 SWANsat
filed Advanced Publication Information (API) documents at the International
Telecommunication Union in November 2007 for the first three of twelve
operational spacecraft in the SWANsat constellation. API filings for the
remaining nine operational and two on-orbit spares will be made as we
approach the time schedule for building those spacecraft. The ITU released
copies of our filings for SWANsat 1A, 2A, and 3A on 15 May 200, 27
January 2009, and 13 November 2009, respectively.
Our API for SWANsat's first 3 spacecraft:
 SWANsat
1A API filing dated 15 November 2007
SWANsat
2A API filing dated 15 November 2007
SWANsat
3A API filing dated 15 November 2007
ITU Public Filings for SWANsat's first 3 spacecraft:
SWANsat
1A filing dated 15 May 2008
SWANsat
2A filing dated 27 January 2009
SWANsat
3A filing dated 13 November 2009
Correspondence
On 8 December 2007 we wrote to ITU
Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré with an innovative proposal
regarding SWANsat.
Download
a PDF copy of
our letter to Dr. Touré.
Our
correspondence was based on our meeting on 30 October 2007 with Dr.
Touré's daughter Fatima at the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali,
Rwanda.
Ms. Touré recommended that we contact Dr. Touré with our proposal.
Introducing Our SWANsat
Magna Carta*
for the Information Age
*[1] The “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by
the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215. [2] Any
fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing rights and liberties;
cf.
Dictionary.com, "Magna Carta".
On 15 February 2010, SWANsat Holdings filed a Notice of Claim of
Exemption based on provisions contained in the Republic of Germany's
regulations concerning Section 58 exemptions for operations in
never-before-assigned electromagnetic frequencies such as the W-band.
Copies of the Notice of Claim of Exemption were simultaneously
served on the ITU and other international and national regulatory
agencies. The SWANsat
Magna Carta for the Information Age is a seminal statement and
declaration concerning human rights and the Internet. It consists of a
formal demarche†
and manifesto††,
based on five separate authorities, that the SWANsat System's planned
Networked Information Communication Technology System (NICT System) is
exempt from landing rights and operational licenses on the grounds that
access to Internet Portals and Information Freedom are both inalienable
human rights, as defined by the United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
†I.e.,
a formal appeal or statement presented to public
officials or authorities by a private interest group; cf.
Dictionary.com, "demarche".
††I.e.
a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as
one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
Dictionary.com, "manifesto".
All files posted below are formatted in the European "A4" page size, not
the American standard 8.5"x11" format. If you are downloading these
files for printing on 8.5"x11" paper, please be sure to utilize your
printer's "expand to fit" page print option if you are printing on
8.5"x11" paper.
Download
our Notice of Claim of Exemption
Official,
complete, digitally signed edition of our Notice of Claim
of Exemption as filed, including all Exhibits to the Notice of
Exemption.
Copy
of
the text-only edition, of our Notice
of Claim of Exemption as filed. Identical in content to the above
document, but omitting the Exhibits. This
text-only edition is not
digitally signed and is therefore not an official edition
of our Notice of Claim of Exemption. However, unlike the
official, complete edition, this
text-only edition is only 46 pages
long. Download this
text-only edition if you want the
"short" version without the supporting documents.
Download
our Exhibits as separate files
None of these file are
digitally signed and therefore they are not official copies of
the exhibits to our Notice of Claim of Exemption.
INFORMATION
REQUESTED IN
Application for
Frequency Assignments for Earth Stations for Satellite Services
(Antrag auf Zuteilung von Frequenzen
für Erdfunkstellen für Satellitenfunk)
PUBLISHED BY THE
BUNDESNETZAGENTUR OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
UNITED NATIONS
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
ECONOMIC
IMPACT OF THE SWANSAT SYSTEM: INEXPENSIVE ICT:
THE GOLDEN KEY TO AFRICA’S ECONOMIC FUTURE
Complete
copy
of Exhibit E:
TECHNOLOGY READINESS
ASSESSMENT
FOR THE
SWANSAT
SYSTEM
DRAFT
NOTE VERBALE AND MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
RECOGNIZING NOTICE
OF CLAIM OF EXEMPTION OF
SWANSAT
SYSTEM UNDER SECTION
FIFTY-EIGHT
Microsoft Word DOC file copy of
this exhibit for filing by
sovereign nation states with SWANsat Holdings. This file is intended to
be edited by the telecommunication ministries of nations that are
eligible to receive reduced rates for their citizens who wish to access
the Internet through the SWANsat System portal.
WHY THE
INTERNET MUST BE OPEN, GLOBAL, AND MULTILINGUAL
OPENING SPEECH AT THE
INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM, SHARM EL SHEIKH, 15 NOVEMBER 2009
UNITED NATIONS
RESOLUTION 66/90 DATED 6 JANUARY 2006 AND CORRESPONDENCE TO AND FROM THE
UNITED NATIONS REGARDING SWANSAT
ITU
Stocktaking Database
On 5 November 2007, the ITU published an
updated statement in its
Stocktaking Database regarding the
SWANsat Project.
The Stocktaking Database
provides a global platform for the presentation, exchange and
dissemination of information on activities promoting the development of
the Information Society at the local, national, regional and global level.
The ITU Stocktaking Database
entry for SWANsat provides an
up-to-date description on progress regarding our project.
Supplemental Documentation
in RE Registration Notification for SWANsat
filed at ITU on 1 May 2004
We filed this redaction of our
Application for Assignment that we filed with the Republic of Nauru in
order to provide an informal public statement to the ITU about what the
SWANsat system is all about.
Addendum to Supplemental
Documentation
Contains the Scope of Work and Flight Assurance Program Plan for the SWANsat
system.
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ITU Summit
Golden Book
 The
Golden Book was published in early
2006 by the ITU as a permanent record of
the new commitments and resources pledged by stakeholders during the Tunis
Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). All WSIS
stakeholders at the Summit were invited to submit an online questionnaire
with details of their activities announced during the Tunis Phase. These
activities have been planned or are already being undertaken to implement
the WSIS Plan of Action. The Golden Book also serves as a tool helping to
coordinate the action taken to implement the 11 Action lines and avoid
duplication.
More than 375
submissions were made to the Golden Book by governments, international
organizations, NGOs, companies and individuals, describing their work
towards promoting ICT activities. ITU estimates that the activities
announced during the Tunis Phase to promote WSIS goals represented a
total value of at least € 3.2 billion (US$ 3.9 billion) (not
counting the cost of SWANsat).
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Search the ITU Golden Book online database
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directly from the ITU web site
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directly from our mirror site
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Book online database
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