[Imc-africa] Brief Info from Nairobi

Mon Dec 11 07:13:56 PST 2006

Hey John,

Kipp Here.Kindly call me on 3874962/3002745.

Kipp

On 12/11/06, John Bwakali <jonbwak at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Fabian and All,
> Great news Fabian!  Many thanks Andy and Sphinx for putting together the
> friday meeting. Am sorry I was away from Nairobi the whole of last week but
> am now back.
>
> I Will send a more detailed email tomorrow with contacts of other IMC
> Kenyacolleagues that you can also contact.
>
> Just a quick one about the guesthouse. We will have to pay for it
> beforehand as that is the only way to fully secure it and be sure that it is
> ours. Due to the high demand of such places in January, it is advisable to
> secure the place.
>
> Cheers and more tomorrow,
> John
>
> P/S If anyone will be online tomorrow (tuesday), we can chat on Yahoo
> Messenger. Maybe bilateral talks will assist to clarify issues further.
>
> *fabian <fab at in-no.org>* wrote:
>
> Hi everybody
> sorry, I couldn't make it on Friday!
> would be happy to have another chat soon.
> Important news is that I finally received the first installment of money
> from Umverteilen so I am now able to purchase a first row of tickets for
> African delegates. It would be good if African delegates could get back to
> me with phonenumbers where I can call them these days.
> In any case, I will be in nairobi myself from January 8th where I am happy
> to join the setting up of the IMC.
> best for now
> Fabian
>
>
>
>
> > What about a weekend day? Or a time that is evening on the East Coast of
> > the
> > US? I realize that the second suggestion could put us into night hours
> for
> > those in Africa, though, which could be a problem.
> >
> > Zoe
> >
> >
> >
> > *We are
> > the
> > ones we have waited for.*
>
> >
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: andy gunn
> >>Reply-To: African IMCs and the imc project in
> >>Africa
> >>To: imc africa
> >>Subject: Re: [Imc-africa] irc meeting this friday(On agenda)
> >>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:29:27 -0500
> >>
> >>very few people attended the irc meeting this past friday. no notes were
> >>taken,
> >>as no decisions were made. is there a time when it would work better for
> >>everyone to have another irc meeting? time is getting short and we have
> >> a
> >>lot
> >>of things to discuss. perhaps someone else should make the call-out for
> >>another
> >>meeting?
> >>
> >>thanks,
> >>-a
> >>
> >>
> >>sphinx wrote:
> >> > On the agenda of the IRC meeting. I hope we can get down to start
> >> trying
> >> > to pin
> >> > down exactly how we?ll deal with all these important issues in such
> >> away
> >> > that
> >> > those attending get as much of the skills as they wish to during the
> >>28days
> >> > period of the Convergence Center Calendar:
> >> > 7th Jan to 3rd February. So we need discuss issues that are good for
> a
> >> > plenary
> >> > and what issue is for a hands-on-workshop and which day, which time
> >> for
> >>the
> >> > maximum benefit.
> >> > As far as I can remember we can divide the content into the following
> >>big
> >> > titles:
> >> >
> >> > 1-Radio:
> >> > .Workshop on Radio construction
> >> > .Production and Organizing
> >> > 2-Skills on Participative democratic practices/formal Consensus
> >> > .Introduction to Formal Consensus (Intro)-C.T. Recommends for all.
> >> > .Better Meeting Skills (BMS)-For people who want better facilitation
> >> > skills.
> >> > .Training for Teachers (T4T) to teach Formal Consensus (FC)- For
> >> > People who
> >> > will like to teach Formal Consensus.
> >> >
> >> > 3-Indymedia
> >> > .theory/history/structure
> >> > .Practical Stuff: online tools, How to do interviews; write articles
> >>etc
> >> > . Discussion on How effective indymedia can be in places where there
> >> is
> >>no
> >> > access to computers, a solid communication infrastructure and the
> >> cheap
> >> > electronic gadgets that have been at the heart of indymedia growth
> and
> >> > development in the global north. And the utility or lack thereof of
> >> the
> >> > Indymedia network in our countries and how to make indymedia more
> >> useful
> >> > in our
> >> > countries and communities.
> >> >
> >> > 4- Screen printing
> >> >
> >> > 5-Podasting and other software and hardware skills for media making.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > So we will have 19 days together in Nairobi and some people will have
> >> > and extra
> >> > 9days in Kusumu for Maseno University- Station building and more
> >>training.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > My opinion is that we could break these 5 major topics down into
> >> > sub-topics that
> >> > can go into plenary and others that go into a strict workshop
> setting.
> >> >
> >> > For example the discussion on indymedia effectiveness in the global
> >> > South could
> >> > be a discussion for an evening plenary. With a projector one could
> >> > screen a few
> >> > films about indymedia (theory/history/structure) and have a
> discussion
> >> > on that
> >> > in an evening plenary too.
> >> >
> >> > We could take a couple of different sub-topics together in a day for
> >> the
> >>19
> >> > days, and we also we need to allow for free slots where people can
> get
> >> > to hang
> >> > out instead of having workshops and trainings all the time.
> >> >
> >> > I hope in the days ahead that we?ll get to know the timetable of the
> >> WSF
> >> > itself and see things that we need consider when making our own
> >> > timetable. For
> >> > example the days when there are the great marches we do not want to
> be
> >> > seating
> >> > in a room having very serious workshops. Obviously we would want to
> >> > report on
> >> > marches and have an indymedia block to marching on them to and get
> the
> >> > experience of interacting with such a diverse crowd.
> >> >
> >> > OK! I stop there for now. What do you think??
> >> > Sphinx
> >>
> >>--
> >>
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