World Social Forum (www.forumsocialmundial.org.br):
The official World Social Forum (WSF) website is the best place to start. It describes the Forum’s origins, aims and organisational structures, as well as containing accounts of all four WSFs and initial details of the WSF 2005 process. The Library of Alternatives contains reflective pieces by many of those involved in organising the Forum. Details on the last World Social Forum in India are still available from its website. A number of initiatives associated with the WSF also have their own websites, including the World Social Library and the Intercontinental Youth Camp.

European Social Forum (www.fse-esf.org):
The official website of the European Social Forum in London 2004, including a searchable programme of events. Further documents and opinions can be found at the unofficial ESF activist website (www.esf2004.net).

Autonomous spaces at the ESF (www.altspaces.net):
The ESF is surrounded by a variety of autonomous spaces. These include the European Forum on Communication Rights, Beyond the ESF, Life Despite Capitalism, the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, the Urban Forum and the Carnival Forum.

Assembly of the Social Movements (www.fse-esf):
The Social Movements Assembly is one of many spaces within the WSF that co-ordinates actions.

Babels (www.babels.org):
Babels is an international network of volunteer interpreters and translators whose main objective it is to cover the interpreting needs of the Social Forums and of other international events, as defined in the calendar of the “call of the social movements”.

Choike (www.choike.org):
A web portal disseminating the work of NGOs based in the global South. Choike contains an informative collection of reports and links about WSF III in Porto Alegre and WSF IV in Mumbai. It also contains an online copy of World Social Forum – Challenging Empires, which is the most comprehensive book yet published about the WSF.

Guide for Social Transformation in Europe: ESF and Surroundings (www.euromovements.info):
A mutlilingual space where to find networking tool boxes such as directories of organizations involved in the ESF processes, and open analysis; it is a open activist reserach network.

Eurotopia (www.eurotopiamag.org):
A multilingual supplement put together by Red Pepper and other progressive magazines and research institutes from across Europe. The pilot version will be launched at the ESF in London.

Network Institute for Global Democratization (www.nigd.org):
A transnational research association that has been heavily involved in the WSF process. Free, downloadable materials include a 240-page working paper called From a Global Market Place to Political Spaces with several important essays on the WSF, We, the Peoples of the World Social Forum, with reflections on WSF II at Porto Alegre, and a report on The Politics of the WSF's "Open Space", a seminar with several key WSF organisers held at WSF IV in Mumbai.

Open Democracy (www.opendemocracy.net):
A global online magazine of politics and culture. The DIY World section contains informative articles on the WSF and its Davos rival the World Economic Forum.

People’s Global Action (www.agp.org):
An international anti-capitalist network that pre-exists the WSF. People’s Global Action became known for calling Global Action Days (J18, N30, S16, etc.) to coincide with international summits. Its website also contains an excellent library of writings on globalisation and war, which includes several pieces on the World Social Forum.

Transform! (www.transform.it):
Transform! is a European network of research and political education organisations. Its informative 140-page newsletter, World Social Forum: a Debate on the Challenges for Its Future was produced by Transform! Italia in association with the Transnational Institute and Red Pepper.

Transnational Institute (www.tni.org):
The Transnational Institute has brought together activist scholars from all over the world since 1974. Its Fellows include Walden Bello, Susan George and Red Pepper editor Hilary Wainwright, all of whom have contributed to its comprehensive WSF coverage.

Voices from Mumbai (www.voicesfrommumbai.webhop.org):
This Nottingham-based educational project brings together videos, interviews and photos from the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai. It is a forerunner to the Other Worlds Educational Project, whose pilot website can be viewed at www.mundi.org.uk/otherworlds.