[Imc-africa] Larger story on WSF and Indymedia Convergence

[Danielle Chynoweth]

That's right - I couldn't even upload that one story to the site - it
sent it to this list.
Thanks Dunk.

I have a great interview with Macheria - 1.5 hours of eloquent
commentary - which I can get to you.  We uploaded 10-12 pieces to the
radio streaming server - not sure what lines got crossed with that.

At some point, with 20+ African delegates asking for radio production
training - and many all night editing workshops, I had to decide -
should I take several days to wrestle with the internet only to fail
again or forget web access and focus on training and relationship
building?  I did the later - as did most of my cohorts.  Too bad for
the international community who heard nothing about the WSF - either
from Indymedia or the likes of NPR.  In the long run, I think our
focus on skill sharing, building IMC Kenya, and finishing the
stations, was the right thing.

Now the dilemma is that I have stepped out of one community - IMC
Kenya, which is largely NOT online - into this community, the online
one.  Our discussions will largely be about, but without input from,
the on-the-ground community in Kenya.  We have a contact list from our
work and I hope to send an invite to join this listserv to all our
contacts to try to bridge this gap in conversation.  I think we should
also adopt the communications technology of choice in Kenya - text
messaging - as we continue the conversation.  Anyone know how to send
out mass SMSs to a list of numbers for free?

- Danielle




On 1/30/07, Fun Peace <fuspey at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> i was the one who posted the article on imc-kenya and i tried to update the
> site with any relevant info that was coming from wsf or about it, ie our
> work in barcelona and others in france and any links to reports in other
> media. i also tried to report from kibera what i heard back from macharia
>
> havent heard much back from imc-africa, would be interested in hearing
> their/your views of our attempts to horizontalise wsf, our attempts at the 3
> way radio show,  and how better output while wsf was on could have been
> achieved:  i checked the ftp folder and found no audio so we could not play
> files, in the end we played some stuff from cameroon.
>
> dunk
>
>
>
>
> Danielle Chynoweth <arthousefarm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I strongly oppose a story about the robbery as the key story about the
> Indymedia convergence and WSF. For those who experienced it, this
> robbery was a minor set back, and paled in comparison to the breadth
> and depth of work we did together.
>
> Our reporting focused on work in the slums - voices largely excluded
> from the WSF, conversations about Indymedia in Africa as part of our
> convergence, and interviews at the WSF of people working on grassroots
> social movements around the world.
>
> I have 20 hours of audio, by African delegates new to Indymedia and
> audio production, that due to many technical complications in Nairobi
> did not make get condensed into a piece. I am also working on an
> article. I would like to see coverage that stitches together many
> voices and perspectives.
>
> In retrospect, I wish my one article that made it through to
> kenya.indymedia.org (20+ uploads failed, this one succeeded) that
> mentioned the robbery had never gone through.
>
> I have many things to say on this list - observations,
> recommendations, stories. In the coming days, I hope to get a chance
> to say more.
>
> - Danielle
> - Urbana IMC
>
>
> --
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:59:16 +0300
> From: "Josh Marcus"
> Subject: Re: [Imc-africa] BLOCK Re: PROPOSED: WSF IndyMedia
>  Center/Radio Station Robbed by Gunmen
>
> Hello there,
>
> I'd like to support Peter's idea of a broader feature produced later,
> which can include more of the reporting done from the WSF. I was a
> part of the convergence in Nairobi (and am now in Maseno near Kisumu,
> with the team helping to build a second station) and we have a lot of
> great coverage -- including mp3s of the Radio Huru broadcast -- which
> we have not been able to get online due to the scarcity of good
> internet connections. It would be great to give us a chance to get
> that online -- and for others to get their coverage online -- and put
> up a representative feature of the full convergence and the coverage
> that was done.
>
> --j
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