World Social Forum 2004

In 2004, for the very first time the World Social forum took place outside Brazil. The decision was taken by the International Council as part of the process of promoting the WSF actual internationalization.

The WSF 2004 counted on the presence of 74.126 participants, representing 1,653 organizations from 117 countries. From this number 60.224 ones were Indian. The program of activities under responsibility of the Indian Organizing Committee presented 13 events of different shapes: panel debates, round tables, conferences and public meetings. A new point in the methodology of the WSF process was the inclusion in the program of large self-governed activities by the organizations registered in the WSF, like: panel debates, conferences and round tables. In the total amount, 35 such events were organized. Smaller self-governing activities, like seminars, workshop, meetings, etc, had a strong presence in the WSF: 1,203 events.

The activities were organized in the thematic areas: militarization, war and peace ; information, knowledge and culture, environment and economics ; exclusion, rights and equality.