The International Communications Forum actively participated in the Caux Centre’s conference on “The Heart and Soul of Europe” from 16 to 20 July 2005. Its speakers at a plenary session were Alain Modoux, former Assistant Director General of UNESCO and currently Advisor to UNESCO for the World Summit on the Information Society, scheduled to be held in Tunis in November; Robert Webb, United States veteran journalist and former Head of the Washington Bureau of the Cincinnati Enquirer; Faustina Starrett, Head of the Journalism Department of North West College, Londonderry in Northern Ireland; and Bernard Margueritte, President of the IC Forum, who presided the meeting.

Bernard Margueritte, President of the ICF, was the opening speaker of the media panel in the second WSF World Spirit Forum, held from 16 to 19 January 2005 in Arosa, Switzerland. The theme this year was 'Open Your Heart - United Responsibility'.

Journalists themselves, as well as press barons, are anxious; the confidence that the public used to have in them is crumbling; but also crumbling – and the French press is well aware of this – are the circulation figures; how can the quality media regain public support, in itself a condition of a living democracy? do they have something to learn from the crises that are striking the media world? These are some of the questions which attracted both media professionals and representatives of the public to meet in the attractive seaside resort of Le Touquet in Northern France.

The ICF took part in the Caux Conference for Business and Industry and the Renewal Arts Forum, held in Caux, Switzerland, in July 2004.

The ICF partnered Caux Initiatives for Business at the Caux Conference Centre in Switzerland from 11 to 15 July with the theme of ‘Globalisation - As If People Really Mattered.’

One hundred and six journalists from 26 countries from five continents, met this week to address … “Changing media in changing societies.”