Memory Project

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Proposed definition: The memory project of the world social forum and/or of the social forum process consists of the various efforts of the organisers and participants to preserve a collective memory of the activities that took place during the forums.

Within the Memory Project, thus broadly defined, one may distinguish a number of more or less separate subprojects.

Memoria Viva

http://www.memoria-viva.org/

According to Nicolas Haeringer and Martí Olivella

"Memoria Viva’s team was created from the IC Content and Methodology Commission (CMC)’s work teams. This team was in charge of facilitating the interlinkages, at the moment of the WSF 2005 registration, to 50 build up its written memory, through the Proposal Panel system, to build a website capable of becoming the Memory webpage of all World Social Forums and made accessible to receive information from others Forums. It is a small team made up of Brazilians, Catalans and the French and financed from November to March by CCFD and ESF 2003 funding association. The 4 CMC Brazilian facilitators were in charge of the political and institutional direction of the project. Memoria Viva is organized around a web site, a database and a mailing list (which is recorded) and it communicates mostly through Skype."

During WSF 2005, Gustavo Marin and others from the Memoria Viva-project carried out an experiment in "mindmapping" of a WSF event.

Map of the new world

The "Map of the new world

"was presented in a document sent to the International Council’s list and concerns the Forums’ Memory. It aims to allow each organization to dispose of what it has done during the forum and also to inform any interested party of its continuation and its participation in the forum

through an open publishing system."(Olivella & Haeringer)

E-library on the social forums process

http://www.openelibrary.info/

The Open Elibrary defines itself (on its website) as an

E-library on and for social transformation is an online open and collaborative space for sharing and consulting on the social movements and social transformation web-bibliographic and multimedia resources.

The Memory Project of the WSF 2007 organising committee

The WSF 2007 organising committee carried out a Memory Project with the help of many volunteers.

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Sources

Olivella, Martí and Haeringer, Nicolas: From Event To Process. Reinforcing the social forums’ processes. Information for Social Change 24

Marin, Gustavo: "Methodological Contribution to the WSF 2005 Activity-aggregation Process. Attempting to See the Trees and the Forest at the Same Time .." http://www.memoria-viva.org/fsm05/docs/portoalegre2005en.rtf