Last year Caspar went to Mumbai, this is his account of what it was like, http://www.opendemocracy.net/themes/article-6-1690.jsp
Before that Susan Richards came to Porto Alegre
I'm just going to meet John Vidal, the Guardian's veteran and intrepid Environment Editor. He published this a little earlier. What will we see in the
from our correspondent Simon Zadek
Tuesday afternoon, Geneva, supping on a black coffee before setting off across a snow-driven, blue-domed Switzerland for Davos, soon to be haven for several thousand
The Inter Press Service, which has a big team reporting from the forum, carried this earlier today
...All of about 1,000 computers at the forum are using
free software.
I'll spare overmuch description of the event; i've just arrived, and have seen little, as yet. Such as I have resembles a vibrant pile-up, somewhere between
The opening plenary press conference is going on as I write. Very long introduction on the eleven autonomous spaces and interplanetary humanism, but more than an hour in Portuguese with
Wow, the forum is beginning to bubble in Porto Alegre. Busloads of people from all over the country are still arriving (more than 60,000 registered yesterday), and queue to
So what do the people at my table think are the key issues of the day...
Governance because it drives outcomes...ethical globalisation because it is what we need...security
Our editor, Anthony Barnett, thinks that the following is one of the most cogent yet also sympathetic arguments directed against some of the thinking that lies behind the World Social
This is Caspar logging on from Porto Alegre. Beautiful warm sunshine. A fresh breeze coming off the wide wide river. One hundred thousand people or more getting together for the
The openDemocracy team is on its way to Porto Alegre and will be posting from later today.
Simon Zadek published a diary from last year's Davos in openDemocracy. Here is what he said then: http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-28-1698.jsp
