[Imc-africa] imc-finance reportback?

[fabian]

Hi Jay,
Thanks for offering help with the evaluation and documentation of the  
project.
  For the accounting Andy from Prometheus, Danielle from Urbana IMC and  
me are in a process of sorting out the finance. As you can imagine, it  
is a huge pile of bills and recits and exl. tables, But we will get  
there. I agree that we should try and put it all into one calculation  
and we are actually working on that right now. I can also say that we  
will surely have some left-overs, the money from Umverteilen wasn't all  
spent mainly because of the 5 African delegates who didn't travel for  
the Visa problem.
This leaves the group to think of ways to spent it (which Umverteilen  
obviously needs to agree with). Ideas that were floating around were to  
fund a follow up meeting of Kenyan or East African Actvists in the near  
future or to allow people in Kenya IMC to work on a swahili translation  
for the global IMC that than could then also be used for the rest of  
East Africa.
More ideas anyone?.

For the doc/evaluation
I was about to sent out to the list a report that I drafted for  
Umverteilen.
It gives my perspective of things, but I tryed to include some of the  
main points that were already discussed on the ground and on the  
mailing list. It would be good to continue this discussion and maybe  
come to one overall report that is consensual and can go to the  
different funding institutions and to others who are intrested.
Beyond this I am starting to work on an evaluation these days for an  
alternative media research project in the UK
I introduced this project to the list before
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-africa/2006-December/1212- 
yb.html
I hope to finish this by the end of march and I will make it available  
around that time.
Furthermore, I really hope to get together a little video until the end  
of march, but I am very unsure about whether I make it in this time  
frame. It will be there at some point, that's for sure.

Generally, after we spent so much energy in this project, I think we  
also should do the best we can to learn from it as a collective and  
make our learning advances available to others who might want to do  
similar things in the future. After all, what we are doing in  
convergences like the one we just had in Nairobi is nothing less than  
to prepare and practice for a global public sphere, a global civil  
society that in some future might allow humans to run this planet  
democratically and peacefully. And how nice would that be....
In an admittedly self-serving sort of analysis I think this is a very  
good way to spent energy and time, possibly among the best.
This is why before all the reporting and evaluating I would like to  
thank everybody involved for sharing this.

Cheers
Fabian




Am 16.02.2007 um 13:57 schrieb Jay:

> Hi imc-africa,
>
> I've been so excited to hear about the wonderful successes of the
> Nairobi/World Social Forum IMC, saddened by the failures and really
> curious to keep exploring what happened there and how we can build on
> it to advance the effect of independent media-making throughout
> Africa.  Thanks to everyone who has sent a report-back so far, with
> both positive response and honest criticism.
>
> Over the next few weeks I'd be happy to work with people to compile a
> reportback/evaluation document we can share with people throughout
> Indymedia, as well as a financial accounting we can share with
> imc-finance -- specifically for how the imc-finance money was spent,
> but a general accounting would help us all get a handle on what kind
> of funds go into building a convergence like this.
>
> In a couple weeks there's going to be a public reportback in Philly
> for IMC activists and others.  I'm excited to hear what everyone has  
> to say.
>
> And, like Dunk, I'm really interested to hear what the Kenya IMC's
> plans are, and to see how we can all support them/you in their/your
> choices to move forward.
> Jay
>
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