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Joao Paulo Paglione
 
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Default VII WORLD BAMBOO CONGRESS - February 28 - March 4, 2004 - New Delhi, India

Dear Bamboo Friends,

Please see the attached Announcement the World Bamboo
Organization and the VII World Bamboo Congress event. Please do your
best to help me with the much needed promotion. I ask you to please
submit this attachment to your bamboo society newsletter editors, and
post on any appropriate website for further circulation.

Thank you very much for your continued support,

Susanne

Susanne Lucas
Co-Chair
World Bamboo Organization
P.O. Box 124
Newton, MA 02456 USA
lucasatworldbamboodotorg
508-224-7982
www.worldbamboo.org

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November 15, 2003

The World Bamboo Organization
Announces:

VII WORLD BAMBOO CONGRESS
February 28 - March 4, 2004
New Delhi, India

Bamboo for Development:

Prosperity for People and the Environment

BACKGROUND

The importance of bamboo to the world economy and its peoples is
enormous. Over 2.5 bn people live in association with bamboo and the
annual usage world-wide is equivalent to US $2.7 bn. Global and
national trade in bamboo and bamboo products is worth over $4.5 bn..
The potential of bamboo to help fuel rural, economic and industrial
development has been bolstered by the triennial International Bamboo
Workshops and Congresses. These events have contributed
substantially to the development of the bamboo sector throughout the
world and have raised the profile of bamboo amongst peoples,
governments and institutions. These events have also encouraged
global interaction through improved networking and sharing of ideas.
In countries with substantial natural bamboo resources and a large
percentage of the population living in poverty, bamboo can make a
significant difference to poverty alleviation and rural economic
growth. Mexico is one such country. With one of the largest bamboo
resources in the world in terms of species and coverage, and 35% of
the population living below the poverty line, bamboo offers enormous
potential to help pull the poor out of poverty.

The Congress is being organised by the World Bamboo Organization
(WBO), the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR), and
the Development Commissioner of Handicrafts ? Government of India,
and will be held at the Ashoka Hotel and Convention Center, New
Delhi. The Congress is expected to be the largest and most focussed
gathering of bamboo practitioners in history, and rural, economic and
industrial foci will be to the fore. An estimated 600 delegates from
about 40 countries are expected to attend. The VII World Bamboo
Congress is timed to coincide with International Handicrafts and
Bamboo Expo concurrently taking place in New Delhi. For any
professional, businessman or policy maker, it will be an ideal
opportunity that will contribute to their future plans positively.

THE VII WORLD BAMBOO CONGRESS

The name World Bamboo Congress incorporates both the International
Bamboo Association (IBA) and the International Network of Bamboo and
Rattan (INBAR) events. The IBA event was the International Bamboo
Congress (IBC), and the INBAR event was the International Bamboo
Workshop (IBW).

While the IBW started as a small workshop in 1980 organized by IDRC
(International Development Research Centre, Canada), it soon expanded
into a major global forum on bamboo. The IBC was sponsored and
organized by a cooperation of bamboo peoples. The first IBC was held
in 1985. From 1995 onwards, both events were jointly held together
under the banner, International Bamboo Workshop and Congress. The
1998 event in Costa Rica was attended by nearly 550 people from 47
countries.

The VII World Bamboo Congress is sponsored and organized by a
cooperation of bamboo peoples, and the name of this event
incorporates both the International Bamboo Association (IBA) and the
International Network of Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) events. It is
supported by registrations, and sponsorship by the Government of
India, INBAR, and other international and Indian agencies.

WORLD BAMBOO ORGANIZATION

Originally founded as the International Bamboo Association, the idea
for an international coordinating point for bamboo practitioners was
born out of discussions at the 1991 International Bamboo Workshop in
Chiangmai, Thailand, and was henceforth, formally established at the
1992 International Bamboo Congress in Japan. Since then, the IBA
has helped to provide a coordinating platform for bamboo peoples
around the world, operating mainly through the bamboo societies
existing in different countries, with its primary responsibility
being the international bamboo congress & international bamboo
workshop. A union of these two distinct gatherings is today called
the World Bamboo Congress, and led by the re-birth of the IBA into
the World Bamboo Organization.

THE CONGRESS PROGRAM

The VII World Bamboo Congress is intended to focus attention on the
role of bamboo in rural, economic and industrial, and environmental
development. The congress is divided into the following workshop
categories:

* Products
* Resources
* Community development
* Economic development
* Construction
* Design
* Horticulture
* Housing
* Standards
* Financing
* Information
* Environment
* Policy
* Management

The above-mentioned workshops can be grouped into two principal
types, discussion & problem solving workshops and training &
demonstration workshops. The decision on the final structure and
composition of the workshop in question will rest with the designated
Chair of that session, and it is possible that some discussion
workshops will also have a demonstration component and/or poster.
There will also be a full program of sponsored workshops depending on
requests received.

The discussion and problem solving workshops will offer considerable
problem-solving opportunities and will be under the direct control of
the chairpersons who can both request and/or select speakers and
poster presentations from among the contributions received, based
upon clearly defined goals for each session workshop.
Each of these workshops should result in the development of specific
recommendations and conclusions, and a concrete plan of action for
achieving agreed upon goals. These outputs are the responsibility of
the chair, the co-chair and rapporteur, who will also follow through
with the constitution of Working Groups on the subjects.
The training activities and demonstrations workshops will demonstrate
technologies and machinery useful to prospective entrepreneurs and
development agents. This approach is much needed to take bamboo into
the industrial domain. Unlike industrial development elsewhere,
bamboo industrial development has been shown to involve and benefit
the community significantly. Similarly, workshops on housing
construction technology, tools, jigs and fixtures, and woven board
products will contribute in a direct manner to the needs of those
keen to add to their skills. These are intended as tasters for all
attendees, but especially businesspersons, government and NGO
representatives and community representatives to gain a practical
understanding of the techniques and to assist them in deciding
whether to adopt them.

SPONSORED WORKSHOPS

The final track of workshops is a sponsored set.

Details can be found at the official congress website:

www.worldbamboocongress.org.

REGISTRATION

FOR FULL DETAILS, GO TO OFFICIAL CONGRESS WEBSITE:
WWW.WORLDBAMBOOCONGRESS.ORG

TRAVEL

IF YOU ARE TRAVELING FROM THE UNITED STATES AND WOULD LIKE TO
COORDINATE TRAVEL THROUGH THE WBO, PLEASE CONTACT:
DOLORES HOLLAND - TOUR ORGANIZER : DOLORESBO3atAOLdotCOM
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João Paulo Freire Paglione
[FBB] Fundação BambuBrasil
[BBF] Bamboo Brazil Foundation
www.bambubrasil.org
Fone: 1-561-243-8814
eFax: 1-501-639-2695
Fone/Fax: 1-561-276-7327
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FundacaoBambuBrasil/
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