ESF live feed to dublin a week after ISF

international | public consultation / irish social forum | opinion/analysis Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:15 by dunk - indymedia fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk

2500 years ago people communicated in the agora in athens
we are in a new age :: new agora:: is a dual system of using real and virtual together to again develop healthy discussion
an attempt to make a live feed from the ESF in london to convergence festival in dublin a week after ISF 2 is underway

ESF live connection to ireland

irish social forum is on Fri 8th Oct to Sun 10th.
european social forum is on Fri 15th Oct to Sun 17th.
sustainable irelands cultivate festival is on Thr 14th Oct to Sun 17th.

as part of the convergence festival there will be time and space given over to new media, films etc and as part of this event organiser Davy Philips has agreed to give us, indymedia/ social forum, a space in the festival- a few hours to try to make a “live connection” with the european social forum (ESF) that is happening in london.This could be in the format of live radio streams from london or better still live viewing of the discussions or pleanerys. Better still would be a web conferencing type system, whereby people in Ireland interested in the ESF but unable to get there could go to the cultivate centre (name of centre in temple bar rented by “sustainable Ireland” and venue of “convergence festival”) to participate in the process in a 2 way format using webcams/ vid recorders and beamers.
some discussion has happened about this and as far as i know the uk-imc crew are looking into this as a real project to undertake

I believe it an ineviatable process that both “indymedia” and “social forum” will grow and be used by more and more people. In theory it is possible for everyone on the planet to engage in the social forum process so i think it’s very important for us to demonstrate to our selves new ways of communicating and interacting with each other without physically “being there”

i have written previously before, if somewhat in a more disorganised fashion, about this type of project as an example of ::new agora::
http://easa.antville.org/stories/781952/

further info::

group
website and relevant link
contact

irish social forum
http://www.irishsocialforum.org/
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66356&search_text=irish%20social%20forum
(most recent info)
keykiet@yahoo.com, john.finnegan3@mail.dcu.ie

The third European Social Forum will take place from 15-17 October in London.
http://www.fse-esf.org
ukesfoffice@gn.apc.org

Convergence Sustainable Living Festival
http://www.sustainable.ie/convergence/6/index.htm
convergence@sustainable.ie

indymedia uk network
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkImcEsf#ActiVites
imc-uk-network@lists.indymedia.org

indymedia ireland
www.indymedia.ie
imc-ireland@lists.indymedia.org