[Imc-africa] project proposal jan 2007: World Social Forum2007, Nairobi-Kenya. Indymedia and social centres - widening the discussion

Tue Oct 3 06:49:19 UTC 2006

--- Peter van Heusden <pvh at wfeet.za.net> wrote:

> Hi sphinx, all...
> 
> radiolivre.org is down - the WHOIS record for the
> domain lists it as
> 'CLIENT HOLD' which apparently means that the domain
> has been removed
> from its registrar's zone file (as to why, I've got
> no idea).
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of the latest wiki page, so
> it can be moved
> elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
> 
> On 9/28/2006, "sphinx" <sphinx at indymedia.org> wrote:
> 
> >Hi Dunk! your idea is more fantastic. As you
> probably realized from the 
> >time it
> >took to reply to your mail, that the number of
> activists involved at 
> >the moment
> >in the preparation for the WSF-IMC is very small.
> Thus we really will greatly
> >appretiate if you take this part of the project
> under your wings.
> >I already included it in the wiki page. May be you
> wish to take a minute and
> >elaborate more on this project. That is answer
> questions like, what will it
> >take for this to happen via software, hardware and
> human resources etc.
>
>http://wiki.radiolivre.org/Main/WorldSocialForum2007
> >
> >Welcome on board Brother.
> >Revolutionary hug.
> >Sphinx
> >
> >
> >Quoting Fun Peace <fuspey at yahoo.co.uk>:
> >
> >> regarding the recent CALL: Indymedia Center at
> the World Social 
> >> Forum(January 2007 in Nairobi-Kenya)   Im an
> irish activist who is 
> >> part of a few collectives at home, seomra spraoi
> (dublin social 
> >> centre project), revolt video and community
> gardens  in ireland, but 
> >> am now traveling around europe hooking up with
> centres and bouncing 
> >> ideas. after the call out i have an idea id like
> to propose or else 
> >> work with groups already working on this area.
> Ive talked with people 
> >> in social centres, radio collectives, part of
> indymedia, invovled 
> >> with WSF in bilbao, barcelona, genova, some on
> net, and some in 
> >> ireland about doing this and it could be a really
> important project.
> >>
> >>  basically getting more social centres and other
> spaces to open up 
> >> during WSF as local nodes around planet to go to
> to firstly listen to 
> >> stuff live from kenya, but also maybe where they
> could have 2 way 
> >> systems: being able to participate in forum
> without physically being 
> >> there.
> >>
> >>  regards
> >>  dunk
> >>
> >>  original post of this found on indymedia ireland
> : 
> >> http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78360
> >>
> >>  World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi-Kenya.
> Indymedia and social centres 
> >> - widening the discussion
> >>
> >>
> >>  Early next year the World Social Forum will
> happen in Nairobi-Kenya 
> >> and a call out has gone out for indymedia support
> for the project. 
> >> Along with the setting up of a
> "convergence-based" IMC for the event, 
> >> some activists are organising to try to set up
> listening stations in 
> >> social centres around Europe whereby more people
> can at least listen 
> >> to things as they happen from Kenya. But
> experiments in participating 
> >> in the WSF without physically being there are
> also being explored in 
> >> an attempt to push the boundaries of how this
> world works today.
> >> Communication is the key to a better world
> >>
> >>  The call out has gone out for indymedia support
> for the WSF 2007 project to:
> >> "set up a "convergence-based" IMC that 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 
> >> independent media coverage of the WSF during the
> forum itself as well 
> >> as access through the world wide web to the WSF
> by an international 
> >> audience. The IMC plans to be open from January
> 13 to January 25. The 
> >> WSF itself takes place from January 20-25. "
> >>
> >> With the creation of a strong radio network
> coalition for the WSF it 
> >> is possible for a wider section of global civil
> society to tune in 
> >> and listen live to the large amount of
> discussions, seminars and 
> >> workshops as they happen in Kenya, as
> successfully happened during 
> >> the G8 in Scotland 2005 with the radical radio
> coalition. ( 
> >> http://www.g8radio.net/ ) But things can be taken
> to the next level, 
> >> whereby those listening could participate in the
> Kenyan based 
> >> discussions without physically being there. This
> would be possible by 
> >> a network of social centres and/or local
> community centres around the 
> >> planet organising to open up for the duration of
> the WSF and to have 
> >> the tek stuff sorted so that people could use
> them as local nodes to 
> >> call into to firstly listen to the different
> discussions live in real 
> >> time from Kenya (ie - issues of Debt and the WTO,
> global resistance 
> >> to all wars, access to the land and building
> sustainable communities, 
> >> the use of direct action as a tool for
> >> change) but hopefully also to be able to
> participate in those 
> >> discussions via the streaming technology that is
> available to us at 
> >> present but that we are not availing of to the
> maximum; P2P streaming 
> >> systems, skype, webcams.... A system of
> experimentation and simple 
> >> trial and error could be used to tease out
> problems and make for 
> >> improved efficiency.
> >>
> >> Presently some people are working to understand
> further and to 
> >> strenghten the European social centre and
> autonomous community 
> >> network with the idea of trying to develop this
> idea of support nodal 
> >> points for the upcoming WSF, this is still being
> worked on at:
> >> Cities, radical urbanism, sqatting, social
> centres 
> >>
> (http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/11489.php )
> and a recent 
> >> discussion happened at the Infospai social
> centre, Gracia, Barcelona 
> >> which explored this idea (listen to audio file: 
> >> http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp3744.wav )
> >>
> >> Examples of this type of streaming communication
> system are last 
> >> years streaming of the "future of digitial media"
> forum in Dublin 
> >> last year (
> http://easa.antville.org/stories/1246475/  or watch
> short 
> >> film at http://www.archive.org/details/livestream
>  )
> >> and this weekends planned streaming of the
> Northwest Community Radio 
> >> Summit in Seattle. (
> http://reclaimthemedia.org/communityradio/nwcrn )
> >>
> >> While the still reletively new process of social
> forum has the 
> >> potential to radically change the world, it
> already has it faults as 
> >> was documented by one of imc-ie at the Social
> Fora in London 2004 ( 
> >>
> http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67091 
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