The series of IWAS meetings this week began with the Development Summit, running along side the IWAS World Games in Bangalore, India. The purpose of the summit was to engage the member countries in asking them to highlight their needs and to create a strategy to develop and focus the actions of IWAS for a stronger future with great opportunities.

Initially the attendees were each asked to write down three keys points that they would like discussed in the forum, and from that strategic direction was arranged.

From the gathered information five distinct groups of discussion were established;

Sport / Games
IPC & IWAS relationship
Governance & Management
Developing Countries
Media