[Imc-africa] African IMC Meeting, African IMC Caravan, or what ??

[valentine V eben]

 How do we push forward the growth of IMC in Africa. Presently I volunteered to handle African IMC applications at IMC-Process. I hope in the coming days I can find time to write to the IMCs awaiting  final approval(Zimbabwe, Uganda,Kenya,Swaziland and others) to see how far they have gone and to help them throught the last state of approval process.

There are some activists in the States who are trying to Organise money to support IMCs in Africa. The point is we need to look at the issues and be abit more clear an specific on what is need. That will ease the task for the comrades intersted in supporting our project. 
 Some ideas could be:
a)To Organise an IMC African meeting where we'll not only bring together prospecting and approved IMCs but also other people involved in media work in Africa to discuss the IMC concept and how it can be applied in Africa.
b)There is also the idea of may be, Organising a "African Indymedia Caravan". A bus full of computers and people with technical-know-how to make a tour of Africa, teaching people both the theory and practical of indymedia.
Here we will need to know how practical this is? How many countries? For how long will the Caravan go on? 
Obviously we will need contacts in the countries in question. As well in the other countries so that people from the other countries can join as well in the process.
May be we hold first an African indymedia meeting where we discuss and arrange the Caravan. Or the other way round the Caravan then the African indymedia meeting.
It will be really nice to know what you people think. As whatever way it is to go we need to start planing that now.
Sphinx


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On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 06:01:24  
 imc-ambazonia-contact-admin wrote:
>
>hi val and all Africa IMCs and forming IMCs, 
>
>Nice to hear from you val. Sorry for my little delay in getting back to you. 
>I actually went on holiday with my family and went out from computer too. 
>
>I am so happy to see your involvement in indymedia especially your concern 
>for indymedia growth in Africa. if you take a close look at my first e-mail 
>you will find some of my opinion on how i think we may go to acheive an 
>everyday Africa IMC. 
>
>But one thing i am proud of letting you know is that it is very possible to 
>acheive out target of making indy happen in AFrica with our collaborative 
>effort. But again , like i said in my last mail we have to be original and 
>localise indy in Africa. There are lots of difference in  how indy works in 
>Western world compared to our native Africa. You know much about Ambazonia 
>and Cameroun than i do , and maybe you are also used to some other parts of 
>the region but one thing is certain we do have lots in common and share 
>common history and struggles. So i think we need to look well into 
>localisation of indy in Africa first as we move ahead. 
>
>Again , i will on my end be contacting as many groups as possible likewise 
>our collectives too. It will form part of discussion from now on.  One more 
>question that we need to talk about is do we really need everyone signing 
>into the Africa list or just liasons from different Africa IMCs. And again 
>what should be our focus line on this list . Should our local country list 
>handle local IMCs organising and the regional Africa list to handle issues 
>of regional concerns. I think for proper organising it maybe nice if those 
>on the list should be liasons from local IMCs and forming IMCs so we can 
>have better organising and be able to focus on regional issues with messages 
>from and taken back to local IMCs. Maybe this will be a good point to start 
>discussion on this list. 
>
>...winters,
>Nigeria IMC 
>
>from vally_x@nadir.org writes: 
>
>
>> I think I'm bordered by another problem at this point
>> with this list; that is that only 3 people are in the 
>> list . IMC SA and all the other prospecting African 
>> IMCs  are not in even though I copied them all.
>> How do we go forward. How do we do with the probably 
>> 250 computers that  will be avaliable for the IMCs 
>> in Africa. How do we get the IMC a daily issue in 
>> Africa? 
>> 
>> May be we need to start something like an IMC African 
>> campaign offensive. Contact all lists and people from 
>> Africa that we know both in and out of Africa.  
>> Or more better an African Caravan? but we still need 
>> the contacts there(in the countries) .
>> May be we try to create a data base of all groups 
>> involved in social struggles and try to Organise an
>>  African Indymedia Conference ?. You remember the guy from UIMC 
>> Jay said was helping get funs for that. 
>> Please Winter take a thought about these all.
>>  Try too to contact IMC SA and the other aspiring IMCs
>> and lets see how to go forward.
>> All the best for the new year 
>> Sphinx 
>>
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