[Imc-africa] project proposal jan 2007: World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi-Kenya. Indymedia and social centres - widening the discussion

[ange at riseup.net]

hi fun!

here in brazil we are going to make transmitions in our freeradios.
maybe we can build a rizoma of freeradios around the planet!
and use radiolivre.org icecast server.

abs

ange






> regarding the recent CALL: Indymedia Center at the World Social
> Forum(January 2007 in Nairobi-Kenya)   Im an irish activist who is part of
> a few collectives at home, seomra spraoi (dublin social centre project),
> revolt video and community gardens  in ireland, but am now traveling
> around europe hooking up with centres and bouncing ideas. after the call
> out i have an idea id like to propose or else work with groups already
> working on this area. Ive talked with people in social centres, radio
> collectives, part of indymedia, invovled with WSF in bilbao, barcelona,
> genova, some on net, and some in ireland about doing this and it could be
> a really important project.
>
>   basically getting more social centres and other spaces to open up during
> WSF as local nodes around planet to go to to firstly listen to stuff
> live from kenya, but also maybe where they could have 2 way systems:
> being able to participate in forum without physically being there.
>
>   regards
>   dunk
>
>   original post of this found on indymedia ireland :
> http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78360
>
>   World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi-Kenya. Indymedia and social centres -
> widening the discussion
>
>
>   Early next year the World Social Forum will happen in Nairobi-Kenya and
> a call out has gone out for indymedia support for the project. Along
> with the setting up of a "convergence-based" IMC for the event, some
> activists are organising to try to set up listening stations in social
> centres around Europe whereby more people can at least listen to things
> as they happen from Kenya. But experiments in participating in the WSF
> without physically being there are also being explored in an attempt to
> push the boundaries of how this world works today.
> Communication is the key to a better world
>
>   The call out has gone out for indymedia support for the WSF 2007 project
> to:
> "set up a "convergence-based" IMC that 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. The IMC plans to
> be open from January 13 to January 25. The WSF itself takes place from
> January 20-25. "
>
> With the creation of a strong radio network coalition for the WSF it is
> possible for a wider section of global civil society to tune in and listen
> live to the large amount of discussions, seminars and workshops as they
> happen in Kenya, as successfully happened during the G8 in Scotland 2005
> with the radical radio coalition. ( http://www.g8radio.net/ ) But things
> can be taken to the next level, whereby those listening could participate
> in the Kenyan based discussions without physically being there. This would
> be possible by a network of social centres and/or local community centres
> around the planet organising to open up for the duration of the WSF and to
> have the tek stuff sorted so that people could use them as local nodes to
> call into to firstly listen to the different discussions live in real time
> from Kenya (ie - issues of Debt and the WTO, global resistance to all
> wars, access to the land and building sustainable communities, the use of
> direct action as a tool for
>  change) but hopefully also to be able to participate in those discussions
> via the streaming technology that is available to us at present but that
> we are not availing of to the maximum; P2P streaming systems, skype,
> webcams.... A system of experimentation and simple trial and error could
> be used to tease out problems and make for improved efficiency.
>
> Presently some people are working to understand further and to strenghten
> the European social centre and autonomous community network with the idea
> of trying to develop this idea of support nodal points for the upcoming
> WSF, this is still being worked on at:
> Cities, radical urbanism, sqatting, social centres
> (http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/09/11489.php ) and a recent
> discussion happened at the Infospai social centre, Gracia, Barcelona which
> explored this idea (listen to audio file:
> http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp3744.wav )
>
> Examples of this type of streaming communication system are last years
> streaming of the "future of digitial media" forum in Dublin last year (
> http://easa.antville.org/stories/1246475/  or watch short film at
> http://www.archive.org/details/livestream  )
> and this weekends planned streaming of the Northwest Community Radio
> Summit in Seattle. ( http://reclaimthemedia.org/communityradio/nwcrn )
>
> While the still reletively new process of social forum has the potential
> to radically change the world, it already has it faults as was documented
> by one of imc-ie at the Social Fora in London 2004 (
> http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67091 and
> http://www.indymedia.ie/article/66514 )
>
> here are the call outs for the following:
>
> 1- Indymedia Center at the World Social Forum(January 20-25, 2007 in
> Nairobi-Kenya)
>
> 2- Northwest Community Radio Summit, Seattle Sept 15-17 2006 (streamed
> event this saturday)
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> 1- Indymedia Center at the World Social Forum(January 2007 in
> Nairobi-Kenya)
>
> CALL: Indymedia Center at the World Social Forum(January 2007 in
> Nairobi-Kenya)
>
> Independent media activists from Africa and around the world are inviting
> YOU to participate in an independent media center (IMC) during the
> upcoming World Social Forum(WSF) in late January, 2007, in Nairobi, Kenya.
> This "convergence-based" IMC will provide an example of effective
> independent media center and empower WSF attendees from around the world,
> especially those in Africa, to start or enhance their own local IMCs.
>
> 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. The IMC will also be a hub for trainings and
> hands-on media-making workshops throughout the World Social 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 useby the Kenya IMC and other Kenyan
> independent media projects. The IMC plans to be open from January 13 to
> January 25. The WSF itself takes place from January 20-25.
>
> 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-
> This is an invitation for ALL who wish to participate in this IMC, whether
> by coming to Kenya, for the WSF, fundraising or providing any other
> support from abroad to express your interest by sending an email with
> their name or group?s name to 'imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org'.
>
> We will be attempting to raise travel funds for independent media
> activists who wish to come to Kenya to participate in the IMC. Preference
> will be given to activists from Africa, but we encourage all who are
> interested
> in coming to let the imc-africa list know **as soon as possible**. We
> would like to effectively come up with a budget by OCTOBER 1. 2006. Don't
> hesitate to send any ideas you may have for the Nairobi IMC to the
> IMC-Africa list. We'll see you in Nairobi!"
>
> wiki:
> http://wiki.radiolivre.org/Main/WorldSocialForum2007
>
> General WSF:
> http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=1...age=4
> Nairobi WSF site:
> http://wsf2007.org/frontpage/view?set_language=en
>
> ______________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> 2- Northwest Community Radio Summit, Seattle Sept 15-17 2006 (streamed
> event on saturday)
>
> www.reclaimthemedia.org
> A pdf schedule is here:
> www.reclaimthemedia.org/files/nwcrn-workshopgrid.pdf
>
> via email:
>
> Hello fellow radioheads!
>
> Live webcast, Saturday, September 16th, 2006 from 6-9pm (PST)
>
> Line-up (Times are approximate between 7 and 9pm)
> 6pm – Community Radio sound collage
> 7pm – PCUN, the newest LPFM talks about their station and Pete Tridish
> of the Prometheus Radio Project talks about the Barn Raising that they
> held with them in Woodburn Oregon this summer
> 7:30pm – Karen Toering of Reclaim the Media presents on the work that
> they are doing
> 7:35pm – KYRS speaks about their Community Radio station
> 7:40pm – David Goodman Speaks
> 7:45-9pm – Amy Goodman speaks about her new book, “Static”, written
> with
> her brother, David Goodman .
>
> This live webcast from Town Hall in Seattle Washington is part of the
> Northwest Community Radio Network Summit. Please support this effort by
> re-broadcasting this event and linking to the network website
> .
>
> Streams will be available to connect to starting at 5pm (music until
> 6pm
> PST):
> 16kbps mp3 - http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/event.mp3
> 64kbps mp3 - http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/event_hi.mp3
> Ogg Vorbis - http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/event.ogg
>
> Please let us know if you are re-broadcasting and we will mention you
> in
> the on stage introductions.
>
> Full Spanish translations will be made available after the event.
>
> For more information, contact amoshaun at spamcop.net
>
>
> Building up the indymedia radio network for WSF
>
>
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