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About WSS
The World Social Summit is a yearly international initiative promoted by Fondazione Roma and Censis, with the aim of constructing a debate on the numerous issues, such as the environment, demography, immigration, poverty and security, that have an impact on the global social evolution. The summit’s aim is to put together major global experts, such as Nobel Prize laureates, academics, politicians, people from the business community, and representatives of national and international institutions, and create a setting where ideas can be exchanged.
The concept of World Social Summit stems from the consideration that never as in these last years the upheavals in the international scenario have demonstrated the complex mechanisms which “regulate” the social order and the inadequacy of interpreting these transformations by using the sole approach of economic progress. Despite this, the great international gatherings continue to observe the planet through the lens of GDP, employment, and investment growth, or the lack of, while there are difficulties in finding a different analytical model of interpretation regarding the social transformations which are overrunning all continents.
It is a known fact that the main international agencies which yearly monitor the “global progress”, prevalently still use an economic perspective, subordinating social issues to impromptu initiatives, specific but fringe in-depth studies, or leaving it to the initiative of the single states.
The World Social Summit is proposing itself as an unique happening of its kind:
- for choosing the summit model, defined through the high calibre of its speakers, high exposure to the media, and a structured format of discussions;
- for choosing social as the subject matter: the main international initiatives, in particular summits, prefer to discuss economic or political matters;
- for choosing to identify a fundamental issue for every event. This is surely what makes WSS distinct in comparison with other international happenings; choosing to characterise the event on a specific theme which will allow, on a yearly basis, to explore, from a specific perspective, the main emerging subjects that influence global social development, makes WSS one of its kind.
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