
ABOUT SOCIAL FORUM DYNAMICS AS AN INTERCOMMUNICATION PROCESSS

Four elements to consider, in order to grow, through presences, activities, news, initiatives, an inspiring decentralized intercommunication process, between participant organizations inside the social forum open space. Horizontality, diversity, own speech, , voluntary acts of participation, reflecting coperations and alliances
A PROPOSED GENERIC DESCRIPTION OF SOCIAL FORUM INTERCOMMUNICATION DYNAMICS
Text below is equivalent to what is in the diagram above
See links about implementation at the bottom of the page
An image to trigger questions and exchanges about the social forum
This is generic it can be used to discuss about WSF process, or about APSF process,or other social forum processes
Describing the 4 corners of the diagram
1/ FACILITATING COLLECTIVE
This collective is formed by orgnizations and movements who are also proactive participant in the process , it is Implementing formats (activities, initiatives , news) , moments ( event) and platforms( mutual visibilty and why and how articipate info ) to host participation +inviting to participate,
As collective, the facilitation it is not producing contents beyond participation narrative : What is social forum, whay and how participate in it Sending General + specific invitations to come in the space to the:
2/ PROACTIVE PARTICIPANT ORGANIZATIONS
Producing contents :
Announcing presence, activities & initiatives
Boadcasting their news from the forum
Inviting to dialogues Inviting to initiatives
Communicating among themselves
Who may contribute to facilitation collective
Who are Making Accumulated announcements with their contents which are building a:
3/ MUTUAL HORIZONTAL VISIBILITY IN THE FORUM DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL SPACE
This mutual visiblity make the space become a perceived reality
All participants can see "who is ithe open space" and "who makes which act of particiation in the intercommunication process, . Visibilty is permanently fed by the diversity of Announcements of activities & initiatives and News from the forum: This visibility makes the space-process appear clear, rich, and relevant for the particiants
4/ REACTIVE PARTICIPANTS
Receiving General invitation to come in the open space & a Participant guide from facilitation collective
Coming in the space, Reading news
Participating in activities
Particiating in initiatives
who may becomie proactive organizations
Communicating among themselves
Who may Contribute for facilitation through volunteering
NOTE ABOUT DISTINCTION BETWEEN "REACTIVE" AND "PROACTIVE" ORGANIZATIONS in a possibly continuously expanding intercommunication dynamics, "reactive participants" soon get empowered by the stimulating example of the proactive organizations, the activities, initiatives and news of which they can see in the mutual visbilty platform , and soon enough they become proactive ( see the upward diagonal blue arrow going from reactive to proactive) .
They are being replaced by newcomer organizations that have bee invited through facilitation commmittee or have received news, from official media or alternative media coverage , or news circulatd by participant organizations.
They take a time of reactive observation and might become proactive too.
Generically, all participating organizations :
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Prepare activities/meetings with others, and attend activities meeting prepared by others
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Announce initiatives with others, and support initiatives /announcemetns / declaration of others
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Publish their "news from the forum" which are being given a social forum URL and will give access to the diversity of the forum besides showing specific news
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Learn about how to participate in the intercommunication process according to their expectations and goals, and learn from each others organizig experience about activities, initiatives, and news
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Gettig close to this generic self activation of participants is a target for the action of facilitation committee,
5/ RESULTING INTERCOMMUNICATION PROCESS DYNAMICS (at the center of diagram)
This is how , with 4 elements described in the 4 corners of this diagram, the social forum gets concretized, through a diversity acts of participation and facilitation tasks, as a dynamic PROCESS of self organized INTERCOMMUNICATIONS between collective civil society actors ( organizations), FOR DIALOGUE (ACTIVITIES) AND ACTIONS (INITIATIVES) in a space & process described by a reference document (WSF principles)
WAYS OF DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION OF APSF INTERCOMMUNICATION PROCESS
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Showing organisation participation in the APSF process through the APSF site https://www.asiasocialforum.net/organizations
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Being present in Thematic connection spaces or Geographic connection spaces https://www.asiasocialforum.net/join
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Describing activities in the APSF process in the site https://www.asiasocialforum.net/activities
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Describing actions in the site https://www.asiasocialforum.net/actions
WAYS OF DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION of WSF INTERCOMMUNICATION SPACE / PROCESS
How to use the join.wsforum.net site
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Showing organisation participation in the WSF process through join.wsforum.net site https://join.wsforum.net/organizations/
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Describing activities in the WSF process anytime anywhere through join.wsforum.net site
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Describing activities in the WSF process at time of the WSF2024 event (for later)
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Describing initiatives of transformative action in the WSF process through join.wsforum.net site https://join.wsforum.net/initiatives
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Describing actions of those initiatives, agregated in a calendar https://join.wsforum.net/actions-calendar
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Drafting news from the forum (a specific website)

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