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sfex working plan 2011 12
last modified February 24, 2011 by facilitfsm
(This document has been drafted in the context of a two year support plan, before dakar ic nov2010, which was not confirmed in dakar ic feb 2011 )
Social forum expanded initiative workplan 2011-12
Context
Next two years after Dakar are spanning until the next central WSF event in early 2013 , and if the wsf2010 formula goes on, WSF process at large will rest on many significant events forming the basis for wsf2011 and wsf2012 processes
Scope
1/ to facilitate access to participatory situations during events to people /groups who are not physically present in the event center , giving priority to self organized activities ( co organized activities tend to be with more people and less participatory, and thus are more covered than extended and closer to a media approach )- extend the social forum , means here "give the possibility of dialogic/participatory situation beyond distance"
2/ to facilitate development of distance intercomunication between local groups ( which comes generally through "training" done in the occasion of distance participation to events ) The goal is to foster autonomy of itnernet intercomunication usage among groups involved in WSF so they can develop autonomously their distance relationships, and extensions of their local activities to a worldwide scale - This requires resorting to tools that are decentralized in their usage not depending on third party for direct operation
This is a relevant scope for the next two years since current experience shows that going from concept to collective practice in collecitve distance intercommunication is not evident , there is a learning process that can be accelerated if stimulated and supported
Sfex Initiative group
Facilitating group for sfex initiative is welcoming people having effectively facititated expansion scheme in social forum context , focusing on providing a support to self organized activities and to participatory situations with decentralization, accountability
Working lines and Tasks
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develop with event organizers a sense of conveying to a next event the “outcomes” of an earlier event, through stimulating self organized distance inter-communication between groups participating in those events - either at the end of a prior event or before or during the next event ( this has to do also with the methodological notion of outcome /proposal )
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-continue to stimulate inputs throughout in the "expanded participation mutual info internet spaces" that will be created to support dakar extended -
FR 90+ EN 10+ ES 20+ PT 10 DE 10 AR 1 RU 1 listes FR lists EN listas ES listas PT Mailing-Listen DE lists AR lists RU groupes FR groups EN grupos ES grupos PT Gruppen DE groups AR groups RU
this will help Develop the community of groups mastering distance intercommunication that is emerging from 2010, and from where experienced volunteers for sfex initiative can come
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design , test, promote "participation formulas" well adapted to new self organzied social forum participatory situations ( eg extended assemblies . extended proposal/outcome working groups ...) This experience sharing is also feeding expression of needs for tools in §4
A first vision based on experience is that such tools should be providing basic features equivalent to widely used commercial sites such as www.skype.com, and www.ustream.tv - and need to include user management features that allow groups to access autonomously to "communication channels"
5/ develop Cooperation with other comcom and IC groups
Sfex scope is clearly an intercommunicatin facilitation scope.Cooperation will be fruitful based on mutual understanding of difference of scopes
Cooperation with shared coverage intiaitves in comcom is welcome along an approach focused on supporting self organized activity distance participation situation Two examples :
Media are welcome to provide technical support to groups willing to intercomunicate ( eg radios , see 3 )
There can be a cooperation with tvforum group so that video repository wsftv.net has a specific section dedicated to hosting videos resulting from self organized streaming /filming of activities ( see 4)
Sfex initiative can also give input in methodology commission and cooperation is needed with groups taking charge of website for events which are reflecting methodology of wsf ( see 4)