Section XX: Links that Mention SWANsat
This page posts only
non-press reports.
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to see some press reports posted on the Internet. The following links are
to external third party web pages that discuss the SWANsat
System. Unless otherwise indicated, all links open in a new window. Also
unless otherwise indicated, no one affiliated with SWANsat
was responsible for initiating the posting or link cited.
  NEPAD
Council and ICT Africa 2008
The
NEPAD Council is now lobbying on behalf of
SWANsat by recommending that the AU grant landing rights to SWANsat in return for SWANsat providing 200 free video channels to each member state of the AU
and to the AU's Office of the Secretariat. The
NEPAD Council endorses SWANsat as
a
worthwhile initiative for Africa, provided the promised €1 per 2 Meg/second
of symmetric bandwidth for third world countries will indeed be achievable.
We will be willing to endorse the project based on that assumption.
We'll be presenting a special tutorial workshop on how SWANsat will serve as
a modern Marshall Plan for the African Union at the
NEPAD Council's ICT Africa 2008
conference from 13-15 February 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
ICT Africa 2008
will address a wide range of ICT issues in Africa.
The conference
will bring together engineers, developers, leaders, managers, educators,
financiers, and representatives from all over Africa.
ITU
Connect Africa 2007 Summit
FIT
Nepal: Dinner Event
Photo Gallery from Dr. Welty's trip to Nepal in March 2006, where he
addressed several hundred leaders of the Nepalese government. This set
of images was assembled from photographs taken at a private reception
held the next evening.
Biocrawler
Reference Article Summary for SWANsat
Description of
SWANsat
System
as WSIS stakeholder with respect to commitments and initiatives
Papyrus
News
Mark Warschauer's news blog posting
on broadband access and democratization of web publishing dated 14
September 2006.
ICT
for Development
"Imagine
a series of at least three satellites providing wireless Internet access
to the entire world. That’s exactly what a project called SWANsat or
Super-Wide Area Network Satellite plans to do..."
Web
Blogs
As word begins to circulate around the world about
SWANsat's
potential—everything from its use as a means to alleviate world poverty
to its capacity to deliver low-cost ICT to developing nations, sooner or
later various people would begin to comment on the
SWANsat
System.
Here's a representative sample:
GIZMO
CAFE: SWANsat to Turn Earth into Wi-Fi Hotspot
Description of
SWANsat
System
by a blogger unaffiliated with
SWANsat.
You will need to register (no cost) as a Gizmo Cafe user to view this
page.
PhysOrgForum:
SWANsat to Turn Earth into Wi-Fi Hotspot
Repost of Gizmo Cafe posting by a blogger unaffiliated with
SWANsat.
Xanga
Blog
A
frank discussion by a semi-anonymous young lady who calls herself
swansat_kaching.
YouTube:
SWANsat — Bridging the Digital Divide
Rajeev Choudhury's posting of a
video of our presentation at the FIT Nepal conference in March 2006
regarding
SWANsat.
Mr. Choudhury was responsible for posting an excellent and accurate
summary of what
SWANsat
is on the Wikipedia Encyclopedia web site. Due to a libelous campaign
from an individual who claimed that Mr. Choudhury's posting ID "WMD" was
a pseudonym for
SWANsat
founder Dr. William Welty, the Wikipedia article about
SWANsat
that Mr. Choudhury wrote was de-listed from Wikipedia.
World
Summit on the Information Society Golden Book
Description of
SWANsat
System
as WSIS stakeholder with respect to commitments and initiatives.
Contents of this page, but not the page itself, were provided by
SWANsat
to the ITU at the request of the WSIS.
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