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

Hannah Sassaman hannahjs at prometheusradio.org
Mon Nov 6 17:10:23 PST 2006 

thanks zoe.  my guess is that it is probably a good idea for one person 
to call the foundation (we are talking about NCDXF here, right?) and to 
explain what we're trying to do, to ask about the best way to send in 
this application -- whether en masse or 
one-at-a-time-for-each-organizer -- as well as to find out if they are 
interested in funding projects like this (not ham radio, but definitely 
in line with infrastructure building).

i'd be willing to make this call, though i couldn't make it until 
wednesday.  prometheus has some experience working with ham radio 
operators who also build and advocate for local FM community radio 
stations, in the US and around the world.

ange and zoe, let me know what you want us to do.

hannah s.
prometheusradioproject

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:06:46AM -0500, Zoe Sullivan wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Will one person make this application, or should we do it separately? If 
> just one person is the point person, would that be Ange? I know that this 
> foundation only provides funding to US citizens, so it limits the 
> usefulness. I would like to include myself in the request, though, if we do 
> it through a single application for everyone.
> 
> Thanks.
> Zoe
> 
> We are the ones we have waited for.
> 
> 
> 
> >From: sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org>
> >Reply-To: African IMCs and the imc project in 
> >Africa<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
> >To: African IMCs and the imc project in 
> >Africa<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>, ange at riseup.net
> >Subject: Re: [Imc-africa] traveling to Nairobi( little update 
> >on	preparation)
> >Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:43:36 +0100
> >
> >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??
> >
> >+++++
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >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
> >
> >+++++
> >Sphinx
> >
> >
> >
> >Quoting ange at riseup.net:
> >
> > > cool! more workshops!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ps.: lets try this foundation!! its a formulary in the site.
> > > what kind of request would be appreciate ?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ange
> > >
> > >
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >> 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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