This site was recently bought to my attention and I have to say that its impact on me was that great that I could do nothing but stare open mouthed at what was unfolding before my eyes.

Here is how they describe themselves :

“ FORA.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world’s most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online.

FORA.tv is presenting or producing content from the world’s leading public forums. The esteemed organizations that are working with us to build the FORA.tv vision include C-SPAN, the World Affairs Councils of Northern California, Dallas, Oregon, Philadelphia and Connecticut, the Commonwealth Club, Books, Inc., the Hoover Institution, Cody’s Books, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Asia Society, the New School, the Truman National Security Project, the New America Foundation, Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., Tattered Cover in Denver, the Heritage Foundation, the Magnes Museum, the Cato Institute, Link TV, Chatham House in London, Cambridge University, the Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, Egmont: the Royal Institute for International Relations, Book Passage, the Long Now Foundation, Americans for Informed Democracy and the Global Philanthropy Forum, among many others.

FORA.tv will provide engaging on demand viewing experiences for the media active world citizen.

Travel to New York and pick up the Village Voice. Or look in TimeOut London. Or check out the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Sydney Morning Herald. Every day, poets, authors, policy experts, activists, madmen, government leaders, visionary thinkers speak in public, hosted by institutions such as nonprofit councils, bookstores, universities, or public spaces. If you’re lucky, their remarks will be covered by the press, edited and compressed, and hard to find when you want it.

But you can’t be there. You can’t express your opinions. You can’t chat with other likeminded or different-minded listeners. You can’t easily search for similar content, study background material, read the transcript.

FORA.tv enables a new, global media opportunity by aggregating a daily range of events, produced and electronically shipped by institutions or freelance producers, from around the world.

The word fora is simply the plural of “forum.” The dictionary definition of forum is: the public square or marketplace of an ancient Roman city that was the assembly place for judicial activity and public business.

FORA.tv expands the public forum for discussion of important world issues to multiple, simultaneous fora in a digital venue.

Today, we invite you to participate in the FORA.tv experience. ”

What a fantastic idea and they deliver on their message too.