Education
Ph.D. in
Communications,
Louisiana Baptist University,
Shreveport, Louisiana
(2005)
Master of Divinity,
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School,
Deerfield, Illinois (1978)
Bachelor of Arts in
Religious Studies,
California State University at Fullerton
(1974)
Associate of Arts,
Glendale Community College,
Glendale, California (1972)
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Louisiana Baptist University
is a member educational institution of the
Association of Christian Schools International.
While not officially accredited by traditional organizations such as the
North Central Association on Accreditation,
Louisiana Baptist University
is semi-annually examined by an independent review committee comprised of
ministers and educators and is one of
five approved colleges and universities
of the
Baptist Bible Fellowship International
of Springfield, Missouri.
On
Utilization of the W-Band High
Frequency Electromagnetic Spectrum for Creation of and Deployment of an
Alternative Global Telecommunications Infrastructure
A dissertation by SWANsat
Founder
William P. Welty in partial fulfillment for the requirements of Ph.D. in
Communications from
Louisiana Baptist University.
 Dr.
William Welty’s background in telecommunications began in 1982 with his
successful pursuit of a broadcast license from the United States of
America’s Federal Communications Commission to operate on an interim basis
the facilities of UHF KHOF-TV channel 30 assigned to San Bernardino,
California. He opened the final round of Direct Broadcast Satellite
applications before the FCC in 1986. Dr. Welty sold his DBS interests in
1996 and donated all proceeds to a charitable trust, naming a number of
non-profit organizations as beneficiaries. Dr. Welty founded the
Super-Wide Area Network Satellite (SWANSAT) System project in 1996, later
filing an application before the Ministry of Telecommunications of the
Republic of Nauru to operate a number of space stations in the W-band. The
application was granted in 2004. Launch of the first of up to twelve
SWANSAT spacecraft by SWANSAT vendor IOSTAR Corporation of North Salt Lake
City, Utah, is planned for as early as fourth quarter 2012. Budget for the
program is EUR€12 billion.
Dr. Welty has
discussed how SWANSAT can meet Wide Open Access and Sustainable
Development goals of the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and
Development with more than 20 ministers of information representing
various nation states at the November 2005 World Summit on the Information
Society in Tunis, Tunisia. He presented SWANSAT as a candidate for meeting
UN Millennium Development and ECOSOC Ministerial Development goals before
a number of international regional forums of the ITU. In 2006, the
International Forum for ICT Strategies and Investment sponsored by the
Kingdom of Morocco and the Islamic Development Bank invited Dr. Welty to
address the subject of how ICT development goals can be met utilizing
SWANsat's Shareware Telecommunications™ economic model as a means to
bridge the digital divide. Dr. Welty also addressed the Computer
Association of Nepal’s InfoTech 2006 conference in Kathmandu, Nepal as a
keynote speaker.
In 2007, at
the direct invitation of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, an
executive briefing on the Shareware Telecommunications™ economic model was
presented to Mr. Sarbuland Khan, Executive Coordinator for the Office of
the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. The model
was also presented for consideration as a modern Marshall Plan for the
African Union to officials at the embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
Dr. Welty presented a private executive briefing on SWANSAT in September
2007 to Her Excellency Amina Salum Ali, the African Union’s ambassador to
the United States of America and to officials at the NEPAD Council, the
African Union’s ICT advocacy organization, which extended a public
endorsement to the SWANSAT Project in November 2007. In late October, Dr.
Welty attended the Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, where he
discussed the SWANsat Shareware Telecommunications™ model to Rwanda’s
President Paul Kagame. One of the key features of the SWANsat's Shareware
Telecommunications™ model is its capability to provide 2 Meg/second ICT
delivery to Least Developed Countries (LDC’s) and Developing Countries
(DC’s) via the SWANSAT System for as little as EUR€1/month, thus creating
a form of modern Marshall Plan for the African Union.
Dr. Welty’s
keynote address for ICT Africa 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia served as an
introduction to SWANSAT for officials of the African Union who attended. By accepting SWANsat's offer to affiliate with the SWANSAT
Project as an international sponsoring consortium, the African Union is eligible to receive up to EUR€1 billion per month for the duration of
the SWANSAT license, as a means to assist in stabilizing the economy of
the African continent, after the manner of a modern Marshall Plan for the
African Union.
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