How does WSF see WEF?
One of the complications of the WSF is that it is a very diverse group. While leaders like Susan George and Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians call the CEOs of multinational corporations the most evil people on the planet, Oded Grajew, founder of the Ethos Institute and co-founder of WSF, sees the business community as critical in driving changes forward. Nonetheless, a if not the central issue behind the World Social Forum is a conviction that we need to move away from the current model of globalization that is seen to be based on exploitative sets of relationships between North and South that undermine local communities, destroy livelihoods and keep hundreds of millions of people in a state of misery and servitude. As the principal architects and beneficiaries of this system, leaders gathered in Davos are seen to be responsible for and complicit in these abuses. What are the key issues? There were over 1,000 separate workshops at the WSF, several hundred panels and seminars, a
