Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of technologists_congress

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Mar 10, 2010, 3:59:15 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Mallory Knodel

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 == Overview: A Proposal ==
-Introduction: History, techie congress
+The connection between the current, global progressive movement and the Internet was made manifest in the success of the World Social Forum process. A sustained convergence of this scope would never have been possible without the Internet. Yet, as global crisis threatens to deplete the resources required to sustain geographical convergences of many hundreds of thousands of people, the possibilities available with the Internet ensure the progressive movements continued collaboration.
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+At the WSF 2009 in Belem, Brazil, an expanded format to the Forum process was introduced. Organizers for all corners of the globe were encouraged to participate in the Belem Forum from their local communities via Internet media. At the first United States Social Forum in 2007, technologists collaboratively developed a progressive approach to maintaining the Internet as a secure and open platform for movement building. These two processes have merged in what is known as a Techie Congress, an open virtual space led by progressive technologists. The ultimate goal of the Techie Congress are to address issues related to problem-solving global crisis, building bottom-up strategies through local representation, and building sustainable social movements by organizing the Internet; maintaining an open virtual space.
 
 Global Crisis: problem-solving collaboratively as a response to late-capitalism crisis, expand social forum, and to reduce cost of travel
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 Approach: Ongoing project, building, open virtual space
 
-Tools: Support social forum infrastructure, similar movement events
+The tools developed for the Techie Congress will be available and applied in all social forum, and forum-like events. While growing our own network and building our campaign, we will be enabling, technologically, for similar movements to use our tools to connect activists and communities across the globe.
 
-Movement Building, Sustainability, & Ongoing Vision: Next year, Next stage is to empower the growing techie network to lead and stage an international movement towards problem-solving global issues on various scales with simultaneous collaborative moments.
+Open weekly meetings are being held between Social Forum activists to plan Principles & Goals, Vision & Strategy, and building open Tools for expanded formats. A year's campaign will begin with the First Congress in Paris for early sponsorship and capacity building of the project. The first major, global Forum-endorsed event will then be held at the Social Forum of Alternatives in Mexico, City. The Techie Congress of the US Social Forum will be a major event centered in Detroit, Michigan. A few more events will be scheduled in 2010 with the current stage's final event at the 2011 WSF in Dakar, Senegal. Each event will grow stronger networks of progressive technologists globally with one another and locally between techies and the movement.
 
-Conclusion: Currently, update on what is moving.
+Movement Building, Sustainability, & Ongoing Vision: After this initial campaign, next year will bring the focus to empowering the Techie Congress network to lead and stage an international movement towards problem-solving global issues on various scales with simultaneous collaborative moments.
 
 == Needs ==