Hello and greetings!We take great pleasure in inviting you to the Civil Society Summit to be held in Bangalore from 24-26 January 2010. Given below is the concept note and the programme schedule.
Please do come and attend all the three days. It would be very enriching for all present for the fellowship, sharing and building lasting solidarity relationships.
It would be a good opportunity for your network members to come, and share their perspective with a larger peer group .... so they could share experiences and learn from each other.
Please do:
1. Register as soon as possible.2. Encourage others whom you know to register as organisations and networks at the earliest.3. Suggest and/or sponsor speakers for the sessions.Please do join the egroup to help design the process and take part in the planning discussions by sending a mail to css2009-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
4. Suggest names for the Freedom Fighter Awards and those who need to be remembered.
Subsequently you could post mails by sending them to css2009@yahoogroups.com
for registrations write to pradeepesteves@gmail.comfor other information write to 60@openspace.org.in
With best wishes
Edwin
The programme:Civil Society Summit: The state of the Indian Republic @ 6024–26 January 2010, Bangalore, India
The Civil Society Summit is a knowledge and networking event of civil society in India. It is to celebrate continuing freedom struggles in India, and to recognise present day freedom fighters. Its primary goal is to bring together leading thinkers and practitioners in development and human rights with their counterparts in different sectors to
Inform civil society actors about the developments in knowledge, cutting edge technology and tools through keynote addresses.
Inspire, by having living legends (such as Right Livelihood Awardees, senior social activists, business people and public servants) interact with upcoming leaders though round tables.
Innovate by providing space and opportunity for diverse actors—from corporate sector, government, media, sports, medicine and the civil society—to interact, and find areas of synergy and synchronicity in panel discussions.
Coordinate in action by providing opportunity for sharing information on their activities and synchronising them through group discussions.
The summit will be in Bangalore, India from 24–26 January 2010. It is special since on 26 January 2010, India completes 60 years as a sovereign republic. The Civil Society Summit will discuss the state of our republic 60 years after we promised
'to secure to all its citizens: JUSTICE, social, economic and political; LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship; EQUALITY of status and of opportunity; and to promote among them all FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation.'
The Republic Day is in some ways even more special than the independence day. The independence day (15 August) was selected by the British to be on the anniversary of the day they won World War II. R-Day (26 January) was chosen to commemorate the anniversary of the Quit India day. Till R-Day the Monarch of England was the head of state. From R-Day, it was our president. Till R-Day, the feudal British law of graded social inequality was the law. From R-Day we had our own constitution with promised equality, justice and fraternity—legally abolishing the caste system and ensuring universal adult franchise.
The Summit will have keynote addresses by internationally renowned practitioners, a few panel discussions and a series of roundtables so that everyone gets to interact and gain in depth understanding on their areas of interest. State group discussions will help coordinating action. Campaign coordinators, representatives from industry and government will add to the richness of the interaction. The schedule will allow for sufficient one–on–one, informal, off–session interaction. The Summit will honour present day freedom fighters and remember those who are no longer with us.
You can contribute by:
Registering early. It helps in arranging the logistics.
Suggesting speakers and panellists.
Help design the programme. Please join by sending a mail to css2009–subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
Identifying present day freedom fighters to be honoured.
Letting us know who else to invite.
Informing others so that they register and participate.Overarching theme- 60 years of the Indian constitution- Emerging spaces and challenges.
The thread for the three days was challenges on the 24th, solutions and alternatives on the on the 25th and 26th focussing on partnerships, celebrations and recognition of contributions in ongoing freedom struggles.
24th January 2010
10 – 10.30am: Inaugural
- Overview of the Civil Society Summit
- Keynote speaker Suggestions-Binayak Sen/ Medha Patkar
- Cultural programme
1030-1230 Session I: Challenges: Accessibility, Commons and Climate Change
1400-1600 Session 2: Constitutional Vacuum
- J&K, NEI, Orissa, Chattisgarh, and Jharkhand
- AFSPA, Organised crime bills
1600-1800 Session 3: Governance and threats to Civil Society (direct tax act, FCMC etc)
Threat to farmers, agricultural land, SEZs, food security (bt etc)
25th January 2010
0900-0930: Film Voting for all (?)
0930-1100 Session 4: Electoral Reforms
1100-1230 Session 5: Peace Building (Adivasi, Women, Culture and Peace Building)
1400-1600 Session 6: Health, Education MDGs
1600-1800 Session 7: Partnerships, CSR, Fairtrade
1800-2000 Cultural evening, Sufi Music
26th January 2010
0930-1100 Session 8: Children and Governance
1100-1230 Session 9: Emerging constitutional spaces – RTI, NREGA, DV, FRA
1230-1400 Session 10: International relations
1400-1600 Freedom fighters award
Book releases (More can be added)
CERI manifesto
Dalitocracy (Hindi)
SC/ST(PoA) Andhra
1600-2000 Cultural evening
Suggested registration:
Individuals = 500
Organisations = 5,000
State/Regional organisations and networks = 15,000
National organisations and networks = 25,000
Stalls (NGOs/fraternal groups) = 5,000
Stalls (others) = 50,000
Accommodation will need to be paid directly, but can be blocked/arranged at UTC, ISI, Workers Centre, Youth Hostel
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Palash Biswas
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