The World Congress on Organic Cotton kicked off in Interlaken, Switzerland today.Euforic is attending the event and working with our member Helvetas to support social reporting the congress. We organized a training session for social reporters that will be blogging, blipping and tweeting during the conference.
People interested in the topic who do not have the chance to participate, can still follow the congress in a variety of ways:
- the Organic Cotton blog - http://ocplatform.wordpress.
com/ - will capture the conversation and ideas that are being discussed at the congress. People can visit it, or subscribe to the event feed - http://feeds.feedburner.com/wcoc09 - on the blog, people can also find a series of 'blips' - see them all at http://helvetas.blip.tv/
- @helvetas on twitter will be used to post links and quotes from the different session
- pictures will be posted on on flickr