[Imc-africa] Conference Call on Friday 29th September 2006.

[Glenda Loebell]

will get.
Well let us know exatly who is doing what so we do not
have duplication. "Correct channels" was meant to
ensure no duplication.
Do we have a to do list with priorities.
This may be helpful.
Glenda

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

> Coil radio? No, never heard of. Do you have contact
> details?
> 
> BTW. Fabian, are you around? I haven't heard
> anything from you recently.
> No offence meant to anyone, but what is this about
> "the correct
> channels"? From our perspective the most important
> things to do are to
> coordinate what we are doing, and to get something
> done, ASAP with
> regards to funding. I strongly suspect in the end
> there won't be one
> single proposal, but rather different proposals to
> different funders for
> different components of our work. This is a way of
> spreading the load /
> hedging your bets. Looking forward to seeing your
> proposal and lets get
> this show on the road!
> 
> As to licensing, this must be investigated ASAP.
> Here in South Africa a
> low power radio station was run unlicensed for some
> months before it was
> shut down by authorities, but obviously how you
> approach this stuff is
> up to local people to decide.
> 
> Peter
> 
> Glenda Loebell wrote:
> > Hello All
> > The CH/Swiss indymedia people only meet tonight,
> > Monday evening, and will hand in a proposal
> tomorrow
> > to the correct channels-Fabian, Jay or Sphinx.  We
> > have radio/ radio wireless and low powered
> experienced
> > people in the group. 
> > Licences are not important only in the context of
> it
> > causing major problems for the locals and it
> threatens
> > them from a human rights perspective when the WSF
> is
> > over.  
> > There was also in SA the coil radio-Peter do you
> have
> > contact with that group. They opereated in CT and
> had
> > links or ties to Sweden.
> >
> > Glenda
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Peter van Heusden <pvh at wfeet.za.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Thanks for this Jay. I've read through the
> >> transcripts. A couple of
> >> clarifications:
> >>
> >> Firstly, there are people in Jo'burg affiliated
> with
> >> IMC South Africa
> >> who have experience running a low power radio
> >> station. This is from the
> >> project  that Erez Gudes and others helped with.
> It
> >> would be good to get
> >> some of them to Nairobi if a low power project is
> >> planned (licensed or
> >> unlicensed). Unfortunately, as far as I know,
> >> they're all men. Nicolas
> >> (nicolas at red.org.za) knows more.
> >>
> >> Secondly, is the 'company'  was talking about
> >> that Fabian approach
> >> Stiftung Umverteilen? We need to get a funding
> >> proposal in to them ASAP.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >> Jay wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi Peter,
> >>>
> >>> At 10/2/2006, Peter van Heusden wrote:
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> Hey Sphinx
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm confused... a Conference Call on the
> WSF-IMC
> >>>>         
> >> on a US shared-call
> >>     
> >>>> line?? Why??? As I see it from this list, most
> of
> >>>>         
> >> the interested in a
> >>     
> >>>> Nairobi IMC is from Africa and Europe...
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway, so what happened? Who participated? Is
> >>>>         
> >> there a transcript / MP3
> >>     
> >>>> of the call available somewhere?
> >>>>
> >>>> Peter
> >>>> IMC-South Africa
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> The conference call was a follow-up to the call
> a
> >>>       
> >> few weeks ago, before any 
> >>     
> >>> organizing for the Nairobi/WSF IMC happened,
> >>>       
> >> between members of the 
> >>     
> >>> Prometheus Radio Project
> >>>       
> >> (http://www.prometheusradio.org), an organization
> 
> >>     
> >>> that builds low-power radio stations mainly in
> the
> >>>       
> >> United States, but with 
> >>     
> >>> some experience worldwide (recently in
> Tanzania),
> >>>       
> >> Chris form Antioch 
> >>     
> >>> College who has connections with Maseno
> University
> >>>       
> >> in Kenya, Sphinx and 
> >>     
> >>> yours truly.
> >>>
> >>> Before the first call, an idea was brewing for
> >>>       
> >> Prometheus to help build a 
> >>     
> >>> station in conjunction with Maseno and connect
> it
> >>>       
> >> with some independent 
> >>     
> >>> media organizing at the WSF.  During the first
> >>>       
> >> call we came up with the 
> >>     
> >>> notion that there could/should be a
> >>>       
> >> convergence-based IMC at the WSF, as 
> >>     
> >>> long as there was support for the idea from
> >>>       
> >> Indymedia organizers in Kenya 
> >>     
> >>> and throughout Africa, and that Prometheus would
> >>>       
> >> support the project by 
> >>     
> >>> working, most likely with Maseno, to build a
> >>>       
> >> low-power radio station there 
> >>     
> >>> that could be used throughout the WSF, and then
> >>>       
> >> move to Maseno 
> >>     
> >>> University.  The first call resulted in this
> >>>       
> >> e-mail I sent to the 
> >>     
> >>> imc-africa list a few days afterward: 
> >>>
> >>>       
> >
>
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-africa/2006-August/0814-kb.html.
> >   
> >>> A lot of great organizing in Kenya and on the
> >>>       
> >> imc-africa list has happened 
> >>     
> >>> since the first conference call!  Prometheus
> >>>       
> >> organizers aren't on the 
> >>     
> >>> imc-africa list (well, weren't -- a couple are
> >>>       
> >> going to join), so, this 
> 
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Glenda Loebell-Ryan
Am Wasser 57
CH-8049 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Tel. ++41  1  341  94 22
glloebell at yahoo.com

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