---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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... > >