[Imc-africa] funding request to Umverteilen, just sent

[fabian]

Hello,
this is the version I just sent out to Umverteilen e.V.
Let's hope the best. I keep you informed about the results, obviously...
cheers
Fabian
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Funding Application for


Independent Media Centre at WSF in Bamako, Mali
19th to 23th January 2005

by Indymedia Network
through
Fabian
<adress>
UK
Email: fab(at)in-no.org

Funding request from Umverteilen e.V. =
											7834 Euro

Description of applying group:
The Indymedia network is a global network of media activists.
www.indymedia.org

Projectplan

The World Social Forum (WSF), a global meeting of activists who oppose
capitalist globalisation, has been held annually since 2001. In 2006,
the WSF is breaking with tradition by being held in not one, but three
places nearly simultaneously. The so-called polycentric WSF 2006 will
take place from the 19th to the 23rd of January in Bamako, Mali and from
the 24th to the 29th of January in Caracas, Venezuela and in March 2006
in Karachi, Pakistan.

The WSF in Bamako, Mali is a historic event, as this is the first time
that the Forum takes place in Africa, and is a key stepping stone to the
WSF 2007, which will take place in Kenya. In addition, the Forum meeting
will be an opportunity for African activists to network and build links
of solidarity between their various struggles against neo-liberalism.

Historically Indymedia has had a close relationship with the WSF, as the
Indymedia network of volunteer-run Independent Media Centres (IMCs) grew
out of the same movement against neo-liberalism and for humanity that
led to the World Social Forum. The Indymedia network has helped spread
the world from the WSF from 2002 onwards, ensuring that an Independent
Media Centre is available at each WSF to allow diverse voices from the
Forum to be heard. Indymedia always understood the NGO based process of 
Social Forums in need of critical interventions to ensure its 
connectivity to grass roots activism and information autonomy of local 
communities and basis groups.

As for Independent Media Africa is a challenge. While large parts of 
the populations in Africa still do not have access to the global media, 
they are lacking specifically access to more interactive media like the 
internet that enable not only to receive news but also to produce news 
globally. Local, private and pirate radio stations and even small scale 
newspapers form a strong force of independent media in many African 
places. They are maintained by devoted media activists. The WSF gives a 
great opportunity to network between these local activists as much as 
discuss chances and possibilities to increase the use of the internet 
for networking and eventually producing more African news for within 
and beyond Africa.

It is with this background in mind that we are proposing to develop and
Independent Media Centre at the Bamako WSF in January 2006.

In order to facilitate this, Indymedia activists from IMCs in Africa 
and Europe will
travel to Bamako to document the WSF there using the written word,
digital photography and audio recording. Our programme of activities
will include:

1) Travel to Bamako and set up an Independent Media Centre in the form
of a location (most likely hosted in an Internet Cafe') where activists
can come to submit their stories from the WSF.

2) Provide daily coverage of the WSF using the Indymedia South Africa
website as a portal to upload stories, photographs and audio programming
from the WSF.

3) Host workshops to discuss the relevance of Indymedia and independet 
media in general with African and other (media) activists.

4) Host workshops on the practical use of open publishing of news and 
stories within the framework of Indymedia.

5) Host a series of film showings.

6) Create the spirit and enthusiasm among local activists in Bamako and 
Mali to create an IMC in Mali.

Target Groups
Through this program we hope to reach out to local and African 
activists during the WSF in Mali, to connect African Media activists 
and to foster the use and discussion on Independent Media among African 
activists.


Budget (all prices in Euro):

Costs for Personal

Travel - 4 x tickets from Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa, 
from Kenia and from Angloa to
Bamako, Mali = 1500 Euro times 4 = 								
														6000 Euro

2 tickets from Europe to Bamako = 650 times 2 =
														1300 Euro

Accommodation in Bamako for 4 african delegates, for 7 nights = 16 Euro 
per night
times 7 times 4 =
														442 Euro

Accom for European delegates for 7 nights = 16 Euro per night times 7 
times 2 =
	
														221 Euro

Daily travel between accommodation and WSF venue = 2 Euro per day per 4 
african
delegates per 14 trips =
														112 Euro

Travel for European delegates =
														56 Euro

Food for Indymedia group = 10 Euro per day per 4 African delegates per 
7 days =

														280 Euro
Food for two European delegates =
														 140 Euro

Technical Costs
Internet access and IMC workshop space  (in a rented cyber cafe) for 
five days = 200 Euro times 5 =
														 1000 Euro

Total cost =
4 African delegates = 6834 Euro
2 European delegates = 1717 Euro
Technical Costs = 1000 Euros

Total costs = 9551 Euro

Funding request from Umverteilen e.V. = 7834 Euro
Funding from other = 1717 Euro

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