Global Policy Makers and Regulators to Propose Mechanisms and Structures to Facilitate International Cooperation

Global Policy Makers and Regulators from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia will share their vision for Shared Small Satellites, an international effort, in line with national security strategies that call for Cooperative Security to promote safety, security, protection of the environment, and global economic development.

Policy makers will help define mechanisms and structures to facilitate international cooperation while at the same time using the international linkages to promote individual competitiveness and innovation. This event will identify near term actions that can demonstrate the fractional ownership model.

Ministry of Interior and Police Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Paul Weissenberg Director, Aerospace, Defence and Security DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission	Chris De Cooker ESA - ECSL	Augusto Gonzalez Space policy and Coordination Unit, European Commission
Ing. Franco Malerba Office of Science and Technology Officer OECD Paris	Richard Buenneke Deputy Director, Space Policy at U.S. Department of State	Joe Ross Technical Director, Capability Team 5 (JISR), NATO NC3A	Dr. Robert Frosch Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University
George Wiafe Department of Oceanography & Fisheries University of Ghana	Omar Frits Eriksson Head of Innovation and Project Division Danish Maritime Safety Administration

While the ability of developing nations to contribute funds may be limited, the concept of fractional ownership would allow each country to participate at a level commensurate with their capabilities, and to use the shared communications backbone in space in some measure commensurate with their contribution to the program.

CANEUS Shared Small Satellites would make collaboration in space accessible to all nations, and would promote its use to foster governance in the difficult, “unwired” regions of the world.

National Space Agencies

In collaboration with all nations which care to participate, the CSSP will strive to make information from this system/program accessible, relevant, useful and timely on a global scale to all partners, with the aim to promote increased protection of the ocean environment, and global maritime safety, security, and lawfulness.

For more information about the CANEUS Shared Small Satellites CSSP Inaternational Workshop, visit www.caneus.org/cssp or email cssp@caneus.org.