[Imc-africa] draft to send to imc-finance

[Peter van Heusden]

Hi Jay

We're still waiting for answers from other comrades in South Africa, but
our proposal at last week's Cape Town collective meeting was that IMC
Kenya should ask for the money and we could support the proposal on IMC
Finance - that is if IMC Kenya has the capacity for that. We're in
favour of the proposal, but just a bit concerned at the relative silence
for the Kenyan end - after all, comrades there will be managing the
project. Since we're not hearing anything on email, maybe some
phonecalls are in order?

Peter
IMC South Africa - Cape Town collective
Jay wrote:
> Hi imc-africa,
>
> Thanks to Fabian, Sphinx and all for working so hard to bring in that 
> grant!  Now that we have the basics of the infrastructure for the IMC 
> in place we have to raise money for equipment and other essentials.
>
> The time has come to send our proposal to the imc-finance working 
> group.  I have a draft of what I think we should send them.  Please 
> send comments.  Does $3000 sound like the right amount to ask 
> for?  That is the amount we need to pay for the radio equipment.  I 
> know sphinx is applying for grants from other foundations to cover 
> radio equipment and computers, but we certainly can't count on them 
> coming through.
>
> If I haven't heard any suggestions from this list by the beginning of 
> the week, and/or if I haven't heard from Peter from imc-sa or anyone 
> else from Africa who has experience with the imc-finance group and 
> would like to post the proposal, I'll happily post it myself and 
> follow it through the process.
>
> Draft:
>
> SUMMARY:
> Request from the imc-africa working group to imc-finance for funds to 
> support an international IMC to be open from January 13 to January 
> 27, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya, providing independent media coverage 
> of  the World Social Forum (taking place from January 20-25).  The 
> WSF IMC in Naoribi will be an essential place for African and 
> international independent media activists to meet, attending skill 
> shares and workshops about issues relating to independent media that 
> will enable them to create or better support independent media 
> institutions in their home countries.  Participants will also build a 
> functioning low power radio station that will remain in Kenya after 
> the World Social Forum ends.
>
> DETAILS:
> For the last several months, independent media makers and Indymedia 
> organizers in Kenya, throughout Africa and
> around the world have been working together, both on-line and in 
> face-to-face meetings, on a project to build a temporary independent 
> media center (IMC) in Nairobi, Kenya, during the January '07 World Social
> Forum.  Discussions have mainly taken place on the 
> "imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org" list, though there have also been 
> conference calls and IRC chats.  Indymedia activists from Africa, 
> Europe, North America and South America have been actively 
> participating. in this organizing.
>
> This "convergence-based" IMC 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 the 
> participants to create independent media coverage of the WSF during 
> the forum.  Thousands of organizers will be coming to the World 
> Social Forum from around the globe, especially from Africa; this IMC 
> will empower activists (especially those in Africa) to create 
> effective independent media institutions in their countries.  Also, 
> all the equipment purchased for this IMC will
> remain in Kenya for use by other Kenyan independent media projects.
>
> FINANCIAL NEEDS:
> We are asking imc-finance for $3000 to pay for necessary equipment 
> and infrastructure for the IMC.  Equipment needs include parts for 
> the radio station (a detailed list can be provided upon request) as 
> well as money for computers and other logistics for the 
> imc-convergence space.  (All equipment bought will continue to be 
> available to the Kenyan independent media projects after the WSF.)
>
> We are hoping to raise all necessary funds by November 30, 2006.
>
> KEY ORGANIZERS/SUPPORTERS:
> -- the IMC-Africa working group, an Indymedia working group composed of
> African Indymedia activists and supporters from around the
> world.  (imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org)
>
> -- the Kenya-IMC group has been in existance since 2004 after sending several
> representatives to the African Indymedia conference in Dakar, 
> Senegal.  The Kenya IMC has passed through most stages of the new-imc 
> process.  The project hopes to use kenya.indymedia.org as its primary 
> site and to strengthen the Kenya IMC with skill shares to enable it 
> to be sustainable.
>
> -- Prometheus Radio Project (http://www.prometheusradio.org), an
> organization that supports and builds low-power-radio stations around the
> world, will provide technical advice and assistance for a low power radio
> station to be built in Nairobi for the duration of the WSF (with equipment
> to remain in Kenya for use by future low power radio initiatives.
>
> -- students and faculty from Kenya's Maseno University, who will
> participate in ongoing independent media projects after the WSF is over.
>
> The Nairobi IMC will feature many independent media making workshops and
> skill-shares, including trainings in formal consensus and sessions, led
> by African independent media makers, on how to build independent media
> institutions in Africa.  Technicians from the Prometheus Radio Project
> plan to hold hands-on trainings and workshops, building a low power
> radio station with participants of the World Social Forum and the IMC
> convergence.  Prometheus Radio will work after the World Social Forum
> with students from Maseno University to build a permanent low-power
> radio station on their campus.
>
> CONTACT:
> For more information about this proposal, please contact Jay from the 
> Philadelphia IMC,
> jay at fundamentalchange.net.
>
> Thanks for your consideration!
> Jay
>
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