Third OECD World Forum on knowledge and policy

Abstract

The Third World Forum, an OECD event so far with the largest number of participants in the history of the organisation, was held in the city of Busan, South Korea, between October 27–30 2009. Two thousand two-hundred participants from 103 countries dealt with the issues of charting progress, building visions and improving life at the time of global crisis at plenary meetings and in 37 working sessions with the contribution of 200 speakers.