The International Committee (fact box) and a conflict
The elected board the International Committee
The WSF is governed by the International Committee which consists of many of the original Brazilian initiators and organisations that are elected if they are active internationally.
Conflict between Open Space and a forum that takes decisions.
One conflict that has hampered the WSF is between groups who want the forum to be able to make decisions and those who have favored a strict interpretation of what is meant by open space. At a meeting of the International Committee in Tunis in December 2022, a compromise was agreed:
International compromise agreed in Tunis December 2022
one, and if there is interest several assemblies, bringing together different popular movements could be established as permanent features of the global WSF family. They can make statements in their own name during the WSF and on their own mandate between meetings. The first of these is the WSF World Assembly of Struggles and Resistance of WSF, which had a small beginning before and during the WSF in Kathmandu. Several other thematic World Social Forums, regional and national social forums are part of the global WSF family.
More general information on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Social_Forum
https://www.foranewwsf.org/gb/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/reinventing-world-social-forum-how-powerful-idea-can-be/#_edn2