The NEURO TALK Civil Society goes Empire took place on friday night, 27th of February 2004. Scaling the summits: esf, wsf, wsis - Multi-stakeholder ideology and global governance scenarios - Snares of inclusion, pitfalls of political mediation and the development discourse.

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