The International Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy has just gotten underway in Montréal!  For three full days over 1,300 participants from across the world will be exploring global concepts of social and solidarity economy.  Dozens of sessions and keynote speakers will share experiences in this growing and innovative sector of activity.

For those that are unable to attend the Forum in person, there are other ways to keep up to date on the conversations and ideas being shared throughout the week.

The official program is available on-line.
http://www.fiess2011.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/programme-FIESS-an.pdf

You can tune into live webcasts of some of the FIESS sessions, starting at 9am on Tuesday:
http://webtv.coop/group/FIESS/54d325b2241279577707447edd0815ec

Watch Tweets from participants at the event:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23fiess2011

And also from CCEDNet members:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23ccednet

Thursday evening and Friday is the 9th annual Manitoba CD/CED Gathering.

You can follow tweets from participants there at:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23gath2011