World Social Forum Brazil: Forum de Radios

Forum de Radios, is a space of radios which participate in the World Social Forum (WSM). It aims to be a converging point for the actors involved in the WSF process, who are there to produce radio transmissions that will promote and enhance the already existing information.

The information produced by Forum de Radios will be aired from Porto Alegre during the WSF and on line for the rest of the world, before, during, and after the 5th WSF’s main event. This is the main idea of the initiative: to reconstruct the ability to gather and disseminate radio productions regarding the WSF process.

FR is currently a component of the WSF’s website, where it is possible to find the official newsletters in audio format, in addition to a file containing radio programs produced in previous forums. At this stage, the goal is to include the greatest number of programs possible. This will largely depend on the participation and integration of other productions from other places.

At first, FR will work in four languages (English, Portuguese, French and Spanish) although the goal is to include as many languages as possible.

The idea is that FR becomes a project that incorporates community radios, networks and other actors, thus creating a cooperation for free information in an audio format.