compass.com.ph>
Dear Ralph:
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(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I).
(2) I am very delighted to hear that the board mtg of St.
Luke's College of
Medicine has now decided to have your mini-workshop. I greatly
thank
you for your continuing effort.
(3) Pls retrieve Possible change of Manila workshop dates
to Jan. 2001 -
July 14, 2000" at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/7-14-a.html>.
As mentioned in it, the date of our Manila workshop has
been postponed
to early next year, upon the suggestion made by Kim.
She is now submitting her travel grant application to
the US National
Science Foundation for Americans to attend the workshop.
Without this fund, no Americans can attend the workshop.
Therefore, it
would be wise to decide to set the exact dates of the workshop
after
hearing from Kim the result of her application.
(4) It would be our great honor to have Dr. Cantos as the
General Chairman
of your workshop. However, Dr. Cantos may be very busy to
handle
mundane matter of workshop arrangements by himself.
Therefore, I would inquire if you would agree that Dr.
Cantos is to be a
figure head as General Chairman, and you will be a liaison
person
between your people in the Philippines and us in the US with
the title
of Deputy General Chairman.
If Dr. Jesus Perez can handle those mundane matters
and has enough
time to communicate with us, it would be just fine to
have him as
the General Chairman.
We need to list in the web site of the workshop,
a person in the
Philippines for contact from the outside world. You
would be the
best person, and hence need a some title.
Pls let me know your opinions about this matter ASAP. Thanks.
(5) This workshop is to kick-off our JOINT project of establishing
a Global
University System in the Philippines.
We are then happy to JOINTLY raise necessary funds, firstly
for the
workshop, and later for the subsequent follow-up project
which will
further be defined during the workshop basing on Kim's original
proposal
which can be retrieved in;
(a) "PART II-1 Asia-Pacific Group: Final Report
to InfoDev:
International Workshop and Conference on Emerging Global
Electronic Distance Learning (EGEDL'99), August 9th
- 13th, 1999,
University of Tampere, Finland" which can be retrieved
at <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Tampere_Conference/Final_Report/Tampere_Event/Final_Report.html>,
and
(b) "DRAFT: Travel Grant Application; Mini-Workshop
for Pilot Project
of Global University System in the Philippines for Tele-learning
and Tele-Health/Tele-Medicine at St. Luke College of
Medicine and
The University of Philippines/Open University, Manila,
Philippines, October 29 - 31, 2000" which can be
retrieved at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/NSF_appl_for_Manila.html>.
Therefore, pls go to ANNEX I of the above (5)-(b) which
is the
Tentative Schedule of Mini-workshop," and come up your
budge sheet
since we cannot estimate the local costs -- which can be
a rough
estimate at this stage. Pls send it to me ASAP, since we
firstly need
to have a rough magnitude of the fund to be raised.
(6) As for the necessary equipment for our telemedicine and
Internet
videoconferencing, pls check the availability of the followings;
(a) Sonos (formerly Hewlett-Packard) 5500 echocardiogram:
Pls retrieve "Planning telemed demo at St. Luke's
College in
Quezon City - August 6, 2000" at
<http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/8-6-b.html>.
As mentioned in it, this unit will be loaned by Agilent Technology.
(b) PictureTel (or VTEL or Polycom, etc.) videoconferencing unit via ISDN line:
Pls check if those commercial firms have sales rep
offices in
Manila. If so, they may be very willing to loan the
unit for this occasion.
(c) ISDN line at 384 Kbps:
Victor Ching may know an appropriate person who handles
this line
and may be able to help you. Pls contact him anyway
and let me know.
Pls find out the ordinary overseas phone call per
minutes from the
Philippines to the US -- which you may know from your
phone bill
of calling your children in the US.
(d) Internet access:
Pls find out the speed of the Internet line at the demonstration site.
(7) Although not certain yet, I may be attending the 14th
Annual Conference
of The Asian Association of Open Universities at The University
of
Philippines/Open University Manila, Philippines, 25-27 October
2000" to
present my paper Global University System" which can
be retrieved at <http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Manila%20Workshop/GUS_Paper/Manila_conf_10-00/GUS_Paper_Manila_conf.html>.
Pls then reserve your dates in the week-end of 10/28th
to 10/29th (or to
30th). Pls also inform this possibility to the people at
the St. Luke's
College of Medicine.
Looking forward to receiving your response soon,
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:42:21 +0800
To: utsumi@columbia.edu
From: "Dr. Rafael B. Rodriguez" <rbrsat@pworld.net.ph>
Subject: Finally got an answer from St. Luke's
Dear Tak -
You will just have to forgive this long delay in answering you.
I
understand your concern and anxiety but finally we had a board
meeting of
the St. Luke's College of Medicine last Wednesday and discussed
the
telemedicine mini-conference. Here is the feedback -
1) Yes, we will be happy to be the venue for the mini-conference
here at
the St. Luke's College of Medicine and will do all we can to make
it
successful. The board noticed that we have four conferences during
the
month of October, the last one being a Harvard conference - so
we would
like to suggest the month of November, 2000, to be the month of
the GUS
telemedicine conference. Please correspond with Dr. Arsenio Cantos,
President of the College of your choices of dates in November.
I am
declining the General Chairmanship of the conference since I have
nobody to
ask to help me, not even a secretary, now that I am retired. I
would
strongly suggest that you request Dr. Cantos to be the General
Chairman
since he has the whole College of Medicine under him. The dean
of the
College by the way is Dr. Jesus Perez and he can help a lot also
since the
whole faculty and staff is under him.
2) We are not in a position to spend money and have no funds
at all -
although we will contribute the facilities, the faculty and staff
to insure
the smooth flow of the three-day meeting. So we hope that you
are able to
raise the necessary funds that will be needed for this conference.
This a
rather bad time for the Philippines, economy-wise and you will
have to look
elsewhere for funding. Our share will be the venue for the conference,
the
utilities (lights, people to help,) etc.
3) Being a very new facility we do not have the equipment
you will be
needing for the demonstrations so I am praying that the people
who have
helped you in the past will be able to assist you provide the
equipment
needed for the demonstrations that will be part of the program.
The Makati
Medical Center has tried to do this broadband telemedicine broadcast
but
was never successful - they ended up with just voice communication
which is
not a good show for broadband video broadcast (a successful part
of your
Tampere conference.)
This is all I can tell you at present. Please correspond with
Dr. Arsenio
Cantos both by email, post office mail and/or long distance calls
(if at
all possible) so that you can make the final plans for this conference.
I
am embarassed that it took so long but then I was away and could
not help
during my absence. At the same time the College of Medicine administration
was reluctant to make any commitment until we could have a board
meeting of
the trustees of the medical college and get their go-ahead signal.
I hope all is well with you and your wife and that you are
enjoying the
summer too in spite of your very busy and hectic schedule. I salute
you,
dear Tak, for the magnificent effort you are putting into this
fantastic
endeavor and pray for your continue success. My email at home
is still on
the blink but you can continue to correspond with me through this
email
address as well as the - paeling@doctor.com - . My very best and
sincerest
wishes for you my dear friend. May the Lord continue to bless
you in all you do.
Always your friend,
Ralph Bozeman
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