[Imc-africa] http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcRegionalisation

[boud]

hi people on some of the regional lists,
   i've prepared a document with some reflections on regionalisation
here:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcRegionalisation

This probably does not say very much different to the IMC Italy proposal,
except that it's a discussion document, not a proposal, and might help
people think about how global lists and regional lists can function in 
a way consistent with what we would like Indymedia to be. And it also
looks in the longer term than the IMC Italy proposal, leading to a
conclusion which might shock some US indy people...

Probably regional lists :) (or your local list!) are the best place
for further discussion, or simply make changes to or translations from
the TWiki.

solidarity
boud

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The full page is:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcRegionalisation
but i'm quoting the section headings and the conclusions below.

The section headings are:

>     *  How can a planetary-wide, non-hierarchical network regionalise?
>           o the numbers
>           o equality politics - the Global South
>           o numbers + equality => the arithmetic
>           o discussion
>                 + rotation, what is a liaison, etc.
>                 + censorship of creative, innovative, dissenting individuals?
>                       # positive and negative feedback loops
>                 + Is a liaison system hierarchical?
>                 + time scale
>           o participative political structures - parpolity?

The conclusions are:

> Conclusions
> 
> If we aim for a long term (e.g. think up to 2006) goals of:
>     * at most 100 regional liaisons on any global list
>     * at most 100 local liaisons on any regional list
> and if we have:
>     * the right sort of positive and negative feedback loops
> then
>     * we just possibly might have a workable, strongly
> anti-authoritarian global communications system
>           o which has few enough people on any mailing list so that
> they can get to know and trust each other and can constructively deal
> with conflicts and (if required) make decisions
>           o which is welcoming to people living in the Global South
> and lets them genuinely participate and
>           o which allows for about 10,000 local IMCs, which will
> surely be enough on this time scale. Indymedia will be very different
> by 2006.
> 
> One of the most dramatic changes from present practice would be the
> long term goal of US liaisons auto-limiting themselves on any global
> list to a total of about four (4) liaisons.
> 
> Reminder: these are not proposals, they are just thoughts to help
> guide discussion.