Have your say about the key forces shaping world trade

http://www.wto.org/ 26.07.10 WTO PUBLIC FORUM The WTO seeks your views about the key forces shaping world trade. In the run-up to this year's Public Forum on 15-17 September 2010, the WTO invites you to participate in a video contest to tell us your views about the key forces shaping world trade, the main theme of this year's Forum. You can upload your video message to your YouTube account and post it by responding to the video animation (first sign in, and post a comment with the video response attached). The winner of the video contest will be invited to the WTO to participate in the Public Forum, all expenses paid. Go on, have your say, submit now! Video Contest Rules: Only entries submitted via the YouTube platform will be eligible for consideration. To sign up for an account on YouTube, please visit http://www.youtube.com/create_account. Video entries should be three to five minutes in duration or less. The contestant must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to enter the video contest. Video submissions should be original and unpublished work by the contestant. The submitted video must address at least one of the four themes of the WTO's Public Forum. For more information about the Public Forum, please visit: http://www.wto.org/publicforum The submitted video should address one of the following issues: 1. Who do you think are the players that influence the multilateral trading system most? 2. What are the economic, political and technological factors shaping world trade and what is the role of the rules-based multilateral trading system in contributing to the global economic recovery? 3. How can coherence between the WTO and other areas of global governance be enhanced? 4. Looking to the future: What post-crisis agenda for the WTO in a shifting-power scenario? Submitted videos must be recorded in English, French or Spanish, or in any other language but with English or French subtitles. Please see http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about for simple instructions on how to create closed captioned subtitles for YouTube videos. The nationality and age of the video contestant must be clearly indicated in the YouTube user profile to be eligible for consideration. Video submissions may not contain any offensive or inappropriate content, and must comply with YouTube's general terms and conditions. Current or former staff members, interns or retirees of the World Trade Organization and any family and/or house-hold members of these staff members are not eligible for consideration in the contest. Submissions will end on Sunday 12 September at 18:00 p.m. Geneva time. Any entry submitted after this time will not be accepted. Any video modified after the end of the contest will not be eligible. The results will be announced in early September 2010 in the public forum's website, on http://www.wto.org/publicforum and on the WTO Channel on YouTube.