Le groupe d’anciens de SITA de Genève annonce la création d’un évènement prévu de se tenir à Genève fin mai 2026 pour célébrer le 40ième anniversaire de création des groupes d’anciens de SITA . Annonce ci-jointe

The ARASITA group in Geneva has set to organize an event, to be held end of May 2026 in Geneva to celebrate the 40 anniversary of the creation of ARASITA groups worldwide.

Gilles Renier shared with us the news about the starting of the Entry/Exit System (EES) system in Europe which will allow the electronic control and recording of non-European passengers crossing Schengen borders. Sita is actively involved in this project with the installation of terminals in European airports.

I have had the opportunity to organize and run a conference and demonstration of Japanese martial arts at the Musée National du Sporet in Nice (Fraqnce) on 07 September 2024. Both classical martials (Kobudo) such as Kenjutsu and Jodo, as well as modern martial arts (Shinbudo) such as Judo and Aikido were demonstrated and explained. The panel…

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Cours de programmation sur Gamma 30 Bull

A l’annonce du décès de Bernard Leroy, je me suis souvenu que j’avais une photo ou il était présent. Je l’ai recherché et j’ai trouvé dans mes archives ce que je vous montre aujourd’hui Il s’agit d’une photo prise pendant les cours de programmation sur Gamma 30 de chez Bull en 1967.
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SITA Paris was locatred at 112 avenue CHarles De Gaulle since 1968. In March 2023, SITA is moving to a new buiulding (see https://www.carre-suffren-paris.com/) in the 15 th district of Paris.
On this occasion, a (hybrid) Town Hall event has been organized on 09 March 2023. Here is the presentation which I have prepared for this celebration.

In 2001 I was working in Beijing and joined a group of 20 people on a mission to Qinghai in northern Tibet, to take school supplies and support the children of Tibet. The Swiss ambassador to China had acted as a go-between Tibet and China after the invasion. The Swissair station manager in Beijing, Marcus Shmidt and his wife Anne-Marie carried on…[Read more]

Cet article, transmis par Jean-Pierre Gaudard, du journal le Monde, parle d’une exposition d’instruments scientifiques au musée Bernard d’Agesci de Niort. Ruedi Bebié, dont la passion était la collection d’instruments scientifiques et livres anciens a fait don à ce musée de ses collections à ce musée de Niort et a participé à la création…[Read more]

Many of us know that SITA has inspired the creation of SWIFT, the bylaws of which were a copy of those of SITA, which resulted in some turmoil for SITA. WE can see that strangely this poroximity between the two organizations continue, as in this article from The Economist about SWIFT facing pressure to disconnect Russians banks as part of economic…[Read more]