2005-2010 Working Plan

Year	Month	Place	Comments	Theme
2005	November	On the web	Done	The meaning of local development
2006	July	Brisbane, Australia	Includes a meeting on the field excursion	Diversified issues
2007	25-28 June	Beijing	Second Global Conference On Economic Geography	The dynamics of local and regional development
2008	August	Tunis	IGU International Congress Possibly - a pre-congress meeting in Tunis	To be decided
2009	July / September	Warsaw	Commission annual meeting	Poverty-reduction through local development
2010	July	Tel Aviv	IGU regional conference	To be decided

I would like to thank all members of the steering committee on past advice and suggestions. In order to succeed in the job, I'll need your further support. I am open to any advice and any assistance.

Best wishes,

Michael Sofer (CHAIR)

Web Conference Participation Letter

Dear Colleague,

I am writing to you on behalf of the Conference Organising Committee to announce:

The first web conference of the Commission on Local Development of the International Geographical Union, to take place on 14-22 November 2005. The conference will address a range of significantly important themes relating to “Local Development”. This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, Local Development in any of its forms and in any of its sites. The conference will run for nine days and people can participate at their own convenience. There are three different topics, each with a limited number of leading papers available to be discussed for a number of days and then replaced by the next topic. The role of the papers is to initiate the discussion.

The topics are:

1) What is local development and for whom? - 14-15 November

2) The nature of local development in developing countries - 16-18 November

3) The role of talents and creative industries for local development in a globalising economy - 19-22 November

Virtual registrations are available now, which allow you to access the electronic version of the papers from November 14^th and submit your ideas and comments.

Full details of the conference are to be found at the conference website.

http://hl2.biu.ac.il

We do hope you will be able to join us.

Yours Sincerely,

Michael Sofer
Chairperson, The Commission on Local Development of the International Geographical Union

Department of Geography, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel