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last modified September 21, 2010 by facilitfsm
Objectives of WEF expanded
- objective of a wefexpanded is to foster distance PARTICIPATION among more people, thus really exntending the wef process , adn makigng it more active wordwide and extend the "activie participatory and dialogic experencie of the social forum" values conveyed are -self organzing - horizontalite- autonomous itnercommuniaction between groups
- provide occasion of new encounters beyond limiltation of money and time to travel experienced by many local activists -
- provide support and popular education about collecive use of internet , offering clearcut distance participation formulas ( such as here distance encoutners , distance participation to activities ) that people can "adopt an adapt" later in their own practices
- the result of expanded activities is also for WEF OC a greater visibilty and presence of WEFworldwide and quality of particpation in and out of palestine -this is in line with the wef project and with the current decision of expanding wsf in dakar
wefepxanded team
wef expanded team is including at the start both palestinian and international volunteers and people from OC ( the latter having not to perform task towards wef participants but to follow and help solve problems and help implement what is decided
Team is peforming a service to the forum , with a compoent of popular education about empowerment on use of TI tools using wdely used tool with free access ( skype ustream, possibly bigblue button ( free software) - so the team welcomes people , give infos, talks with them on skype , on phone, in person , inmeetings face to face and train them to make what they hace to do
wef expanded team would have
- its ownworking mailing list (can be in openfsm or in wefwebsite ) and shared contact adress and operate under OC
- would be present in wef website and on the ground in palestine ( meetings with venue organisers and volunteers ) and in the various mutual info spaces on itnernt by language /geography that have been set in support of wef process , adn in the wkype chat rooms corresponding
- will include volunteers progressively
More (expanded and palestine based activities appearing in the six weeks remaining to wef
it is assumed that wiht proper communications the palestine based activities can still give birth to other activites in the weeks to come
- more expanded activities ( as is the case for morroco and dakar , and canada ( which suprisinglu has no expanded activity to date , (porbably you know coutnry with a high solidarity potential , that need to be stimulated to regsitered expanded activitities
- a significant number of distance encounter between paelsitne groups , many coming as new actiities ( interlink in palestine ) ,
- to local activiies in the contry of origin of non palesintinan coming to palestine, beign registered as new expanded actifities - wiht proper communication many delegate in palestine could be triggering expanded acticities in their homeland
- to activites of dsitance participaiton appearing to participate in those palestine actiities that will effectively extend on internet
Work in wef website and in mutual info space and in skype chat rooms created
for people /gruops willing to participate actigvely from distance
spanish mutual info space in mexico in french speaking area in english speaking area
and in palestine ( including 130 palestinian organisaitions , people having an active role in the first three spaces )those spaces are a positive complement to wefwebsite and are not in duplication or competition with wef-palestine.org site
- wef website has been developped very rapidly and no time was given to think about sophisticated features for fostering interactions between wef participatns
- all official registration data is on the wef website - and inasmuch relevant the declaration made in the activity forms are the reference as is seen
- www.openfsm.net site is operated and provided by commisison communicatio of IC WSF it provide interesting feature of social networking site while being inedepending and free software - it helps create more or less loose communities wiht mailing list, blog and collaorative editing , where wef website is the political and logistcal reference but can only provided user to user interaction
Now about the regsitered activity table - with more columns blue and brown
A B C questions that are in existing wef activity forms
this is what people registering an activity are confronted with
(example of fomr filled in activity What education we want?
the commented table gives a good view of the situation regarding answers to questions A B C that are in the foms filled by people registering
- all the data is copied from the wef site and there are plenty of links directing to the wef webiste -
- the added value of the table is in giving an overview and highlighting the expanded questions on interlink and extend
Brown table for activities in palestine
title
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area
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day & language
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interlink during
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interlink apart actvity
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extend to allow distance participation
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regsitered by (there can be several organisers) |
Correspondence between classes as an incitement to creative pedagogical practices | FRANCE
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tbd
EN |
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distance encounter ( see expaded activities)
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No? broadcast to expanded activity in france ?
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FIMEM |
1 -Current figures about interlink ( question B)
the notion of interlink has been annouced in the site - but not promoted on a ground yet
20 expanded actiivities and more to come - at least 10 of them looking for palestinians partners ( column contact in the blue table ) ( they can start individualy trhough wef website and then also the common list ca be used
60 palestine activities and more to come
many nearly all say "yes ( all where i have put a question mark ..) yes we want to interlink,
but probably my assumption is that when filling the form they did not all necessarily realize the meaning of "internlink as " a live intercommunication, and are not clearly seeing how tehy will do it
task of wef expanded team here is to clarifiy and help people clarify and concretize and provide eventually the necessary equiped room for distance encounters with a public schedule accomodating everyone
- it is very important to offer the groups in palestine the option of creating a distance encounter with people they want to interlink with AT ANOTHER MOMENT than their scheduled activity
- this is in order to separate difficulties and let them concentrate on their original project of face to face activity
- and at antoher moment they can concentrate on having a deep interchange with some specifica group in palestine or abroad INTERLINK APART - it is important to know how many will want to do this and schedule tehm in the needed rooms
2 -current figures about answers to "extend my activity" on internet ( question A)
- 12 of the 20 activity outside palestine intend to stream
- the question A in the form is not clear since it does not say that the streaming is self -produced by the organizers of the activity, ( with support of the wef expanded team which will help them train on www;ustream.tv but not to perform the streaming for the oactivity organizers )
- 18 of 48 palestine actiity are saying they want to( be) streamed ( the 10 cutlural have not been asked about it in their cultural activity form)
so wef expanded team would have to make contact with 30 activities organizers and if they are not, propose to train them on skype about using ustream - that is a day by day task that can be done on line or in presence
3 - whole issue of interlink - extend needs of COA activities still to be adressed
the table is showing only SOA, what about COA organized by organizing committee- what is their need for intelink and extend
task of wf expanded team here would be
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to make OC aware of what need to be done to provide the services required
- and ask organisations made visible in those OC seminars and the alernative media in wef to organize to perfom the roles for broadcast and feedback
- and to complemtent this with wolunteer support
4 -status of "epanded activities " blue table
Blue table for expanded activities
ACTIVITY TITLE and description
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print version
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LINK TO linguistic mutual info space showing expanded actfivities
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DAY hour Local time location
Duration Size
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FORMAT of our activit, can be : local face to face
local with some connected moments distance encounter distance participation languages
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we have delegates in palestine who can help us for contacts and connections
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we are looking for CONTACTs in palestine to have a distance encounter or a moment of connection
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we will EXTEND on internet to allow distance participation we give video channel & public skype contact!
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registered by ( there can be other organizers involved) |
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Hello, Adnan Franck Marjon Maren Martina Michel Refaat Soraida and others on that listHere is a link to this space which is about sharing practical info about interlink, extend , and encounter bteween organisations having activities in palestine (many of them palestinian )
to have a collective space dealing with issues around
- interlink during activities ,between places in palestine ( distance encounters between haifa and ramallah for instance
- extend the activities on internet ( to allow distance participation from people in other venues or anywhere in the world )
- and share contacts abvout distance encounters activities with other countries -palestinian organisations may be interested in knowing which are the distance encounter activities that are being prepared
all this can only feed the social forum spirit of intercommunicaiton and open dialogue
Interested people can come and subscribe here
http://openfsm.net/projects/wef-palestine-interlink-extend/lists/wef-palestine-interlink-extend-discussion/archive
and be included in this list
May be people who are active in taking care of the 5 venues,and providing the internet and distance encounter equipment can be included in this list to see concretely the surge of need for inter-communication
Situation of the expanded activities per language area is the following
- in francofonia french speaking countries -the dynamics is developing
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- ( there is nancy who involves refaat ;-) and other announcements in france in senegal in morroco - there will be a great need to faciltiate contacts
- in anglophonia - including brazil it is starting
- in hispanofonia - not much is happening except the prominent activity in mexico ( to date no preparatory skype conversation has taken place between womens organisation in palesitne and in mexico -a positivie contact has been made by mail with soraida
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you may find useful to circulate this email to some organizaiton whom you feel are interested by the idea of interlink for self organized activities , or OC orgainsations that have co-organized acitvities and whish to interlink or extend them on internet