With dozens, if not hundreds of organisations likely to attend next year’s World Social Forum (WSF) — and almost as many issues clamouring to be addressed there — nailing down a programme for the Jan. 20-25 event promises to be a daunting task.
Nonetheless, organisers of the event are starting to do just that this week according to the website of the WSF, which is to be held in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The programme will be shaped around information that participating groups were asked to provide by Aug. 30 about their aims and work, which can be viewed on the forum’s site.
The Nairobi gathering will mark the first instance in which Africa is the sole host of the WSF. While the first-ever forum to be held on the continent took place earlier this year in the Malian capital, Bamako, it formed part of what was dubbed a “polycentric” WSF, which also saw meetings being staged in Caracas, Venezuela — and the Pakistani financial centre of Karachi.