[Imc-africa] Delegates list for alternative(indymedia) Conference inSenegal(20/12/03)

[nicolas dieltiens]

Hello all, 

First off, I'll have to apologise for the almost absence of involvement from IMC-South Africa in the process building towards the conference in Dakar next year. Limited internet access means that IMC-SA activists have difficulty tracking debates conducted over email. While we reserve comment regarding the conceptualisation of the tour until we've properly reviewed the IRC records, any initiative to spread independent news centres throughout the continent deserves our attention.

Indymedia South Africa would like to express interest in sending the full complement of 3 delegates to the conference. I'm not certain on what the extent of their responsibilities in Dakar will be but I trust the IRC records will assist in clarifying this issue.

Until we are able to collectively discuss the tour and conference, I am only able to flag our interest in the initiative. I hope this is satisfactory for the tour organisers to pursue their funding prospects with.

In solidarity and on behalf of IMC-SA
Nicolas


On Thu,  4 Dec 2003 23:33:12 +0000, African IMCs and the imc project in Africa <imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org> said:
>-Request of  delegates  list for participation in the Alternative(indymedia)
>Conference in Dakar Senegal from 1st to the 14th March 2004.
>
>For months now, we have in the frame of encouraging the development of indymedia
>in Africa, embarked on arrangements to participate in the “boundaries to bridges
>tour”. The tour organised by activists of a host of other activists groups began
>in September in Andalusia-Spain; is to go through Morocco, Mauritania and to end
>in Senegal in March 2004. The hope is to introduce indymedia to the activists in
>communities in these countries. In the same light in the two weeks of
>alternative media festival in the frame of the tour- to take place in Senegal,
>we plan to hold an alternative(indymedia) media conference, in which we hope to
>bring together both those involved already in indymedia in africa and other
>media activists to take an in dept look at indymedia.  This far we’ve had a
>series of  IRC meetings. We did try  to incorporate the imc-Morocco project
>which the activists of imc-Madiaq have been into for a while now.  The last most
>important meeting took place between imc-Madiaq folks and forming imc-Morocco
>folks on the 8-9th November 2003 in Tanger Morocco. 
>Presently the rest of the other activists involved in the tour will as well be
>in Morocco for the entire December. We are as well trying to make contacts with
>activists from Mauritania with the help of some activists  from imc-Lille in
>France. 
>
>Unfortunately we’ve not been able to have experienced imc-activists in the
>present touring group this far, to help with imc workshops thus at this point it
>is more about getting contact with activists to have them come over to the
>Senegal conference. 
>
>This is a request for those who can afford to be in Senegal for the conference
>to indicate so that we can write a budget for the conference as soon as possible
>that will include the flight tickets of those who wish to participate but cannot
>afford the fair. We also need to go about organising invitations for visas for
>those who need them.
>
>The last proposal  in the discussions that have mostly been taking place through
>IRCmeetings    is as follows  :
>-6 volunteer activists with an experience in the indymedia network process and
>technicality are required to help in running workshops. This activists simply
>need to inform their local imcs and their local imc needs to simply endorse them
>or a network working group in which they have been involved in. 
>-The three approved african and the two semi-african imcs via South Africa,
>Nigeria Ambazonia, Canaries and Madiaq  have space for three(3) delegates each;
> 2  of the delegates  are to be members of their imc and the third could be a
>media activists with potential for being involved in indymedia.
>-Forming imcs in Africa have place for 2 delegates, via; Angola, Kenya, Morocco,
>Egypt,  Algeria, Congo, Zimbabwe.    
>-Activists from the countries were the tour will go through have space for 2
>delegates, via; Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco(already have a forming imc).
>
>*ALL IMCS/VOLUNTEERS ARE EXPECTED indicate by email to the imc-africa list
>LATEST 20 th December 2003. So we could start searching for the funds necessary
>to cover their transport fair.
>Address of africa list : imc-africa at lists.indmymedia.org
>More information: About the tour : http://imc-in-africxa.so36.net 
>
>Incase any question or concerns please write to imc-africa list
>imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
>Best Regards
>Sphinx  
>
>-- 
>but for fate we could have been one another
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