[Imc-africa] Where we are with preparation for the WSF-IMC

[Peter van Heusden]

Hi Sphinx

Thanks for this summary. We had a Cape Town Indymedia collective meeting
today, and it was decided that we'd like to help pull together a funding
proposal ASAP. In our minds, while we would like to get people from
South Africa to Nairobi, our biggest priority is to use the WSF as an
event to deepen the networking between comrades, in other words, to
build the capacity for people to 'be their own journalists'. So this
means that we would like to emphasise training & building contacts with
comrades / movements.

So this means that we want to help build the space in Nairobi, that we
want to be part of creating media there and training people there, etc.
With this in mind, we'd like to see a funding proposal done as soon as
possible. It seems, from what John has told us, we're getting a lot of
detail about the situation in Nairobi. I'll look over what we got in
detail tomorrow and trying and figure out the gaps in a budget. If we
can get a rough idea of a programme together, we can then do a proposal,
and send it in to funders - we're hoping by the end of this week. The
details of exactly who does what workshop can be worked out once we know
who's going to be around, etc.

One issue which is a bit tricky is transport. For instance, at this
point, it costs about R 4000 to get people from Cape Town to Nairobi and
back via air travel. Nearer to January, it will cost more. At the same
time, some of the progressive NGOs in South Africa are talking about
organising a ship to take a large number of comrades to Nairobi, which
would make travel costs much lower again. So which option to chose at
this stage? We're not sure.

BTW. I spoke to Grace this evening to introduce myself and hear how
things were going in Kenya (I tried to get hold of John, but no one was
answering his phone). One of the things I raised is that we need to know
who funds will be channelled through in Nairobi. She said she'd speak to
Oloo and I'll call her again tomorrow.

So yeah, I hope that clarifies our thinking from South Africa. We can't
say anything at this stage about numbers of comrades we expect to go to
Nairobi - but we fully support that  the group should be
gender-balanced. Sphinx, you seem to be suggesting that we should do a
big Indymedia proposal for transport for everyone you mention on the
list in your email? Is this right?

Aluta continua!

Peter
IMC South Africa

sphinx wrote:
> This is a mail I thought I had send out last week but somehow I did not:-p.
>
> Hi all! In the days ahead we hope to take the preparation for the Kenya event
> one step further by putting together a budget; detail list of equipments,
> transportation to Kenya, physical-Space where we?ll set the IMC, food,
> lodging, and maybe try to get going on more content details like what 
> workshops
> and activities we will be having in Kenya.
>
> Since we sent out the call in September, there have been many new 
> subscribers to
> the lists. Thus we?ll hopefully be getting more ideas and inputs on the
> discussions.
>
> We also had a couple of people who indicated their desire to come to 
> Nairobi and
> participate in the Convergence IMC center.
>
> I wish to again ask for those who may still wish to come to Kenya to 
> participate
> in the Convergence IMC to indicate by mail to the list, because some 
> donors want
> gender parity in delegations they sponsor for events, it will be nice if
> individuals indicated their gender, where it is not obvious from their names
> :-) . I know this sounds somewhat awkward but some donors do need this
> information. Providing this information now saves us the time lost in the to
> and fro checking of gender info. Thanks for understanding.
>
> The list of those who indicated by mail their desire to go to Nairobi to
> participate in the World Social Forum Convergence IMC looks as follows for now
> :-
>
> -	Jennifer Ehidiamen (f)- Nigeria
> -	Farhana Khan(m)- Bangladesh
> -	charles j. othina(m)-Kenya
> -	IMC Mail-(Three delegates)- (Please IMC-Mali provide gender info  of
> delegation).
>
>    -  Uganda (Bukulu Haruna)-( please indicate the number and gender of
> delegates)
> -Peter Makori (m)-Kenya
> -Judith (f) ?Kenya
> -Grace (f)-Kenya
> -Oloo (m)-Kenya
> -John(m)-Kenya
>    -Lemuya (m)-Kenya
> -South Africa-(Please indicate the number and gender of delegates)
> -Sphinx-(m) IMC-Ambazonia-USA
> -Ange-(?)IMC-Brazil
>
> Still to confirm:
> -Andrés(?) (imc-canarias)??
> -Chris(f) Antioch College-(USA)
> -Jay (m)?IMC-Philly??
> -Fabian (m)-IMC-Sheffield ??
> -Dunk-(?)IMC-Ireland??
> -Kola-(m)Forming IMC-Nigeria??
> -Glenda-(f) Switzerland
>
>
>
> VOLUNTEERS
> -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).
> -C.T. Butler co-founder of FoodNotBombs is coming to do train the trainer
> workshops on non-violent social change and consensus organizing.
> - Stephanie in Berlin is collecting equipment around Europe for the 
> Convergence
> IMC.
>
>
>
> -FUNDRAISING.
> It will surely be a lot easier to break-up the fundraising into three separate
> pieces.
> -Equipment:
> Both for Radio and Independent Media Center as a whole
> -Transportation for delegates and volunteers.
>
> -Other logistics via rents, lodging, internet and food.
>
> We are estimating that for the radio Station, adding stationeries to 
> the list of
> equipment we got last time from Prometheus radio, could round the figure to
> $$5000.
>
> -Hopefully tech soli can still help to collect and rewind computers.
> Fabian will you take on the transportation with Umverteilung.??
>
> This was just to give a view of how the things are now.
>
> Till soon
> Sphinx
>
>
>
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