[Imc-africa] Proposed network call

[sphinx]

Hi all! I'm sorry for being late again. I came down with a migrane.
This is a draft text to be sent to various nework list by Saturday September 9.
2007(in 3 days) as our call for the Nairobi event.
1-please indicate all the proposed corrections or additions you think need be
made.
2-We need someone to help with translation into French.
3-Fabian I think the points you raised in your last mail are very important but
I hope you do not mind that I could not work them into this proposal since some
of them seemed to me to be network-wide question e.g indy WSF relations.
Sphinx

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CALL: January 2007  World Social Forum(WSF) Indymedia Center (Nairobi-Kenya).
Following discussions that have been going on in the imc-africa mailing list and
other fora since November 2005, a ?Convergence IMC? for the coming World
Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi-Kenya will run from January 13 to January 25 .
2007 when the forums ends.

VISION:
Organizers in Kenya, throughout Africa and around the world will work
together, both on-line and in face-to-face meetings, to build a temporary
independent media center in Nairobi, Kenya, to provide communication during
the January '07 World Social Forum.  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 independent
media coverage of the WSF during the forum itself as well as access through
the world wide web to the WSF by an international audience.  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 the Kenya IMC and other Kenyan independent media
projects.

KEY ORGANIZERS/SUPPORTERS:
-- the Kenya-IMC, still pending approval as a formal part of the Indymedia
network, has been in existence since 2004, after sending two
representatives to the African Indymedia conference in Dakar,
Senegal.

-- the IMC-Africa working group, an Indymedia list composed of
African Indymedia activists and supporters from around the world.
(http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-africa/)

-- Prometheus Radio Project (http://www.prometheusradio.org), an organization
that supports and builds low-power-radio stations around the world, and will
provide technical advice and assistance for the low power radio station that
will be operated from the ?Convergence IMC Center? 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)

--Some students and faculty members from Maseno University in Kenya , who will
participate in ongoing independent media projects after the WSF is over.

INVITATION-TIMELINE
This is an invitation for ALL who wish to participate in this ?IMC Convergence
Center? to register by sending an email with their name or group?s name to
imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
-- We would like to effectively come up with a budget and get down to the
logistics by SEPTEMBER 18. 2006. Thus we are asking that all registrations be
sent in by September 18. 2006.
On the other hand we?ll greatly appreciate any support for this event both
material and non-materials. As such we?ll be very grateful if activists with
experience in organizing such type of events do share their experience with us
at the imc-africa list
(imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org) .

Here is the wiki we are using :
http://wiki.radiolivre.org/Main/WorldSocialForum2007