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WSF2007 Memory Project launched on this website

The Memory Team of the World Social Forum 2007 event is happy to finally present the memory of the World Social Forum.

The Memory of the World Social Forum is a record of the process and events documented in various forms: reports, concept papers, pictures, and presentations, audio, audio-visual. In the spirit of WSF Charter memory building is seen as a horizontal process, whereby actors produce documents in their own name and never pretend to speak or report in the name of the forum as a whole. This spirit is carried forth in the Memory Project of the WSF 2007 even better with the possibility existing today to allow a decentralized memory building process with all activity organizers uploading their documents in the internet spaces attached to each of their organizations in the work space site (www.wsfprocess.net) .

WSF 2007 Memory Project was set up with modest means but trying to answer to a broad concern expressed by the Organizing Committee and African Social Forum. The project's objectives are:

  • To document the process of the WSF 2007.
  • To facilitate a horizontal and decentralized memory process of the WSF2007 and stimulate organized and non-organized actors to produce content for the memory.
  • Give visibility and stimulate work around the proposals of actions and alternatives presented in the Forum.
  • Contribute to WSF process visibility and continuity beyond January 2007.
  • Help inform and shape the next WSF and social movement processes.


An elaborate strategy was designed to cover three main phases.
➢    Pre-event memory
➢    Event  memory
➢    Post-event follow up

Currently, the memory team is implementing the post event phrase to transform the WSF 2007 website into one that can be constantly made reference as it combines the process and event activities.

The website is divided into the process and event sections of which all have information that would be of interest in seeing how the WSF 2007 came to Africa, those who were actively involved, records of meetings held in preparation, the event itself, among others information.