Finetuned Recommendations - 'The Rome Consensus'
Recommendations, or The Rome Consensus
From what I saw of it, the last day's afternoon plenaries were a somewhat frantic attempt at obtaining input from all the conference participants on the draft recommendations that were to come out of the conference.
The draft paper had been in circulation for a while, and after spending two days in parallel thematic sessions, any concrete and essential input from participants was taken from the floor.
This plenary ran out of time much too soon, with many a hand still up in the air waiting to be called on, causing the Executive Director of Panos to critically inform the Panel that this session should be extended as it was one of the only participatory sessions in the whole conference.
With much support and applause from the floor, the session was extended, more hands were chosen to speak and cameras swung around to cause the speaker to appear on the large screens above our heads.
I'm not sure exactly how all the input was taken into account, since the document doesnt appear much longer or more concrete than when we first saw it, but nevertheless, it supports our cause and can serve us to double-check our work against the recommendations and collective output of such high-level congresses.
See Recommendations (in PDF format)
And some more articles and pieces covering the event and outcomes:
APC - WCCD: Shopping for an identity
Official congress pressroom, with press releases, audio and video (incl. the Recommendations in Fr, Sp)
From what I saw of it, the last day's afternoon plenaries were a somewhat frantic attempt at obtaining input from all the conference participants on the draft recommendations that were to come out of the conference.
The draft paper had been in circulation for a while, and after spending two days in parallel thematic sessions, any concrete and essential input from participants was taken from the floor.
This plenary ran out of time much too soon, with many a hand still up in the air waiting to be called on, causing the Executive Director of Panos to critically inform the Panel that this session should be extended as it was one of the only participatory sessions in the whole conference.
With much support and applause from the floor, the session was extended, more hands were chosen to speak and cameras swung around to cause the speaker to appear on the large screens above our heads.
I'm not sure exactly how all the input was taken into account, since the document doesnt appear much longer or more concrete than when we first saw it, but nevertheless, it supports our cause and can serve us to double-check our work against the recommendations and collective output of such high-level congresses.
See Recommendations (in PDF format)
And some more articles and pieces covering the event and outcomes:
APC - WCCD: Shopping for an identity
Official congress pressroom, with press releases, audio and video (incl. the Recommendations in Fr, Sp)

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