[Imc-africa] Information from Nairobi

[Glenda Loebell]

--- ange at riseup.net wrote:

> 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
> 
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Glenda Loebell-Ryan
Am Wasser 57
CH-8049 Zürich
SWITZERLAND

Tel. ++41  1  341  94 22
glloebell at yahoo.com

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