Pictorial tour of the World Social Forum

Saturday, January 17, 2004

I spent most of today taking photographs. These images do little justice to the actual experience of being here, but what is lacking in quality, I hope I’ve made up for in quantity. Here are 52 of 80 photographs. More »

Mahiti is sharing a stall with the Digital Empowerment Foundation.

charlesj and I went there after finishing with the photographs, and then spent several hours unsuccessfully trying to upload via Reliance. Throughput was approximately one megabyte per hour.

The Media Centre here has over 130 computers, all running Debian Linux (kudos to G. Nagarjuna of the Bombay LUG and HBCSE/TIFR), but I wasn’t allowed to use their facilities because I’m not a media person.

bluesmoon then offered to let me upload from his house in Bandra, and I was preparing to leave, when I discovered the IndyMedia centre and a Wi-Fi logo. Joy. Shekhar Krishnan got me on the network, and the pictures went online at one megabyte every five seconds.

mannu — Jan 17, 2004 2:19:26 PM — # ↩

God, what crowd! And you managed to capture Medha Patkar. Excellent.
bluesmoon — Jan 17, 2004 3:01:29 PM — # ↩

I was there from 3pm to 6pm, but had no idea where to go because they'd run out of schedules. Couldn't call you from any of the payphones there because you've got a bangalore number.

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