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

Tue Oct 3 06:48:41 UTC 2006

--- ange at riseup.net wrote:

> 
> hello all
> 
> the problem will soon be solved by the tech group.
> we didnt pay the domain, but tonight they are going
> to do it.
> 
> 
> if tomorrow we dont get it solved, i take the wiki
> information and put on
> another place.
> 
> 
> anyway you can put the wiki entry in your /etc/hosts
> 
> 143.106.35.156   wiki.radiolivre.org
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> 
> keeptouch
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> ange
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> > 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 
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Glenda Loebell-Ryan
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