[Imc-africa] my report online
KOLA OLALEYE
marveton2k2 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 23 05:14:26 PST 2007
Hello Jay,
Thanks for your soul lifting mail,its highly encouraging.
I should give you the Nigerian picture vis-a-vis the freedom of the individual,free and democractic media and the abuse of power.
It is much more a terrible situation,and of course you know well that Nigeria is the most populous black nation in the world.
We have over 150 radio and television stations but are not free and only dance the tune of the piper ,government. If indymedia is at all looking for a place to work ,i think it is in Nigeria.
Basically as part of our need as a forming imc,we need the freedom to information through the internet.
This implies that we need a site where we could always post our reports and articles and again to be connected to all imc members all over the world.
While guys were in Nairobi ,as part of my contributions to the discussions going on, i nwrote that in Nigeria we already have an office tagged , inbformation centre where members could come in and get information via the net.
We need help in this regard to be able to make the place functional,we need computers and other internet connection aids.
Jay,you know,i have always being in touch with hannah of the prometheus radio project because we are equally proposing to have a radio station which will promote the ideals of indymedia,just as was recently done in Nairobi.
]I told hannah that even if we would have to pay a subsidised amount to get the transmitter and other inputs,we would not mind.
Right now we just need a functional information centre to serve the entire members and since we have got a place for this ,the other neccessities are Pc's and other accessories.
So my sugestion is that if truelly there are left overs particularly from the money meant for those of us the african countries that could not attend the convergence,these left overs could be used to at least set up a functional information centres for us to be able to be connected always.
Thanks for the little time i've taken out of your time to engage you .
Talk to you and others very soon.
Kola
Jay <idiot at jaysand.com> wrote:
Hi Kola,
Great to hear from you! I'm confident that people on this list are committed to helping your IMC in Nigeria thrive.
Each time there has been an IMC-Africa convergence, despite all the problems we've had with financing/organization and race/class dynamics, more infrastructure has come together inside Africa to support African IMCs and more attention and enthusiastic passion has come from people outside Africa toward helping African IMCs build capacity and do great work.
What kind of help/advice/support do you think the Nigeria IMC needs to become the best IMC it can be?
Jay
At 2/22/2007, you wrote:
Hello Fabian and all,
Great to talk to you all again, i responded to one of Fabians mails recently,uptill now no one has commented on the issue that was raised.
I will just want to know the fate of those of us the five african countries that could not attend the wsf and the convergence?
Are we to just be left incommunicado? Without any encouragement to grow in the ideals and objectives of trhe indymedia,this is rather unfortunate.
I will still expect that people respond to issues raised in my last mail,particularly Fabian and others.
Its me kola from Forming imc Nigeria
fabian <fab at in-no.org> wrote:
Hello everybody,
I put my WSF report online at
http://en.wiki.in-no.org/WSF2007Report
I haven't sent it by email, because it is too long. I wrote it mainly
as a report for Umverteilen, our main donor for the project, but I
haven't sent it too them as yet. Please comment on it if you find the
time.
Cheers
fabian
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