A BIG THANK YOU FROM ForeignPolicyCamp!

The ForeignPolicyCamp organizers would like to thank all of the participants and resource people in Montreal, Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver for making history and attending the first ever ForeignPolicyCamp.

We would like a say a special thank you to all of the incredible volunteers – from the photographers, artists, notetakers, videomakers, and young journalists to the satellite event organizers, Flash Mob participants, researchers and logistic coordinators. A special thanks to the Canada’s World interns who were there across the country providing support for several months leading up to ForeignPolicyCamp.

Canada’s World would also like to acknowledge the generous contributions of The Simons Foundation, the North Growth Foundation, The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, the Laidlaw Foundation, the Koerner Foundation, the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, the Young Family Foundation, Canadian International Council, Mergenta, Mountain Equipment Cooperative, and Mbuyiselo (Munkie) Ncapayi from the Drum Cafe for providing support to cover the Canada’s World staff time, youth scholarships, catering, space, interactive media lab, t-shirts and opening music.

The host organizers would like to pay a special tribute to Sarah Van Borek and Kaitlyn Braybrooke for their leadership, energy and creativity in pulling together the logistics and on-line tools for our Camp and satellite events. We couldn’t have done it without you guys!

Stay tuned for more UPDATES and RESULTS from the camp. Wrote an article or blog post about your experience? Share it with us so we can feature it!

In the meantime, feel free to browse the links below to see some of the camp’s preliminary results.

- The results of our National Survey, released at the end of the day and answered by hundreds of Canadians across the country, which asked you to rate our nation’s progress in five key areas and comment on how we can improve in the future.

- Our Live Notes Wiki which features in-depth notes from several of the sessions at the Vancouver, Toronto and Edmonton camps. Viewers were able to browse through these notes live throughout the day.

- The ForeignPolicyCamp Flickr photo pool with almost 400 photos from the day, as well as photos from our pre-camp Flickr photo campaign which asked Canadians “What is your top Canadian foreign policy concern?” More event photos to come in the near future.

- The camp’s Multimedia Mashboard provided by Mergenta, which conglomerated our various social media and interactive tools together on a dashboard-style page, including live feeds from our notetakers, twitter discussions, live roaming cameras, word clouds and survey results as they came in.

- The Twitter discussion generated by the camp also gives us a citizen-focused sense of what people were talking about throughout the day. We used the hashtag ‘#foreignpolicycamp’ and people tweeted it across the country.

- Want to share the ForeignPolicyCamp posters? Please feel free to browse the official event posters below for ForeignPolicyCamp Vancouver (in English and Spanish), ForeignPolicyCamp Montreal, ForeignPolicyCamp Edmonton, and ForeignPolicyCamp Toronto.