[Imc-africa] Information from Nairobi

[Glenda Loebell]

--- Glenda Loebell <glloebell at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello All
> We here in Switzerland will be having our indymediia
> meeting next week.
> We have an interest to set up a girl/women workshop
> for computer skills.
> We have the expertise to teach basic computer skills
> at a grass root level. The indymedia computer skills
> as taught in Senegal was  great but something else
> has
> to happen before that step.
> We are about 6 people who are interested all in all.
> 
> Perhaps what can happen is to collect lap tops here
> and bring it with for the indymedia people in
> Kenya/and  also other group reps. who can put good
> use
> to it during and after the WSF. We could make a call
> or speak to people here.
> 
> Will unemployed African diaspora be able to get
> tickets paid from here if they have the skills to
> give
> to be a part f the WSF.
> 
> We have film skills to offer as well as films made
> here about our African people and their lives in
> Switzerland.
> 
> There is a film festval in SA and the organisors are
> keen to make the films available to more people and
> we
> brianstormed araound having a moving film festival
> before during  after the WSF. What would you think. 
> Fabian remember oe of the ideas for the caravan then
> was a film festival which would also include basic
> film skills transfer.
> 
> let me know 
> warm regards
> Glenda Loebell-Ryan
> 
> --- David John Bwakali <jonbwak at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
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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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