Glocal Forum
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Jim Koch, second from the right, is a member of the Glocal Forum Think Tank. (Rome 2003)
The Center for Science, Technology, and Society established a relationship with the Glocal Forum in 2002, when Director Jim Koch was invited to participate in the first annual Glocalization Conference in Rome. The Glocal Forum is a non-profit organization working to build a new relationship between the city and the global village with the aim of contributing towards peace and development. The organization encourages global powers to have broader respect for local powers and cultural diversity in a process defined as “glocalization.”
The Glocal Forum brings together mayors, international institutions, private sector leaders, citizens, and urban communities in a new glocal-local coalition of forces. Innovative networking frameworks are created primarily through the annual conference and multicultural events, while the think tank is developing a set of policy recommendations that incorporate and forward the ideas of glocalization.
