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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:50:08 -1000
From: Gordon Tsuji <[log in to unmask]>
To: Attachai Jintrawet <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: The Future
 
Aloha Attachai:
Believe you should send this message to the dssat listserver so others can
see your response.  The listserver should be a forum for such discusssions.
Believe yours might stimulate others.
 
Mahalo,
Gordon
At 06:50 PM 8/9/96 -1000, you wrote:
>
>Dear Dr. Favreau;
>
>Very pleased to learn about your interest about DSSAT concepts and ideas.
>
>I do not know much about US's system.  However, I think major reengineering
>or re-agriculturisting would need to establish.  USAID had been putting
>a great deal of efforts into DSSAT since the 70's and they just let the
>whole thing went thru the drain.  No funding for the great work of
>man-kind.  I knew that US funding for foreign activities is very competitive
>and they have been putting billion of $ in the middle east.  That's for
>the federal level.
>
>For the state level, I think the State of Hawaii including the UH system
>and admin have a very short vision about education.  I do not understand
>the politics.
>
>In Thailand, we are moving slowly to use DSSAT tool in classroom environment.
>A team of teachers at Chiang Mai Univ. is conducting regular teaching
>system in Thai so that more students will get to learn the DSSAT's
>concept and idea (from a group of great GURUs, i.e., Profs Jim Jones,
>Herry Nix, Joe Ritchie, Goro Uehara, Gordon Tsuji and other second
>generations).  It's very hard in Thai, because existing text books rely
>of Old US text books and Profs.  However, people are asking
>about the system and starting talking about getting to know and use
>it with their work.
>
>Point is:  we have to spead the word about DSSAT out more and more.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Attachai Jintrawet              Crop modeling/Decision Support Systems
>Multiple Cropping Center        email: [log in to unmask]
>Chiang Mai University           Phone: 66-53-221-275
>Chiang Mai, 50200               Fax:   66-53-210-000
>Thailand                        DBMS and MBMS support a great decision...
>
>