Impressions from the ICSU –CODATA ISGI 2005 symposium in Berlin

A symposium and a OPEN FORUM - OPEN SPACE…

“Lectures” as normal….

Before and after OPEN_FORUM dialogues which helped to know the participants and concerns or objectives (before the session)

And after the event sum up and establish recommendations and future objectives/activities.

Before: TIME CREDIT introduction round:

See “re-inventing democracy” for more.. and the homepage of the Moderator Farah Lenser.

And after the symposium:

Results:

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Here reports or statements from participants…..

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PLEASE SEE ALSO THE IMPLEMENTATION PAPER (DRAFT) for COMBINING sessions, posters like in scientific, cultural, or political symposia with open format self-organizing principles to ease the exchange between participants, give all stakeholders and “lurkers” possibly a voice and meet the objectives of Organization which want to organize SYMPOSIA about a certain topic, with clearly visible invited experts – and giving voice to participants and people in the field which want to include their concerns and pragmatic stance.