[Imc-africa] [Wsf_bulletin] Preparatory consultation for WSF 2007 has already started!

Tue Jun 27 07:27:11 PDT 2006

World Social Forum
              
     
                  WSF Bulletin June 27th, 2006 
                 
                  World Social Forum 2007
                  Nairobi, Kenya, January 20 to 25, 2007 


                  Dear friend, participant of the World Social Forum process:

                  The 7th World Social Forum - to be held from January 20 to 25, in Nairobi (Kenya) - faces now the challenge of being even more linked to concrete actions to build "another possible world".

                  This concern has been constantly expressed on various meetings of the WSF International Council and evaluations made about WSF process. What we have been looking for is to accomplish one of WSF aims, stated on its Charter of Principles: The World Social Forum is an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and interlinking for effective action.

                  This is the why this preparatory consultation is being launched.

                  It gives continuity to the methodological options, which started to be adopted in 2004, during WSF 2005 preparation, in order to improve process and event "architecture". On that Forum, it resulted on the definition of 11 thematic terrains around which 2,000 activities were carried out- all of them were self-organized, corresponding to another advance compared to the events organized before.

                  But the 2004 consultation had a thematic character. In this one, we want to move a step forward.

                  Now what we request to you is to indicate the actions, campaigns and struggles in which your organization/network/entity is engaged.

                  The proposal is to organize the 7th Forum around those actions, campaigns and struggles, aggregating, on the different Forum spaces, the activities linked to them, as well as the activities that have no direct link with them - to be indicated during the moment of activities registration - but related to the same by their themes.

                  This will make more visible the concrete actions born on the Forum process or those who gave sequence or more density to others that had been developed before or outside WSF, as well as its effective political results. This will also stimulate the interconnection among organizations in which we are engaged on the struggles for constructing a fair, egalitarian, democratic, participative and sustainable society.

                  This proposal - and the execution of this preparatory consultation - was approved by the WSF International Council, based on a proposal made by its Methodology Commission, in its meeting held in March 2006, in Nairobi.

                  We tried to simplify the questions on the consultation form at maximum, in order to make easier to answer to it. As soon as you do it, better conditions we will have to prepare the WSF 2007 adequately. The deadline to send your answers is July 30th, 2006.

                  In order to fill in the consultation questionnaire, please access the website: http://consultation.wsf2007.org/. Organizations who have registered on the Polycentric WSF 2006 website (www.wsf2006.org) are not required to fill in all the forms again. They can access the site http://consultation.wsf2007.org/ using the same username and password from the polycentric 2006 site above mentioned and then, click on the top menu "Consultation on actions, campaigns and struggles" > "Add new". Up to now, the site is only in English. But soon it will be available also in French and Castellano/Spanish.

                  For further information on the event in Nairobi, please visit the site: www.socialforum.or.ke.


                        WSF 2007 Organizing Committee executive office - Kenya 
                        Physical Contacts: Masandukuni Lane, Off Gitanga Road
                        Postal Address: P.O. Box 63125, 00619 Nairobi Kenya
                        Telephone: 254-020-3860745 ou 254-020-3860746
                        Fax: 254-020-2713262
                        E-mail: socialforum at sodnet.or.ke 

                        World Social Forum Office in São Paulo 
                        Address: rua General Jardim, 660 - 7th floor - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
                        Postal code: 01223-010
                        Website: www.worldsocialforum.org

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