[Imc-africa] draft to send to imc-finance

[Jay]

Hi Ange and everyone,

At 10/28/2006, you wrote:

>thats good, did u see the process of imc finance?
>i can do that this weekend .

I'm looking at the imc-finance pages on the docs.indymedia.org 
server.  Unless I'm missing something I can't find any strict 
template for proposals.  There are a number of examples of proposals 
that passed, such as:
http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc-finance/2003-October/001942.html

I think we need to put a summary, a description and details of how 
our project will work.


>what about the tickets? maybe we could include some costs of trip of the
>people involved on radio project. what do you think ??

I'll answer this more fully in another e-mail, but I'm afraid that if 
we ask for too much money from imc-finance we'll have a really hard 
time getting it because there will have to be a really substantial 
amount of discussion.  If we ask for less than $5000, my sense is 
that we may be able to get it without too much trouble.  That's just 
my instinct though.

Jay

>hugs
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>ange
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> > Hi imc-africa,
> >
> > Thanks to Fabian, Sphinx and all for working so hard to bring in that
> > grant!  Now that we have the basics of the infrastructure for the IMC
> > in place we have to raise money for equipment and other essentials.
> >
> > The time has come to send our proposal to the imc-finance working
> > group.  I have a draft of what I think we should send them.  Please
> > send comments.  Does $3000 sound like the right amount to ask
> > for?  That is the amount we need to pay for the radio equipment.  I
> > know sphinx is applying for grants from other foundations to cover
> > radio equipment and computers, but we certainly can't count on them
> > coming through.
> >
> > If I haven't heard any suggestions from this list by the beginning of
> > the week, and/or if I haven't heard from Peter from imc-sa or anyone
> > else from Africa who has experience with the imc-finance group and
> > would like to post the proposal, I'll happily post it myself and
> > follow it through the process.
> >
> > Draft:
> >
> > SUMMARY:
> > Request from the imc-africa working group to imc-finance for funds to
> > support an international IMC to be open from January 13 to January
> > 27, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya, providing independent media coverage
> > of  the World Social Forum (taking place from January 20-25).  The
> > WSF IMC in Naoribi will be an essential place for African and
> > international independent media activists to meet, attending skill
> > shares and workshops about issues relating to independent media that
> > will enable them to create or better support independent media
> > institutions in their home countries.  Participants will also build a
> > functioning low power radio station that will remain in Kenya after
> > the World Social Forum ends.
> >
> > DETAILS:
> > For the last several months, independent media makers and Indymedia
> > organizers in Kenya, throughout Africa and
> > around the world have been working together, both on-line and in
> > face-to-face meetings, on a project to build a temporary independent
> > media center (IMC) in Nairobi, Kenya, during the January '07 World Social
> > Forum.  Discussions have mainly taken place on the
> > "imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org" list, though there have also been
> > conference calls and IRC chats.  Indymedia activists from Africa,
> > Europe, North America and South America have been actively
> > participating. in this organizing.
> >
> > This "convergence-based" IMC will provide text-based, audio, and
> > (potentially) video coverage of the World Social Forum, both on-line
> > and through a local low-power radio station, enabling the
> > participants to create independent media coverage of the WSF during
> > the forum.  Thousands of organizers will be coming to the World
> > Social Forum from around the globe, especially from Africa; this IMC
> > will empower activists (especially those in Africa) to create
> > effective independent media institutions in their countries.  Also,
> > all the equipment purchased for this IMC will
> > remain in Kenya for use by other Kenyan independent media projects.
> >
> > FINANCIAL NEEDS:
> > We are asking imc-finance for $3000 to pay for necessary equipment
> > and infrastructure for the IMC.  Equipment needs include parts for
> > the radio station (a detailed list can be provided upon request) as
> > well as money for computers and other logistics for the
> > imc-convergence space.  (All equipment bought will continue to be
> > available to the Kenyan independent media projects after the WSF.)
> >
> > We are hoping to raise all necessary funds by November 30, 2006.
> >
> > KEY ORGANIZERS/SUPPORTERS:
> > -- the IMC-Africa working group, an Indymedia working group composed of
> > African Indymedia activists and supporters from around the
> > world.  (imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org)
> >
> > -- the Kenya-IMC group has been in existance since 2004 after sending
> > several
> > representatives to the African Indymedia conference in Dakar,
> > Senegal.  The Kenya IMC has passed through most stages of the new-imc
> > process.  The project hopes to use kenya.indymedia.org as its primary
> > site and to strengthen the Kenya IMC with skill shares to enable it
> > to be sustainable.
> >
> > -- Prometheus Radio Project (http://www.prometheusradio.org), an
> > organization that supports and builds low-power-radio stations around the
> > world, will provide technical advice and assistance for a low power radio
> > station to be built in Nairobi for the duration of the WSF (with equipment
> > to remain in Kenya for use by future low power radio initiatives.
> >
> > -- students and faculty from Kenya's Maseno University, who will
> > participate in ongoing independent media projects after the WSF is over.
> >
> > The Nairobi IMC will feature many independent media making workshops and
> > skill-shares, including trainings in formal consensus and sessions, led
> > by African independent media makers, on how to build independent media
> > institutions in Africa.  Technicians from the Prometheus Radio Project
> > plan to hold hands-on trainings and workshops, building a low power
> > radio station with participants of the World Social Forum and the IMC
> > convergence.  Prometheus Radio will work after the World Social Forum
> > with students from Maseno University to build a permanent low-power
> > radio station on their campus.
> >
> > CONTACT:
> > For more information about this proposal, please contact Jay from the
> > Philadelphia IMC,
> > jay at fundamentalchange.net.
> >
> > Thanks for your consideration!
> > Jay
> >
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