[Imc-africa] sent the imc-finance draft
Zoe Sullivan
zoe_sullivan at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 7 07:39:04 PST 2006
Very nice!
We are the ones we have waited for.
>From: Jay <idiot at jaysand.com>
>Reply-To: African IMCs and the imc project in
>Africa<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>To: imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
>Subject: [Imc-africa] sent the imc-finance draft
>Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:35:49 -0500
>
>Hi imc-africa,
>
>With some rapid feedback from Hannah, I tinkered just a bit with the
>below proposal and sent it along to imc-finance. I changed the
>funding request to $4250 to add $250 for extra tools and expenses,
>put a bit about how we're trying to raise money to buy equipment for
>a 2nd station that would stay in Nairobi after the WSF, added
>Judith's e-mail as a contact.
>
>---++ SUMMARY:
>
>Request from the imc-africa working group to imc-finance for $4250 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. Imc-Africa is also trying to fundraise to support the
>purcase of enough equipment to build a second radio station, which
>would remain in Nairobi after the WSF, perhaps for use by organizers
>in the Kibera section of Nairobi.
>
>---++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 $4250 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 $4250 -- 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.
>
>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
>
>Locally bought/rented tools and equipment for the physical building
>of the studio and the transmitter = $250
>
>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
>
>Tools,etc. $250
>
>Shipping and misc: $391
>
> ------------
>Total costs: $4250
>
>---++ 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), John from IMC-Kenya (jonbwak at yahoo.com) or Judith
>Miguda-Attyang <migudaattyang at yahoo.com> from Maseno
>University.. Feel free to browse through the imc-africa list
>archives for an idea of the enthusiastic organizing that is taking place.
>
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