Promoting intercultural dialogue

Tomorrow I set off for Barcelona and the Anna Lindh Foundation forum 2010 which is bringing together NGOs and voluntary organisations from around the Mediterranean in a bid to promote projects aimed at improving intercultural communication, dialogue and understanding. I have been invited as my capacity as blogger though to be honest it is more as a podcaster than as a blogger. I don’t rate my chances of doing live podcasting too highly as it will be very difficult to control the sound quality and I have no idea whether the bandwidth to stream live will be available. But I may have a go here. Otherwise my plan is to record as much as I can by speaking to selected people and to aggregate these recordings into future podcasts.

I am interested in the way that the forum has been organised into agora and medina. The agora will be the opportunity to discuss important issues and exchange ideas while the medina will be the networking to promote partnerships. More later….