Fórum social mundial - ciências et démocratie

A call for a scientific and technical Forum during World social forum, in Belem, january 2009

This forum is for sensibilisation about the role of science and techniques inside social movements all around the world.

The initiative hope to organise a new alliance and débate between :

• members of the scientific and technical organisations and institutions
• social movements actors

It is a collective initiative :

• writing of the call
• getting endorsments through a public web site
• open construction of an international group for coordination
• creation of an information list which is send to every personn who endorse the call
• creation of a discussion list for every actor of this initiative to exchange with voluntary subscribers in an open mode (click here for more information and subscription to the list
• a support group will act as a clerck for the coordination group. Anyone involved in organizing conferences or seminaries about science and democracy is welcome