Sumaira Sagheer Toor, Masters Dissertation, MA in Global Media and Postnational Communication, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. This study enacts a three-pronged relationship between transnational communications, participatory democracy and
Hervé Bourlard, from Idiap Research Institute ("an independent, non-profit research foundation specializing in multimedia information management and in multimodal man-machine interaction").
"..the IFJ and its regional bodies participate actively in international meetings where globalisation policy is being defined such as, for instance, the World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum."
"The mainstream press generally ignores these summits, or makes only a brief mention of their existence. And admittedly, they don't have a lot of news or entertainment value. Compared to the big economic conferences, where participants are empowered to take decisions which influence nations, regions and the world economy as a whole, a social forum has little to no impact. It's more of a 'process', as participants like to say."
THIRD DAY OF THE MEETING OF THE WORLD CIVIL SOCIETY E SOCIAL MOVEMENT TO FACE THE GLOBAL WARMING AND THE FINACIAL CRISIS interviews with Jorge Furagaro - Amazonia Colombia; Nilma Bentes - Afro descendent movement; Jorge Marubo from Jawari area, Amazonia B