1/4 - INVITATION

It was decided at the last IC meeting of the WSF in Nairobi that an assessment would be made of the WSF events held in the past seven years. see the terms of reference of the resulting working group
This is in order to compile the cumulative experience for collective understanding and memory, as also to provide specific guidelines for holding future events.

As a part of that assessment and guideline drafting process, one team is in charge of a quantitative survey, while we, "the input collection team" , are circulating a set of 12 items on which to make inputs in order to develop a global level experience and suggestion sharing about organisation of wsf events among wsf process participants

PERSONS, (OR  THROUGH THEM ORGANISATIONS),  HAVING EXPERIENCE OF WSF EVENTS ORGANISATION AS EVENT ORGANISERS OR AS ACTIVITY ORGANISERS ARE INVITED TO PROVIDE HEREBELOW  INPUTS  WHETHER EXISITNG TEXTS OR  SPECIFICALLY DRAFTED SUGGESTIONS about  any of the 12- items list below listing 12 main tasks to be performed to organize a WSF event

Invitation to make inputs has been sent on IC list on April 26th and is ongoing . It will be extended to broader lists .
A synthesis of inputs will be made for belem IC late October 2007  

Looking forward to reading from you
Input collection and analysis team
IC workgroup on Wsf events Assessment and Guidelines

• Access the INPUT AREA
  Browse already made inputs
  Post your inputs there, and also reply to inputs already made
  
• post alternatively your inputs by mail  at  the following adress : inputsonorganizingwsfevents@wsfprocess.net
  
  
• Access collected texts
  
  

2/4 : 12 TASKS RELATED TO  WSF EVENT ORGANIZING
AROUND WHICH TO MAKE YOUR OWN INPUTS ON WSF EVENT ORGANISATION

• ThE items below are listing 12 main tasks to be performed to organize an event;
  
• You are invited to input your own views suggestions and experience on the number of items that you wish in this list of 12 .
  You are not supposed to address all of them, you can make input on only one if you wish so.
• Consider that you are answering the following question: "regarding this item, what, according to your experience in wsf events, has or hasn’t worked well , or could work well, in practical terms, while being in accordance with the spirit of the WSF Charter ? ” :
• More indications on how to draft your input
  

click on " make input" and select the corresponding item in the comment area  order to give your opinon and experience in previous forum events and concrete suggestions for next events

• Task 1. One task when  organising a wsf event is to   Sustain a broad-based INCLUSIVE MOBILIZATION process among social movements and people's organisations leading to the setting up of a number of INCLUSIVE BODIES OR COMMITTEES, with defined responsibilities, to implement the processes leading to the event, and the event itself.(make inputabout this item)
• Task 2. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Ensure the participation in the ORGANIZING COMMITTEE of a politically BROAD-BASED SET OF PERSONS with professional talent and forum politics understanding, effective in implement those processes and the event.(make input about this item)
• Task 3. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Cover and plan the general process from initial mobilization to the post event, through a set of effectively working COMMISSIONS of an organizing committee, in order to further the main objectives of WSF and its politics.(make input about this item)
• Task 4. One task when  organising a wsf event is to SEEK FUNDS, AND DEFINE FEES, in politically acceptable ways and in conformity with the charter of principles of the WSF (make input about this item)
• Task 5. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Mobilize and involve local and remote VOLUNTEERS, creating a spirit of cooperation between the two, and imbibing in them the spirit and vision of the forum (make input about this item)
• Task 6. One task when  organising a wsf event is to facilitate SOLIDARITY mechanisms between participating organisations, in order to maintain equitable access to PARTICIPATION in the preparation process and VISIBILITY in the event (make input about this item)
• Task 7. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Involve the MEDIA extensively, in order to reach out, as well as to sensitize the media (make input about this item)
• Task 8. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Implement a democratic and open ended process to choose THEMES in an event, and provide ample opportunity and space to the participants to INTERLINK while preparing their self organized activities that will constitute the PROGRAM of the event; (make input about this item)
• Task 9. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Facilitate processes towards a decentralized and dynamic MEMORY of the ACTIVITIES held in the event , and of INITIATIVES stemming out of them, through all media forms. (make input about this item)
• Task 10. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Help CONVERGENCES and networking processes during preparation, at the event and after the event, in all aspects; and help maintain the contacts; (make input about this item)
• Task 11. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Provide FRIENDLY PHYSICAL SPACES for activities self organized by participants at an event, particularly those with little financial clout. (make input about this item)
• Task 12. One task when  organising a wsf event is to Facilitate the satisfaction of minimum needs like ACCOMMODATION FOOD AND WATER in affordable, and social and environmental friendly ways, particularly for the grass roots participants. (make input about this item about this item)

3/4: INDICATIONS FOR MAKING PRACTICAL INPUTS/SUGGESTIONS ON WSF EVENT ORGANIZING:

• Find, scrolling below, the INPUTS ON ITEM X title corresponding to item X you want to input on .
  INPUTS ON ITEM X zones are located at "first level" in the discussion space ( i-e with no indentation to the right)
  Click on "reply" just below this title to start your input. Your input will be placed last below this title with a right indentation from it ( "second level")
  
• You can also "reply" to an input already made by someone else. Your input will be placed last below this input with a right indentation from it
  
• When drafting your input on a given item, please consider that you are answering the following question: "what, in the considered item, according to your experience in wsf events, has or hasn’t worked well , or could work well, in practical terms, while being in accordance with the spirit of the WSF Charter ? ” :
• Please mention your experience record about wsf organizing: event organizer, activity organizer, participant in an event, and in which forum - and the nature of your input : personal input or organisation statement
  
• You are welcome to insert in your input the URL http:// .......) of documents existing on other sites that you find relevant ( the links will be inactive in your input, but we may activate them in the other part of this team space dedicated to already drafted text )
  
• Making a different input for each item you want to adress feeds 12 parallel focused "per item" discussions and does not incur any back office work; however if you prefer making a multi-item input , or have an input that really does not fit in the 12 task list , go to the very bottom of the input zone , and differentiate paragraphs by items – mentioning the number of the item you are addressing (i-e if you are covering about media then make a paragraph starting with : item 7
  
• you can send a document attached at the following mail adress: inputsonorganizingwsfevents@wsfprocess.net
  

• You can Contact the group in charge with this input collection
  
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