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The Global Knowledge Centers Network (GKCN) with The Global University System...Ed Dodds
The GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE CENTERS NETWORK (GKCN) is a scientific and technically sophisticated, computer-based network that combines data from individual disciplines into practical strategies of intervention and progress.
Raising Awareness for Sustainable Energy: Best Learning Practices and State o...Andreas Kamilaris
A presentation focusing on "Raising Awareness for Sustainable Energy". Presented at a workshop of the Joint European Summer School for Doctoral Candidates on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTEL 2013), held in Limassol, Cyprus in May, 2013. This presentation shows best learning practices for environmental awareness and presents state of the art applications in the field of sustainability and energy savings. The psychological factors and motivational patterns that lead these applications to succeed are discussed through the presentation.
The workshop was moderated by Andreas Kamilaris, postdoc researcher at the University of Cyprus and Sotiris Themistokleous, assistant director at the research institute CARDET.
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age Soren Gigler
Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people’s well-being, rather than technology, at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance people’s “informational capabilities” and improve people’s human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses people’s individual and collective capabilities, rather than measures of access or use, as its principal evaluative space. Based on empirical evidence from indigenous communities’ use of new technologies in rural Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing poor people’s informational capabilities is the most critical factor determining the impact of ICTs on their well-being. Improved informational capabilities, like literacy, do enhance the human capabilities of poor and marginalized peoples to make strategic life choices and achieve the lifestyle they value. Evaluating the impact of ICTs in terms of capabilities thus reveals no direct relationship between improved access to, and use of, ICTs and enhanced well-being; ICTs lead to improvements in people’s lives only when informational capabilities are transformed into expanded human and social capabilities in the economic, political, social, organizational, and cultural dimensions of their lives. The study concludes that intermediaries are bound to play a central, even fundamental, role in this process. They help poor communities to enact and appropriate ICTs to their local socio-cultural context so that their use becomes meaningful for people’s daily lives, enhances their informational capabilities, and ultimately improves their human and social capabilities.
Information, Knowledge Management & Coordination Systems: Complex Systems App...CITE
Date: 4 Jun 2013
Time: 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Room 101, Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Professor Liaquat Hossain, University of Sydney
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http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=502&category=conference
The Kentucky Initiative was the work completed to finish the Master's of Science and Music Technology final project course at IUPUI. It looked into the feasibility of using music technology to begin to bridge the gap between rural and urban areas in Kentucky.
The project attempted to utilize LOLA - a low latency audio video platform that would allow for real time performances to take place between two points up to 1500 miles apart. The ultimate goal is to figure out ways of using LOLA to assist in K-12 music education.
The Global Knowledge Centers Network (GKCN) with The Global University System...Ed Dodds
The GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE CENTERS NETWORK (GKCN) is a scientific and technically sophisticated, computer-based network that combines data from individual disciplines into practical strategies of intervention and progress.
Raising Awareness for Sustainable Energy: Best Learning Practices and State o...Andreas Kamilaris
A presentation focusing on "Raising Awareness for Sustainable Energy". Presented at a workshop of the Joint European Summer School for Doctoral Candidates on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTEL 2013), held in Limassol, Cyprus in May, 2013. This presentation shows best learning practices for environmental awareness and presents state of the art applications in the field of sustainability and energy savings. The psychological factors and motivational patterns that lead these applications to succeed are discussed through the presentation.
The workshop was moderated by Andreas Kamilaris, postdoc researcher at the University of Cyprus and Sotiris Themistokleous, assistant director at the research institute CARDET.
Development as Freedom in a Digital Age Soren Gigler
Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen’s capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people’s well-being, rather than technology, at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance people’s “informational capabilities” and improve people’s human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses people’s individual and collective capabilities, rather than measures of access or use, as its principal evaluative space. Based on empirical evidence from indigenous communities’ use of new technologies in rural Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing poor people’s informational capabilities is the most critical factor determining the impact of ICTs on their well-being. Improved informational capabilities, like literacy, do enhance the human capabilities of poor and marginalized peoples to make strategic life choices and achieve the lifestyle they value. Evaluating the impact of ICTs in terms of capabilities thus reveals no direct relationship between improved access to, and use of, ICTs and enhanced well-being; ICTs lead to improvements in people’s lives only when informational capabilities are transformed into expanded human and social capabilities in the economic, political, social, organizational, and cultural dimensions of their lives. The study concludes that intermediaries are bound to play a central, even fundamental, role in this process. They help poor communities to enact and appropriate ICTs to their local socio-cultural context so that their use becomes meaningful for people’s daily lives, enhances their informational capabilities, and ultimately improves their human and social capabilities.
Information, Knowledge Management & Coordination Systems: Complex Systems App...CITE
Date: 4 Jun 2013
Time: 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Room 101, Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Professor Liaquat Hossain, University of Sydney
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http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=502&category=conference
The Kentucky Initiative was the work completed to finish the Master's of Science and Music Technology final project course at IUPUI. It looked into the feasibility of using music technology to begin to bridge the gap between rural and urban areas in Kentucky.
The project attempted to utilize LOLA - a low latency audio video platform that would allow for real time performances to take place between two points up to 1500 miles apart. The ultimate goal is to figure out ways of using LOLA to assist in K-12 music education.
Technological Initiatives for Social Empowerment:
Design Experiments in Technology-Supported Youth Participation
and Local Civic Engagement
Leo Burd
PhD Thesis Defense
MIT Media Lab
May 4th, 2007
Communities of Practice and virtual learning communities: benefits, barriers ...eLearning Papers
Authors:Patricia Margaret Gannon-Leary, Elsa Fontainha.
A virtual Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals who share a domain of interest about which they communicate online. The practitioners share resources (for example experiences, problems and solutions, tools, methodologies). Such communication results in the improvement of the knowledge of each participant in the community and contributes to the development of the knowledge within the domain.
Reflections On Social Media Use Along The Academic Research Life CycleAnand Sheombar
This short paper presentation at 12th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems (IS 2019) argues for the need for discussion on the role social media could have in the research life cycle, particularly for Information Systems (IS) scholars. ICTs are pervasive, and their societal impact is profound. Various disciplines including those of social sciences are present in the online discourse and join the public debate on societal implications of ICTs and scholar are familiar with web tools for publishing. Information Systems scholars could not only further explore the possibilities for joining that online discourse, but also could explore the potential social media may have for activities related to the research life cycle. In this paper we do not focus solely on social media as a data collection source but regard their merits as a channel for scholarly communication throughout the whole research life cycle, from the start of getting inspired to conduct a research, finding collaboration partners or funding, through suggestions for literature, to the stage of research dissemination and creating impact beyond the own scientific community. This paper contributes an original approach to research communication by combining the research life cycle with practical insights of how social media can be applied throughout each phase of that lifecycle. We conclude with some questions debating the stance that (future) IS scholars are prepared to become the digital scholar that can manoeuvre well on social media for scholarly communication.
Digital development and Online Gender-Based ViolenceAnand Sheombar
Online talk held for Cordaid 18th November 2021, on the concept of digital development, and what online gender-based violence (GBV or eVAW) means for the activities of international development NGOs.
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
Introducing interactive documentary in the context of Critical Media Educatio...Danai_mi
This presentation provides the context for my current PhD research and evaluates the pedagogical possibilities and limitations of Mozilla's Popcorn Maker.
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
UNGIS Joint Statement on the Post-2015 Development AgendaDr Lendy Spires
Joint Statement United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda May 2013 Geneva In keeping with its mandate to promote policy coherence and programme coordination in the UN system, as well as provide guidance on issues related to inclusive Knowledge Societies and especially on information and communications technologies (ICTs) in support of internationally agreed development goals, the 30 members of the UN Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) respectfully submit this joint statement to the UN Secretary General and the UN Task Team.
The statement is a collective contribution to the dialogue on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, a unified effort to harness inter-agency expertise and experience to support deliberations on Post-2015 priorities, and a united commitment to a UN community poised to address development challenges in the 21st century. 1. When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in 2000, the international community was only beginning to understand the catalytic potential of ICTs to advance development agendas and priorities. One of the targets under Goal 8 calls for making the benefits of technologies, particularly ICTs, available to all.
Two years before the deadline for achieving the MDGs, Target 18 seems achievable by 2015 when it comes to access to mobile services. However, the potential of ICTs as key enablers for inclusive development have yet to be fully acknowledged, harnessed and specifically linked to the achievement of all other MDG targets. 2. In 2003 and 2005, at the two phases of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), the international community agreed on a set of commitments that recognize ICTs as enablers for development. World leaders representing Governments, civil society, private sector and the technical community set out a strategic framework for their deployment and use with the engagement of and in partnership with multi-sectoral stakeholders.
This framework captures the potential of ICTs in enhancing access, especially of vulnerable populations, to education, health care and other public services, to information, finance and knowledge, and the role of ICTs for the protecting the environment, for mitigating natural disaster risks, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources and sustainable food production and for women’s empowerment. This is in line with the internationally-agreed development goals in general and with environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources in particular, as mentioned in both the Rio Principles and Agenda 21
Politics, Social Media and E campaigning in Africa South Africa Nigeria Famil...ijtsrd
Social media in today’s world of electioneering in Africa has gained popularity not mainly as an efficient medium of articulating and propagating manifestos but more for political grandstanding. This study sought to theorize about the utilitarian value of social media use in Africa’s e campaigning by examining its application in the 2019 Presidential Elections in South Africa and Nigeria. The study’s theoretical framework is based on key research works on e electioneering and perception of social media e campaign messaging. It employed the narrative technique to describe interview data and also presenting the same in quantitative content analysis format. Data were gathered from interviews with post graduate candidates in politics departments in the understudied countries to gauge the perception of the functional value of social media campaign sloganeering. The study finds that social media served a more optimal value from a moralistic perspective in the 2019 electioneering in South Africa than Nigeria. It notes that this finding derives from a more prevalent political culture of civility and a better functional public order to punish misuse of social media which prevailed in South Africa than Nigeria. Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo "Politics, Social Media and E-campaigning in Africa: South Africa-Nigeria Familiarities during Their 2019 Presidential Elections" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33695.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/33695/politics-social-media-and-ecampaigning-in-africa-south-africanigeria-familiarities-during-their-2019-presidential-elections/ikemefuna-taire-paul-okudolo
This presentation was made during the ICT4ag conference held in Kigali, Rwanda form November 5-7, 2013. The presentation focuses on CPWF experiences in using ICTs to engage different stakeholders
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
Rotaract global model united nations 2014 peacbuilding commision study guideAdrian Dan Pop
Children in Armed Conflict.
The issue of children in armed conflict has been time and again ignored by the world community. We are sadly reminded of these innocent lives time and again when they are lost. In this context we do not only look at the protection of children in armed conflict, but more fearfully, their involvement in it.
Technological Initiatives for Social Empowerment:
Design Experiments in Technology-Supported Youth Participation
and Local Civic Engagement
Leo Burd
PhD Thesis Defense
MIT Media Lab
May 4th, 2007
Communities of Practice and virtual learning communities: benefits, barriers ...eLearning Papers
Authors:Patricia Margaret Gannon-Leary, Elsa Fontainha.
A virtual Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals who share a domain of interest about which they communicate online. The practitioners share resources (for example experiences, problems and solutions, tools, methodologies). Such communication results in the improvement of the knowledge of each participant in the community and contributes to the development of the knowledge within the domain.
Reflections On Social Media Use Along The Academic Research Life CycleAnand Sheombar
This short paper presentation at 12th IADIS International Conference on Information Systems (IS 2019) argues for the need for discussion on the role social media could have in the research life cycle, particularly for Information Systems (IS) scholars. ICTs are pervasive, and their societal impact is profound. Various disciplines including those of social sciences are present in the online discourse and join the public debate on societal implications of ICTs and scholar are familiar with web tools for publishing. Information Systems scholars could not only further explore the possibilities for joining that online discourse, but also could explore the potential social media may have for activities related to the research life cycle. In this paper we do not focus solely on social media as a data collection source but regard their merits as a channel for scholarly communication throughout the whole research life cycle, from the start of getting inspired to conduct a research, finding collaboration partners or funding, through suggestions for literature, to the stage of research dissemination and creating impact beyond the own scientific community. This paper contributes an original approach to research communication by combining the research life cycle with practical insights of how social media can be applied throughout each phase of that lifecycle. We conclude with some questions debating the stance that (future) IS scholars are prepared to become the digital scholar that can manoeuvre well on social media for scholarly communication.
Digital development and Online Gender-Based ViolenceAnand Sheombar
Online talk held for Cordaid 18th November 2021, on the concept of digital development, and what online gender-based violence (GBV or eVAW) means for the activities of international development NGOs.
Call for Papers (Extended Abstracts): 5th International Conference of the UNE...Graciela Mariani
The Second call for Papers (Extended Abstracts) for the 5th International Conference of the UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development has been officially launched.
Tech4Dev 2018, gives you an opportunity to:
Ø Present your research at a unique multidisciplinary Conference focused on innovative technology for social impact in the Global South.
Ø Network across disciplines and fields of technology, to promote the development, deployment, adaptation, and scaling of new solutions for the Global South.
Ø Identify opportunities for collaboration with diverse stakeholders – academics, students, engineers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, practitioners, and social scientists- interested in technological innovation in the Global South.
Ø Participate in the fabulous social event of the conference that will take place in the Lavaux Vineyards, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Ø Build capacity among students and young professionals to engage in multidisciplinary problem solving for social impact.
Tech4Dev 2018 invites researchers, students, practitioners, industry or anyone interested in critical issues in Technologies for Development to submit proposals for Papers (Extended Abstracts). Submissions should emphasize the value of technological innovation while also acknowledging the limits of technology in generating inclusive social and economic development.
Further information, templates and material can be found on the conference website https://cooperation.epfl.ch/Tech4Dev2018.
Introducing interactive documentary in the context of Critical Media Educatio...Danai_mi
This presentation provides the context for my current PhD research and evaluates the pedagogical possibilities and limitations of Mozilla's Popcorn Maker.
Linking the spaces between unitec research symposium presentationJay_dub
Presentation to the Unitec Institute of Technology annual Research Symposium, 2 October 2014, relating the scale and scope of a community media project in Auckland, New Zealand. The project is comprised of layers: the creation of documentaries for broadcast, with student involvement and community stakeholder engagement, as well as a research component As the work is in progress, this presentation gave the opportunity to review and reflect on the multiple challenges and opportunities inherent in this collaborative work.
UNGIS Joint Statement on the Post-2015 Development AgendaDr Lendy Spires
Joint Statement United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda May 2013 Geneva In keeping with its mandate to promote policy coherence and programme coordination in the UN system, as well as provide guidance on issues related to inclusive Knowledge Societies and especially on information and communications technologies (ICTs) in support of internationally agreed development goals, the 30 members of the UN Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) respectfully submit this joint statement to the UN Secretary General and the UN Task Team.
The statement is a collective contribution to the dialogue on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, a unified effort to harness inter-agency expertise and experience to support deliberations on Post-2015 priorities, and a united commitment to a UN community poised to address development challenges in the 21st century. 1. When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in 2000, the international community was only beginning to understand the catalytic potential of ICTs to advance development agendas and priorities. One of the targets under Goal 8 calls for making the benefits of technologies, particularly ICTs, available to all.
Two years before the deadline for achieving the MDGs, Target 18 seems achievable by 2015 when it comes to access to mobile services. However, the potential of ICTs as key enablers for inclusive development have yet to be fully acknowledged, harnessed and specifically linked to the achievement of all other MDG targets. 2. In 2003 and 2005, at the two phases of the World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS), the international community agreed on a set of commitments that recognize ICTs as enablers for development. World leaders representing Governments, civil society, private sector and the technical community set out a strategic framework for their deployment and use with the engagement of and in partnership with multi-sectoral stakeholders.
This framework captures the potential of ICTs in enhancing access, especially of vulnerable populations, to education, health care and other public services, to information, finance and knowledge, and the role of ICTs for the protecting the environment, for mitigating natural disaster risks, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources and sustainable food production and for women’s empowerment. This is in line with the internationally-agreed development goals in general and with environmental protection and the sustainable use of natural resources in particular, as mentioned in both the Rio Principles and Agenda 21
Politics, Social Media and E campaigning in Africa South Africa Nigeria Famil...ijtsrd
Social media in today’s world of electioneering in Africa has gained popularity not mainly as an efficient medium of articulating and propagating manifestos but more for political grandstanding. This study sought to theorize about the utilitarian value of social media use in Africa’s e campaigning by examining its application in the 2019 Presidential Elections in South Africa and Nigeria. The study’s theoretical framework is based on key research works on e electioneering and perception of social media e campaign messaging. It employed the narrative technique to describe interview data and also presenting the same in quantitative content analysis format. Data were gathered from interviews with post graduate candidates in politics departments in the understudied countries to gauge the perception of the functional value of social media campaign sloganeering. The study finds that social media served a more optimal value from a moralistic perspective in the 2019 electioneering in South Africa than Nigeria. It notes that this finding derives from a more prevalent political culture of civility and a better functional public order to punish misuse of social media which prevailed in South Africa than Nigeria. Ikemefuna Taire Paul Okudolo "Politics, Social Media and E-campaigning in Africa: South Africa-Nigeria Familiarities during Their 2019 Presidential Elections" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33695.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/33695/politics-social-media-and-ecampaigning-in-africa-south-africanigeria-familiarities-during-their-2019-presidential-elections/ikemefuna-taire-paul-okudolo
This presentation was made during the ICT4ag conference held in Kigali, Rwanda form November 5-7, 2013. The presentation focuses on CPWF experiences in using ICTs to engage different stakeholders
V Międzynarodowa Konferencja Naukowa Nauka o informacji (informacja naukowa) w okresie zmian Innowacyjne usługi informacyjne. Wydział Dziennikarstwa, Informacji i Bibliologii Katedra Informatologii, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa, 15 – 16 maja 2017
Rotaract global model united nations 2014 peacbuilding commision study guideAdrian Dan Pop
Children in Armed Conflict.
The issue of children in armed conflict has been time and again ignored by the world community. We are sadly reminded of these innocent lives time and again when they are lost. In this context we do not only look at the protection of children in armed conflict, but more fearfully, their involvement in it.
2013 04-25 programa estratégico para la modernización y mejora de los servi...Gobierno de Canarias
El pasado día 25 de abril de 2013 tuvo lugar la primera sesión del Comité de Coordinación y Seguimiento del Programa Estratégico para la Modernización y Mejora de los Servicios Públicos, una vez iniciada su ejecución. En dicha sesión se análizó el estado de los proyectos por Línea de Actuación y Departamentos tras las reuniones que durante el mes de febrero tuvieron la IGS y la DGTNT con las distinas UMA`s departamentales. También se analizó el estado actual en que se encuentran los proyectos corporativos impulsados por la IGS y la DGTNT, así como las actuaciones futuras. Los principales esfuerzo se están centrando en las Líneas de Actuación 1 (administración electrónica) y 2 (simplificación administrativa)dando cumplimiento a la priorización marcada por el Gobierno de Canarias. También se ha de destacar el significativo número de departamentos (8) que tienen proyectos en la Línea 3 (mejora de la calidad de los servicios públicos).
Bindu Dadlani es Mindfulness Power Coach, Ejecutiva y Empresarial, Guía Interna, Mentora y Conferenciante. Fomenta el DESARROLLO DEL LIDERAZGO Y LA INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL. Este CV nos da una orientación de su trayectoria profesional en la rama del COACHING, PNL, PSICOLOGÍA POSITIVA, PSICOLOGÍA DEL COMPORTAMIENTO, LIDERAZGO, INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL, BIENESTAR Y SALUD Y NEUROCIENCIA.
Weihnachts-Kampagnen mit Facebook Aps: Adeventskalender, Weihnachts-Grußlarte, Adventskranz - Auch vorkonfiguriert mit W;MF Produkten als Gewinn inklusive Versand; Facebook Posts erstellen lassen, Ads und Sponsored Posts
Presentación realizada dentro del seminario de Web 2.0 para emprendedores dentro del programa Team Academy Euskadi. De la web estática a la web participativa
Permaculture in El Salvador focuses on restoring indigenous agricultural and other traditions while restoring the environment. An antidote to the legacy of colonialism an an alternative to current business-as-usual, permaculture practices in El Salvador help heal the wounds of
10 war stories about selling creative servicesEric Reiss
Ten war stories related to selling services. The stories themselves were strictly oral and are therefore not in this presentation, only the conclusions.
Educational Futures: personalisation, privatisation and privacy debbieholley1
Educational Futures: personalisation, privatisation and privacy
In this presentation, Professor Debbie Holley reflects on the digital solutions proposed to scale and solve our digital educational requirements of the future. What are the challenges and opportunities afforded by technologies, and who will benefit and how? In a time where education becoming increasingly commercialised, what are the changing balances between public and private funding, the requirements for a different set of workforce skills, and the needs of those wishing to access education? The recent pandemic has resulted in rapid change and innovation, and the contested role of where learning will take place is receiving unprecedented attention.
EdTech World Forum 2022
In this presentation, Professor Debbie Holley reflects on the digital solutions proposed to scale and solve our digital educational requirements of the future. What are the challenges and opportunities afforded by technologies, and who will benefit and how? In a time where education becoming increasingly commercialised, what are the changing balances between public and private funding, the requirements for a different set of workforce skills, and the needs of those wishing to access education? The recent pandemic has resulted in rapid change and innovation, and the contested role of where learning will take place is receiving unprecedented attention.
STI for social justice and sustainable development: a New STEPS Manifesto for Global Science
Presentation by Dr Lidia Brito, Director of Science Policy at UNESCO, at a Policy Lab event at the Royal Society, 14 June 2010.
Develop a list of tax benefits to promote socially desirable actions.pdfsauravmanwanicp
Develop a list of tax benefits to promote socially desirable actions. What are implications for
taxpayers, the economy, or society?
Solution
There are many reasons why tax incentives can be a particularly good way to encourage the
development of healthy communities, but they really boil down to one: they offer what for many
people is the most desirable reward for desirable behavior.Implications for society and economy
The following potential applications are illustrative of those that we foresee.Scientific research.
By making explicit the argument relationships within and among mental models in the physical
and social sciences, the CognitiveWeb will improve the comprehensibility of existing scientific
research, and thus motivate critical evaluation of existing work and the creation of new
work.Funding and policy.
The same means that serve the advancement of science can also further the management and
justification of scientific funding, and facilitate, or even propel, technology transfer from
research to industry.Education and training.
The CognitiveWeb will directly and simultaneously foster the development of critical thinking
skills, communication skills, and domain knowledge. The CognitiveWeb will provide a vehicle
for the critical review of ideas and the development of thought and planning at all
scalesIntellectual history.
The CognitiveWeb will preserve a historical record — a structured trace — of the development
of ideas, policies, and social systems. By using the CognitiveWeb, historians and researchers
would be able to identify arguments that supported, and were supported by, the falsified
theories, and to identify surprising corollaries of discoveries and cross-domain similarities
between of advances.Corporate intranets.
Corporate planning requires sensitivity to the market and internal resources. Using the
proposed approach, corporations will be able to explicitly represent and monitor relationships
between goals, policies, plans, actions, and outcomes throughout the companyCivil Society.
Sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD)
Civil Society led participation in governmental and intergovernmental process.
Issue-based outreach and education and coordinating local action with global planning for
NGOs.National Intelligence.
The technologies underlying the CognitiveWeb are closely related to technologies of concern
to intelligence analysts. The CognitiveWeb supports critical thinking about the meaning of
evidence, as well as a means for analysts to reason about the uncertainty in their conclusions
and the risk inherent in a situation..
Pre igf13 Collaborative Leadership Exchange Bali Workshop-Meeting Design+Mode...Ruud Janssen, DES, CMM
Background:
Capacity Building has become one of the essential requirements in order to foster meaningful participation in Internet Governance processes. The multistakeholder model for Internet development means that all relevant stakeholders - including governments, the private sector, civil society, and the academic and technical communities - have respective roles to play in shaping key Internet governance issues, such as access, privacy, security and many others.
Performing such a role requires, however, a deep understanding of the multidimensional facets of Internet-related issues, often spanning across policy, technical, social and economic underpinnings. Fostering cross-disciplinary knowledge and cross-sector cooperation through capacity building is therefore paramount to ensure that the next generation of Internet leaders is empowered with the necessary tools to address future challenges, whether at the national, regional or international levels.
In the past few years, a wealth of capacity building and fellowship programs have emerged to address these new requirements, engaging individuals from all regions in capacity development and exposing them to key Internet Governance fora, including the Internet Governance Forum.
Objective:
The objective of the Collaboration Leadership Exchange on Capacity Building is to bring together the staff and participants in the different sponsored programmes to the IGF to network, build relationships, exchange ideas, discuss key local / regional issues on Capacity Building and IG, and explore applicable solutions.
It is envisioned that this one-day session will contribute to building and fostering capacity building communities, and create a multiplier effect on the Capacity Building track throughout the IGF week, and beyond. All IGF participants interested in this topic will be welcome to attend.
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The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with The Global University System (GUS) June 25, 2013
1.
Secretariat, Emerging GLOBAL UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (GUS) CONSORTIUM
Chairman: Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.; Vice Chairman: Louis Padulo, Ph.D.;
Board Members: David Johnson, Ph.D., Peter Knight, Ph.D., Joseph Pelton, Ph.D., Tapio Varis, Ph.D.;
Treasurer: Hisae Utsumi
GLOSAS/USA
The GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A., Inc.
(A New York non-profit educational service organization since 1988; E.I.D.: 11-2999676)
43-23 Colden Street, #9L; Flushing, NY 11355-5913; Tel/Fax: 718-939-0928
takutsumi0@gmail.com; http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS
The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN)
with
The Global University System (GUS)
June 25, 2013
Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.
Chairman, GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association
in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
43-23 Colden Street, #9L, Flushing, NY 11355-5913
Tel: 718-939-0928, Cel: 646-589-1730
takutsumi0@gmail.com, http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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2. 1
Synopsis
SUMMARY: The highly interconnected and coupled nature of energy, healthcare, food security, natural
resource management and sustainable economic growth have in the past stymied the effectiveness of
traditional international development efforts focused on each of these areas in isolation. The aim of this
combined research and education initiative is to engage national and international stakeholders in jointly
developing customized national sustainability simulation models that can explore the comparative
effectiveness of development interventions from a systems perspective. Specifically, the initiative
proposes to bring together young decision-makers from selected countries of the Economic Community
Of West African States (ECOWAS) with academics and development practitioners from the United
States, Asia, Europe and Africa.
We will form a coalition among the members of the ECOWAS to study their co-prosperity, which will later
be expanded to other regions of the globe. They will focus on subjects such as the management of water
in crucial river basins, education, telemedicine, and democratic processes.
OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: At our workshop we will demonstrate the Global Knowledge Center
Network (GKCN) concept of the combined use of normative (role-playing) gaming and quantitative
(model-based) simulation with distributed simulation mode under the auspices of the School of
International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University. Our model is Nigeria, which depends
heavily on revenue from petroleum exports. We will examine the effect that energy policies regarding the
increased use of renewable energy sources around the world, especially in the USA, have on Nigeria.
PURPOSE: Our purpose is to establish a high-technology system that will train young bureaucrats and
decision-makers, particularly women, to better manage resources vital to national prosperity in their
countries. This training is for leadership skills, conflict resolution and management, negotiation around
scarce resources, increasing population and climate changes. The GKCN will foster a rational, fact-
based process for developing plans and policies.
SYSTEM: The socio-economic-energy-environment simulation models in each of participating countries
of our GKCN project will be interlinked together through broadband Internet, thus forming distributed
simulation mode with massive parallel processing simultaneously. This will form a global model for
globally collaborative analysis of issues faced by the participating stakeholders that could provoke
confrontation, and matters relevant to economic expansion and individual wellbeing. The result is a
peaceful road to increased prosperity. The Global University System (GUS) (a UNESCO program
initiated with funds from the World Bank and the NSF) is a companion global alliance of major universities
that will support GKCN in finding, collecting, model building, maintaining, and processing data.
INTELLECTUAL MERIT: We work closely with the ECOWAS through our major partner, the Millennium
Institute. Schools participating in GKCN/GUS are numerous, including Stevens Institute of Technology,
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of the Columbia University, University of Tampere in
Finland, University of Tennessee, and others.
GKCN represents substantial paradigm shifts, including:
(i) Gaming and simulation based on facts and figures rather than exclusively upon insights, habits or
traditions, transforming adversaries into collaborators for confrontation prone problems;
(ii) The development of global “virtual” supercomputer capacity with globally scattered simulation
models, which would become a single global model linked through broadband Internet;
(iii) A hands-on experiential learning apparatus for people who hold leading positions and those
training for similar roles, with a special emphasis on women’s participation.
We will perform a series of face-to-face workshops and online meetings over the following years in Nile
River basin countries in east Africa for its water management, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
Russia, Scandinavia, Bangladesh, Japan, etc.
The most significant contribution of this project is its transformational use of stakeholder-crafted models
for developing sustainable development strategies, leveraging an unprecedented critical mass of global
expertise for national level problem-solving. The multi-disciplinary multi-institutional project team consists
3. 2
of academics and researchers with substantial experience in using modeling and simulation for
development objectives, supported by the Millennium Institute and the ECOWAS. The creation of a global
network of federated and standardized systems models of national sustainable development is an
unprecedented effort, since it will collect and share data on complex energy, healthcare, food security and
natural resource management problems. It will transform the effectiveness of development efforts and
foster global collaboration in solving “wicked” problems collectively.
BROADER IMPACTS: This initiative is unique in that it integrates advances in understanding complex
development problems through modeling and simulation with training and educating young decision-
makers from developing nations in systems thinking for sustainable development. Given its developing
country focus and gender empowerment objective, the initiative will both engage and serve
underrepresented population groups and potentially enhance broader societal welfare within the target
countries. At later stages, the team plans to leverage resources from other agencies and donor countries
to develop dozens of additional national sustainable development models, creating a larger and more
effective global network in the form of a Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN), serving as
simulation and gaming hub for global sustainable development efforts focused on energy, healthcare,
food security and natural resource management.
1. Project Description:
1.1 Background:
The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) is a technically sophisticated, computer-based network
that combines data from individual disciplines into practical strategies of intervention and progress. The
GKCN is a unique research and education initiative with broad applications. Using high technology, it
engages national and international stakeholders in seeking out and defining effective development
interventions. Its foundation is a systems perspective that is goal-oriented.
1.2 Objectives:
This GKCN project will foster rational scientific thinking and methodology for policy analysis, evaluation
and planning among young bureaucrats and aspiring decision-makers. This will equip them to implement
effective strategies in areas such as energy management, sustainability of the environment, and the
various components of national prosperity. They will learn the strategic use of technologies and the
importance of cooperation as they seek effective advocacy, informed policy, public understanding and
participation, and concrete community development. This training is for leadership skills, conflict
resolution, management, and negotiation around scarce resources, increasing population and climate
changes. In each country, GKCN will have a national simulation model, all of them interlinked through
broadband Internet to form a global model for globally collaborative peace building. The resulting system
can effect positive change for millions in developing regions.
They will conduct the followings;
1. To identify key/critical drivers/root causes of national and regional developing problems and
explore highly effective system-level solutions,
2. To share best practices amongst GKCN centers, enabling participatory democracy and
community/societal ownership of development processes,
3. Integrate systems approaches as a key element within development policy and build capacity to
leverage such approaches within decisions-makers and youth/women.
The aim of this combined research and education initiative is to engage national and international
stakeholders in jointly developing customized national sustainability simulation models that can explore
the comparative effectiveness of development interventions from a systems perspective. This network will
be a forum for addressing economic, social, and environmental issues.
Our main objective will be to initiate a paradigm shift in international political science in utilizing both
“normative (role-playing)” gaming and “quantitative (model-based)” simulation approaches for globally
collaborative education and training.
4. 3
This initiative is unique in that it integrates advances in understanding complex development problems
through modeling and simulation with training and educating young decision-makers from developing
nations in systems thinking for sustainable development.
1.3 Activities:
This initiative will bring together young decision-makers from participating countries to jointly craft socio-
economic-energy-environmental simulation models for their respective countries, which will be interlinked
together for their collaborative policy analysis on their co-prosperity. They will learn from and collaborate
with their counterparts in the other countries to develop more effective policies for sustainable
development.
1. Look at local/provincial/state/national problems through systems approach-based gaming and
simulation together with respective national stakeholders (National regional)
2. To create a network interlinking the various national models through establishment of GKCN in
higher education institutions within developing countries
We will establish a high-technology system – a network of mini-supercomputers and individual laptops
programmed with GKCN software -- that will train young bureaucrats and decision-makers, particularly
women, to better manage resources vital to national prosperity in their countries. The GKCN will foster a
rational, fact-based process for developing plans and policies.
In a sense, this project envisions future direction toward establishing trans-border governance institutions,
which include trans-governmental networks, multi-stakeholder initiatives, voluntary regulations and
innovative tools for adjudication and financing offering functional benefits over more “traditional”
governance arrangements.
1.3.1 Capacity Building with Distributed Simulation:
The repetitive mode simulation approach of our GKCN can create simulator/trainer for government
bureaucrats and future leaders for their capacity building on policy analysis, evaluation, with hands-on
experiential learning in global collaborative fashion, thus building trust and comradeship. Instead of
simulating all countries in a single aggregated simulation model, this distributed simulation approach
emphasizes the uniqueness of each country for the sake of accuracy. This approach also encourages
participating local stakeholders to take ownership.
The dynamic simulation tool will support comprehensive, integrated long-term national development
planning. This is because it will provide comparative analysis of different policy options, and help users
identify policies that lead to a desired goal. This will expand insight into how different indicators of
development interact, and deepen the understanding of development challenges. The simulation model
is built on the philosophy that national planning is an integrated process; that economic, social and
environmental variables must be considered to achieve sustainable development. This is especially
useful for preparing Poverty Reduction Strategies that emphasize the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs), and monitoring their progress. These simulations would be very useful to generate post 2015
development agenda.
1.3.2 Paradigm Shift:
Our main objective will be to initiate a paradigm shift in international political science in utilizing both
“normative (role-playing)” gaming and “quantitative (model-based)” simulation approaches for globally
collaborative education and training. This is a new, NON-TRADITIONAL approach for policy analysis that
sets a new and high standard in the search for human and sustainable national development. As will be
described below (Section 5.1), we will demonstrate this combined use of normative gaming and
quantitative simulation with world experts from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of
Columbia University, a former executive of Shell Oil Development Co. who has lengthy experience in
Nigeria, system dynamics simulation experts from the Millennium Institute (a world-renowned
organization based in the Washington DC), and technical experts on Internet and simulation. The FUGI
world economic model of Prof. Onishi in Japan would also be featured (2), (3).
5. 4
Other paradigm shifts are:
a) Construction of global virtual supercomputer with globally scattered simulation models in laptops,
all of which would act as a single global model by interlinking them via broadband Internet, and
b) Our GKCN repetitive simulation approach will also back up the validity of the intangible variables,
such as the so-called “Gross National Happiness” Index, which is a priority of the Japanese
government following discussions with HM the King of Bhutan during his recent trip to Japan, and
major topic discussed during several recent UN sessions.
To achieve this we are establishing a global alliance of universities and experts. They will be linked within
our system and apply the most sophisticated mathematical modeling techniques and multidisciplinary
scientific skills to key issues and solutions. This is the foundation of the Global University System
(GUS).
Using global cloud computing, we will develop a socio-economic-energy-environmental simulation system
and a climate simulation system in parallel in each country, all interconnected within our global network of
mini-supercomputers to directly address fundamental issues of human wellbeing. The corresponding
GUS will maintain its own sub-models. Each will construct and maintain its own databases, while
interacting with overseas counterparts through the global Internet. The Millennium Institute in Washington
DC and other noteworthy institutions worldwide have already constructed models of many countries.
Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG)
Globally Distributed Climate Simulation System
Globally Distributed Socio-Economic-Environmental Simulation System
Figure 1: Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming (GCEPG) <http://tinyurl.com/cmcjsqw>
By nature of phenomena, the climate model has to ignore national boundaries,
but the socio-economic-environmental models cannot ignore them.
GKCN will consist of regional “hubs,” each with its own supercomputer. These will receive data on
matters such as land use, water use, agriculture, energy sources and use, health systems, commercial
marketplaces, and other matters of everyday living. It will assemble the data into “models” and “peace
games” (i.e., “what-if” type policy analysis as similar to a “war game” at the Pentagon). By seeing the
models, current and aspiring leaders can consider rational choices; by playing the games, they can
project the consequences of alternate choices.
2. Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN):
We will create the Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN). This network will be a forum for
addressing economic, social, and environmental issues. We will begin this in the nations of ECOWAS.
All will be connected through broadband Internet for conducting the following two-tier system:
6. 5
a. One as a resource for decision makers in developing and using a globally distributed decision
support system for wide-ranging policy analysis and evaluation, seeking positive sum/win-win
alternatives to crisis, conflict and war;
b. The other for training aspiring decision makers for understanding world phenomena through
rational analysis and critical thinking for implementing effective strategies managing energy,
environmental sustainability, and national prosperity. They will learn to negotiate, manage crises,
and resolve conflicts by relying on facts and figures.
The specific socio-technical objectives of the project will include:
a. The development of national dynamic simulation models that address matters such as socio-
economic realities, energy, health, and environmental matters;
b. The creation of GKCN centers in regional hubs to promote and coordinate sustainable
development strategies and crisis/conflict prevention initiatives, particularly in key regions such as
the Nile, Niger, Congo River basins in Africa and along the Ganges River in Asia – which are the
“shared” ecosystem.
Each GKCN is linked with all the others globally, along with the experts and university resources of the
GUS. Each country and region will have its own unique database and model, but all be linked and will
interact through the global Internet. This will be accomplished as having those models replacing the
corresponding ones in the World Model of FUGI (Futures of Global Interdependence) global modelling
system, which has 194 country models and 6 UN sector models, thus increasing its prediction accuracy
(3).
The dynamic simulation tool promotes long-term national development planning. It will allow users to
identify the set of policies that lead towards a desired goal. This insight deepens understanding of critical
development challenges. Our GKCN system is to become a simulator/trainer on a global socio-economic-
energy-environmental system for bureaucrats and future leaders at various government levels. “Hub”
facilities will appear similar to those simulator/trainer for nuclear power plants or large oil tankers, with a
hands-on experiential learning apparatus. This will allow them to learn by playing simulation “games.”
Internet connectivity is the core of GKCN, globally and locally. From each GKCN, cabling will spread out
like a spider-web into remote areas. Millions will have access to the global web for the first time. There
are profound implications in areas such as education, telemedicine, and furthering democratic processes.
In times of great systemic uncertainty, like the present, broadband (BB) Internet and system dynamic
modeling combined is a logical way to employ our powerful technologies, manage conflict, risk and
instability, and promote long-term sustainability. Control room terminals of the GKCN will monitor
situations, collect real-time data, offer analysis of policy options, and serve as early alert for users to
impending crisis with adjacent real-time simulator/trainer capabilities. A special interest will be placed in
searching for ways to contribute to conflict resolution and a search for common ground in strategic
development decisions and in the promotion of peace.
It also creates an infrastructure for building an unprecedented global network of academics, decision-
makers and practitioners who can share knowledge, expertise and data as well as the cyber-
infrastructure necessary to allow large-scale education and training of students and citizens across the
globe in sustainable development strategies through gaming and simulation.
The GKCN represents substantial paradigm shifts, including:
a) Gaming and simulation based on facts and figures rather than exclusively upon insights, habits or
traditions, transforming adversaries into collaborators for confrontation prone problems;
b) The development of global “virtual” supercomputer capacity with globally scattered simulation
models, which would become a single global model linked through broadband Internet;
c) A hands-on experiential learning apparatus for people who hold leading positions and those
training for similar roles, with a special emphasis on women’s participation.
The GKCN in each country conduct the followings;
ü integrates economic, environmental and social elements using a system dynamics approach;
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ü helps create sustainable development strategies and policies by simulating possible impacts of
alternative policy choices and strategic options;
ü facilitates transparency, participation, and consensus building by encouraging open consultations
with diverse stakeholders and external development partners within a common framework and an
easy-to-understand interface;
ü flexible and can be customized to address the unique needs of individual countries through the
use of a modular design where existing sectors can be modified and new sectors can be added;
ü produces output for policy documents including a national budget, national development plans,
the Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), the Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) or UN
Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF);
ü generates nearly all of the MDGs indicators;
ü Develop and disseminate advanced analytical tools that support prospective and holistic strategic
planning dialogues at community, national and global levels;
ü Build a network of supporters and partners across the globe to inspire, promote, endow, and
implement holistic integrated planning;
ü Increase capacity among a broad range of partners to promote sustainable development using
advanced communication means, and establishing centers of excellence in System Dynamics
and modeling around the world.
2.1 Global University System (GUS):
The GUS is a companion global alliance of major universities that will support GKCN in finding, collecting,
model building, and processing data. GUS is to launch a trans-cultural, global-wide initiative (using
modern techniques of communication) to promote the kinds of global education that will advance peace,
justice, understanding, and human wisdom. The GUS seeks to encourage a sense of transnational
identity, a feeling of global community, which is necessary for the survival, creative growth and
constructive transformation of our species (10).
E-Learning
E-Healthcare
University
Knowledge Center
Global
Partnership
Community
Development
University: Leader of Community in
the Knowledge Society
in the 21st Century
Figure 2: University: Leader of Community in the Knowledge Society of the 21st Century
<http://tinyurl.com/kn6xg3s>
In Figure 2, the word “University” has a connotation of “universe.” Hence, the university in remote/rural
areas of developing countries ought to act as the knowledge center of their community for the eradication
of poverty and isolation through the use of advanced Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs). The university has to provide not only e-learning and e-healthcare services to their community, but
also to lead their community development. It also ought to be the gateway for globally collaborative
research and development (as our GKCN project) as fostering the Globally Collaborative Creative
Economy in the borderless Knowledge Society of the 21st century.
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3. Technical Infrastructure and Approach:
3.1 Broadband Internet:
The communication and dynamic modelling of GKCN project will require fiber optic cable Broad Band
(BB) Internet. Promotion of BB infrastructure globally is a top priority. We accomplished in the summer of
2012 the connection of the Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD)
network (which has been funded by the US National Science Foundation) with the “Africa Coast to
Europe (ACE)” ultra high-speed (5 tera bps) optical submarine cable along the west coast of Africa,
through one of its consortium members, the Baharicom Development Company at Stevens Institute of
Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (14). This is the extension of our initiation of globalizing Internet in
1970s to early 1980s (see Section 8 below).
African Undersea Cables
(Update November 2014)
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Figure 3: African Undersea Cables (2014) from Figure 12 in
<http://tinyurl.com/kqnff4p>
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GLORIAD; Providing Access to
the Global Scientific & University Community
Prof. V. Lawrence, Chairman of Baharicom Development Company, October 5, 2012
Figure 4: GLORIAD World Map <http://tinyurl.com/awabmbd>
Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) (in Figure 3 above) is expected to extend to South Africa by the end of 2014, and then
to be interlinked with EASSy along the east coast of Africa. GLORIAD may then go along with it to circumvent around
African continent.
We will use a cloud-computing environment. This will allow us to generate constant updates and allow
data streaming from different local and national sources; it will also make it possible for the model to
evolve and respond to changing situations. “Games” will generate different scenarios.
Regarding human settlements and the use of land for agriculture, this must be planned to enhance the
health and wellbeing of the populations. This in our opinion is a key organizing principle for modeling
sustainability. The basins of major rivers, for example, must be used in coordinated fashion. The relevant
countries can manage the basins sustainably by regarding them as shared regional ecosystems.
In times of great systemic uncertainty, like the present, BB Internet and system dynamic modeling
combined is a logical way to employ our powerful technologies, manage conflict, risk and instability,
promoting long-term sustainability. Control room terminals of the regional hubs will monitor situations,
collecting real-time data, offer analysis of policy options, and serve as early alert for users to impending
crisis with adjacent real-time simulator/trainer capabilities.
3.2 Using Modelling and Simulation for Development Processes:
3.2.1 System Analysis:
The complex socio-economic-energy-environmental system of a country should firstly be system
analyzed, hopefully, utilizing the cause-and-effect diagram of the system dynamics methodology, which is
based on feedback mechanisms of cybernetic theory. Each component or stakeholder may be identified
for their behaviors with positive or negative feedback mechanisms. This diagram may help to subdivide
the complex total system into appropriate sectors. Knowledgeable experts of each of sectors may then
refine the system analysis and inter-relations among their component sectors with the feedback
mechanisms. Simulation models may then be constructed for their sectors. At each simulation time
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intervals, each of those models, which may be located in computers at various dispersed locations, may
send their computed results in time-series table formats to a central database computer through Internet.
3.2.2 Simulation Methodology:
The simulation models of the selected methodology, which can produce time-series table, may be
included in at least one computer with a user interface. The computer may include any computer
including, but not limited to, a desktop, laptop, and smart device, such as, a tablet and smart phone. The
computer may access the software via the web browser using the internet, extranet, intranet, host server,
internet cloud and the like.
Using a network of mini-supercomputers, our GKCN project will provide simulation models that are
interlinked through broadband Internet to form a global model for globally collaborative analysis of
confrontation prone issues and co-prosperity among the participating stakeholders for peace building.
The simulation models of this network may address economic, social, and environmental issues in
various countries, all connected through broadband Internet.
3.2.3 Distributed Simulation for Superior Approach:
Global simulation models of socio-economic-energy-environmental systems are currently constructed and
executed as aggregating several or all countries without any considerations of national boundaries and
hence without paying any considerations to the uniqueness of those individual countries. The models are
also constructed without participation of knowledgeable experts of participating countries, hence lacking
vital necessity of faithfully simulating not only the intricacies of those countries, but also the important
interrelationship among the simulating countries to others. This is the direct violation of the most basic
iron rule of simulation. Subsequently, the most of current simulation projects lack accuracies, in spite of
huge expenditures for highly intellectual manpower with large monetary expenses for computing,
information and telecommunication facilities. Further, it is an urgent need to promote rational and
scientific approach to the policy analysis and evaluation basing on the facts and figures, among
government bureaucrats and future leaders, especially on confrontation prone issues. Lastly, they need
to know how to live peacefully with their neighbours with thorough knowledge on their inter-relationships,
as transforming adversaries into global collaborators.
Our GKCN project will enable each specific country to have their own simulation models constructed and
maintained autonomously by the knowledgeable experts of the country, even utilizing real-time data,
hence increasing its accuracy. They can also have the over-all picture of the combined/interlinked
system. They may be processed in the computer located in the country preferred by the country’s
specialists. The simulation model in each country may then be interlinked through Internet to act as a
single global model in a virtual global scale supercomputer for solving national, regional or global
problems. National integration centers (i.e., GKCNs) will house model maintenance and coordinate
activities at the national level. They will also coordinate activities with regional and international bodies.
This is now possible with the proliferation of broadband Internet around the world.
There is a need for superior results compared with the aggregated approach, as (1) letting knowledgeable
experts in the country constructing their models thus improving the accuracy of the models, i.e.,
democratic approach compared autocratic/totalitarian approach, (2) realizing the simulation basing on the
facts and figures with insertion of real-time data into the simulation models, (3) utilizing inexpensive
Beowulf mini-supercomputer approach with a cluster of laptops, thus avoiding a large foot-print and
extensive electrical power usage in million dollars/year range for large supercomputer, and (4) preserving
the security of data within their own national boundaries, if necessary. In a sense, our GKCN will solve
simultaneous ordinary differential equations of system dynamics distributed interactive simulation models
with asynchronous human interventions.
3.3 Inter-linkage Mechanism for Creating Electronic United Nations:
Our GKCN project provides an inter-linkage mechanism for distributed simulation models with human
intervention. Those models scattered around the world may then send their computed results in a time-
series table format at certain time intervals to a central database computer through Internet. An inter-
linkage program at the central database computer may be constructed according to the scenario of the
data interchange. The data of exogenous variables in the table may be exchanged with the corresponding
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data in the designated model, according to the scenarios set previously. After this inter-linkage program is
executed, the data in the new time-series table may then be transmitted back to the designated country’s
computer for its next time step execution.
The construction of this data exchange scenarios and hence programs may be made as conducting
videoconference among participants (see Section 7.1 below). There may be a pre-set scenarios made by
those experts telling which of exogenous variables of which sector/country to be matched with which of
exogenous variables of which sector/country in real-time world. They may correspond to the data of
commercial trades. This scenario may be programmed in the inter-linkage program in the central
database computer. The execution of this program may let each of those models exchange their pertinent
data among designated models. The exchanged data may then be sent to the designated models through
Internet for their next simulation time interval execution.
This process may be repeated at every time interval until the end of execution of exercise. The entire
process from the initial time point to the end of the simulation may then be repeated until the end of the
numbers of the specified simulation executions, thus enacting the so-called repetitive analog computer in
digital computer. Any real-time data may be inserted in the appropriate country’s computer at any time,
so that this computer system may be based on real-time data as to be the real-time simulator/trainer as
devising a man-in-the-loop interaction, as similar to the flight simulator.
Figure 5: Inter-Linkage Mechanism For Distributed Simulation Models With Human Intervention
(US Patent Pending #61/764,843) <http://tinyurl.com/d4oj9py>
Simulation models of GKCN globally will be interlinked with use of GLOSAS/USA’s procedure (US Patent-
Pending #61/764,843 -- Figure 5). This first step is to be taken in collaboration with the ECOWAS
countries along the west coast of Africa, followed by the Nile river basin countries in east Africa, the
African Union, and ultimately globally.
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In certain embodiments, the exchanged data may then be sent back to the designated models for the
next time interval execution, thus performing the inter-linkage and inter-operability among the
geographically distributed models through the Internet. This process fosters understanding of inter-
relationships among social factors as well as mutual understanding among the participating countries.
Once this has been completed, data transmission of afterward time intervals may be changed to circuit
switched connections from the packet-switched ones, thus saving latency delays and improving the
quality of service. Thus, the urgent task of our GKCN project is to design the inter-linkage mechanism
among those dissimilar distributed simulation models dispersed and scattered around the world to enact
inter-relationships together among the simulation models, as forming a global simulation model in a global
scale virtual supercomputer through the Internet.
The distributed simulation approach of our GKCN project may enable such computations to be performed
by computers located at any desired locations around the world, but interlinked through Internet. Namely,
the GKCN project is to enable performing distributed simulation with massively parallel processing
simultaneously. Those dispersed computing facilities scattered around the globe resemble electronic
elements connected by electrical circuitries on the motherboard in a personal computer. In a sense, we
are now in the stage of “Proof of Concept” for creating the electronic United Nations starting from the
GKCN/ECOWAS.
4. Case 1: Co-Prosperity Among ECOWAS Countries:
4.1 Problem/context:
There has never been a more exciting time for action-research and development. Potentials to improve
the ECOWAS region’s co-prosperity could be achieved if we take more advantage of new opportunities. A
combination of technical, policy and market developments in relation to food production is holding out real
possibilities of induced ecosystem innovations and provides options for human adaptability to climate
change. Inland valleys (also referred to as wetlands, lowlands or swamps) offer great potentials for the
sustainable expansion, intensification and diversification of rice-based systems but very little is done to
exploit them in West Africa endowed with an estimated 20 million hectares of cultivable inland valleys. If
just one million hectares of these lands are grown to rice, producing an average yield of only 3 tons per
hectare, the region could easily reduce by half its costly rice imports.
4.2 Hypothesis:
The appropriate framework providing a clear, sound and holistic understanding of how various factors and
their combinations would stimulate and enhance the successful exploitation of inland valleys in West
Africa is still to be built. Certainly, inland valleys provide enormous wealth for users, but represent
complex ecosystems to operate. As well, research and development challenges of these inland valleys
are complex and diverse, and cannot be dealt with by an individual or single institution acting alone and
with non sophisticated apparatus. These challenges call for integrated, collective and concerted
framework of actions, policies and technological options in sustainable production, processing, and
marketing of goods and services.
4.3 Objective:
This research explores environmental, agronomic, economic and policy options necessary to challenge
the climate change and its induced economic and social effects in relation to the exploitation of inland
valleys in west Africa. It identify and analyze the dynamic interactions among numerous natural and
environmental, social and economic, technical and institutional factors at national, regional and
international levels that have a bearing on the successful exploitation of inland valleys. The purpose is to
enhance the productivity and competitiveness of inlands valleys through sustainable intensification and
diversification of agricultural productivity and product value chain development, while conserving land and
water resources. In a sense, our GKCN approach is to study the co-prosperity among ECOWAS
countries.
4.4 Methodology:
The GKCN/GUS approach to inter-link simulation models will be applied to capture the numerous
multifaceted factors and their interplay that affect the development and the exploitation of inland valleys
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within ECOWAS under various scenarios. The model variables are identified based on the possible and
plausible defined scenarios. The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with the Global University
System (GUS) constitutes powerful tools and offer a multidimensional framework for addressing the
innovative exploitation of inland valleys. Indeed, creating synergies between science, agricultural
practices and policies requires an approach embedded in a social learning process in which farmers,
scientists, development practitioners and policy makers try to find innovative and socially equitable and
optimal solutions.
4.5 Other Countries:
We are also working to establish a GKCN hub in Kigali, Rwanda, in cooperation with the National
University of Rwanda (NUR), in Tanzania with the University of Dar es Salaam, in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC) with the University of Kinshasa, and in Bangladesh with Brac University, etc.
Their main objectives are peaceful co-existence with water management among Nile, Congo and Ganges
River basin countries.
5. Case 2: Country Problem Emerging in Nigeria:
Our Nigerian colleague’s primary focus is to create a network of collaborative research and capacity
building for climate change adaptation in Nigeria, with emphasis on the Niger Delta Marshlands. The
Niger Delta is of great significance, as it is the region that provides the greatest source of national income
for Nigeria (97% of Nigeria government revenue). Violent clashes have limited oil and gas production to
about 50% of installed output capacity, thereby seriously reducing national income.
Using System Dynamics methodology, a Niger Delta Energy and Climate Change Impact model will be
developed to aid policy planning and management of the environment. This will be integrated with the
Nigerian National Economy Model developed by the Millennium Institute, and ultimately linked to the
GKCN and its models from various ECOWAS countries. The simulation models developed will be
planning tools for policy makers and education, in partnership with several universities in Nigeria.
In Nigeria we have a unique partnership with the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).
They perceive the urgent need to promote and coordinate sustainable national development strategies
and crisis/conflict prevention initiatives in Nigeria as well as in other African countries, particularly along
the Niger Delta Region and the Nile and Congo River basins.
The strong interest and vision of our Nigerian partners could make our facility there a continental hub,
more extensive than others, with 15 member countries of the ECOWAS. With Global Cloud Computing
Technology (GCCT), we use the Nigeria hub to develop a satellite-enabled, socio-economic-energy-
environmental simulation system with the use of newly launched Nigerian satellites. This would be
extremely valuable not just to Nigeria, but continent-wide. Climate change and issues linked to climate
are fundamental; in the Nigeria hub, we could operate a simulation system specifically devoted to climate
issues.
5.1 Gaming/Simulation Demonstration on Nigerian Oil Export:
We will conduct a gaming/simulation demonstration on the following two GKCN concepts under the
auspices of the School of International and Public Affair (SIPA) of Columbia University in New York City;
(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,
mentioned above.
The objective is to verify the energy policy proposed by President Barack Obama and former Vice
President Al Gore (both Nobel Peace Prize Laureate), 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>.
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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. 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.
6. Case 3: Regional Problem (Water management for the Nile river):
Tributaries of Nile River, the world's longest river, are 9 countries, i.e., Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia,
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, and Tanzania. The colonial
accord provides 90% of the Nile River water to only Egypt and Sudan, for which other countries now
severely dispute.
Growing water demand, driven by population growth and foreign land and water acquisitions, are
straining the Nile’s natural limits. Huge hydroelectric dams on the Nile in Ethiopia and Sudan would also
reduce the water flow to Egypt even more, where the water is the national security matter.
The land grabs shrink the food supply in famine-prone African nations and anger local farmers.
Unfortunately for Egypt, two of the favorite targets for land acquisitions are Ethiopia and Sudan, which
together occupy three-fourths of the Nile River Basin. Today’s demands for water are such that there is
little left of the river when it eventually empties into the Mediterranean. All of Egypt’s grain is either
imported or produced with water from the Nile River, and since rainfall in Egypt is negligible to
nonexistent, its agriculture is totally dependent on the Nile.
Avoiding dangerous conflicts over water will require three transnational initiatives;
1) Governments must address the population threat head-on by ensuring that all women have
access to family planning services and by providing education for girls in the region.
2) Countries must adopt more water-efficient irrigation technologies and plant less water-intensive
crops.
3) For the sake of peace and future development cooperation, the nations of the Nile River Basin
should come together to ban land grabs by foreign governments and agribusiness firms.
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International help in negotiating such a ban, with the use of distributed simulation approach of the GKCN
for policy analysis and evaluation would likely be necessary to make it a reality. None of these initiatives
will be easy to implement, but all are essential. Without them, rising bread prices could undermine Egypt’s
revolution of hope and competition for the Nile’s water could turn deadly. With populations soaring,
demand for water increasing and climate change having an impact, there are warnings that wrangling
over the world's longest river could be a trigger for conflict. If there is no agreed co-operative framework,
there will be no peace,
7. Planning Workshop:
We will hold a series of workshops. The first one will be for the global launching of our GKCN/GUS
program, so that it will be a comprehensive event, crucial to organizing the work of many experts and
scholars and developing specific plans for implementing the GKCN/GUS systems.
The workshop will demonstrate how GKCN/GUS can advance media literacy in different parts of the
world, creating plausible tools to understand the future consequences of today’s decisions. This requires
a communications medium of the highest power: a fiber optic Broadband Internet infrastructure. Using it,
GKCN will coordinate minds that will gradually promote problem solving, and critical thinking. Active
citizens and communities will have sustainable paths, overcoming conflicts as transforming adversaries
into collaborators, and promoting intercultural understanding and peace in this world.
The followings will be discussed and planned with colleagues from selected overseas countries;
1) Construction of socio-economic-energy-environmental simulation models of each of their
countries which can produce output data in time-series format, and
2) Interlinking them all through Internet to form a global simulation model, which will perform in
parallel and distributed simulation mode.
7.1 Public Seminar:
As the prelude to this planning workshop, we organized a public web seminar on “African Broadband
Internet and Early Warning System (*) Launch” at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New
Jersey, on April 18, 2013, (16) and (17). This was, in a sense, a prelude to get-knowing each other for
building camaraderie for subsequent proposed GKCN project on the collaborative research on the co-
prosperity of ECOWAS countries. At this occasion, an international alliance of eminent scientists detailed
new broadband Internet capabilities that provide opportunities to enhance basic human services for
millions in African countries.
(*) The naming of our project has been changed from "Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace
Gaming (GCEPG)" (11), to “Global Early Warning System (GEWS)” (12), and then to the current
Global Knowledge Centre Network (GKCN). We will use them inter-changeably.
The meeting featured a “Global Lecture Hall (GLH)”
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(**) multipoint-to-multipoint, multimedia, interactive
videoconference through Internet with participants from some of the ECOWAS countries. The
videoconference was originated at Stevens Institute of Technology. Among those participating were Dr.
Thomas Mensah, a leader in the development of broadband Internet (from Atlanta, Georgia), Dr. Victor
Lawrence, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stevens, Dr. Hans Herren, President of
the Millennium Institute (from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), Prof. Tapio Varis, Acting President of Global
University System (GUS), Prof. Muhammadou M. O. Kah, Vice Chancellor, University of The Gambia
(from Banjul, Gambia), Ms. Dorothy K. Gordon Director General, Advanced Information Technology
Institute (AITI), Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellence in ICT (from Accra, Ghana), and
Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, Founder of the Global Knowledge Network (GKCN). The discussion focused on a
significant expansion that is taking place of communications capability in West Africa (see Figures 3 and
4 above) for institutions providing education, health care delivery, and other of basic services.
(**) 1994 GLH at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (UTK) initiated GLORIAD (8)
Dr. Cole, Principal Investigator of Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development
(GLORIAD), and Professor Lawrence, Chairman of Baharicom Development Company, one of members
of the Africa Coast to Europe (ACE) consortium (see Figure 3 above) are leading Internet development
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efforts in West Africa that are opening up these new opportunities with the significant support from the
National Science Foundation, the European Union and the participation of the African Union.
Stevens Institute of Technology facilitated this GLH videoconferencing by using Blackboard Collaborater
which creates virtual classrooms that open more possibilities to more students, wherever they are, so that
they can communicate using: Voice over IP (VoIP), text chat, webcam, virtual whiteboard, screen sharing,
and guided web tours. The web conferencing platform also allowed for up to six simultaneous speakers
(some from ECOWAS countries, such as Gambia, Ghana, and Ethiopia, etc.) including visual and voice
to foster real time collaboration on a global scale. General public could also view and raise questions
through their Internet access. Participants at this event were from Finland, Norway, Germany, Ethiopia,
Gambia, Ghana and several locations in the U.S.
7.2 Gaming/Simulation Demonstration:
We will demonstrate the GKCN concept under the auspices of the School of International and Public
Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City, as mentioned in the Section 5.1
above.
8. Background of GLOSAS/USA:
8.1 Initiating Globalization of Internet:
Since early 1970s, GLOSAS/USA played a major pioneering role as having initiated the closing of the
digital divide with the extension of U.S. data communication networks to Japan and other Asian countries
(5), (7), and deregulation of Japanese telecommunication policies for the use of email with a help from the
Late Commerce Secretary Malcom Baldrige <http://tinyurl.com/2e2o7rc>, and de-monopolization
and privatization of Japanese telecom industries, which practices have been emulated in many countries,
thus having led to more than 2.5 billion email users around the world nowadays (13), even facilitating the
so-called “Arab Spring.”
8.2 Demonstration of Global Peace Gaming in Quantitative Mode:
GLOSAS/USA conducted a demonstration of global-scale peace gaming at the conference on "Crisis
Management and Conflict Resolution" that was organized by the World Future Society (WFS) in New
York City, in July of 1986. It was one of the largest and perhaps the most successful demonstration of
global gaming/simulation so far. The event was on a crisis scenario involving the U.S.-Japan trade, and
economic issues. Nearly 1,500 people took part in New York, Tokyo, Honolulu, and at the World's Fair in
Vancouver, B.C., (1), (2), (3), (4).
8.3 Global Lecture Hall (GLH)
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Videoconference:
Since email at that time was only text-oriented without graphic and video capabilities, GLOSAS/USA
developed innovative distance teaching trials with "Global Lecture Hall" multipoint-to-multipoint
multimedia interactive videoconferencing technology using hybrid delivery technologies, which spanned
the globe <http://tinyurl.com/6r8c63>. We have conducted a number of GLHs, ranging from Korea, Japan,
Australia, New Zealand, North and South America, entire Europe, Scandinavia, and Russia, with
tremendous cooperation and help from educational, industrial, domestic and international governmental
organizations. The GLH employed inexpensive media accessible to the less developed countries (6).
GLOSAS/USA greatly appreciated "in-kind" services from various parties, such as National Technological
University (NTU), INTELSAT, Hughes Communications, US Sprint, to name but a few. We shared free
Sprint account privilege (equivalent to US$ 1 million/year) with many colleagues in developing countries,
initiating Internet in Central and South America.
These GLH demonstrations aroused awareness on technical and economic feasibility of global electronic
distance education and telemedicine, thus, helped build a network of leaders in the global electronic
distance education movement. They are becoming core groups to form Global Knowledge Network
(GKCN) and Global University System (GUS) in their countries.
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8.4 Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in Distance Education:
Thanks to those efforts and the movement of global e-learning initiated since early 1980s by Dr. Utsumi of
GLOSAS/USA with his private funds, he received the prestigious Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in
Distance Education (Highest award in distance education) in the fall of 1994 from Lord Perry, the founder
of the U.K. Open University (9). The two-year senior recipient of the same award was Sir Arthur C.
Clarke, the inventor of satellite telecommunications. Dr. Utsumi also received Benjamin Franklin
Pathfinder Award: Planet Earth in 1999.
9. Supporting Organizations:
ü Baharicom Development Company
<http://tinyurl.com/lkszouj>,
ü Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) of Columbia University
<http://www.columbia.edu>,
ü Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development (GLORIAD)
<http://www.gloriad.org/>,
ü GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
<http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/>,
ü Millennium Institute
<http://www.millennium-institute.org/>,
ü Stevens Institute of Technology
<http://www.stevens.edu/sit/>
In addition to the above, current institutions with faculty members who are participating in GKCN/GUS
development projects are numerous; as including the University of Tampere in Finland, UK Open
University, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Montana State University, Houston Community College,
University of Hawaii, University of Michigan, Maui Community College, and many others. GUS will serve
as an educational broker for universities, thus helping them gain international influence and access to
students that they would otherwise not reach.
10.Conclusions:
We intend that ultimately, GKCN will be a part of the United Nations University. African colleagues will
form teams on many subjects, planning for 3-year periods. These plans with the results of various policy
analysis and evaluation with the use of aforementioned simulation models will be submitted for Japanese
ODA funds totaling US$ 3.5 billion (education) and US$ 5 billion (health care) (15) (*). Their GKCN study
will also advocate that optical fiber should be laid along new transportation highways in Africa, which are
now being constructed with US$ 4 billion (**) pledged by the Japanese government at the Tokyo
International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Yokohama, Japan in 2008. The GKCN will
be especially suited for fostering camaraderie around the globe, leading to the next stage of human
development -- globally collaborative creativity with abundantly available young brainpower in African
continent.
(*) In addition to this, the Japanese government pledged US$ 32 billion at the TICAD in Yokohama,
Japan in June 2013. See more in Fifth TICAD <http://www.mofa.go.jp> and Japan’s Assistance
Package for Africa at TICAD-V <http://www.mofa.go.jp/files/000005505.pdf>
(**) This was added by US$ 6.5 billion by the Japanese government at the TICAD-V.
E-mail and multimedia World Wide Web of Internet so far contributed significantly to the world society on
the dissemination of information. The next phase of the Internet development with global broadband
Internet of neural computer networks should be the globally collaborative experiential learning and
constructive creation of wisdom with interactive actions on virtual reality simulation models of joint global
research and development projects on various subjects.
This will promote trustful friendship among youngsters around the world to realize the Knowledge Society
of the 21st century, and their globally collaborative creativity will enlarge the size of pie for stakeholders to
reach peaceful win-win consequences. Senator Fulbright once said that learning together and working
together are the first steps toward world peace.
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11.References:
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Simulation; held at the Session “Tools for Managing Complexity” at The Conference of The World
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stage,” ars technica, October 18, 2011, <http://tinyurl.com/cqgjsy7>
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Knoxville <http://tinyurl.com/7te8mxh>
(9) Utsumi, T., Acceptance Speech of the Lord Perry Award for the Excellence in Distance Education in
1994, <http://tinyurl.com/36amstr>
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(12) Utsumi, T., “The Global Early Warning System (GEWS) with The Global University System (GUS):
Their Use Within ECOWAS Countries; A Priority Agenda Item of the First GEWS/GUS Planning
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Stevens Institute of Technology” (August 2, 2012) <http://preview.tinyurl.com/bmo9ljj>
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2008), <http://tinyurl.com/bdcjha>
(14) Utsumi, T., (20120916) (1) Signing ceremony of MOU by Baharicom and GLORIAD at Stevens
Institute of Technology on September 13, 2012, (2) GLORIAD International Board Mtg in Chicago,
(3) Annual conference of CITI of Columbia University <http://tinyurl.com/95n723k>
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<http://tinyurl.com/m54cxnu>
(16) Utsumi, T., (20130422) Report on “Public Seminar on African Broadband Internet and Early
Warning System Launch” held at the Stevens Institute of Technology on April 18, 2013
<http://tinyurl.com/berm8k9>
(17) Utsumi, T., (20130425) Recording of GLH/ECOWAS videoconferencing at the Stevens Institute of
Technology on April 18
th
<http://tinyurl.com/cmeohg6>
Acknowledgements: The author’s sincere gratitude goes to extraordinary cooperation and help for
our projects given by Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren of Millennium Institute, Profs. Victor Lawrence and Ali
Mostashari of Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Greg Cole of the University of Tennessee, Mr.
Francisco Bozzano‑Barnes, Mr. Daniel P. Molina and many others.