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World Television provides World Economic Forum's first podcasts in addition to its webcasting service. See World Economic Forum release below.
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2 January 2006 - Geneva, Switzerland
The World Economic Forum announced ambitious plans today to share the proceedings of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2006 in Davos with as wide a public as possible. Held under the theme of The Creative Imperative, the Meeting will again be broadcast, webcast and, for the first time this year, many sessions will also be “podcast”. Additionally, all participants will be asked to take part in the Forum’s blog.
· Every participant of the Annual Meeting – ranging from business leaders to political leaders, heads of NGOs, religious leaders academics and journalists – will be asked to join the Forum blog. The World Economic Forum was the first international organization to set up a blog at the Annual Meeting in January 2005 and the upcoming Annual Meeting will see a significant development in the experiment. All of the more than 2,000 participants, including presidents and prime ministers, will be asked to provide at least one posting for the blog. www.forumblog.org
· For the first time at the Meeting, which will take place from 25-29 January, the Forum will also provide podcasts of a dozen of the key sessions. The podcasts or audio-blogs will be available for downloading from the following site: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/podcasts
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The Forum will once again webcast nearly 40 of the main sessions from the Annual Meeting. Twenty-five of the sessions will be webcast live and a further 17 will be available once the session is over. An additional eight sessions from the Open Forum will also be webcast. The World Economic Forum has been webcasting from Davos since 2001. All the webcasts can be accessed on the Forum’s website at: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/webcasts
· Additionally, host broadcaster Swiss National Television will show large parts of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on its freely accessible channel, SFinfo. The programmes will be both in German and in the original language. Outside of Switzerland, the programmes can be seen all over Europe and in the Near East via Eutelsat Hotbird 3 and a digital satellite receiver. (Eutelsat Hotbird 3, Position 13º East, transponder number 8500.)
· The Forum’s Annual Meeting will once again be covered by major broadcasting organizations, ranging from CNN, BBC World, TV5, Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera, to national broadcasters such as CBS, NHK, ARD, ZDF, TVE and RAI. Broadcasters not present in Davos can pick up the video feeds from Eurovision Operations, which is planning to carry live feeds from up to ten sessions each day.
“Davos is a small place, and the Conference Centre is even smaller. By broadcasting, webcasting, podcasting and encouraging blogging by all participants, we hope to share the spirit of Davos with as many people as possible. As every year, every single session will be open to more than 200 journalists from around the world,” said Mark Adams, Director, Head of Communications.
A full list of all the sessions that will be webcast and podcast will be provided in advance of the Meeting on the Forum’s website at: www.weforum.org
Photos of our events can be downloaded free of charge for journalists at http://www.swiss-image.ch/worldeconomicforum (login required).
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The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
Incorporated as a foundation in 1971, and based in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum is impartial and not-for-profit; it is tied to no political, partisan or national interests. (www.weforum.org)
For more information, please contact:
Communications and Public Affairs
World Economic Forum
Tel.: +41 (0) 22 869 1212
Fax: +41 (0) 22 869 1394
E-mail: [email protected]
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