2560 events for WSF V (link has been de-activated ed.)
More than 60.000 individuals have already registered for WSF V. The event registrations for WSF fifth edition was closed on November 25. 2560 events have been registered by 4.071 organizations from 112 countries and they have been registered according to the 11 main WSF themes that were the result of a consulation process. Till the 5th of December it was still possible to aggregate and interlink events according to the new metholodogy of the forum. 11 Facilitating Groups have been installed to accompany the agglutinating process.Dates and schedule for proposed events are hoped to be known by mid-december. Read more on this and the methodology of the forum

100% self-organized
The main decision of the meeting of the Forum’s International Council Methodology and Contents Commissions from November 13 to 15, in Porto Alegre was to intensify the participative character of the WSF: for the first time in its five editions the meeting will be completely self-organized. This means that Brazilian Organizing Committee (BOC) won´t hold any round table. All discussions are to be proposed and organized by entities that register for WSF. Until this year, the greatest self-organization experience had happened in India - where the Indian Organizing Committee (IOC) held only 13 out of the 1.182 events.

Still Porto Alegre
Read the words of the WSF Organizing Committee and the Brazilian Organising Committee on the holding of the WSF in Porto Alegre, despite the fact that the PT Labour Party lost governance of the city in the last round of local elections.

Education and Water
Education and water are the priorities indicated by participants of the IV WSF in India in the construction of “another world”. This is one of the results of a survey carried out by the Brazilian Institute for Social and Economic Analyses (IBASE), under the direction of the International Secretariat of the Forum. The survey was carried out during the fourth edition of the Forum, at Mumbai in India, at the beginning of this year.

Marocco 2006?
A Committee of the Social Forum of Marocco has handed in a proposal to hold the World Social Forum of 2006 in Marocco. They put forward in their letter to the International Council of the WSF that choosing for a WSF in Marocco would continue "the globalisation of the alterglobalisationists" as started with the move of the WSF to Mumbai last year, and would furthermore add a Medeteranian, African, Berber and Arab dimension to the process. This is seen as contributing to a geostrategical widening of the WSF process. No decisions have yet been made as to whether (at all) or where or in what form the WSF of 2006 will take place.The WSF of 2007 is still set to take part in Africa.