[Imc-africa] WSF 2007 convergence Independent Media Center and radio project

[fabian]

Hi everybody,

I agree with the points Sphinx made and would like to urge groups and 
individual African IMCistas to express their opinion of coming and 
joining into the Kenya Meeting as soon as possible.
SA? are you up for it?
Uganda?
East-Africa?
Canarias?
estrecho/Marocco?
Togo?
I would like to remind you also of the importance that women and men 
are represented equally in possible delegations  to strenghen the role 
of women participating in indy-media projects. This should be included 
into the network call out as well I think.
I agree with the priority list for funding travel costs as layed out by 
Shpinx, but in regards to Glenda's point raised we might want to 
include into potential priority funding african diaspora activists, 
espially in cases where in their homelands repressive governments are 
prohibiting the existance of local independent media.
In any way much of this is down to potential funding bodies.

For the accomondation in nairobi and the general "feel" of the 
convergence, I would like to support John's idea to get a house or 
several houses in one aera for all or as many as possible of the 
Indymedia convergence to stay together like it was the case in Dakar 
and Bamako.

For the IMCs stand towards the WSF, I think we need to discuss this a 
bit more profundly. This will also help us to start working on a 
program/content for the convergence. Some questions/ideas :
To what degree to we understand ourselves as part of the WSF and to 
what degree to we understand as a independent media, remaining in a 
critical distance to the WSF? This is about the role of the IMC 
convergence at the WSF. This also relates to the potential aim and 
outcome of the convergence.  I think we all agree on the need to ensure 
that the stopover of the WSF circus has a local impact in the region. 
How can Indymedia in its pariticipation help that this is the case? How 
can we include more people in Kenia and around in East-Africa in to the 
process of independent media activism, reaching beyond the scope of 
already connected activists? Where should workshops take place, inside 
or outside the WSF? Where is the radio and the IMC to be located, so 
people fell easy to walk inside and take part? What would be other 
means of outreach? for example, should we try to go down different 
software routes in regards to open-publishing ( for example with 
blogs)?


Thanks a lot for the discussion,
  hope to hear from you all soon...

Fabian


Am 30.08.2006 um 08:38 schrieb sphinx:

> This far much of the activity going on is information gathering and we 
> really
> need speed-up preparation if we are to get a successful event in 
> January which
> is just five few months away. Prometheus radio is putting together a 
> list for
> material we hope to buy locally and use in the construction of the 
> radio
> station.
> I tried to put up a wiki page today for the event, so we could started 
> gathering
> all these fantastic ideas that are coming up in the mailing list to 
> one place to
> avoid us losing them  to the list archive. But unfortunately the 
> indymedia
> documentation wiki site is down and as soon as the tech folks get it 
> up and
> running I'll try to do just that.
>
> POINTS THAT CAN BE dealt WITH IMMEDIATELY:
> Very salient points were raised in the list that need be dealt with 
> right away.
>
> 1-Fabian proposed that we start the meeting  earlier may be a week 
> before the
> forum.  Since the forum will go from January 20 to 25, 2007. The 
> Convergence
> media Center in Nairobi Kenya for the  7th World Social Forum (WSF) 
> should go
> operational from January 13th 2007.
> Is there any objection to this ?.
>
> 2-The Mali collective has indicated their desire to send 3 delegates 
> to the
> event. They have further
> indicated that they will take time of to research: - necessary visa 
> formality
> travel and -ticket cost which I think all others should do as well.
> On the question on general information about things like cost of 
> leaving  in
> Kenya and general traveling information, I think the World Social 
> Forum folks
> did a great job under the topics : Getting to Nairobi, Where to stay, 
> Getting
> around, meeting place and Communication on their website at
> http://socialforum.or.ke/
>
> Thus all are encourages to research ticket cost from their area of 
> location.
> In this respect since it is absolutely important for us to get the 
> ticket cost
> for delegates who will be coming from various countries I wish to make 
> the
> following proposal.
> 1-That in the next (2-3) days we make an appeal for activists from 
> across the
> network who will like to go to the WSF forum to indicate and do so 
> within the
> next 14 so that we can start planning and fund raising especially for 
> people
> like Fabian who are interest in fund raising for tickets.
> -The list of preference as to how we fund delegates will be based on 
> the funds
> we get.
> But it will start with African delegates who leave in an environment 
> where fund
> raising is very difficult. Then volunteers who will like to help run 
> workshops,
> then any other person along that line. Again this is a proposal and 
> your input
> is needed before we word it to a final proposal for distribution 
> across the
> indymedia-network.
> The information on those hoping to come will give us a better idea on 
> the space
> we may need organize for logging and all other cost needed for the 
> full period
> of the Conference.
>
> AS OF NOW:
> We participated in the World Social forum online consultation at:
> http://consultation.wsf2007.org/
> That is, we registered on the on line interface as ?WSF 2007 
> convergence
> Independent Media Center and radio project.?. By doing so we did 
> explain what
> our activity will be.
> The last 2 on line bulletins of the WSF indicated that on line 
> consultation
> should end this August that is tomorrow. The preparation group of the 
> forum
> will gather all the input and that will help in the laying out of the 
> Calendar
> of activity etc. Then, when official registration for the forum starts 
> we'll
> then register again as a group. I hope that this could so make things 
> to work
> out that we could end-up being able to negotiate a strategically 
> Central space
> at the forum ground for our center, but that is still a  ?May be?.
> Regards
> Sphinx
> N.B. The official website of the forum is :
> http://socialforum.or.ke/
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