 The Open Forum aimed to share experiences by various social organizations, national and international NGOs, Jubilee South, the Norwegian Cancel the Debt Coalition (SLUG), ATTAC; peace- and human rights organisations, anti-globalisation initiatives and World Bank critics like SAPRIN.They criticized the World Bank for being undemocratic and becoming too powerful, at the cost of the United Nations.According to the organizers, the fundamentally undemocratic development hurt the poorest people in the world.