From: Piero FSM2016 <pierre.george@fsm2016.org>
Date: 2016-06-23 17:41 GMT+02:00
Subject: SOLVING THE ISSUE WSF CAFE BAGHDAD MONTREAL Self-managed activity to be registered after deadline
To: "Martina Pignatti M." <martina.pignatti@unponteper.it>, programmation@fsm2016.org, المنتدى الاجتماعي العراقي <isf.iraq@gmail.com>, Hayfa efessem <hayfa.efessem@gmail.com>, Iraqi Social Forum <Isf.smtools@gmail.com>
Hello everyone Ali Hayfa Martina Youssif and programmation team
thanks Martina for putting me in the loop
issue is closed baghdad montreal wsf cafe in incuded in the programmation through telecenter in montreal
Looking forward to comments from everyone
Pierre
1/ the extension team wsf 2016 has been since long in contact with the iraq social forum :-) in the perspective of wsf extension 2016 and proposing active participation to our iraqi friends
and we knew about the project of a WSF village in baghdad at the time of montreal event
2/ We had recently a skype meeting wiht ali and youssuf and hayfa
which decided to create a self organized commitee named "presence of ISF in WSF"
with the purpose ( going till the end of the year) to make visible several iraq organizations in the wsf website and showing the diversity of the ISF process
The commiteee is now on line
( i have not access to the website at present but you can look up for it in the groups/ self organized commiteee list
and Hayfa will make ali or youssif admins and populate it
3/ We understand that no one from iraq would be present in montrea,l so all the activities will be done in the frame of extension
and good news the registration IS NOT CLOSED for those activities in the wsf website until end of 2016
4/ (Btw you can test declaring extended actiivities in the name of unponteper which may want to locate some meetings as extended activites in italy or elsewhere
the profile of italy in the extension is "non existent" at the moment
which is not the case for other countries as you can see in the geographical page
( check the orgs and nb links that are left and right of each country line)
5/ Extension team has in montreal a cluster of rooms in the center of WSF territory, named WSF 2016 TELECENTER dedicated to video conferences ( that could remind you of belem 2009 Martina :-) )
So we have following your message and as of now pre-declare extended activity 121 in openfsm assuming it is co organized by several iraqi roganization and unponteper (please correct as needed)
and we book a slot 10 12am on august 11 for WSFcafe Baghdad/Montreal
that is a closed issue !
SKYPE CHAT ROOM associated with activiy 121 will be created by tomorrow so all interested parties can join it
6/ The concept of "WSF cafe" is actually wider than a teleconference and can involve a series of place where semi random selction of enlarged activities in montreal can be done for people in the cafe in baghdad to remotely "walk in and out" according to their interest
this hayfa can elaborate on with iraqi team
7/ Now this activity can also be announced in wsf website by the unique organisation from iraq so far registered which is not an organization
Hayfa from the extension team, based in tunisia, can help Ali and Youssyf to declare this activity in the name of iraq social fourm
8/ Furtther to that, one workline we decided with ali and youssiph is to include more people and organiszations from iraq in the wsf website,
where they can interact and alos declare extended activities in iraq in their own name ,
and progress in the steps towards active extended participation
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Oggetto: Important request from Iraq: Self-managed activity to be registered after deadline Data: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:04:48 +0200 Mittente: Martina Pignatti M. <martina.pignatti@unponteper.it> A: programmation@fsm2016.org CC: Iraqi social forum <isf.iraq@gmail.com>
Dear friends of the GT-programmation,
I write you on behalf of the Iraqi Social Forum and of the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative, a global intiative of solidarity with the Iraqi civil society that includes many organizations registered for the WSF 2016, some of whom are also part of the WSF International Council.
We realized just today that an Extended activity of the WSF (Montreal Cafè) can be organized in Baghdad on August 11, at 5-7 pm, and those of us who will be in Montreal want to connect with the activists in Baghdad at that time, in a self-organized activity.
I just registered it as a Convergence Assembly on the WSF website, since I couldn't do otherwise, but it's meant to be a self-managed activity and it needs to happen on August 11 at 10:00, hence in the time-slot of self-managed activities, due to the time difference with Baghdad. You will receive it from the organization "Un ponte per..." titled "Baghdad Cafè with the Iraqi Social Forum" through your online registration system. Could you please switch it to self-managed activity and still accept it???
Since it is difficult for Iraqis to reach Canada, due to the visa process, we really want to give visibility to the activists of the Iraqi Social Forum that feel part of the WSF process in Baghdad! We apologize for not being able to define this earlier, but as you may guess working conditions in Baghdad are very complicated.
Warmly,
Martina
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