The decision to have a Publication Board that will rethink the way InSEA can best communicate through its publications, is a timely one. The internet has really changed our world in a irreversible and most profound way. Past InSEA President Kit Grauer has taken the lead and we look forward to the first discussion papers. But for the years to come, InSEA News is still vital for the way we make ourselves visible. Many suggestions were made to help the Editors Gil Clark and Enid Zimmerman in their devoted endeavour to make InSEA News the newsletter we all want it so much to be.
Congresses are possibly the most central part of InSEA activities.
But each congress faces financial and organisational difficulties, that makes us aware of the vulnerability of those who are responsible to make a congress possible. The best format for a successful congress is not easy to define, and is probably very much dependent of the local situation. In Poland the organisers did a wonderful job, but most certainly would have loved to have more partcipants. The proposed Nordic Congress in August 2001 is postponed, due to a negative financial decision by the Nordic Ministry of Council, two weeks ago. They hope to make it happen in 2003.