Welcome to ETC workshops at the World Social Forum

ETC Group (formerly RAFI) invites you to a workshop on

Next: Converging Technologies / Atomtechnology (nanotech, biotech, and beyond).

Pat Mooney & Silvia Ribeiro

Friday Jan. 24 14:30 - 18:00 (English / Portuguese)
Sunday Jan. 26 14:30 - 18:00 (English / Spanish)
Room: TBA/look at the signs at the PUC

While peoples' movements, civil society organizations and communities throughout the world are still trying to grasp the implications of genetic engineering for their lives, a series of new and powerful technologies are rapidly emerging. These include human genomics, neuroscience, robotics, computer and information technologies and, most significantly, nanotechnology, which ETC Group have called "Atomtechnology" .

To contribute to our understanding of the context in which these technologies are developing, and their implications on communities and marginalised groups, we invite you to share the research that ETC Group has done over the past years on these issues.

PUC RS Porto Alegre World Social Forum
Av. Ipiranga 6681 - Bairro Partenon

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Stop the "Stockholm Syndrome"!
Free Civil Society from UN Summits!

Pat Mooney & Silvia Ribeiro

Monday 27, January 14:30 - 16:30 (English / Portuguese)
Room: TBA/look at the signs at the PUC

ETC Group (formerly RAFI) offers a workshop/discussion proposing no more UN Summits unless and until governments make prior measurable and fully accountable commitments. If governments hold a party and civil society doesn't come, there'll be no party.

But, then what do we do? Can social movements and other civil society organizations work together to create a politically-effective global/local "pincer" movement that can force national policy makers and international institutions to adopt policies and programs for at truly sustainable world?

What can we learn from civil society role in the big summits in Monterrey, Rome and Johannesburg last year?

PUC RS Porto Alegre (World Social Forum)
Av. Ipiranga 6681 - Bairro Partenon