It is "civil society" territory You'll get a wide variety of
1. Kellogg's activists (nuts, fruits and flakes) 2. Gravy train (people who come there for the grants and the good food) 3. Some genuinely committed people who are also diplomatic (as in "people who are more diplomatic, who think, who dont have axe to grind agendas .. and who get beyond "isms" and slogan shouting while they're not wolfing down salmon and caviar, which I saw aplenty at the IGF in athens". Oh, I forgot "putting money and effort where your mouth is" as another essential attribute. You get a lot of people claiming "X should be done because its a fundamental right of some group Y" - while not having the vaguest idea about what X is, how it should be done, what the pitfalls are etc. Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Here's a column on the WSF. I remember previous discussions about the > WSF [1], which got derailed by discussions on publicity hogs like > Arundhati Roy. I share the columnist's confusion about what exactly the > movement stands *for* - it seems like they are *against* a large laundry > list of things, but what are they *for* [2]? Ingrid (and others), want > to comment?
