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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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]

List of Wikisita members as of 13 April 2021

In this document published in 1979 in the “SITA ANNUAL REPORT 1978”, SITA’s history is presented in detail , icluding the role of the founding airlines and their representative.
A very unique tribute to the role of all those who made SITA possible as a worldwide reality!