[Imc-africa] traveling to Nairobi( little update on preparation)

Sun Nov 5 18:43:36 PST 2006

Hi Ange! Hi all!

This is the raw data . Ange may be it will help in the application to this
foundation. Can you to take on this application??

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We are requesting for funds to cover the transportation cost of  volunteers to
help run workshops and training of media makers and activists who will be
assembled in Nairobi Kenya from around the World and Africa in particular for
the first World Social Forum  event to take place in Africa.
The international Independent Media Center-IMC to be open from January 13 to
January
27, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya, will provide independent media coverage of 
the World
Social Forum (taking place from January 20-25).  The WSF IMC in Nairobi 
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.

PREPARATION 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"
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-africa " 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.

KEY ORGANIZERS/SUPPORTERS:
--the IMC-Africa working group, an Indymedia working group composed of African
Indymedia activists and supporters from around the world.
Indymedia (Independent Media Center or IMC) is a global network of grassroots
based, horizontally organized groups of independent journalists and 
alternative
media makers with a focus on global justice, which has its roots in the
anti-corporate globalization movement (www.indymedia.org )

--the Kenya-IMC group has been in existence 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.

-- Umverteilen a German based Foundation that specializes in supporting
progressive projects around the World. They have provided 12,000 Euros. To
cover the transportation cost of some 24 delegates from 7 African 
countries and
the IMC centre costs on the ground in Nairobi.

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.

---BUDGET

-1.) Transportation of the 24 African delegates from Africa:
. Jennifer Ehidiamen and Kola- Forming IMC-Nigeria= 1800 USD
.COULIBALY DOH, Moussa COULIBALY and Madou COULIBALY-IMC Mali =4,620 USD
.IMC South Africa-(3 delegates)= 1800 USD
. Uganda ( 6 delgates )= 2160 USD
.Laila El Nakib - Egypt = 720 USD
.Nfonku bih and Nfuanjeku Tabia Rene IMC-Ambazonia-Cameroon =1600 USD
.Peter Makori (m)-Kenya , -Judith (f) ?Kenya, -Grace (f)-Kenya, -Oloo
(m)-Kenya, John(m)-Kenya, -Lemuya (m)-Kenya, - charles j. othina (m)-Kenya =0
Total=12,700 USD
-2)IMC in Nairobi running costs
.Rents of Guesthouse to serve as lodging and Convergence Center for 
workshop and
trainings =1300 USD
.Technical Costs, Communications for Internet, local phone cards Office
stationary, Printer, Copies = 700 USD
.Food for 26 delegates over three weeks self catering =1400 USD
.Local Transport for delegates over period of forum via picking delegates from
airport and inner-city transport 600=USD
IMC in Nairobi running costs total 4000 USD
-3)Costs related to IMC working
.All necessary parts for radio station (with most parts purchased locally) =
3000 USD
.2 Computers to run automation and audio editing 1000 USD
.2 Audio recording MD players and tapes 600 USD
.2 Video recording Cameras and tapes 800 USD
.5 Computers for workshops and publishing use in the Indymedia Centre= 
2500 USD
.1 Video Projector 800 USD
.Indymedia Print (2 issues) for publication in WSF 2(400) 800 USD
IMC Working Costs total 9500 USD

---INCOME

-Umverteilen has agreed to provide us with 12000Euros to cover the following
items in our budget:
.1.) Transportation of the 24 African delegates from Africa. And
.2.) IMC in Nairobi running costs.
-We have an application pending with the Indymedia Finance Working 
group and the
Dutch foundation XminusY to cover the cost of Radio equipment.

FINANCIAL NEED:

As we hope that IMC-Finance and Xminus Y will fund the equipment cost, we are
left with the cost of Transportation for Volunteers coming from out of Africa
to help run workshops, trainings and help with building the radio Station.
Here is the list of the volunteers and the cost of their individual 
tickets for
which we need funds:
?	Hannah(f) and Siyade(f) from Prometheus radio will run workshops on building
and operating a Low Powered FM and can food box antennas (contennas). 1400 =
2800 USD
?	C.T. Butler(f) co-founder of FoodNotBombs??? is coming to do train the
trainer workshops on non-violent social change and consensus 
organizing. = 1499
USD
?	Stephanie(f) in Berlin is collecting equipment around Europe for the
Convergence IMC = 1000 USD
?	Glenda(f)- doing mobilization for the event in Switzerland and to run women
empowerment workshops = 1200 USD
?	Sphinx-(m) IMC-Ambazonia-USA= To run workshops on software used by the
indymedia network, the nuts and bolds of indymedia from new imc process to
indymedia to IMC-Satellite = 1600 USD
?	Ange- Angela meili (f)- and Rafael diniz (m) IMC Brazil will run workshops
on audio streaming and radio, and Low Powered TV stations = 2(3000) = 6000 USD
?	Fabian (m)-IMC-Sheffield ?UK is doing much of the organizing and
fundraising. Will run workshops on video edit, indymedia story, open
publishing) = 772USD
?	Farhana Khan (m)-Bangladesh to share youth organizing skills = 2015 USD
?	Janmaat-(m) UK to run workshops on interview techniques et al and workshops
on empowering participants to set up their own low-cost screen-print
workshop.=772 USD
?	Bonzai-(m) Ascii- Tech volunteer to do tech support for the events=
   . Zoe will share skills on producing podcasts and some free software 
that can
be used for this.=1600UDS
..Soodhakur Ramlallah Mauritian Correspondent of the African Press 
Agency (APA)
and Assistant Editor Mauritius Times is a volunteers from Mauritius= 3334USD

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Sphinx

Quoting ange at riseup.net:

> cool! more workshops!
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> ps.: lets try this foundation!! its a formulary in the site.
> what kind of request would be appreciate ?
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> ange
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>> Hello,
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>> I'm coming from New York where I have been working on an Internet radio
>> project for the past 2 years with immigrants who are learning English. I
>> can
>> share my skills on producing podcasts and some free software that can be
>> used for this.
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>> For the moment, I'm planning on taking care of my own travel costs. If
>> there
>> were a possibility of getting some help, that would be great, but I
>> realize
>> that the priority needs to be with the people traveling from Africa.
>>
>> Since I'm new to the list, I don't know who is handling the funding
>> requests. In any case, this is a link to a San Francisco based foundation
>> that provides travel grants for international radio work. It may be late
>> to
>> make a request of them, but it's worth a try.  http://www.ncdxf.org
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>> I can take care of my visa request from here, but I will need the contact
>> info for the IMC-Kenya people or Indymedia Kenya to submit that.
>>
>> Zoe
>>
>> We are the ones we have waited for.
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