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last modified October 5, 2010 by facilitfsm
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Dear friends , from palestinian organizations participating in WEF,
Dear Guests coming from other countries to organize activities in Palestine on occasion of WEF ,
We are now one month before WEF and over 120 self organized activities have been registered!
You are now preparing them. So the basic dynamics of social forum are on track !
We can now focus on an important dimension of WEF palestine forum : WEF expanded focusing on DISTANCE INTERCOMMUNICATION through use of internet
As WEF organzing committee, we invite you to make distance intercommunication during or apart from your activities ( see concrete steps in the linked document - or below our message )
WEF, as you know, is a world social forum on education organized by palestinians with events in various palestinian areas, and also
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a worldwide invitation to set up EXPANDED ACTIVITIES, wherever people may be,
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invitation to inter communicate through notion of INTERLINK ( distance encounter between two groups ) AND EXTENSION of Palestine activities on internet ( allowing distance participation in activities )
A "wef expanded team" is available to support you in preparing your distance intercommunications , contact : wef-expanded-team@wef-palestine.org
We expect that we will be many that will answer the two invitations below
Sharing our Best wishes for success of WEF expanded , which depends greatly on our capacity for good preparation and communication among us participants in WEF
WEF Organizing Comittee
distance encounter by video meeting - distance participation to an activity in palestine by web video streaming and chatting on line
Answering proposals for LIVE INTERCOMMUNICATION WITH REST OF THE WORLD
Indeed, out of 120 activities 35 are EXPANDED activities outside palestine areas, in 10 countries of the world , Australia, Bangladesh , Brazil, France, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Morroco, Portugal, Senegal , UK, .....
In many cases, the groups who are proposing them , are proposing DISTANCE ENCOUNTER activities with you, palestinians groups , and also are proposing you to participate from palestine to their activities, or are eager to participate from a distance to your activities held in Palestine , inasmuch you in Palestine EXTEND our acitvities in internet ( see below)
In many cases, they, who made the first step towards us, need to find rapidly counterparts among us , and start interacting in order prepare together those moments of distance intercommunication
WE INVITE EACH OF YOU TO answer those proposal of intercommunication
- review the EXPANDED activities list , and the wef expanded view on activities here ) to see who is proposing what and is looking for palestinian counterparts or participants - you can see the Mexico wef program
- select those that interest your group and express your intentions to be a counterpart for them in a distance encounter, or be distant participants to their activity , depending the case
- you can express your answers in two ways
- to wef-expanded-team@wef-palestine.org mentioning the title and node number of their activity giving also your skype adress, and telephone , wef expanded team will forward this to international groups and will bring you in contact on a mailing list together with them -
- or contact directly the organizations through wef-palestine.org ( you need to be logged in the wef site to access the user profile of the organisation and click on contact button to send a message ,
- wef expanded team will then get back to you
- it may support the distance encounters and distance intercommunication in specific rooms in WEF venues
Making proposals for LIVE INTERCOMMUNICATION IN/ FROM PALESTINE
Distance intercommunication , either through distance encounter or distance participation to an activity elsewhere, is also a potential desire BETWEEN GROUPS HOLDING ACTIVITIES IN VARIOUS AREAS WITH PALESTINIAN POPULAITON i-e Lebanon, Gaza, Palestine 48, West Bank
Also guests in Palestine, may organize moments of encounters or distance participation WITH GROUPS IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY
So this INTERLINK and EXTEND intercommunication needs to be proposed and concretized ,
INTERLINK through distance encounter , can happen either during , or, also , apart from your currently scheduled activities in the various venues of WEF,
Making it apart from your activity moment is a good option , that takes pressure off the activity organizers: at one moment they concentrate on face to face dynamics and at another moment they concentrate on distance encounter
There needs to be rooms dedicated full day to distance encounters in the various wef venues
INTERLINK can even be permanent such with the idea of Palestine Hall
We invite you to consider EXTENDING YOUR ACTIVITY ON INTERNET and thus ALLOW DISTANCE PARTICIPATION TO IT
EXTENDing your activity can be made in a non intrusive way, including itself smoothly in the face to face dynamics of your activity
It requires two persons from your organisation ( one webcamperson, and one connectant person ) with laptops using simple to use websites, and
The earlier you announce in advance extension of your activity in your own networks - giving a "skype public contact" , the more interested people will gather around the connectant person before the start of the activity
WE INVITE EACH OF YOU TO express on this list your intention to propose palestinian INTERLINK or propose internet EXTENSION of your activity
- REVIEW the EXPANDED activities list , and the wef expanded view on activities here to see who is doing what in other WEF venues
- you can express express your proposals in two ways
- to wef-expanded-team@wef-palestine.org giving also your skype adress, and telephone , wef expanded team will forward this to international groups and will bring you in contact on a mailing list together with them -
- or contact directly the organizations ( you need to be logged in the wef site to access the user profile of the organisation and click on contact button to send a message ,
- wef expanded team will get back to you
- it may support your distance encounter in special rooms ,
- it may train your webcamperson, and connectant person and explain how to extend your activity