Dear colleagues of the NGO Forum



I have taken the liberty to set up a very simple website tool which I can help us in our work, The idea is to have a place to publish and keep available material we produce, so that it can be easily be accessed. I have made it open to everyone, but it can be restricted to members of the forum if we wish.



This is a proposal, and it will be up to our Forum if we will use it or not. I have used this kind of page as a tool for collaboration earlier, but have not set up such a page, so if we want to use it, I need to explore and develop it more.



Best wishes

Egil Bakka

In the box below, everyone can write comments, and in the sidebar on the right, various documents could be uploaded.
Egil

this is the link to the video streaming of the NGO Forum in Bali 2011. You will also find the NGO statement, the agenda, and in the nearest future you will also find the summary from the meeting here. http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00422

In the meeting of the NGO forum 24 November 2011, which is just ended now, there was an acceptance of using this wiki for the NGO forum, so we will go ahead implementing the site and inviting all accredited NGOs. We hope that you will all contribute to making this Wike a lively forum for exchange of information and discussion.

On the first day I intervened with the text below:

Intervention 23 Nov. 2011, about 16:05
Item 8 of the agenda: ‘Evaluation of nominations for inscription in 2011 on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding’.

By Wim van Zanten, International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM)

“The report by the Consultative Body is excellent.

The Consultative Body has pointed out that submitted videos should not be ‘aimed at promoting tourism’ (6.COM/CONF.206-8-EN, p.8, item 24). They recommend supplying videos that are supportive to the nomination and used to show ‘what the intangible cultural heritage element is and what its social functions are today, and to illustrate its state of viability.’ We think this is a very relevant remark.

I have seen some video examples of items of the Lists that reminded me of video clips used when promoting pop music: many short shots of about 1-3 seconds.

The task of filming of ICH items should be given to people with knowledge about what I call ‘anthropological filming’. In the preamble of the convention, intangible cultural heritage is considered as ‘a factor in bringing human beings closer together and ensuring exchange and understanding among them.’

Understanding can be enhanced by proper representation of the items and that means also that films and photographs should supply proper cultural contexts and a culturally correct flow of time.

Thank you.”

There are newsletters from some of our NGOs . There is a slot for this in the workspace. We should invite the members to upload their newsletters

Bali Statement is efficient. Abu Dhabi, Nairobi statements should also be included for fuller perspective of our Forum.

Yes, thank you. if you have them, you can upload them in the proper folders, or send them to me, so that I can upload. I do not have them at hand.

I am very glad to see that more people are now accessing our webpage. I have just opened to pages where everyone can add links to their webpages or newsletter. In this way we can get a better understanding of who we are and what we do.

Dear Egil & all, Thank you for initiating the webpage. I regret being in and out of the forum and the 6.Com deliberations. I have been nursing a nagging migraine. Warm regards, amar

Dear all, Certainly the quality and purpose of the visualisation need to addressed. I am a strong believer in photo voice and video voice techniques in safeguarding intangible heritage. These techniques are also consistent with the primary role of the bearer and transmitter communities, groups and individuals. These have been used quite effectively in some Asian countries including Vietnam and China. Best wishes, amar

Dear Egil and all friends,
this place is amazing, isn't it? Thank you for inviting this webpage.

Thank you, Egil. A most useful instrument, also for me as a newcomer. So far I am studying the dossier NGO forum statements and their history. with great interest!

Thank you Egil for providing us with this possibility. Is their a way to have the most recent additions com first on the Front page rather than at the bottom ? Would be easier. Best, Diego

Dear Diego, dear all, Many of you have mentioned this point to me, and I absolutely agree. I have tried to find a way to do this, but have no succeed. I will keep on trying.
Thankyou
Egil

Dear friends,

The question about the focus of our NGO Statement is now clear from this page:

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00422

which shows that this is the NGO Statement for our NGO Forum.

We still however require an NGO Statement for 6COM. This should include the conclusions of the Forum and also raise matters we have been discussing this year over email.

Do we have a working draft or points for such a draft? Is it feasible to have this statement ready for delivery by say 27 November?

Thanks and regards, Rahul

Dear all, I have just arrived in Amsterdam now, met Diego there who helped me with the efficiency of the travel, thank you. I have a board meeting of my institution tomorrow, that I could not avoid, that is why I had to leave early. Sorry for not getting the chance to say goodbye to you before leaving. I had meant to be back in the afternoon session. We will stay in touch here. I think Rahul's point above is very important.

Best wishes
Egil

Dear friends,

At 6com there were 34 requests for accreditation by NGOs. Should the working group send a messge to the successful NGOs welcoming them into the group of accredited NGOs? And also to those whose applications were unsuccessful this time, giving them our support for the next round?

See this page: http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=413

Regards, Rahul

Dear all
thank you tu Egil for this invitation and stay in touch. Thanks to Rahul for the goods propositions abour the NGO statement and to Carmen for Newsletters.
The web site of my association (italianophone!)

www.simbdea.it

www.amrivista.it

All the best, Valentina

Dear friends. Thanks Egil for providing this "meeting place" for us. I am sorry for not having the possibility of following the latest developments of our networking. Other commitments took most of my time in the last week or so. How can I know where we are and where we are heading to after the 6COM? Best. Antonio

Dear Antonio,good to hear from you. If you open "pages and files" at the top here, then you find summaries where there are reports from the meetings at Bali.
Best Egil

Thanks Egil. Now I fount it! Have a nice weekend. Best Antonio

Some may be interested to watch webcasted this Monday Dec. 5 from 9am till 11am (Paris time) the Exchange session State parties/civil organization on 2005 Conv, IGC. I was asked to monitor. A practice we could possibly pick up for the 7 com ICH.
http://www.unesco.org/new/fr/culture/themes/cultural-diversity/cultural-expressions/periodic-reports/exchange-session/
Best, Diego

Diego is right about this practice. We NGOs will need to follow the debates and decisions closely in order to recommend and comment in an advisory role - both to Convention organs and bodies, and also to practitioners, other NGOs, ICH holder etc.

But where are the final documents and decisions for 6COM? I can't see any online and a week has gone by. This page
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=00362
still has the agenda and session documents posted at the beginning of 6COM.

Regards, Rahul

Hello Rahul and Friends, :)
I would like to see the final documents, maybe we will wait for it.
Anyway, I uploaded photos into the NGO FORUM Photos Folder.
Best, MOON

Hi Diego!
Sorry I sent our representative to the NGO meeting at UNESCO Paris on 5th December as agreed, but he stood at the gate of 1 rue Miollis from 9 - 10am. Nobody knew about the meeting there. Later on 6th I was informed that the meeting took place at UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy. There was therefore a problem of communication as we had not specified the venue of the meeting when we met in Bali. But I later sent the message of ACRI to the Secretariat and informed them that we failed to find the venue of the meeting.
How did the meeting go?

Regards. Francis Gichuru, ACRI.

Hi everyone

It's great to have a single place with all the documentation and exchanges, as it represents an opportunity to hear from everyone including those who cannot attend the IGCi meetings but still play an important role.

When I eventually got home from Bali in spite of the strikes, I was at the ICOMOS meeting in Partis on 2 Dec for the international scientific committee on ICH and would like to encourage them to join as well. Can we ask Egil to tell us how we can publicise the Forum with civil society organisations and experts - do we ask people to email you? How many members do we have already on this site?

best wishes
Harriet Deacon

Hi Harriet,
We have sent invitations to 63 persons, some 20 have logged in so far. Anyone can go here and read the pages, but those who want to comment, need to be invited or can request access on the top here, under users. There I also think you should be able to see who are users so far.
If you send me a usual email with addresses you want to us to invite, I can do that very easily.

I can also upload material.
Best wishes
Egil
Egi

Thanks Egil, will send you some emails.

Happy holidays everyone!

Hello~~ eveyone,
Merry Christmas!
Happy holiday~~~

best,
MOON

A happy 2012 to all. I wish you a peaceful 2012 full of inspiration, friendship and solidarity. I've taken a good look at this ICH forum webspace and thank Egil and Eivind for the excellent work they have put in. The 'navigator' links lead to a good set of starting material. It would be excellent if we had more non-English material (and discussion) here. I don't know if we can write in Mandarin or HIndi or Arabic yet :) but I guess we'll get there. Regards, Rahul

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! I WISH EVERYONE PROSPERITY, GOOD HEALTH AND A LOT OF ENERGY FOR PURSUING THE WORK OF THE NGO FORUM.
I have just gotten back from a vacation with family and have not had the chance to keep in touch.
Thanks to Eivind for the summary of the participation of the NGOs in the ICH Committee meeitng in Bali. We look forward to a more transparent cooperation among NGOs to strengthen the role of the NGOs in UNESCO. We hope to be of more use to the implementation of the plans and programs of the ICH committee to mutually benefit each other.
Thanks to Egil for keeping this forum going. This was really fast work and very helpful in communicating with members.

Hi everyone

The deadline for papers in Gothenberg closes tomorrow:
http://www.science.gu.se/english/research/prominent-research-environments/areas-of-strength/Heritage_Studies/news_events/achs/

Also, in case you do not already know, it seems that the date for the Researchers Forum meeting will be 3 June in Paris. Any queries to Toshi Kono please.

This forum is pretty quiet - Are there still only 20 registrations, Egil? Have all accredited NGOs been invited to join (they are already more than 63)?

best wishes to all for the year of the dragon!
Harriet

Thank you for your informations Harriet, yes, it is quite silent here. 64 persons have been invited, but only some 20 have signed in.
If you miss anyone, please send them an email invite them to ask for access, or send me their email, and I can invite them.

Best wishes
Egil

Thanks Egil

The full list of 97 NGOs is at http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?lg=en&pg=331
maybe there are some emails there to add to the 64 you invited, I am not sure!

I suppose the broader issue is to have reasons for people to join the NGO Forum (not just the website) and participate in its organization; it's still at such an early stage -

best wishes to all
Harriet

Dear Harriet and Egil
thank you for your informations about the forum of 3 june, can you tell me more about the way to have the registration form and/or sign this invitation?
best wishes to all
Valentina

Dear Valentina

I am sure there will be a formal invitation / notice out soon - just save the date in the meantime and if you have any specific queries the best thing to do is contact Toshi Kono.

Dear all

I really wish I could have joined the Forum on the 3rd of June but the date is really impossible for me. Though I hope the Web-Forum will be a fruitful meeting point for the NGOs. I really hope that the ones we miss will join our Forum. Please help us to make that possible. Thanks to all of you for making the NGOs participation in Bali a success.

Eivind

Dear friends,

Finally, the new issue of Boletim Salvaguarda.

Apologies for the delay - the editorial staff went on a flash strike!

Actually, I had wanted to complete it during December, and now it's well over a month late. It's smaller than usual, as I didn't want to delay it longer. For the next issue, No. 6, please send along any material you think will be useful.

I am going to email this out to the lists - no not those Lists, our email contact lists! - tomorrow. Here it is:
http://ngoforum.pbworks.com/w/file/50561025/Boletim_Salvaguarda_5_201202.pdf

Regards, Rahul

Thank you, Rahul for a very good new issue.
Egil

Wow ~~Rahu
Thank you
Moon
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Dear friends,

A short deadline announcement from our colleagues at ARTerial Network in Cape Town, South Africa.

They have a position to fill - the deadline for replying is ** Friday 10 February 2012 **.

I have posted the announcement here - http://ngoforum.pbworks.com/w/file/50747677/Arterial_Network_announcement_201202.pdf

Their site is here - http://www.arterialnetwork.org/

If you are interested or know someone who should read this, please let them know.

Regards, Rahul

Dear Rajiv, thanks very much for the contribution to Boletim No. 6 - time for me to start putting the pages together for that one! Regards, Rahul

Dear all,
Greetings from Trondheim, Our Erasmus mundus masters Choreomundus
www.choreomundus.org
have received 100 applications from all over the world, many excellent candidates, and the admission process have started.
With Eivind we are working on a webbased system for registering Intangible Cultural Heritage in Norway, and soon the new Consultative body for the next round will have its meeting in Paris.
Best wishes
Egil

Dear ICH NGO friends,
Greetings from Seoul.
Korea Cultrual Heritage Foundation(CHF) is seeking participants who will take part in the Project on Invitation(Joint Research for visiting officers in the field of ICH) as a part of the Cultural Partnership Initiative(CPI) Project. We are kindly asking your organization to recommend a person suitable for the Project above by March 26th 2012.
I have posted the announcement here - http://www.chf.or.kr/chf/webzine/images/1.2012 CPI Program_Official Invitation_CHF(KOR)_120229.pdf

If you want to see more Information, please see 2012 guideline. Here it is:
http://www.chf.or.kr/chf/webzine/images/2.2012_CPIProgram_Guideline_CHF(KOR)_120229.pdf
Best regards,
MOON

Dear friends,
The new consultative body started preparing for the work that has to be done before our next meeting in Grenada. It was a very successful and interesting meeting which was held jointly with the subsidary body. Greetings from Paris
Egil

A belated greeting to you all after ICH 6! I have just uploaded the annual report (2011) of the NGO I work with, SIL International. Thanks to Egil for his hard work in maintaining this site.
Julie

Dear friends,

hello from the green and warm southern Moravia! I would like to ask if anyone has a direct experience with the Register of best practices of UNESCO or at least does anyone know how the sharing of information works? I wonder if the people/institutions interested in the inscribed projects should cotntact directly the owners/organizers/responsible institutions (whose addresses can be found in the nomination documentation), etc. or if the information is provided by the UNESCO Secretatariat.

Thanks a lot, lovely spring to everyone!!

Eva

Dear friends,
Thanks Eva for the spring greetings. Nowruz was celebrated not so long ago - 21 March, and that day, in these times of climate change and awry weather patterns, does its best to remind us of the old calendars and seasons.
During the Cons Body meeting Egil and Wim and I also discussed whether we could post here in this forum, or link to, the training materials for the capacity building programme for ICH, which is under way in all the six group regions (see here):
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00326
If the Secretariat will agree, I think the NGOs can also make good use of this material, add to it and expand the learning corpus just as the trainers are doing.
Eivind and Egil - Can we ask for this permission? Rahul

Hi everyone

As you all know, an ICH researcher forum is being set up by researchers to facilitate and discuss the role of researchers in relation to the Convention.

A first meeting is scheduled for 3 June 2012 at la Maison des Cultures du Monde (101 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, France).

The website for the meeting is http://www.ichresearchers-forum.org/ and if you have any queries about it please contact Toshiyuki Kono on ich.researchers.forum@gmail.com.

The closing session of the meeting will be 'How to identify priority areas for research'. We'd like to encourage the broadest possible discussion about key areas of existing and future research. Whether or not you are attending the meeting, if you'd like to send ideas or references to existing work in advance of the meeting please email us as follows:

(a) Key publications, reports, articles, books on the principles, history and implementation of the Convention (in any language) that could form the basis of a working bibliography for the Forum. These references (with an abstract if possible) can be sent to Harriet Deacon (harriet@conjunction.co.za)

(b) Key areas of research that should be prioritized in the future to understand and/or assist in the implementation of the Convention. These suggestions can be sent to Chiara Bortolotto
(chiara.maria.bortolotto@ulb.ac.be)

All inputs will be acknowledged.

Best wishes and thanks
Harriet Deacon and Chiara Bortolotto

Bonjour tout le monde depuis la Suisse,

As you all know the next General Assembly of State parties to the ICH Convention will take place from the 4th to the 8th of June in Paris. Traditions for Tomorrow will participate. It could be helpfull to know ahead of time which of our NGOs intend to participate and who will be its or their representatives.

Very best,

Diego Gradis
Traditions for Tomorrow
www.tradi.info

Thanks for all input to the forum. Just to clearify; if you write a comment here, under add a comment, it be visible directly to everyone who logs in. I do not do any kind of editing or screening. If you have selected the option, you will also get a message to your email when new items are added here.

It seems I will not be able to come to Paris for the General Assembly. I have not yet decided finally if

I do not know yet if I will manage to come to the ICH researchers forum.
Best wishes
Egil

I'm unable to attend this one - funding is rather scarce :( But I'm still hoping Grenada will be possible.
Best wishes to all,
Julie
SIL Int'l

Hello, our president , director and I will take part in 4th General Asseembly. I would like to know whether there will be any NGO meeting in Paris.
We are also hoping Grenada, but there is far from here, Seoul.
Best regards to all,
MOON
Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation

Hi ! To those wondering whether there will be NGO meetings during 4GA, it is most likely, I guess, that we will get together. We'll probably decide once there when and where. A bientôt,
Diego Gradis
Traditions for Tomorrow
www.tradi.info

Dear freands,

Unfortunately, the UNESCO Centre of Catalonia will not be able to attend the General Assembly.

However, we continue working in the safeguarding of ICH and I invite you to visite the website of our project "Methodology for the inventory of ICH in the biosphere reserves : the Montseny experience" (http://www.unescocat.org/montseny/en/).

Furthermore, we are organizing on July 9-10 a seminar on ICH and sustainable development (http://www.unescocat.org/en/departments/heritage/main-projects/intangible-cultural-heritage-and-sustainable-development).

Best regards,

Lluís Garcia Petit

Dear friends,

Do have a look at this file:
http://ngoforum.pbworks.com/w/file/53960270/ICH_Researchers_forum_2012_flyer.pdf

which was distributed recently bu Helena Drobna of the Secretariat. The agenda of the Researchers' Forum 2012 is ready. In an earlier post, Harriet has linked to the Researchers' website.

I do think we all have a lot to contribute - there's no-one here who isn't an ICH researcher and indeed some of us have been for many a year.

There are far more subjects that we ought to be talking about than are being dealt with in this first Researchers' Forum, and it will be of great help to the group at the Forum to listen to /read our comments and points of view.

Many familiar faces there too! So, I'm sure we can channel some of that 'blue sky' thinking on that day into our NGO Forum and keep the channel flowing. Regards, Rahul

Dear all. I really wish I could join you in Paris next week, but it is impossible for me. Nevertheless Dag will be present on NHU's and my behalf, and represent us in the best way. I am looking forward to hear how you all think about the next meeting in Grenada, and how we should prepare in the best way in front. We have been making some important steps, but there is still a way to go. I hope you will discouss this in Paris in order to find out if we should organize something as in Bali, and what the workinggroup should start to prepare. I wish you all a fruitfull workshop and some wonderful days in Paris! Best regards from Eivind

Dear Rahul and all,
As Rahul, I also think that we all have a lot to contribute to ICH researcher forum and to read our comment and point of view is quite important. The idea to share here a common paper after the ICH researchers forum is perhaps important for a better organization of next 7COM meeting in Grenada.
From Italy, I see a central problem: to build a specific competence in the (difficult) dialogue among scientific institutions, gouvernamental authorities, NGO and local (or not local) communities....in fact the Convention proposes a different way and methodology to approach our research fields. Ther are a lot of concrete possibilities to build these competences but we must still work to a recognition, acknowledgement and support by the leading actors of the ICH process. Then, we can work around "case studies" from our countries and international experiences. Harriet and Chiara Bortolotto are working on a biblio data-base. This is an important step. We can add to this bibliography something as "voices from the ICH research-fields", or something so. We have in Italy some very interesting cases of heritages-frictions. With our NGO Simbdea we are building the italian network of ICH_NGO (many researchers in this network) . I hope to have new and strong moments to exchange with you all in Paris and after, and thanks to Rahul for his engagement! Best regards, Valentina

Hi everyone

I agree with Valentina, and Rahul that NGO voices need to be heard by researchers, and vice versa. If we improve the inter-sectoral dialogue and make it concrete - about case studies - then I think we can also begin to talk more concretely about the issue Rahul and many others are raising about the link to sustainable development and community engagement. I think it's important to outline some of the areas needing further work, which is why we asked for suggestions from this forum for areas of focus that you consider important. Thanks to those who emailed us with suggestions to make in the final session on research trends.

Looking forward to seeing some of you in Paris, and maybe at the ACHS conference in Sweden. Toshi will apparently be putting the papers for the Paris meeting on the researchers forum website, but I did not see them there yet.

all the best
Harriet

PS, and it's great when we have people who have both worked in the NGO environment and done research - that helps the dialogue a lot

Welcome to Marilyn Truscott President ICOMOS Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage, who has just asked for access.
Egil

Hello! Quite busy time nowadays, so I have been following the forum with halfclosed eyelids. However i will join you in the Paris meeting (with open eyes and ears!) next week and will update myself on comments in our forum by then. As Eivind writes, I will be present on NHUs and Eivinds behalf. However, I have to shorten my presence, from wednesday evening till friday. I look forward to see you all. Dag

Hello NGO friends,
Finally, NGO meeting will be held tomorrow(5th. june ) morning (9 a.m). in room 9 of UNESCO Headquarters.
see you

regards,
MOON

Welcome new users, I am sorry that I am not with you in Paris. Right now I am on to Finland to be oponent for a dr. defense.
I wish you the best of luck with your work, sn please be sure to upload reports here. Go to the to top, click Pages and files, then Sidebar, and there you can find the appropriate boxes for uploading files or links.
I miss being with you
Egil

During the general assembly in Paris, Diego Gradis, from the Swiss NGO Traditions pour demain, intervened on behalf of the NGO's present. A French proposal was adopted to think on what could be role of the NGO's in the UNESCO convention. Their will be a proposal which is going to be discussed during the next UNESCO meeting in Grenada, later this year. Diego outlined the importance of the NGO's in implementing the UNESCO convention, as experts in community involvement and in safeguardingpractices. He also said that the NGO forum would gladly participate in the discussion in preparing the proposal on the NGO's for the Grenada meeting.
Earlier the NGO's present in Paris, had already decided they will try to organise a little conference in Grenada, focussed on community participation. Wim van Zanten will be the initiator of this. Also he will write a little report on the general assembly meeting in Paris, for the NGO's, so they will know what was discussed in Paris.

Dear all,

1. My report about the NGO meetings during the General Assembly (and the GA itself in Paris, 4-8 June 2012) will come in about a week.

2. The text of most presentations at the Forum of ICH researchers in the Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris, 3 June 2012, can already be found on that site (http://www.ichresearchers-forum.org/).

3. At the NGO meetings in Paris we decided that we shall start organising a NGO Forum in Grenada, Nov 2012, with a business meeting and a symposium with the general theme Community participation. There will be an introductory text on the theme of the symposium and from the speakers we shall expect an abstract of about 250-400 words. This will also be announced on the UNESCO site (http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/, NGO, institutions and experts). More information to follow.

Wim van Zanten

Thanks Wim,
My apologies for not being able to be in Paris last week.
I sincerely appreciate the updates and look forward to your report.
Warm regards to all,
amar

Thanks so much for all this Wim. I am sorry I was not aware of the researchers forum for this year. I look forward to your report and to the next researchers forum. The current texts seem quite relevant for some of the work our organization is doing and planning to do in the next year.
Best regards,
Richenel

Thanks Wim

I'm pleased we will start planning for the Grenada meeting in advance and that there will be a focus on content issues. There the NGO forum and the researchers forum should be working together for maximum impact.
We must just also ensure that the focus is on broadening the debate so people who can't be there can also make inputs.
all the best
Harriet

Welcome to an new member of the group, a newly accredited NGO with the email address
joanneo@museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk

Welcome to Stephen Rwagweri Executive Director Engabu Za Tooro as new member of the NGO forum

I have just finished the report by Diego Gradis and me about the General Assembly that took place between 4 and 8 June in Paris. The file is "12-07-02 report GA 2012 for NGO Forum.pdf".

Wim van Zanten

Welcome to roxana.blaj@consumers-proetction.ro as new member of NGO forum

The proposed agenda for the NGO Forum to be held in Grenada has just been uploaded ("12-07-23 Agenda NGO Forum Grenada"). This is a temporary version that may be revised. If you want to take part as a presenter in the symposium 'Community participation; Results of the 2003 UNESCO convention', please read the details on how to submit an abstract (deadline 1 September 2012).

Wim van Zanten

NGO Forum at the 7th Intergovernmental Committee meeting: 2 December 2012, Paris

The time and place of the 7th IG Committee meeting have been changed and therefore the NGO Forum will now take place in Paris on Sunday 2 December 2012 from 10 a.m. – 17 p.m.

Place: ´Maison des associations du 7ème arrondissement´, 4, rue Amélie, 75007 Paris. Building open at 9:30 a.m.
There will be no interpreters and the used language will be English.

As the number of seats is limited (60), participants are asked to register before 24 November 2012 with Jorijn Neyrinck (info@tapisplein.be), by supplying (1) first name, (2) last name, (3) institution (NGO/ State/ Centre, ...) and (4) whether attending the morning session (symposium), afternoon session (business for NGO representatives) or both.

See a map and more information on the symposium and business meeting in the document "12-09-19 Agenda NGO Forum Paris - 2 December 2012" on this PbWorks site.

Congratulations, nice to join in and see good friends. I´ll see you all in December

Welcome to our forum, Jorge. Good to have you here.

Welcome to the new user behind the email: circolo@zampogna.org

Many thanks to everybody for the welcome. See you in Paris in December
Antonietta Caccia

Welcome to several new users, it is so good to see that we are becoming more all the time

Yesterday’s meeting of the NGO’s in Paris was a big success, more than 50 NGO’s attended. The discussion topic selected was Community and community involvement and how the NGO’s could contribute to this central issue of the UNESCO convention. A statement is now being prepared for the meeting of the intergovernmental committee.

The NGO-forum members are working and a resolution was elabourated yesterday, Monday. It is now uploaded in the folder of NGO statements. Jorijn has made a list of NGO participants which is uploaded in the folder of Reports. Also, please note that anyone who have status as writers in this Wiki that they can comment here, but also upload files and edit content. Thank you for all the very good work that is done.

No doubt that this NGO-forum is a new big step forward for the us. I also think that the resolution turned out to be a good statement for us. A drawback this time is that we have no streaming of the forum. As this meeting is relevant for other NGOs that can not be present, I think we should pay attention to this in front of the next meeting.

It is my pleasure to join this forum and thank you very much for this great job :)
I hope to see you in the future in different meetings!
Best regards,

Nomindari Shagdarsuren (Nomiko)
Foundation for the protection of natural and cultural heritage (Mongolia)

Welcome Nomindari! Wonderful to have you here, and that you joined the NGO-forum

Fra: Egil Bakka
Sendt: 6. desember 2012 22:19
Til: 'Rosalinda Namises'; cjmineiro@uol.com.br
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Emne: SV: Voluntariat

Dear all,
I left this morning from Paris, and it is excellent to see so many people volunteering.

I give you 3 proposals:

1. Please go to the NGO-forum website and see if you can sign in if you have not done so already. Your username is you email, and if you forgot your password you can ask the automatic service to send you. If not, register and send a little greeting so that we know you are there. There are very few who has actually written anything.

2. At the meeting where I was present, two of you, from Italy, I think, volunteered for a group on the webpage. Please send me an email, so that we can get in touch.

3. I have made a new folder for working groups. I suggest more of you initiate a working group by naming the group and making a folder and page for it in that folder. Just click folders and files on the top. Go down to NGO Working Groups. Click to get into the folder.

There you find a folder for NGO Working Groups on webpages, and inside there one can upload files or create new pages (discussion forums) or folders. The New groups can make their folder inside the NGO Working Groups folder.

If you need help, tell me, and give me the name, and I can make what you need.

Best wishes
Egil

Dear all,

I am Jin, working with Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation(CHF).

Korea Cultrual Heritage Foundation(CHF) is seeking your NGO's information, pictures and ICH activities which will be published on our ICH NGO NEWSLETTER.

We are kindly asking your cooperation to publish our ICH NGO Newsletter, and I think it can be a good opportunity to let many people know about your NGO's activities.

On our website ( www.chf.or.kr), youy can see our on-line newsletter. (ICH NGO Networking - Resource Center)

Please send me your NGOs' activities and pictures! (ASAP)

Best regards,

JIN

Dear Ji
Very good to hear from you. It is kind of you to offer us to be represented in your Newsletter. If you open the folder Files and pages on the top of this page, you will find a folder with our photos. I think you should be able to open and download one or some of the pictures there, and use them in your Newsletter. Unfortunately I do not have the time to write a pice about our NGO forum right now, I hope that some of the other members could do that, and perhaps even offer extra photos.
I hope Jin can be helped that way.
Best wishes
Egil

Dear all
Long time, no see!
I am happy to send you the link to Vol. 10, No. 1 of Vibrant - Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, the Brazilian Anthropological Association's journal that aims to disseminate anthropology made in Brazil to those who don't speak or read Portuguese. This number includes a dossier in English on Heritage and Museums which I edited with Antonio Motta. I hope you find it useful and would be glad if you could let other interested people and institutions know.
http://www.vibrant.org.br/issues/v10n1/
Best wishes
Antonio Arantes (ARTESOL+UNICAMP)

Hello NGO friends, it's my honour to participate to your mission.... It will be so interesting me to be in Paris with Valentina Zingari and Gabriele Desiderio for the Italian and global ICH improve. I will joint my best energies to that. Ciao PROF Arantes, here in Abruzzo you are ineffaceable. We miss you.

Dear friends. It is good t be back in touch with you. Unfortunately I will not be able to join you in Paris. Carmo Sodré Mineiro, the president of ArteSol, will be there to contribute to the NGOs presence in the GA. Lia, salve! Welcome on board. I miss you guys and our abbruzzese friends as well. Maybe we will get back in touch soon. So I hope.

I thought I would see some of you in the meeting organized by ICHCAP at Jeonju. Shame you didn't come! I have tried to post in this site the paper that I will present in a couple of hours at the ICHCAP’s meeting, but I am quite incompetent with IT devices. Still, I hope I managed to do it. I virtually discussed with some of you while writing that paper. So, I hope you might be interested in reading it. Please send your comments if you have any. I look forward to getting in touch with you again. Best regards and warm greetings from Korea. Antonio