Project Number Six — 1992

Global (Electronic) University for Global Cooperation

Project Number Six — 1992

To be presented at
The Session of The Coalition for Networked Information

EDUCOM ’92

University of Maryland
October 28 – 30, 1992

 

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This paper describes the construction of an infrastructure for global (electronic) education and peace gaming with particular emphasis on the global environmental and sustainable development issues in Third World countries which is now the top of the agenda of international affairs. It is a vital necessity to facilitate communication for the clarification of issues through global study. Global education and knowledge is a pre-requisite for human survival on Earth.

To help educate future participants of globally-cooperative environmental peace games with the use of global neural computer network on the scale of Pentagon’s war game, the GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation (GLOSAS) Project is joining efforts with many counterparts around the world to create a worldwide educational network, the Global (electronic) University (GU) consortium as a permanent organization of international education exchange via various telecommunication media. GU can bring the powers and resources of telecommunications to ordinary citizens around the world. The quality of education for those unable to attend conventional universities in disadvantaged countries will be greatly increased.

Over the past two decades, GLOSAS played a major role in helping the U.S. data communication networks extend to other countries, particularly to Japan. GLOSAS also helped deregulate Japanese telecommunication policies for the use of computer mediated communication. Many other countries have followed suit. GLOSAS also conducted many “Global Lecture Hall” (GLH) videoconferences which used several inexpensive media in parallel to facilitate interactions amongst participants. The demonstrations encompassed more than two dozen universities linked together, from the East Coast of the North America to Japan, the Republic of Korea, from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Caracas, Venezuela, to Brisbane, Australia, to Western and Eastern Europe, and Mediterranean countries.

 

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Attachment I

List of

Board of Directors of GLOSAS/USA
Consultants and Advisors

and

Curriculum Vitae

List of Board of Directors of GLOSAS/USA
Consultants and Advisors

Several of the U.S. consultants and advisors and numerous Japanese advisors have agreed to participate in this project, should it be successfully funded. They will engage in coordination of GLH videoconferences, training on the use of computer conference, its moderation, composition of a short introductory text for Japanese Language Distance Education program, editing and translation of electronic discussion dialogue, feasibility study and project design for the U.S.-Japan cooperative computer gaming simulation system, etc.

 

I. GLOSAS/USA

A. Board Members and Consultants

Board Members

1. Takeshi Utsumi, Chairman

Organizer of the Global University and Global Peace Gaming

2. Parker Rossman, Vice Chairman

Former Dean, Ecumenical Continuing Education Center at Yale University

3. Robert Bonn, Secretary

Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Consultants

4. Mario De Blasi

President of the World Association for the Use of Satellites in Education (WAUSE)

Professor at the University of Lecce, Italy

5. Ian Browdie

Manager of Upper MBA Program, Apple University

6. Lloyd H. Van Bylevelt

Instructor of Telecommunication Program, Communication Department, Barry University,

Miami Shores, FL

7. Fabio J. Chacon

Professor, National Open University, Caracas, Venezuela

8. Richard W. Chadwick

Professor, Political Science Department, University of Hawaii

9. Norman Coombs

Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology

10. Elizabeth Craft

Director, Distance Learning Technology, College of Extended Education, Arizona State University

11. Ed S. Cridge

Professor, Office of the Director of Libraries, University of Alaska at Fairbanks

12. Louis Davidson

COMSAT, Cutler Ridge, FL

13. David DeMaio

Simulation Supervisor, General Public Utilities (GPU) Nuclear Corporation

14. Jeff Fox

Department of English and Languages, College of Southern Idaho

15. Phil S. Gang

Director, The Institute for Educational Studies, Atlanta, GA

16. Arturo Garzon

Principal Specialist of the Department of Educational Affairs, Organization of American States (OAS)

17. Gert W. Gast

Director, Pegasus Networks Communications Pty., Ltd., New South Wales, Australia

18. Jack R. Hassard

Director, Global Thinking Project, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Georgia State University

19. David G. Hays

Former Professor of Linguistics, State University of New York at Buffalo

20. Thomas I. M. Ho

Director of the Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

21. Prasad L. Kaipa

Mithya Institute for Learning, Advisor to and an Adjunct Professor

of Antioch University Graduate Management Program, Seattle

22. Vladimir P. Kashitcin

Expert of Committee on Higher Education, Ministry of Science, Higher Education and

Technology Policy of the Russian Federation

23. Stan Kulikowski II

Educational Research and Development Center, University of West Florida, Pensacola

24. Barbara Kurshan

Vice-President, Educorp Consulting Corporation

25. Ante Lauc

Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Osijek, Croatia

26. Anton Ljutic

Chairman, Department of Social Science, Champlain Regional College, St. Lambert, Quebec

27. Gerald Mische

President and Co-Founder, Global Education Associates

28. Robert Njegac

Computer Department, Zagrebacka Banka, Croatia

29. Yusuf Ozturk

Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

30. Leopoldo Schapira

Associate Professor in charge of Territorial Social Planning, University of Cordoba in Argentina

31. Ichiro Shirato

Former Professor of Japanese Language, Columbia University

32. Jose F. Silvio

Senior Program Specialist of UNESCO’s Regional Center for Higher Education

in Latin America and the Caribbean (CRESALC)

33. John H. Southworth

College of Education, University of Hawaii

34. Dorien J. de Tombe

Professor, Lab. for Law and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

35. Hideo Tomita

Modern Foreign Langauge and Literatures (MFLL), Kenyon College, OH

36. Charles F. Urbanowicz

Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Chico

37. Armando Villarroel

Academic Vice-Rector, Universidad Nacional Abierta in Venezuela

38. Sayo Yotsukura

Presidents, Global Institute

B. Advisors

1. Dr. Lionel V. Baldwin

President, National Technological University

2. Dr. Sylvia Charp

Editor-in Chief of T.H.E. (Technical Horizons in Education) Journal

3. Mr. Bert Cowlan
Telecommunication Consultant in the Pacific Region

4. Mr. Robert DeSio

Vice President for Development and Long Range Planning National Technological University

5. Professor Richard Duke

Chairman of the Certificate Program in Gaming Simulation University of Michigan

6. Dr. Hazel Henderson

Economist and Futurist

7. Professor David Jefferson

Computer Science Department, University of California at Los Angeles

8. Mr. Nicholas Johnson

Former Federal Communications Commissioner,