mumbai-2004.

i have been to w.s.f. mumbai 2004----this is a brief description of world social forum---how it actually looked like.
people felt that wsf is one of the most unforgettable interaction in their lifetime.wsf is a common platform for exchanging ideas of all sections of a community,which inturn makes another world possible.people felt that the present world is almost stinking and it meeds a change.a change can be brought by achieving true independence,basic nessesities, & rights required for all people. well experienced and elder people are on one side and active youth was on other side in wsf. elderly people thought of a world with out globalization,privatization,liberalization,they dremt of a world with independence.
[LIST]WSF2003

Delegates: 20.763 (130 countries)
13.046 national
7.717 foreigners
130 countries were represented

Biggest delegations:
1. Brazil
2. USA
3. France
4. Italy
5. Argentina
6. Uruguay

Activities
Conferences: 10
Workshops, seminars and other kinds of activities organized by participants: 1.286
Panels: 36
Testimonies: 22
Roundtables of dialogue and controversy: 04
Exhibitors in activities organized by the Organizing Committee: 292

Volunteers: 650

Youth Camp: 25.000 people

Press
Registered journalists: 4.094, from which 2.131 were Brazilian.
Free-lancers Journalists: 832
Total of mass communication media: 1.423 (51 countries)

Countries with more numerous mass communication media/journalists in WSF:
1. Brazil: 808
2. Italy: 83
3. France: 74
4. Argentina: 73
5. United States: 53
6. Uruguay: 42
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youth are most active and attractive one's in the wsf.youth felt that wsf is a place where they can get ideas and thoughts which are practcal rather than theorotical.youth felt education should not be a previllage.they dremt of world with more choices. the intellectuals of wsf expressed their solidarity.they felt tere is a need for a new world which is socialistic in nature,which cannot be achieved by an individual,it can just be achieved by all membersof society.,wsf is needed for creation of such world. so wsf is a great place where many people with many ideas are united to give rise to another big idea--another[wiser] world.wsf stands as a ray of hope and makes us feel--"another world is possible" -----rahul

[QUOTE]another world is possible[/QUOTE]

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