WSF, attempts to widen the discussion : Indymedia Kenya

:: WSF Introduction:

Karibu to WSF Nairobi 2007!

The 7th edition of the World Social Forum brings the world to Africa as activists, social movements, networks, coalitions and other progressive forces from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, Europe and all corners of the African continent converge in Nairobi, Kenya for five days of cultural resistance and celebration; panels, workshops, symposia, processions, film nights and much much more; beginning on the 20th of January and wrapping up on the 25th of January 2007.

from
Karibu to WSF Nairobi 2007!
http://wsf2007.org/frontpage/info/about

:: Indymedia Africa working team introduction, from radio livre:

Organizers in Kenya, throughout Africa and around the world will work together, both on-line and in face-to-face meetings, to build a temporary independent media center in Nairobi, Kenya, to provide communication during the January '07 World Social Forum. This "convergence-based" IMC will provide text-based, audio, and (potentially) video coverage of the World Social Forum, both on-line and through a local low-power radio station, enabling independent media coverage of the WSF during the forum itself as well as access through the world wide web to the WSF by an international audience.

The IMC will also be a hub for trainings and hands-on media-making workshops throughout the World Social Forum. Thousands of organizers will be coming to the World Social Forum from around the globe, especially from Africa; this IMC will empower activists (especially those in Africa) to create effective independent media institutions in their countries. Also, all the equipment purchased for this IMC will remain in Kenya for use by the Kenya IMC and other Kenyan independent media projects. The IMC plans to be open from January 13 to January 25. The WSF itself takes place from January 20-25.

from
World Social Forum 2007
Convergence Independent Media Center and radio project
http://wiki.radiolivre.org/Main/WorldSocialForum2007

:: Radio nodes update

This is a proposal to Syndicate content from different nodes in social centers and other alternative media outlets during the WSF and combine it with content from Nairobi also. A kind of global collaboration on both virtual and physical.

basically getting more social centres and other spaces to open up during WSF as local nodes around planet to go to to firstly listen to stuff live from kenya, but also maybe where they could have 2 way systems: being able to participate in forum without physically being there.

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plans for global radio nodes for duration of WSF
http://wiki.radiolivre.org/Main/GLOBALRADIONODESONWSF

gathering a little momentum...

Marseille/Nairobi: Local and Global Project
http://216.17.145.92/news/2006/12/428.php
Marseille, France

World Social Forum 2007, Nairobi-Kenya. Indymedia and social centres - widening the discussion
http://indymedia.ie/article/78360
Barcelona, Catalyunia / Spain + Dublin, Ireland

The 7th edition of the World Social Forum - WSF Nairobi 2007
20th of January and wrapping up on the 25th of January 2007.

greetings all and a happy new year from barcelona

The world social forum starts in 2 weeks , thats 14 days, i had hoped that things would be a lot more organised by now, but they are not, this is partly my fault as things have been a lot more difficult than expacted here in barcelona, 3 evictions in a month and difficulties in a work space.

anyway, we battle on.

Indymedia kenya has just been set up and hopefully it will turn into a thriving active node that will help in bringing a truer state of justice and democracy to kenya. I just added a brief intro to the WSF project and indymedias role in it

WSF, attempts to widen the discussion
http://216.17.145.92/news/2007/01/435.php

Ive been involved with the project in a support role with trying to set up local listening nodes, so far there has been some interest expressed in working with the project from physical spaces, radio stations, imc events.... in Nairobi/Kenya, Dublin/Ireland, Barcelona/Catalyuna/Spain, marseilles/France, Philadelphia/US.... these are the ones i am aware of, perhaps there is more...

what can be done by groups working outside Nairobi for duration of the WSF

1 - terrestrial and web radio stations can tune their stations into the radio streams from Nairobi. hopefully there will be many streams coming out of Nairobi during the WSF.

2 - physical spaces outside Nairobi can open for duration of WSF, or part of, with radio speakers playing the audio live from Nairobi, and video stream if it happens.
these physical spaces can have information, exhibition, films etc about the social forum project... possibly also computers tuned into imc-kenya for the duration of the forum, in the hope that the imc-kenya site becomes an active resourse during the wsf and beyond...
local forums or discussions can happen in these spaces about some of the issues raised within the WSF or about the nature of the WSF itself, where it is now, where its going etc......

it is hoped that social centres with computers connected to the net will open for the above...

3 - while the WSF is on, perhaps there is possibility of those outside Nairobi at home in their own spaces trying to experiment with the limits of how we can communicate as a global network while wsf is on. this might happen, who knows....

regards to all

dunk
Independent Media Centre - World Social Forum, Nairobi 2007 info:
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007

We will need a discussion on the editorial guidlines. Any article that is displaying racist and or religious prejuidices or illegitimate generalisations ("americans did... jews did... the world is...") should be excluded. It is a trap to believe media to be a good in itself. As for the radio project, remember the Rwanda genocide was powered by radio milles collines. I find articles on this page that already discourage my engagement. What we need and what Indymedia is good for is details on local stories that do not get coverage elsewere. Facts, nots believes and opinions!