[Imc-africa] Workshop idea: Effective Indymedia in Africa

[Glenda Loebell]

Hello Jay
I will be there and want to show a film made here in
Switzerland by young people. The issue that interest
me is opening up discussions with local women and to
document their ideas, feelings and opinions.
We could use interviews which is basic to teach. We
could use memory book style tools using
pictures-digital. We could share skills of research as
we did in senegal.
Will have time next week to talk.
Glenda 
--- Jay <idiot at jaysand.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Now that we're talking more directly about
> workshops, I want to 
> repeat an idea I've tossed around a bit and see if
> anyone would like 
> to work on this.
> 
> I'd love to see us use the opportunity of so many
> people coming 
> together in Nairobi, especially delegates from
> African IMCs and from 
> countries around the world where access to
> technology is not the 
> norm, to have some honest and far-reaching
> discussions about how 
> Indymedia can be most effective in places where
> people don't 
> generally have computer access.  I don't envision
> this kind of 
> discussion being as much of a "workshop" as a series
> of sessions 
> during which people have difficult conversations
> about the utilty, or 
> lack thereof, of the Indymedia network, in their
> countries, and come 
> up with ways to make the useful parts most useful in
> their local 
> areas.  People who have already done IMC organizing
> in Africa and 
> beyond could talk about their exepriences and ideas
> of course, but 
> the more important thing is that everyone would
> brainstorm 
> *practical* ways for local IMCs to make their work
> relevant to the 
> widest possible audience.
> 
> Possibly this kind of discussion could form the
> heart and soul of the 
> WSF IMC convergence.  Yes, we'll be successful if we
> build a radio 
> station and share some media-making skills, but
> ultimately not 
> everyone will go home and be able to build a radio
> station or have 
> access to equipment to use to make video or post to
> the 
> internet.  The deeper, and ultimately more relevant
> question seems to 
> be how people throughout Africa and beyond can most
> effectively 
> connect to each other and to the greater world using
> independent media.
> 
> So, I propose this not as a "workshop" but as one of
> the primary 
> orientations of the convergence.
> 
> Since I'm 90% sure I'm not going to be there, I'd
> love to see if 
> anyone who will be in Nairobi, especially an African
> IMC delegate, 
> may be interested in fleshing out some of the
> concepts with me and 
> working together to make it happen.
> 
> Thinking deep thoughts,
> Jay 
> 
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Glenda Loebell-Ryan,
sos rassismus deutschschweiz,
Rosengartenstr.1
8037 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel. ++41 43 366 98 16
Email: info at sos-rassismus.ch
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