Initiation of the ‘Hindi Heartland Project’, centred on translating and publication of a Hindi edition of World Social Forum : Challenging Empires in four slim, easy-to-buy volumes, coordinated by Kishan Kaljayee, and with the plan to use this as the basis of a major pedagogical experiment and intervention in cultures of politics...

Participation by CACIM members Madhuresh Kumar and Jai Sen on the Steering Committee of the Other Worlds Education Project at the University of Nottingham, UK. Helping to formulate an experimental, reflexive educational programme to tackle development education and uncritical discourses of global citizenship in the UK, initially inspired by the Open Space...

The first Building Bridges workshop, organised at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India....

The publication of World Social Forum : Challenging Empires, edited by Jai Sen, Anita Anand, Arturo Escobar, and Peter Waterman (Viveka, New Delhi), a major anthology on the theory and practice of the Forum, towards a more critical appreciation of this major world initiative; and the organisation of a major seminar...

Collation, together with Peter Waterman, of ‘The World Social Bibliography : A Bibliography on the World Social Forum and the Global Solidarity and Justice Movement’, first edition....

Publication of the ‘Open Space Reader’, compiled by Jai Sen and Madhuresh Kumar...

Co-organising a major series of seminars at the University of Delhi, collectively titled the Open Space Seminar Series and with the theme ‘Are Other Worlds Possible ? The World Social Forum and Cultures of Politics’; towards a more critical engagement in India with the World Social Forum process in the run-up to the...

‘Meeting of Minds’ meeting in Bangalore, India (co-organised by Jai Sen, now of CACIM; Leo Saldanha of ESG, Bangalore, and CACIM associate; Siddhartha of Fireflies, Bangalore; and Sundar Chaterji, Chennai, CACIM associate)...

Finalisation and circulation of ‘Building Bridges’, a concept note by CA member Jai Sen, with proposals towards building bridges between India and Brazil. Brazilian translation in Portuguese then became available in September 2003, titled ‘Construindo Pontes : Uma Nota para discussão; segundo rascunho, para comentários....

Organisation of an exploratory ‘meeting of minds’ about the World Social Forum, at the Fireflies Ashram, near Bangalore, India, on April 14-16 2003. Co-organised by CA members Sundar Chatterjee, Leo Saldanha, and Jai Sen, along with Siddhartha of Fireflies....