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Sidiki Traore <[email protected]>

Prof. Edwin Scott Asemota, MD., DTMPH <[email protected]e>

Chris Uwaje, (Fncs, Fiap) <[email protected]>

References:

(a) (20130603) Dear Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for information
<http://tinyurl.com/lq9d32m>

(b) Japan’s Assistance Package for Africa at TICADV (*)
<http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000005505.pdf>

(*) Tokyo International Conference on African Development

(c) Philosophy and Realization of Global (electronic) University (GU) System
Acceptance Speech by Dr. Takeshi Utsum
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/Perry-Award/Page/Perry1A.htm>

Dear Sidiki:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I below), in response to the Reference (a) above.

(2) My wholehearted congratulations to your successful launch of DeAfrica e-learning project.

You may visit the Japanese Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, and ask about their newly announced assistance (Reference (b) above(*)).  They may be able to introduce you some Japanese e-learning courses, which may be able for your students in Kenya be able to receive.

(*) As you see in this web site, at the TICAD in Yokohama in Japan on June 1-3, the Japanese government  announced US$32 billion assistance to Africa — including US$14 billion out of the Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) fund — in the next 5 years.  This is in addition of US$6.5 billion for construction of transportation highways — the TICAD-IV in 2008 did announced US$4 billion for the same.

Dear Edwin:

(3) Many thanks for your msg with kind words (ATTACHMENT II below), in response to the Reference (a) above.

Figure 1: <http://tinyurl.com/kuku4ae>

The leader ought to be at the bottom of the inverse pyramid to energize youngsters’ creativity — as boiling water with a fire so that water molecules jumps vigorously — as the so-called “Brown Movement.”  This is particularly necessary for Africa where there are abundantly available young brainpower, which is the raw material of the Knowledge Society in the 21st Century.

BTW, the original of this figure was appeared in the Reference (c) above.  

Dear Chris:

(4) Many thanks for your msg with kind words (ATTACHMENT III below), in response to the Reference (a) above.

Your observation of our GEWS project sounds like “Zen” Buddhism.  Thank you very much, indeed!!

As you may recall, the Late Steve Jobs of Apple was a firm Zen Buddhist as often taking his kids to Kyoto to learn its simplicity and serenity for building the world largest technological giant in just a few decades. -- his firm believing in eastern culture prevented him to take western medical care, and hence led to his death.

On the other hand, Ibuka, the founder of SONY, took the transistor technology out of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ which became the essence of Walkman tape-recorder.  According a legend, Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris recorded his teaching into the Walkman and sent its tape to Teheran for mass distribution which subsequently brought the Iranian Revolution in 1979.  Some then call it the SONY revolution.  As seeing the demise of SONY in recent years, a New York Times article said that SONY should have acquired Apple instead of going to Hollywood.  In a sense, this is the symbol of the failure of transition from analog to digital culture in Japan.

You may be interested in this Japanese phenomena, as the President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).

(5) Yes, “we have much more work ahead of us all,” as you aptly say.  I am now preparing the grant application for the planning workshop which will have a demonstration to verify the energy proposition made by Obama/Gore — see its brief below;

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We will conduct a gaming/simulation demonstration on the following two GKCN (GEWS) concepts under the auspices of the Center for International Conflict Resolution in the School of International and Public Affair (SIPA) of Columbia University in New York City in the first day of the workshop (*) to be organized;

(*) This workshop is to be after the one at the Stevens Institute of Technology — for which, we already submitted our grant application to the NSF.

(a)  Paradigm shift in the international political science field with the combined use of normative (role-playing) gaming and quantitative (model-based) simulation,

(b)  Distributed simulation as using both of Nigerian and US simulation models, which will be interlinked through broadband Internet with the GLOSAS/USA’s patent pending procedure.

The objective is to verify the energy policy proposed by President Barack Obama and former Vice President Al Gore, specifically, their emphasis on replacing fossil fuels with renewable sources (e.g., wind and/or solar energy) to generate electricity in the USA in ten years <http://tinyurl.com/66sk9d> in relation to appropriate allocation of oil revenue in Niger Delta of Nigeria <http://tinyurl.com/2df8ybu>.

We will examine how this would affect oil revenue in Niger Delta of Nigeria, and the consequences to other economic and social structures, particularly in Nigeria.  We will ask if this is a viable direction with global perspectives. 

If their policies succeed, there would be a change in revenue to the Nigerian government. Also, what would be the consequences to other economic and social structures in the US and in other countries, particularly Nigeria?  Would this be a viable direction with global perspectives?

This is because 97% of total Nigerian federal government revenue comes from oil export, 40% of which is exported to North America — another 23% to Europe and 16% to the Far Eastern countries, including Japan, South Korea, and China. Thus, if Gore and Obama’s proposals succeed in the U.S. (and are emulated in Far Eastern countries later), it would mean the end of oil revenue for the Nigerian government — in a sense, a severe blow to them.

We will balance the global consequences of the proposal with the national consequences for Nigeria, which could be devastating, particularly when the US is expected to become energy independent with the use of hydraulic fracturing technology for producing shale oil and gas by 2030, in addition to Gore/Obama energy proposition mentioned above.

A remedy to cope with this devastating crisis could be as follows: the money saved by the US and the Far Eastern countries as a consequence of not importing oil from Nigeria may be reserved as credits for the Cap and Trade system, which would be donated to:

(a)  Nigeria, to establish the so-called Education Center in Niger Delta region emulating Qatar, to export educational services to nearby countries as Cuba does,

(b)  ECOWAS (which includes Nigeria) to foster e-learning, e-healthcare and e-governance, etc. in its member and other African countries with “Peace-Corps” type help from Nigeria, particularly with the use of newly launched Nigerian domestic satellite.

This would be the win-win solution at a global scale.

After this event, we plan to continue this gaming/simulation exercise in collaborative fashion between Columbia University and Nigerian universities, e.g., Obafemi Awolowo University, Rivers State University of Science and Technology in Port Harcourt, etc.
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Keep in touch.

Best, Tak

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ATTACHMENT I

From: Sidiki Traore <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20130603) Dear Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for information
Date: June 3, 2013 2:01:29 PM EDT
To: Takeshi Utsumi <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Dear Tak

Hope you are doing well. I am still in Nairobi, Kenya. Distance Education For Africa (deafrica) has launched its courses and services.
We offer courses in IT, Journalism, English Language. Our programs are offered  in both French and English.
We also collaborate with African Universities to provide capacity building for their staff and we seek funding jointly to work on projects.

Deafrica would like to collaborate with some institutions dealing with Online Learning and Teaching in Japan to do joint projects.
Any suggestion will be welcome.

Regards

Sidiki

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ATTACHMENT II

From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20130603) Dear Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for information
Date: June 3, 2013 7:37:44 PM EDT
To: [email protected]
Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>

Dear Tak,

Again and again, I feel privileged to be linked to an outstanding humanitarian and visionary, humble facilitator of the better  ' World We Want', your humble self !
Your efforts will not be in vain !!!

Benjamin Peterson, now trailing the path of history close to Hiroshima indeed knows how lucky he is to be in your good company.

Your work  with Prof. Tapio Varis,
' Global Peace Through The Global University System
> Tapio Varis - Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
> University of Tampere, Finland 2003
> ISBN 951-44-5695-5
> The entire contents of this book in http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
or better yet at <http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7> -- this line was added by Tak Utaumi on 6/5/13.

is a ' Must read material' and is my priority for tomorrow.
Now is 1.40 am in Germany and is time to go to bed.


 Kindest regards,

 Edwin.

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ATTACHMENT III

From: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (20130603) Dear Dr. Utsumi - a humble request for    information
Date: June 3, 2013 4:04:27 PM EDT
To: [email protected],"gu-new" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected],[email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]

Dear Prof. Utsumi,
Greetings. Great engagement
I read the submission of Benjamin Peterson with great delight.

His thought process has confirmed once more - and vividly so, that, though 'human live will eventually be irreversibly and positively transformed' to a point that there will be no difference between human and machine or between physical and virtual reality.

But the hard fact remains that as laudable as the above goal is, it may not be achieved without World Peace Gaming strategy;and by extension - sustained by collective Broad-minded service mission.

For this and other reasonsn we must appreciate the deeply commited knowledge advocacy efforts  promoted by a formidably dynamic group such as GEWS and Associates, under the leadership of Prof. Tak Utsumi. Thank you Prof.- there are much more work ahead of us all.

Best Regards,
Chris Uwaje (FNCS)
President, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON)
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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List of Distribution

Sidiki Traore
President & Founder
Distance Education for Africa (DeAfrica)
Enseignement  à Distance pour l’Afrique (EdAfrique)
Plot No 209/925 Koinange Street
P. O. Box 581 61 -0010
Nairobi, Kenya
(+254) 20-2166336
(+254) 774-133091
(+254) 702 163124
[email protected]
http://www.deafrica.org/
Bio and Photo: http://tinyurl.com/3vzodag
CV: http://tiny.cc/egfsq

Prof. Edwin Scott Asemota, MD., DTMPH
Prof. of Medicine and CEO, Help Point International Foundation
Phone in Germany: ( + 49 ) 1578-7144-074
Phone in Nigeria     ( +234) 81-6776-5921
[email protected]e

Chris Uwaje, (Fncs, Fiap)
President
Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON)
InfoGraphics Nigeria
8, Oduduwa Way
GRA Ikeja
Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: 234-1-794-2050, 803-300-5005
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
or
Chief Executive Officer
Connect Technologies Limited
President
15B Awolowo Road, SW Ikoyi
Lagos, NIGERIA

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Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman
GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
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