On behalf of and in collaboration with the EIOS Collective, the preparation of ‘Explorations of Open Space 3’, a Proposal to carry forward the exploration, debate, and activities started through the ‘Explorations / Encounters in Open Space’ process at the World Social Forum in Brazil in January 2005....

Collaboration in the preparation and submission of a proposal to the PAN ASIA ICT R&D Grants Programme supported by UNDP and IDRC for R&D work in developing software infrastructure for customisable document indexing and for peer-to-peer networking of document collections across organisations. (Triggered by discussions of CACIM’s work in alternative...

By early 2005, World Social Forum : Challenging Empires autonomously published in German, Japanese, and Spanish. (By the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Germany, by Sakuhin-Sha? in Japan, with the translation project undertaken by PPSG (People’s Plan Study Group), and by El Viejo Topo / Ediciones de Intervención Cultural in Spain.)...

The second Building Bridges workshop, organised at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil....

The mounting of a wiki-based dialogic webspace OpenSpaceForum (www.openspaceforum.net), which is now acting as the notepad and medium for exchange in collectives that have come out of the EIOS (Explorations in Open Space) meetings, for the widening of the network and more generally as an open space for critical exchange and reflection....

Co-organisation of two major international meetings just before and during the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil, of researchers and activists from many parts of the world, titled ‘Encounters in Open Space : The World Social Forum and Cultures of Politics’, as a follow-up to the successful publication...

Finalisation of her film by filmmaker Taran Khan for CACIM, Opening Spaces, based on the Open Space Seminar Series in 2003-4...

The publication of the first of a three-volume series of books based on the Open Space Seminar Series in 2003, collectively titled Are Other Worlds Possible? and with the first one titled Talking New Politics (edited by Jai Sen and Mayuri Saini; Zubaan Books, New Delhi). Launch and seminar at the World Social Forum...

The guest co-editing of a special issue of the International Social Science Journal, 182, a major collection on the theme ‘Explorations in Open Space : The World Social Forum and Cultures of Politics’, where Jai Sen, CACIM member, acted as editorial adviser along with Chloé Keraghel, independent researcher in Paris....

Consultation by Jai Sen of CA members on a proposal to set up CACIM and the formulation of a work programme for it....