UN/OOSA workshop on digital divide in Kuala Lumpur, 11/20-24/00

<<September 8, 2000>>
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Victor Kotelnikov <vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at>

Mazlan Othman <mazlan.othman@unvienna.org>

Shahab Khan <Afroz@khi.compol.com>

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton <ecjpelton@aol.com>

Peter T. Knight, Ph.D. <ptknight@attglobal.net>

Richard Wah <wah_r@usp.ac.fj>

Mr. Bruce R. Best <bbest@uog9.uog.edu>

Motilal Sharma <msharma@mail.asiandevbank.org>

Vincent Lowe <vincentlowe@hotmail.com>

Dr. K. C. Lun <kclun@nus.edu.sg>

Professor Rashid Bashshur, Ph.D. <bashshur@umich.edu>

Elliot G. Pulham <elliot@spacefoundation.org>

Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga <cbraga@worldbank.org>

Laure Charvin <lcharvin@worldbank.org>

Dear Victor:
============

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) with your very interesting and
exciting workshop program.

It is my great honor to accept your cordial invitation to present my
talk on our Global University System (and Global Broadband Internet and
Global Service Trust Fund) projects during your United Nations/Malaysia
Workshop on Bridging the Digital Divide: Space Technology Solutions" in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-24 November, 2000.

This is on condition that all travel expenses are to be kindly provided by your office.

(2) I am very glad to know that you also invited our colleagues, Dr. Shahab
Khan in Pakistan and Dr. Joe Pelton of George Washington University in D.C.

Dear Shahab:
============

Pls do your best to attend (ATTACHMENT IV) so that we can finally meet face-to-face.

Dear Joe:
=========

I would like to respectfully request your support for your Global
Service Trust Fund (GSTF) during my talk, since this can be joined with
UN/OOSA's previous effort of establishing a trust fund from 77
developing countries (see ATTACHMENT V) -- yours is from Overseas
Development Assistant (ODA) fund of G7 countries.

For this purpose, I visited UN/OOSA in Vienna last January -- and
probably because of this, to have their invitation to their Kuala Lumpur workshop.

Dear Peter:
===========

I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly try to attend this
workshop, too, in spite of your busy traveling schedules.

Dear Richard Wah:
=================

Pls try to attend this workshop to present the progress of your USPNet
via INTELSAT to connect with 64 Kbps digital satellite Internet to a
dozen islands in the South Pacific.

See Trip to Fiji - December 6, 1999" at
http://www.geocities.co.jp/CollegeLife-Labo/4001/global-univ-99/12-6-a.html

Dear Bruce Best:
================

Pls try to attend this workshop to present the result of vision building
and action plan you have made during the workshop on the "Charting the
Future Course of Distance Education in the Western Pacific" on August 1
to 3, 2000 at your university.

See Distance learning activities in the Western Pacific region -
June 10, 2000" at
http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/6-10-a.html
and
Workshop in Guam on 8/1-3/2000 - June 21, 2000" at
http://www.friends-partners.org/~utsumi/gu-l/mid-2000/6-21-a.html

Dear Moti:
==========

Pls try to attend this workshop to present your previous effort of
organizing a consortium of open universities in Asia countries.

Dear Vincent:
=============

Referring to your msg of 3/21/00 (after you were introduced to me by
John Afele at the Univ. of Guelph), I would be very happy to hear of
your project if you can attend this workshop.

Dear Dr. Lun:
=============

It was my great pleasure to have met with you at the International
Consultative Conference on Tele-Health and Tele-Medicine at the WHO in
Geneva, Switzerland last January. Pls try to attend this workshop --
especially if Victor allowe us to conduct telemedicine demonstration --
probably with Rashid's University of Michigan (tentative).

Dear Mazlan:
============

(3) It was my great pleasure to have spoken with you a few weeks ago.

Congratulations to your wonderful workshop in Kuala Lumpur -- timing
perfecty!! I look forward to meet with you again there.

You may request Carlos Braga and/or Lauri Charvin to provide those
people above with their travel funds (ATTACHMENT VI), since your office
is a sister organization with the InfoDev of the World Bank.

BTW, referring to Joe Pelton's msg of 8/2/00 to you (ATTACHMENT
VI), you may meet him during your stay in Washington, D.C.
(ATTACHMENT VII) next month.

Dear Victor:
============

(4) I noticed some of evenings are not scheduled yet.

I would suggest that you may have demonstrations of videoconferencing
and telemedicine as we have done successfully during our Tampere and
Manaus workshops, so that attendees can get some idea how to proceed
with global e-learning and telemedicine.

(a) Tampere conference:

http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/

(b) Manaus workshop:

http://lab-tiama.pop-am.rnp.br/cca/workshop/English/wksp_E.htm

and

http://www.teched.org/hist00/brazil/

Should you decide to do that, pls let me know ASAP.

Looking forward to meeting with you in Kuala Lumpur,

Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT VIENNA OFFICE DES NATIONS UNIES A VIENNE

OFFICE FOR OUTER SPACE AFFAIRS
VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CENTRE
P.O. BOX 500, A 1400 VIENNA, AUSTRIA
TELEPHONE (43 1) 21131-4951 TELEGRAPH. ADDRESS: UNATIONS VIENNA TELEX: 135612
uno a
FAX: (43 1) 21345-5830; (43 1) 232156

09 September 2000

Dr.Takeshi Utsumi,
President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA)
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
43-23 Colden Street, #9-L
Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A.
Tel: 718-939-0928
Fax: 718-939-0656 (day time only -- prefer email)

Dear Dr. Utsumi,

United Nations/Malaysia Workshop on
Bridging the Digital Divide: Space Technology Solutions
organized in cooperation and hosted by the Government of Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 20-24 November, 2000

Greetings from Vienna.
I am pleased to inform you that the above Workshop will be organized
jointly by this Office and the Government of Malaysia for the benefit of the
developing countries in the Asia Pacific region and hosted by the Ministry of
Science, Technology and Environment for a five day working period from 20 to
24 November this year.

This Workshop will be targetting professionals and specialists in
information and communications technologies (ICT), systems managers and
planners, university educators and researchers from developing countries. The
Workshop will cover a range of issues of Internet delivery via satellite. In
particular, it will focus on new possibilities for broadband satellite
services to provide, among other things, Internet broadcasting and interactive
delivery. The main objective of the Workshop will be to address the ways in
which these new, still evolving technologies can be made available to
developing countries.

The Workshop is also aimed at exposing participants to the opportunities
of narrowing the widening gap in the area of ICT (or so-called "digital
divide") through the value-added services of the satellite and stratospheric
systems. Emphasis will be placed on applications to telemedicine and
telehealth, tele-education and distance learning.

In this connection and on behalf of the United Nations, it is my
pleasure to invite you to deliver a comprehensive presentation on the status
and prospects of Global University System (GUS) initiatives with particular
emphasis on your projected activities in the Asia-Pacific region and role you
envisage satellite technology will play in the pilot projects of GUS. The
objectives and a number of elements of this Workshop can be found in the
Information Sheet and draft Programme which are attached for your attention.
For any inquiries, kindly contact Officer-in-charge for this activity, Mr.
Viktor Kotelnikov of this Office at: tel.:431/26060-4955; fax: 431/26060-5830;
e-mail: vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at).

We have also been contacted (through your information on this Office) by
Dr. Shahab Khan and Dr. Joe Pelton who have also expressed interest in
attending this Workshop though on financial assistance. We will await the
responses to our letters of invitation to this Workshop from UNDP Offices in
the ESCAP region in order to determine the number of the candidates we can
support. As we have already mentioned to you during your visit to Vienna, our
financial resources are very limited and will primarily be earmarked to
financially support representatives from least developed countries in the
region and we would possibly extend it to Pakistan.

I look forward to your reply to this invitation at your earliest
convenience.

With kind regards.
Yours sincerely,

Viktor Kotelnikov
Office for Outer Space Affairs
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ATTACHMENT II

INFORMATION SHEET

1. Background

At its fifty-fifth session, held in June 2000, the United Nations
Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space approved the activities of the
United Nations Space Applications Programme for 2000. The above Workshop is
being co-sponsored by the United Nations in cooperation with the Government of
Malaysia, for the benefit of the developing countries in the Asia Pacific
region. The Workshop will be hosted by the Ministry of Science, Technology
and Environment.

2. Dates of the Workshop: 20-24 November 2000

3. Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

4. Objective:

The Workshop will review the status and projected directions of Internet
delivery via satellite with special emphasis on (i) current and future
developments of Internet via satellite market in the Asia Pacific region, (ii)
backbone Internet satellite trafficking, (iii) local user access, (iv) remote
and rural Internet services, (v) GEO-, MEO- and LEO broadband satellite
systems, (vi) high-altitude long-endurance stratospheric platforms, (vii)
content delivery issues, (viii) applications such as telemedicine and e-learning, (ix) development of regional and international cooperation.

5. Programme of the Workshop

The programme of the Workshop will include, but not be limited to the following topics:

- status and prospects of the satellite-based Internet market in the Asia Pacific region;
- geostationary and non-geostationary Internet delivery systems for developing countries;
- Internet broadcasting platforms;
- content delivery platforms and issues;
- interactive local access: hybrid and satellite-based solutions;
- stratospheric broadband telecommunications systems;
- case studies and project proposals for applications of
telemedicine and distance learning in the Asia Pacific region.

6. Qualification for participation

Participants should have a university degree in satellite
communications, electronic engineering, telecommunications or broadcasting and
should have gained several years of professional experience in the field of
communications. Participants should be in positions of managerial/decision
making responsibility at institutions dealing with telecommunications/broadcasting.

7. Language of the Workshop

Applicants must have a good knowledge of ENGLISH, which will be the ONLY
working language of the Workshop.

8. Selection of participants

Participants will be selected jointly by the sponsors of the Workshop
>from nominations submitted by the governments/institutions of developing
countries to the United Nations.

9. Deadline for submission of nominations

Two copies of the completed nomination form, properly endorsed by the
applicant's agency/organization, should be submitted through the Office of the
Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme in the
applicant's country, to reach the Office of the United Nations Expert on Space
Applications, Room E 0945, United Nations Office at Vienna, Vienna
International Center, P.O. Box 500, A-1400, Vienna, Austria, no later than 30 September 2000.
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ATTACHMENT III

DRAFT OUTLINE

DAY ONE, 20 NOVEMBER 2000
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0800 - 0900 REGISTRATION

0900 - 1030 OPENING SESSION

0900 - 0920 UN STATEMENT
Dr. M. Othman UN/OOSA

0920 - 0940 OPENING ADDRESS
Host Government MALAYSIA

0940 - 1020 PHOTO SESSION/coffee break

1020 - 1100 OVERVIEW OF THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

1100 - 1130 Japan's Comprehensive Cooperation Package to Address Digital Divide - G8/Japan

1130 - 1200 Telecommunications infrastructure in the Asia Pacific region: status and prospects
Dr. A. Narayan
Asia Pacific Telecommunity

1200 - 1230 Satellite Communications Market in the Asia Pacific region: status and prospects
Dr. Otaki
Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council

1230 - 1430 LUNCHEON

1430 - 1730 SATELLITE PLATFORMS

1430 - 1500 Internet Delivery over GEO Satellites
INTELSAT

1500 - 1530 Internet Solutions using MEO Satellites
SKYBRIDGE (France)

1530 - 1600 coffee break

1600 - 1630 Internet Access via non-GEO Platforms
TELEDESIC/ICO

1630 - 1700 Narrow-band Inexpensive Internet Services
LEO ONE (USA)

1700- 1800 Special Presentation on Multimedia Super Corridor
Multimedia Development Corporation (Malaysia)

2030 - 2230 DINNER

DAY TWO, 21 NOVEMBER 2000
============================

0900 - 1230 INTERNET ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES

0900 - 0930 Internet Broadcasting in the Asia Pacific: status and prospects
Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union

0930 - 1000 Internet Content Delivery Technologies
CIDERA (Japan)

1000 - 1030 Cost-effective End-user Assess
STM Wireless (USA)

1030 - 1100 coffee break

1100 - 1130 Internet and multimedia broadcasting
WORLDSPACE (Singapore)

1130 - 1230 Stratospheric platform technology
SKYNET (Japan)

1230 - 1430 LUNCHEON

1430 - 1730 REGIONAL/NATIONAL EXPERIENCES

1430 - 1500 Internet-related projects financing
UNDP/IFC

1500 - 1530 Narrow-band services by small satellites
ESCAP

1530 - 1600 coffee break

1600 - 1630 Satellite-based Internet in China
China

1630 - 1700 ISRO and Private Industry Projects
India

1700 - 1730 TCP/IP Modification: Regional Experience
Singapore

DAY THREE, 22 NOVEMBER 2000
===========================

0900 - 1230 APPLICATIONS PROJECTS

0900 - 0930 Distance Learning via Satellite in Schools
European Space Agency

0930 - 1000 Global University System:
Dr. Utsumi
GLOSAS Project Initiative (U.S.)

1000 - 1030 Rural Internet Access by Satellite
Prof. Hudson (USA)

1030 - 1100 coffee break

1100 - 1130 Space-based Telemedicine
INMARSAT

1130 - 1200 Indonesian Experience in the Satellite communications
Indonesia

1200 - 1230 E-learning
Malaysia

1230 - 1430 LUNCHEON

1430 - 1730 REGIONAL EXPERIENCE
PANEL DISCUSSION ON STATUS AND NEEDS BASED ON COUNTRY CASE HISTORIES
Representatives of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Iran, Lao
PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam and others.

Moderator: tbd
Rapporteur: tbd

DAY FOUR, 23 NOVEMBER 2000
==========================

0900 - 1230 REGIONAL EXPERIENCE
PANEL DISCUSSION ON STATUS AND NEEDS BASED ON COUNTRY CASE HISTORIES
Representatives of the countries from the Asia Pacific region

Moderator: tbd
Rapporteur: tbd

1230 - 1430 LUNCHEON

1430 - 1730 TECHNICAL VISITATIONS
Multimedia Super Corridor

DAY FIVE, 24 NOVEMBER 2000
==========================

0900 - 1130 ADOPTION OF OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON FOLLOW-UP
STEPS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

1130 - 1200 CLOSURE CEREMONY
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ATTACHMENT IV

From: "shahab khan" <afroz@khi.compol.com>
To: <vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at>
Cc: "Tak" <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: UN/MALAYSIA WORKSHOP - 20-24 NOV, 2000
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:16:15 +0500

Dear Mr. Viktor Kotelnikov

I am greatful to Prof. Dr. Mazlan Othman for very kindly forwarding my request
to attend the workshop and your fax invitation to Dr. Takeshi Utsumi with
copy to me to attend the most interesting workshop on " Bridging the digital
divide" to be held at Malaysia during Nov 20-24 this year.

We are extremely happy to note that participant from Pakistan are also being
considered for financial support to attend this workshop . It would indeed be
a great previlage and honour to attend this workshop on behalf of PLANWEL,
Pakistan.

I would be very much obliged if you, therefore, kindly advise me the
application procedure. Where should my nomination be sent - to the UNDP office
in Pakistan or to your office directly?. I also need the nomination forms

Your reply ASAP would be very much appreciated as the submission deadline Sep
30 is not far away.

Kind regards=20

Shahab Khan, Director
Planwel University,
A-1, L.C.H.S., Block-20,
Gulistan-e-Jauhar,
Karachi-75290
Pakistan
http://www.planwel.edu
afroz@planwel.edu
afroz@khi.compol.com
PH: (92-21)811-5094, (92-21)811-5851FAX: (92-21)811-6178
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ATTACHMENT V

CNN News
July 30, 1999
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9907/30/space.un.reut/index.html

U.N. backs space technology to help Third World

July 30, 1999
Web posted at: 1:24 PM EDT (1724 GMT)

VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) - The first United Nations space conference since
the end of the Cold War called on Friday for better use of satellite
technology to boost the economies of developing countries and former communist states.

The conference agreed on a range of points from improving satellite-based
weather forecasting to setting up a voluntary U.N. fund to pay for
implementing its recommendations.

Member states and organizations should strengthen the peaceful use of space,
"taking into particular account the interests of developing countries and
countries with economies in transition," a communique agreed by some 3,000
delegates from around the world said.

The fund was proposed by the "Group of 77" developing countries and China,
which argued it would be meaningless for the conference to make plans on their
behalf but not have the resources to implement them.

"All member states are invited to support the fund financially or in kind,"
the communique said.

Algeria's ambassador to the United Nations in Vienna, Mokhtar Reguieg, said
space technology applications such as water management could help close the
gap between rich and poor countries.

"Space technology and techniques are crucial for the socioeconomic development
of countries," he said.

Arif Mehdiyev, director general of the Azerbaijani National Aerospace Agency,
said the U.N. Space Program on Space Applications should be expanded to help
countries in transition restore their economies.

"International and national organizations of developed countries should
display more understanding of the problems of the countries in transition," he
told the conference.

The conference, which follows similar meetings held in Vienna in 1968 and 1982
before the Cold War ended, was opened on July 19 by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan.

He called for developing countries to profit more from space technology,
noting that although the telecommunications industry is worth an estimated $1
trillion per year, a third of the world's population has never made a telephone call.

From: Lcharvin@worldbank.org
Subject: inquiry for infoDev Conference Scholarship Fund
To: utsumi@friends-partners.org
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:26:52 -0400

dear Professor Utsumi,

========================================
<<September 9, 2000>> Removed here by T. Utsumi,
========================================

On another hand, the iCSF program usually does not support isolated
individuals but rather a group of individuals from developing countries. The
way it works is that iCSF receives proposals from Conference organizers
organizing ICT-related conferences. The proposal should contain a description
of the conference with planned activities and a list of selected individuals
>from developing countries that infoDev would support. If evaluated
successfully the proposal is funded and infoDev supports travel and perdiem
expenses for the selected individuals from the developing countries. Once the
conference is over, we then organize an online discussion with the
participants in order to follow-up with the knowledge gained.

So unfortunately I am afraid we will not be able to help you for the moment.
But I would invite you to consider those guidelines and to keep track of the
infoDev web site. Should you have any other relevant activities as a
conference organizer, I would invite you to submit a proposal as soon as the
call for applications is posted.

Naturally I stay at your disposal for any other information you may need. I
regret not to be of more help for now. I wish you the best of luck in carrying
out your activities.

Sincerely,

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 VII

From: Ecjpelton@aol.com
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:19:08 EDT
Subject: Arthur Clarke, World Space Week and Global Service Trust Fund
To: Mazlan.Othman@oosa.un.or.at
CC: utsumi@columbia.edu, ptknight@attglobal.net

Dear Ms. Mazlan: I am serving as Executive Director of the Sir Arthur C.
Clarke Institute of Telecommunications and Information (CITI) and am a long
term friend and colleague of Dr. Jasentuliyana the former Director. First of
all I would like to congratulate on your appointment and the vigorous
leadership you have already demonstrated in your office. I am pleased that
Sir Arthur as agreed to help with the video address that you recently
requested for World Space Week. Dr. Tak Utsumi who recently visited in
Vienna has favorably commented on your activities and plans. I wanted to
make you aware of the Clarke Institute and our various plans that include the
Millennium Village Project in Sri Lanka, the Global Services Trust Fund, the
Commission on the Future and Project Warn. We are working in partnership
with Intelsat, Worldspace, The University of Surrey Space Center, the
Communications Research Lab of Japan, the Communications Research Centre of
Canada, Volunteers in Technical Assistance, the Japan US Science, Technology
and Space Applications Program and others. I would invite you to see our
early version of our web page that tells a little about our global virtual
research center that has a strong orientation toward space applications for
developing countries. Please see: http://clarkeinstitute.com/

Also we are trying to organize a worldwide summit on the "Global Services
Trust Fund" that is described in the attached paper. We would like to
coordinate this activity with you and your staff in coming weeks as it is
more clearly defined. Best wishes.

Joe Pelton

P.S. I should note that I have also helped as a former Dean and Chairman of
the Board on the International Space University's collaborative effort with
your office in preparing the text on space communications for your
publication that is a followon to Unispace 3.
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ATTACHMENT VIII

From: "Julie Howell" <julie@ussf.org>
To: International.Space.Symposium@columbia.edu
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:40:44 -0600
Subject: International Symposium News

Dear Space Professional,

Additional speakers for the International Space Symposium*, scheduled
for October 24-26, 2000 at the Reagan Center in Washington, DC., were
recently announced by the Space Foundation. The latest additions include:

* Yuri Koptev, Director General, ROSAVIACOSMOS
* Dr. Mazlan Othman, Director, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs
* Ritaro Kasai, Corporate Senior Vice President, Member of the Board, Group
President, Electronic Systems, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
* G影nter Stamerjohanns, CEO, EUROCKOT Launch Services GmbH
* Dr. Hiroshi Kimura, General Manager, Space Systems Division, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
* Giuseppe Viriglio, President, Alenia Aerospazio
* Dr. Jang-Soo Ryoo, Vice President, Korea Aerospace Research Institute
* Dave Caddey, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Space Missions
Group, MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates, Ltd.
* Edward Sloot, Director Investments, SOFINOV
* Carissa Christensen, Division Director, Futron Corporation

To view the latest press release, please visit
http://ussf.org/symposium00/international/releases/080100.html.

Visit www.spacesymposium.org for the Symposium agenda,
sponsor and exhibitor lists and online registration. Space
Foundation professional members pay only $590(US) if registered
by September 14, 2000.

We look forward to seeing you this October!

Elliot G. Pulham
Senior Vice President
Space Foundation
1(719) 576-8000
Toll free (US and Canada): 1-800-691-4000
elliot@spacefoundation.org

*(Event not affiliated or otherwise associated with Space News)
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Victor Kotelnikov
Political Affairs Officer
Office for Outer Space Affairs
United Nations
Vienna International Centre
P. 0. BOX 500
A - 1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: (43-1) 211-31/4955
Fax: (43-1) 213-45/5830
E-mail: vkotelnikov@unov.un.or.at

Mazlan Othman
Director
Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA)
United Nations Office at Vienna
Vienna International Centre
P.O. Box 500
A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: (+43-1) 26060-4950
Fax: (+43-1) 26060-5830
E-mail: mazlan.othman@unvienna.org

Shahab Khan
Director
Planwel University
Planwel Institute of Science and Technology (PLANWEL)
A-1, L.C.H.S
Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Block-20
Karachi. 75290, Pakistan
Tel: 011-92-21-811-5851
011-92-21-811-5094
Fax: 011-92-21-811-6178
Afroz@khi.compol.com
afroz@planwel.edu
http://www.planwel.com
http://www.planwel.edu
http://www.planwel.edu/Research/tampere.html
http://www.itcomm.gov.pk/

Dr. Joseph N. Pelton
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Applied Space Research, Rm 340
George Washington University
2033 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20052
202-994-5507
Fax: 202-994-5505
ecjpelton@aol.com
jpelton@seas.gwu.eduOr,Acting Executive Director of CITI
Vice-Chair of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation of the U.S. (ACCFUS)
Arthur C. Clark Institute for Telecommunication and Information (CITI)
4025 40th Street North
Arlington, VA 22207
(703) 536-6985
ecjpelton@aol.com
http://clarkeinstitute.com/
http://www.clarkeinstitute.com/

Peter T. Knight, Ph.D.
Board member of GLOSAS/USA
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
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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
http://pws.prserv.net/ptknight/DeerIsleMaine.htm -- about his home in Maine

Richard Wah
Head of Distance Education and Deputy Director
University Extension
The University of the South Pacific (USP)
Laucala Campus
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Suva, FIJI
Tel: (679) 212483
Fax: (679) 300482
wah_r@usp.ac.fj
richard.wah@usp.ac.fj
www.usp.ac.fj

Mr. Bruce R. Best
PEACESAT/TADEO
Research Associate
Station Manager
Telecommunication and Distance Education Operation
Center for Continuing Education & Outreach Programs
University of Guam
Box 5278 UOG Station
Mangilao, Guam 96923
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Fax: 011-671-734-8377<<04/22/1994>>for short msg
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bbest@kuentos.guam.net

Motilal Sharma
Senior Education Specialist
Asian Development Bank
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+632-632-4444 (main)
Fax: +632-636-2310
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http://www.adb.org
Vincent Lowe
Dato' Vincent Lowe, LLB (Hons), PhD (MIT)
Adviser, Education & Multimedia Business
Telekom Malaysia Berhad (128740-P)
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Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia
Tel: (60)3-7032920
Fax: (60)3-7033049
Email: vincentlowe@hotmail.com
vincentlowe@mahirnet.com

Dr. K. C. Lun
Director, Medical Informatics Program and
WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics
Associate Professor, Dept of COFM
National University of Singapore
Clinical Research Center
Block MD 11, Level 1
10 Medical Drive
Singapore 117597
Tel: 65 779 3457 / 779 3145 / 874 4988
Fax: 65 779 3513 / 779 1489
kclun@nus.edu.sg
http://medweb.nus.sg/lun

Professor Rashid Bashshur, Ph.D.
President-elect of the American Telemedicine Association
Editor-in-Chief of the Telemedicine Journal
Director of Telemedicine
Professor of Health management & Policy
The University of Michigan Health System
Am Arbor
Michigan 48109-2029
USA
734-763-0555
Tel: +1 734 647 3089
Fax: +1 734 936 9406
bashshur@umich.edu

Elliot G. Pulham
Senior Vice President
Space Foundation
1(719) 576-8000
Toll free (US and Canada): 1-800-691-4000
elliot@spacefoundation.org

Mr. Carlos Alberto Primo Braga
Program Manager
Information for Development (InfoDev)
Energy, Mining and Telecommunications Department
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

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
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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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