[Imc-africa] Urgent!: imc-finance final draft

[Jay]

Hi imc-africa,

Time is getting very short and I'm getting really antsy about getting 
our funding request for the radio station equipment into 
imc-finance.  Take a look at 
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WsF2007ImcFinance.  I just 
posted what I hope will be the final draft of our imc-finance 
request.  I meshed this from what many people have written, including 
parts lists from Prometheus radio and language from a variety of us here.

The proposal asks for $4000 to pay specifically for radio station 
equipment.  So imc-finance understands why we're asking for radio 
equipment and not for money to rent the space itself and for travel 
by African IMC delegates, I put a sentence about our already 
receiving other funding.  I think that will answer a lot of questions 
imc-finance may have otherwise had about our priorities.  I hope 
imc-finance will see the radio station as an essential part of the 
effort, and a major driving force behind the initial idea for this IMC.

I indicated that all equipment, including computer equipment, will 
techincally remain property of imc-kenya, even if it moves to Maseno 
for permanent use there.  Sphinx, Hannah, others, please correct me 
if I'm wrong.

I have not heard from John specifically regaring this information (hi 
John!), nor have I heard any specific complaint about the idea of my 
posting this to imc-finance on behalf of imc-africa if John doesn't 
want to be the one dealing with this.

Please let me know as soon as possible if that is a 
problem.  Otherwise, I would like to post this by the end of Monday.

Jay

---++ 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
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, South America and Asia 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 Kenyan independent media projects.  After 
the WSF, Prometheus Radio Project will move the radio station to 
Kenya's Maseno University where students and faculty, in conjunction 
with the Kenya IMC, will organize it as an ongoing community media project.

---++Program Detail:

The Nairobi/World Social Forum IMC's activities will include:

1) Building, through a series of hands-on workshops led by the 
Prometheus Radio Project (read "key organizers/supporters" below), an 
on-air low power radio station to provide coverage of the WSF.

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

3) Publish two Indymedia Print editions during the WSF to reach out 
to WSF delegates and Nairobi population

4) Hosting workshops on horizontal decision making processes

5) Hosting workshops to discuss the relevance of Indymedia and 
independent media in general with African and other (media) activists.

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

7) Hosting a series of film showings.

8) Acting as a hub for myriad independent media-making workshops that 
will benefit attendees of the World Social Forum, specifically those 
who will take these skills back to their local communities.  (Glance 
at the imc-africa working group archives to see all the exciting 
projects that have been proposed.)

9) Creating a spirit and enthusiasm among local activists in Nairobi 
and Kenya to resume and energize the formation of a permanent IMC in Kenya.

---++ Key Organizers/Supporters:
-- the IMC-Africa working group, (imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org)

-- the Kenya-IMC group.  "IMC Kenya" 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.

---++ Financial Detail:

The imc-africa working group is requesting $4000 from imc-finance to 
support the Nairobi/World Social Forum IMC and future Kenyan 
independent media projects.

Imc-africa has already received some grant money from a German 
foundation to support the intended IMC space in Nairobi and travel by 
delegates from IMCs around Africa.  The working group is still 
seeking funds to provide the equipment necessary to build the 
Naorobi/WSF IMC radio station, and other equipment and tools 
necessary to create the infrastructure of the Nairobi/WSF IMC.

To simplify our application to imc-finance, the imc-africa working 
group has decided to apply for $4000 -- funds that would cover parts 
for the radio station (budget below).  As mentioned above, after the 
WSF, Prometheus Radio Project will move the station to Maseno 
University where students and faculty, in conjunction will imc-kenya, 
will rebuild it and organize it as one of Kenya's only true 
independent community media voices.  All equipment will remain 
property of imc-Kenya.

As the World Social Forum is rapidly approaching we kindly ask the 
imc-finance working group to address this request promptly.  We ask 
for the working group to reach a decision by November 30, 2006.

---++ Financial Breakdown

Prices are in American dollars.

 From NRG radio Kits
Exciter/ transmitter
http://www.nrgkitz.com/pll-pro3.htm
$183

amplifier
http://www.nrgkitz.com/rfamplifiers/40watt.htm
4 watt drive version
$175

limiter
http://www.nrgkitz.com/radiokits/stereo_limiter.htm
$143

power supply
http://www.nrgkitz.com/power_supply/linear.htm
$64
May be locally available.


 From the RF Connection
long cable
http://www.therfc.com/coax.htm
LMR-400
About $65

male to male pl259 connector
Connects amplifier and transmitter
DM-1      UHF(M/M) Import
$20

 From http://www.progressive-concepts.com/
comet antenna  $110

Watt meter:
http://www.radio-oasis.com/products/jetstream.html
JTWHF Watt Meter 1.8 - 200 Mhz, 50 Ohm, Power Scales 30 and 300 watts 
SO - 239 connectors $69.00

Mixer
Behringer UB1222FX Mixer
$180

2 CD Players
$100 Each

2 Headphones
$25 Each

Cassette Deck
$100

2 Portable Minidisc Recorders
$100 each
(remote microphone, headphones and cabling necessary)

2 Audio Technica ATM41a Microphones
$75 each

* *Two computers with good soundcards to run automation and serve for 
editing programs.*

|2CPU |3($800)=$1600|
|2 Delta 44 professional 4in/4 out audio card| $150 each = $300

Shipping and miscellaneous parts and tool costs: $391

Exciter:           $183

Amplifier:                $175

Limiter:           $143

Power supply: $64

Cable:            $65

Connectors:             $20

Antenna:         $110

SWR meter:            $69

Mixer            $180

CD Players       $200

Headphones        $50

Cassette deck    $100

Minidiscs        $200

Microphones      $150

Computers       $1600

Sound Cards      $300

Shipping and misc: $391

              ------------
Total costs:    $4000

---++ Contact information

Please direct any questions about this information to the 
imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org working group, or directly to Jay 
(jay at fundamentalchange.net), Sphinx (sphinx at indymedia.org), Ange 
(ange at riseup.net) or John from IMC-Kenya (jonbwak at yahoo.com).  Feel 
free to browse through the imc-africa list archives for an idea of 
the enthusiastic organizing that is taking place.