[IMC-Process] Re: [New-imc] imc kenya process

[ana]

I;m sending to communication too because it says "on the manual" and 
because fluid discussion is beter suit for that list.

I think this application is great but it lacks a procedure for new 
additions to the collective or group, i can not see an open email list 
anywhere, or even contact details for people to contact them and/or get 
involved

ana

blicero wrote:

>sorry for being kind of out of the loop
>i was following imc-kenya process
>seems to me they were almost ready to go officially imc but i don't remember at
>what point the process was
>
>i will paste below the documents we exchanged. 
>it's my fault. maybe someone can help me closing this thread (i am a bit
>overworked)
>
>thanks
>
>-------
>
>
>Greetings.
>
>I am just following up. Sorry it took me a few days to get back to you. As
>both of you undoubtedly know, communicating in and with Kenya is a
>multidimensional experience- emails, phonecalls, occasionally even faxes
>from this end and  face to face meetings in and across towns, SMS text
>messages for the folks back home.
>
>What you find below is what we came up with after discussions. We decided
>straight away NOT to reinvent the wheel, but rather take a look at
>existing IMCs and see what came closest to where we were coming from.
>Indymedia South Africa inspired us. We looked at Manila and other IMCs as
>well.
>
>Without wasting further words, here it is. But before that, we want to
>request an almost exact replica of the  Indymedia South Africa look with
>this crucial difference: if the backdrop at the  top of the homepage can
>be the Kenyan flag( which I believe is available freely on the internet.
>
>We can do other things later.
>
>Comrades:
>
>People back at home are pretty excited about this. You cannot believe the
>amount of censorship currently prevailing. We are working with some very
>radical and progressive journals who are seeing story afte story killed
>and would really welncome and alternative to that.
>
>So below is the document:
>
>
>IndyMedia Kenya is a non-non-profit, democratic collective of Kenyan
>progressive independent media and social justice activists based in Kenya
>and other parts of the world.
>
>Principles of Unity: IndyMedia Kenya
>
>1) We strive to provide an information infrastructure for people and
>opinions who do not have access to the airwaves, tools and resources of
>the mainstream media. This includes audio, video, photography, internet
>distribution and any other communication medium;
>
>2) We support local, regional and global struggles against exploitation,
>oppression, discrimination,  and marginalization;
>
>3) We function as a non-profit, anti-imperialist collective.
>
>4) IndyMedia Kenya involves volunteer participants and allied collectives
>organized along anti-authoritarian principles of open and transparent
>decision-making processes, including open public meetings; a form of
>modified consensus; and the elimination of hierarchies.
>
>5) IndyMedia Kenya participants shall not act in a manner that endangers,
>intimidates, or physically harms any member of the group, including by
>sexual harassment, tribal hatred, racist attacks or any acts of violence.
>Indymedia members shall strive to act in a respectful manner to other
>members of the collective as well as the public;
>
>6) IndyMedia Kenya shall practice mutual respect, mutual benefit,
>consensus, consultation, and the independence and initiative of all
>persons and parties interested in joining or supporting it. No person or
>party or political belief shall arbitrarily impose its will on any or all
>the others;
>
>7) IndyMedia Kenya decisions are– by way of consensus and consultation;
>
>8) IndyMedia Kenya is committed to the principle of human equality, and
>shall not discriminate, including discrimination based upon race, region,
>gender, age, class or sexual orientation. As such, it shall not act in a
>manner that endangers, intimidates, or physically harms any member of the
>group, including by sexual harassment or acts of violence IndyMedia Kenya
>strives  to act in a respectful manner to its members as well as the
>public.
>
>Mission Statement
>
>-To fight for a New Kenya in the context of the global contest for a New
>World based on equality, justice and non-exploitation;
>
>-To cover Kenyan and other stories, events and happening that are
>censored, ignored or poorly covered by the mainstream media both locally
>and internationally;
>
>-To provide edited audio, video, and print stories of the above on the
>internet for independent and alternative media outlets, Kenyans worldwide
>and the general international public;
>
>-To facilitate the networking and coordination for the coverage of Kenyan
>stories and events as well as gather information about stories and events
>to cover.
>To provide links to alternative media, activist, and research groups in
>Kenya and around the world;
>
>-To seek out and provide coverage underscoring the global nature of
>people's struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice
>directly from their perspective;
>
>-To offer community-based training and education for training in internet
>and media skills;
>
>-To encourage, facilitate, and support the creation of independent and
>alternative progressive news gathering and organizations.
>
>Get Involved
>
>This is your independent media center. As an all-volunteer organization,
>we need you to get involved! Introduce yourself at our volunteer signup
>page and check our contact page for info on meetings and e-mail lists.
>
>
>
>IndyMedia Kenya EDITORIAL POLICY
>
>This was adapted from Manila and Perth Indymedia's editorial policy.
>
>Aims and Objectives
>
>-To provide an open-publishing newswire in accordance with established
>Indymedia policies and philosophy.
> -To maintain the newswire and website as a space that welcomes members of
>disempowered or marginalised groups.
>-To acknowledge that words have the power to cause injury, but that
>instances of injurious speech or writing should also be seen as
>opportunities for a critical or insurrectionary response.
>-To preserve the quality of the website as a useful media resource.
>
>Newswire Protocol
>
>IndyMedia Kenya hosts an open-publishing newswire. Members of the
>editorial collective regularly monitor the newswire, keeping their eyes
>open for particularly significant, informative contributions to add to the
>centre-column features section.
>
>Open Publishing
>
>Open publishing means that the process of creating news is transparent to
>readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear in a pool
>of stories. Readers can see editorial decisions being made by others. They
>can see how to get involved and help make editorial decisions. If they can
>think of a better way for the software to help shape editorial decisions,
>they can copy the software because it is free and change it and start
>their own site.
>
>Hiding Posts IndyMedia Kenya  Editorial Collective, in order to maintain
>the integrity of the newswire and the media commons it creates for our
>community of participants, may "hide" posts to the newswire when the
>content contravenes the guidelines that have been put in place (see
>below). All hidden posts (exceptions noted below) should be notified to
>the collective email list so that the Ed-collective has the chance to
>agree or disagree with the hiding of the post.
>
>Notifiable Removals
>
>Posts the author has requested be hidden.
>Posts which are obviously incorrect or misleading. This includes attempts
>to spread disinformation or to impersonate another individual.
>Posts that incite violence against disempowered members of the community.
>Threats to maim or kill.
>Posts which publish identifying information without the individual's
>knowledge or consent. Posts which use language, imagery, or other forms of
>communication to promote racism,tribalism,  religious hatred, fascism,
>xenophobia, homophobia, sexism etc., or any other form of discrimination.
>Abuse of others in the form of personal attacks. Indymedia is not a space
>for people to play out personal vendettas.
>Pornography, but not sexually explicit satire.
>
>Non-notifiable Removals
>
>Unreadable formats for eg: photos posted as text / text only posts without
>relevance nonsense/flooding.
>Duplicate/Repetitive posts.
>Advertising of products or for-profit services.
>Notification or cancellation of events. Please use the events calendar.
>These may be moved to appropriate wire.
>Persistent nuisance posts to the newswire or comments sections. +
>Posts that are deemed to be devoid of content or analysis and appear to be
>published with the sole purpose of disruption.
>
>
>If you don't agree with a decision...
>
>We strive to make decisions in the most democratic, transparent and
>accountable manner. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our
>policy or our practice, or would like to work with the Manila IMC, please
>contact us at
>
>Copyright of Features and Articles
>
>All posts made to the newswire are effectively covered by the principles
>of "COPYLEFT". The author retains the moral right to be recognised as the
>author of the article in question, but the article is free for
>distribution for non-profit and educative purposes. Articles may be
>reproduced in full for any purpose and in any media provided the
>reproduction is subject to the same principles as laid out here, that is,
>the same representations of the COPYLEFT of the article must appear
>alongside the article.
>
>Under no circumstances may articles or features from the IndyMedia Kenya
>site be reproduced in full in a fee-paying or for-profit medium. However,
>for-profit media may quote from articles or features in accordance with
>the "fair use" copyright principles.
>
>We think stories contributed to this site should be free for non-profit
>re-use. Copy left is an idea central to indymedia (for more information,
>check out http://www.opencontent.org/). If you want to change that for
>your story, please give your conditions in the summary.
>After stories have been published, they may be edited, linked or even
>deleted by the collective running this site. Please read our privacy and
>disclaimer statements.
>
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>
>
>
>Question: A. How does the makeup of your collective reflect the diversity
>of the
>  
>
>>local community (e.g. in realtion to gender-, sexual-, spiritual-,
>>and/or cultural-identity)?
>>    
>>
>
>ANSWER:
>
>Our group is very diverse. We have women and men. At the first annual IMC
>regional conference for Africa,  we were the ONLY  African group to send a
>woman as a delegate to Dakar. Grace Waita is at the forefront of
>coordinating things within the country. We have young people barely out of
>their teens as well as much older people with greying hair; We have
>atheists, Christians, Muslims, followers of traditional African religions
>and agnostics; We have socialists, anarchists, liberals, nationalists,
>social democrats and people from  across the PROGRESSIVE ideological
>spectrum; we have people from different parts of the country who come from
>a diversity of  ethnic and racial backgrounds; we have people who live
>inside the country and those who reside outside; we have people with
>university backgrounds as well as  primary school drop outs; in short  we
>think we meet this criterion very effectively.
>  
>
>>B. If your group currently does not represent the diversity of the local
>>community, particularly in relation to groups who are underrepresented
>>in mainstream society and denied access to vehicles of expression, what
>>steps will be taken to address this on an ongoing basis?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>NOT APPLICABLE. SEE ANSWER ABOVE
>  
>
>>C. What steps will be taken to involve individuals in workfields new to
>>them? What measures will be taken to overcome a gendered work division?
>>    
>>
>
>Grace Waita, one of our two delegates to Dakar is a relative newcomer to
>digital media activism and she learned a great deal from the IMC workshops
>in Senegal. We hav taken concrete steps to overcome a gendered work
>division by identifying it as one of the baggages in society that we must 
>struggle and confront if we hope to  walk the talk. To say that we have
>overcome it would be a blatant lie. We have barely begun to work together
>as a cohesive unit and we believe that we will  confront these challenges
>around gendered work division as our group matures. Certainly
>philosophically we come from  a place with  zero tolerance for  such
>sexist division of labour but we recognize the need to transcend empty and
>sanctimonius pronouncements.
>
>
>In terms of communication, we are using a diversity of means to facilitate
>meetings and coordination since internet based communication has its own
>pitfalls in the  concrete Kenyan context.
>
>I hope that this suffices for now.
>
>Thanks Blicero once again.
>
>Onyango Oloo
>
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>
>
>IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA - DRAFT Each IMC and Global Working Group is
>expected to:
>
>a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC Mission Statement and Principles of Unity,
>(PrinciplesOfUnity) YES
>
>b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a functional
>IMC, YES
>
>c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can have exclusionary
>"ownership" of an IMC), YES
>
>d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement or Statement of
>Purpose. Network Mission Statement may be adopted or used on an interim
>basis, DONE
>
>e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which is developed and
>functions through democratic process, and with full transparency, DONE
>
>f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described in the NIMC Editorial
>Policy [editorial collective comments: "We did agree that the term "Open
>Publishing" was one that is still being defined by the Global Network
>Collective, and we would wait and see what the results were before
>rewriting this criteria], YES
>
>g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in alignment with consensus
>principles which include open, transparent and egalitarian processes,
>AGREED/DONE
>
>h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of participating in the
>global decision-making process and meetings as a rotating
>liaison/representative, with a clear understanding of the responsibilities
>that come with this role, DONE
>
>i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication Methods that pertain
>to the health and vitality of the Network and that contribute to the work
>of the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your local IMC
>participates at any given time on the IMC-Communications list, YES
>
>j. (NOT FINALIZED): Have no official affiliation with any political party,
>state or candidate for office (comments: but individual producers have
>freedom to do whatever they like and local IMCs can "feature" stories
>about various political parties and initiatives), YES
>
>k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial for-profit enterprises. [We
>could add: The IMCN is committed to the decommercialization of information
>and will disassociate from any local IMC that decides to become a for
>profit media corporation.] AGREED
>
>l. Display a ³local version² of the IMC ³i² logo on your website and
>literature. YES
>
>m. Include the IMC Network current ³Cities List² on your site, preferably
>on the front page.
>
>about techie- perhaps you can communicate directly with me for the time
>being for two reasons;
>
>1. i am getting trained so that i could be one of several;
>2. we have two people(still relatively new to our group- one in britain
>and one in the states and for the time being they just wanted to us to
>involve them on as needed basis so we prefer to consult with them only
>when we need to;
>
>Oloo
>
>  
>

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