[Imc-africa] Information from Nairobi

Sat Sep 23 10:26:31 PDT 2006

Hi Fabian and comrades,
Hello there Fabian. My colleagues (Onyango and Grace) have planned to meet tomorrow afternoon and we will send a more detailed email concerning your suggestions tomorrow evening. Concerning the cost for transportation, a 12 seater van will cost about 100 - 150 dollars  per day and a 25 seater van will cost about 200 dollars per day. If we hire this van/s then they can be used to pick people from the airport at no extra cost apart from  fuelling which  is about 15 dollars per trip to the airport.

That's it for now. More tomorrow.

Cheers,
John Bwak

fabian <fab at in-no.org> wrote: Hi John, thanks alot for this information. Your proposal for this
guesthouse sounds very good indeed. It is something we can defintely work
with in my opinion. I have a small point to add only for the budget. Is it
possible that you calculate roughly the costs of local transport to get
from there to the WSF and to the airport, so we could include that as
well?

Concerning the hardware question let me just give some thoughts...
If we had a seperate Media centre inside the WSF (possibly equipped with
computers already as it was the case in Bamako, where we co-operated with
the Youth Camp Media Centre who also came up for the bulk of the costs) we
propably wouldn't need a big computer set-up in the guesthouse.
And as it was in Bamako, the guesthouse/headquarters was packed with
private computers anyway.
Yet we didn;t do any workshops in advance of the WSF there. Surely its
worth talking to WSF organizers about it as there is some experience of
joint conduct from previous WSFs.  If WSF could provide us with a
mediacentre like in previous cases, but maybe also a week or two before
the wsf acutually starts, we could offer to provide advance workshop and
training for local media activists in radio and web grassroots journalism.
That would save us from high costs in purchasing computer equipement,
given that we already talking about spending a few thousend Dollars on the
radio equipement.

In any case thanks for great work on the ground
best for now
Fabian

> Hi Jay and colleagues,
>   We too are excited about the WSF! I think we must now get down to
> concrete business in terms of making concrete preparations. Find below
> answers to some of your questions:
>   - find the right physical space for the IMC.  (is it big enough for the
> number of people we expect?  does it have enough electricity?  what sort
> of access will there be to the public, i.e. is it in a building that
> requires some sort of conference badge to get in?  will we have to pay
> any rent on the room?) We need to have an indication of the people
> expected to come so that we can finalise plans for the rented house.
> This November, youth from across the world will be converging in Nairobi
> for the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change. I have
> made arrangements for them to be hosted at a guesthouse that can
> comfortably host 35 people or 50 people if some of them camp in the huge
> garden of the house. The cost for one month is 1300 US dollars including
> internet access. If we pay fot for the entire month of January, then
> Indymedia people can stay there exclusively for this duration. The
> guesthouse is about 10 - 15 minutes drive from the city centre in a
> place
>  known as Westlands. Apart from internet, it also has a phone and
> electricity. There is also a kitchen and a cook who can prepare meals at
> an additional cost of about 5 - 10 dollars per person. This house can
> host people and also act as a headquarters of sorts. I will confirm with
> Onyango concerning space for Indymedia at the official venue of WSF.
>
>   Concerning the issue of available computers, some of us here have our
> own personal computers but we do not have computers as Indymedia Kenya.
> There is thus need for computers to be purchased or for people who are
> coming to bring some so that we can network them at the house for more
> people to access internet. I will be confirming with you concerning the
> bandwidth.
>
> There are many organizational issues to approach too, such as figuring out
> exactly what we kind of things we envision happening at the IMC: a low
> power radio station definitely, but also do we want to webcast the radio
> station?  That will require the right computer/s.  Do we want to have a
> print project to write articles about the WSF while it's happening?  Do we
> want to do updates on a WSF web site?  (if so, where will the site be
> hosted and what techs will maintain it?).  What sort of
> workshops/trainings will we try to hold?  How will we publicize them
> (print something up?  if so, how much will that cost?).  Everyone should
> provide further input into these questions.
>
> John, do you think your working group could come up with a quick list of
> costs for those things, as well as an estimate of office supplies and any
> other logistics?  They can be rough estimates, but we really should start
> talking numbers soon.  If we rent the house for one month, we can use of
> the room/s as an office, so the cost would be covered in the 1300 USD that
> we will be paying. We would also need to buy a printer (about 100 USD) and
> office stationery (about 100 - 200 USD) depending on the quantity. People
> can come with their cell phones and buy local SIM cards (one SIM card is
> about two USD) We could use the house's phone to make international phone
> calls, or use skype. By rough estimate, we would need about 300 USD to
> over phone bills and fax bills.
>
>   More later after I meet with Onyango.
>
>   Greetings from Nairobi.
>
>   John Bwak
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