[Imc-africa] Information from Nairobi

[ange at riseup.net]

hello everyone.

maybe the projects of radio - to organize workshops for building
transmiters and to make free radios -  have great possibilities to keep
going after the forum. especially because the analogic media has great
possibilites for expandig in terms of local participation. i have some
doubts about the legislation of radio transmission in Kenya. Here in
Brazil we dont have autorization to make radio and the repression is hard
- but we dont care so much about it. Our rizoma is like a protection for
everyone, in bad cases we have support of friends and activists - and
those radios projects can be integrated in it.

im not going to the convergence, but i think it is important to keep
contact and organize a rizomatic retransmitions of the IMC-Radio_Kenya. To
take a look to the project of rizoma de radios livres look at:
www.radiolivre.org



abraços!!

ange






> Dear Fabian and Indymedia Colleagues,
> As promised yesterday, today we had a meeting with Oloo and Grace. Oloo is
> working on ensuring that there will be space for Indymedia at WSF. He will
> keep us posted on this.
>
> It would be quite useful if we had some time before the forum to hold open
> forums/training workshops with local activitists on the Indymedia concept
> and accompanying issues like open publishing. One of the things that we
> will do is to reasearch on and articulate the local context and needs in
> order to ensure that Indymedia's input will result in maximum output. It
> will therefore be quite useful to us of the colleagues who were in Mali
> can share further about their experiences there including the lessons
> learnt.
>
> Remember to visit kenya.indymedia.org to read articles about different
> societal and political issues in Kenya.
>
> Kwaheri,
> 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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