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P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor <
References:
(a) (20090905)Appointment of Tapio Varis for IITE Governing Board membership
(b) (20090811)(1) "New Global Agenda" by Jean Francois Rischard and (2) Global Early Warning System
(c) Item (3) of
(20090821) Possible creation of GUS/Lebanon with Simone Sala's CICR project
(d) (20090731)Congratulations for receiving grants from the Global Environment and Conflict Resolution Program of the CICR of Columbia University
Dear Sam:
(1) Many thanks for your msgs (ATTACHMENT I and III) in response to the Reference (a) above.
My wholehearted congratulations to your retirement and beginning of your own life!!
I greatly appreciate your interest in and offer of help to our projects. You will be a great asset to our projects.
(2) As I might have mentioned to you when we met at the Quarter Club in Manhattan a few months ago, we would be greatly privileged if we can have you as a Canadian contact for our GCEPG/GSEEED/GUS projects.
Pls kindly provide us with;
(a) your brief bio, photo, -- see ANNEX I: List of Working Group Members
(b) your letter of participation -- see ANNEX II: Letters from key collaborating or participating organizations/individuals
(3) For our GCEPG/GSEEED projects, we will have;
(a) Prof. Onishi’s FUGI model in econometrics, which has 200 country and UN sector sub-models — see Reference (b) above, and
(b) Millennium Institute’s system dynamics model — which is now consummating an agreement of constructing such models of 15 member countries of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), -- MI is considering to construct models of 100 other countries in the next two years — see Reference (c) above.
Our approach is to have each country model be autonomously refined, improved and administered by the experts of those countries., and yet those models to be interconnected each other to form a single global scale simulation model.
I would then greatly appreciate it if you can locate appropriate Canadian group who has such Canadian national energy/economic simulation mode (either econometrics or system dynamics), and who can work with us together.
BTW, as mentioned in my previous list distributions, we are planning to hold a conference/workshop of this GCEPG/GSEEED projects in the next spring semester with the CICR of Columbia University and Polytechnic Institute of NYU. You may then schedule to attend it.
Global e-learning of GUS would then come to enhance the GCEPG/GSEEED project team activities.
(4) As for funding, I would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly start contemplating how to get some fund from the International Development Research Centre of Canadian government — particularly for those projects of our colleagues in Lebanon and Nigeria — see Reference (d) above — which already have been financially supported by the Italian government to kickoff their projects. We are also preparing to get funds from the US and Japanese governments.
Dear Tapio:
(5) You are really glob trotter!! Pls have a very pleasant and safe trip to China.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
From: Sam Lanfranco <
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:55:12 -0400
To: Tak Utsumi <>, Tapio Varis <
Subject: Re: Appointment of Tapio Varis for IITE Governing Board membership
Tak & Tapio,
Congratulations to you Tapio on the appointment.
Tak, I have just retired and moved to Emeritus and Senior Scholar status at York University and hopefully I will be in a position to return to being of use to your collective efforts.
Sam Lanfranco
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Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus) Econ, York U.
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
email: ll: 416-816-2852
Home: 613-476-0429 Calif: 559-478-0736
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ATTACHMENT II
From: Tapio Varis <
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:07:53 +0300
To: Sam Lanfranco <
Cc: Tak Utsumi <>, Tapio Varis <
Subject: Re: Appointment of Tapio Varis for IITE Governing Board membership
Dear Sam,
Thank you and good to hear from your interest. I am in Frankfurt Airport on my way back to Finland from Brazil and going to China next week. Quite busy but really inspiring!
Tapio
ATTACHMENT III
From: Sam Lanfranco <
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:28:11 -0400
To: Tapio Varis <
Cc: Tak Utsumi <
Subject: Re: Appointment of Tapio Varis for IITE Governing Board membership
Tapio,
Glad to see that you are in demand. We need to inspire/recruit more
young people to move these projects and this agenda forward. My plans
include being in India (Pune) the first part of 2010, working with a
group of dalit (untouchable) organizations on the uses of information
technology in the pursuit of human rights.
Regards, Sam
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Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus) Econ, York U.
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
email: ll: 416-816-2852
Home: 613-476-0429 Calif: 559-478-0736
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Professor Sam Lanfranco
AK/ECON
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Fax: 416-736-5188
P. Tapio Varis, Ph.D., Professor
Acting President, Global University System
UNESCO Chair in Global e-Learning with applications to multiple domains
Professor and Chair of Media Education
Research Center for Vocational Education & Hypermedia Laboratory
University of Tampere
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FIN-13101 Hameenlinna
FINLAND
+358-3-3551-3608
Tel: +358-3-614-5608--office in Hameenlinna
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GSM: +358-50-567-9833
Fax: +358-3-614-5611 or +358-3-3551-3611
-- about ECML project.
and
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Unesco-Unevoc International Centre for Technical and Vocational
Education and Training
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53113 Bonn, Germany
Tel: +358-335-51-3608
Fax: +358-335-51-3611
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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 and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of *
* Global University System (GUS) *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A. *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: *
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* U.S. Federal Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676 <
* New York State Tax Exempt ID: 217837 <
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