[Italy-process] [Documentone finale] 2a parte [en]

[Serafo]

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>> io inizio a fare la prima meta' in inglese, ovvero da:
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>>> [Indymedia Italia 2.0]
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>>> Nel dicembre 2006 indymedia italia ha deciso di sospendere la
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[The new structure]

 

The new structure of the italian indymedia network is also constituted 
according to different needed functions:

 

    * Aggregation: the connection of contents from the Italian imcs and
      from similar projects and the facilitation of the fruition of the
      communicative flow. No-editorial facilitation which starts from
      the demand for renewing the experience, also in the light of the
      changes of the web. Today the problem is not to give only the
      possibility to publish, but also to furnish some possibilities to
      order the flow of informations and to create an independent
      information network.

 

    * Events: Indymedia Italia is site of the international network as
      various Italian imcs, but with functions and specific
      particularities. Italy as "first between peers can develop
      particular roles that a territorial imc is not able to do.
      Particularly discussions and elaborations on

 

   * National issues considered important(mobilizations and

national demonstrations)

   * Situations of particular importance

 

    * International connections for returning to connect again the
      relationships with the network and to develop a plan ability which
      extends itself also through the international relationships.

 

It's been so decided to make Indymedia Italia to go out from the coma and to become point of aggregation of the contents produced by the italian language indymedias (and not only), both at level of newswire and at level of feature.

 

The evolution of the web, the transformation of the concept of open 
publishing in "user generated content", the proliferation of blogs and 
more and more manageable bases of information involve a different way of 
reconsidering Indymedia that proposes itself in this moment to be 
aggregation point of different media antagonists.

 

[Working of the feed aggregator]

 

The technical part

Indy Italia has decided to use Mir as simple feed aggregator of contents 
in a logic of absolute respect of the autonomies of the nodes.

The aggregator cannot climb over in any way the decisions assumed by the

local node and it doesn't possess any editorial staff.

 

Central column

- A feature "in evidence", placed at the top of the page.

The contents can be articulated or as introductory paragraph to 
different local features that deepens the same thematic or as elaborate 
feature in a discussion of national breath and collectively written in a 
special list: Italy-content.

 

- Under this part there will be an other one divided in 3 columns where are to aggregate the featureses coming from the italian languages imcs. In it there will be also the contents of Indymedia Svizzera and the translations (not always complete) of Indymedia.org.

 

This space will be tripartite according to the course of the matter of the

feature:

 

   * Local: it includes features of the single local nodes which are 
considered as linked to own territory and therefore as geographically 
defined.

   * National: it includes contributions and nationwide features 
produced by the italian language imcs.

   * International: features that concern international issues, produced 
by the Italian nodes, indymedia.org and swiss indymedia.

 

The new structure of Indymedia Italia tries to preserve the wealth of the

practice of the collective writing which is carried out in the list

Italy-content. In its first experimentation the list is born as 
collaborative space among local imcs.

It's thought about experimenting this formality of construction of the 
contents, mindful of the fact that one of the most greater problems of 
Italy Indymedia has been the List Editorial and its degeneration. Such 
list had lost in fact the wealth to be a space of collaboration among 
the differences, because of formality of interaction which stirred of 
fact according to

logics which had little to do with the consensus method. In the list

Italy-content it's wanted therefore to aim recovering the collaborative 
and positive aspects of Editorial, with experimenting the production of

contents on initiative of the territorial nodes, but nevertheless 
leaving opened to everyone the possibility of subscribing and partecipating.

 

- An underlying space where to admit the feeds from other similar sites, for

policy and planning sense. The possible similar sites, which at the 
moment have been individualised, are the following ones:

 

   * supportolegale

   * ngvision

   * copydown

   * cavallette

   * ecn/antifa

 

 

Newswire

Aggregation of the feeds from the Italian indymedia nodes, with the 
followings characteristics:

 

- Quadripartite Newswire: division of the newswire in 4 typologies of

contents, transversal to all the nodes:

News | Opinions | Reposting from other media | Communications.

It's been implementing other possibilities of visualization.

 

- Insertion of posts in 6 thematic macroareas, that welcome the

specificity and the differences of the categories defined by the local nodes

 

   * rights and social struggles (house, job, anti-prohibitionism,

anti-fascism, anti-psychiatry, gender...)

   * environments, animalisms and ecologies

   * systems and repressive trials (jail, trials, powers..)

   * saperi (students, hacking) * or + global trials (migrations, wars

and conflicts, mafias)

   * cultures, arts and medias

 

In a page apart, however, it will be built "a correspondences tree" 
among the categories of the local imcs, which synthesizes the complexity 
by specifying the single choices.

 

 

 

Coordination lists

 

- Italy-list - Managerial - Discussion of general character (opening

of new imcs, finances, merchandising, political problems)

- Italy-content - Production space of contents and collaboration among

the various imcs - free registration, with public files

- Italy-tech - place of technical coordination for feeds aggregator and 
cms used by from the various sites, as well as for the management of the 
file server.

- Italy-legal - legal matters, policy and aggregation guidelines

 

[The aggregation guidelines]

 

1 - the recognition of the necessity of a collaborative circle that

overcomes the important specificities of the territorial nodes by 
creating one space of synthesis and synoptical vision about the 
production of the same nodes.

 

2 - The necessity to protect the privacy right and the anonymity towards 
everyone who writes, reads and visits indymedia

 

3 - The necessity to protect any kind of contents,

through the tool of the hiding (nascondimento). It follows that the 
cancellation of contents and the intervention of admins on the published 
posts are refused (except for sensitive data, as just said above).

 

4 - The formation of activists nets which act as individuals, the more

possible freed from identity bonds, and the refusal of the creation of

closed or identity collectives

 

5 - The reaffirmation of Indymedia as "method", from which it follows 
the existence of more than one indymedia imc on a territory (e.g. in 
italy) and the surplus value to these experiences is to promote 
collaborations and to interweave mutual contaminations.

 

6 - The necessity to reaffirm the respective circles of autonomy and

experimentation that, in the old italy, got lost, above all bacause of

the bureaucratization of the experience

 

7 - The presence of a known and shared policy from everyone who 
participates to

Indymedia Italia.