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

[Jay]

Hi Sphinx and IMC africa,

At 8/30/2006, you wrote:
>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 ?.

Sounds great.


>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.

Fantastic.  Has anyone worked at all on that appeal?  Maybe we can add a 
few sentences to the general proposal e-mail that was sent to this list a 
couple weeks ago asking people who are interested in coming to the WSF to 
contact us.

>-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.

Absolutely.  Certainly we should focus on delegates from African IMCs.

>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?.

Having space as part of the WSF forum ground would be really great.

Keep the good ideas flowing,
Jay

>Regards
>Sphinx
>N.B. The official website of the forum is :
>http://socialforum.or.ke/
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