[Imc-africa] Re: [Imc-finance] Request for support of the
Dakar Conference
Jay
jaypsand at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 4 00:26:23 PST 2004
Hi imc-finance (and imc-africa by cc),
This is Jay from IMC Philadelphia. Some of you may know me, others may
not. Hello to everyone.
I've recently started to support imc-africa group in its attempt to raise
some money to support the travel of African delegates to the upcoming
conference in Senegal. I haven't been on imc-fiance for a while, but I
understand Sphinx sent a request for funds. I also have seen Joeri's below
reply asking for clarification and expressing some concern about the amount
of money requested.
I e-mailed imc-africa with the below idea a few days ago and haven't heard
any dissent. I don't know the current process on imc-finance but I would
love for someone who does to help work this into a proposal. Plus, we need
to act on this SOON. The conference is scheduled for March 1-14 and I'm
pretty sure most delegates will have to get visas, or at least make plane
reservations as soon as possible.
Here's the idea. Right now imc-africa has a great list of delegates
intending to come from around Africa. Some IMCs, even forming IMCs, are
interested in sending more than one, which is great . . . and expensive. I
think we all should do our best to get at least one person from each IMC to
be able to come to Senegal.
What do people on imc-finance think of imc-africa asking formally for
enough money to get at least one person from each of the interested IMC
groups to get to the conference? Then we could have a firm, more
manageable amount.
That would be, according to Sphinx's estimates:
1from South Africa = 877 Euro
1 from Ambazonia = 750 Euro
1 from Congo = 1200 Euro
1 from Angola = 1100 Euro
1 from Kenya = 1100 Euro
1 from Madiaq = 450 Euro
Total: 5477 Euro
Plus, 533 Euro to help pay for expenses in Senegal. Total = 6000 Euro.
If imc-finance would release 6000 Euro to pay for the tickets that will
assure the conference will have representation from at least 6 African
IMCs, plus Senegal. That will be a great stride forward for African
indymedia organizing!
As for the fear from imc-finance that imc-africa is asking for too much,
perhaps imc-africa can pay back imc-finance "33 cents on the
dollar." Meaning, if imc-africa independently raises 9,000 Euro toward the
conference, they'll pay imc-finance back 3000 Euro of what they lent. If
they raise 15000 Euro they'll pay back 5000 Euro. In other words,
imc-finance will be able to assure some level of success at an essential
Indymedia conference but at the same time we will all make sure imc-finance
doesn't have to be afraid imc-africa will drain all its money.
How does this sound?
Jay
At 1/30/2004, Joeri wrote:
>hey,
>
>sorry to only reply this late
>
>i think it's needed to be more specific about the amount of money; i know
>it's difficult to give an exact amount as you're still very busy in
>fundraising, but for us it's even more difficult to set an amount
>(therefore i didn't set it as a proposal yet)
>
>as on new year's day (this is the latest info i received) our bank balance
>contained $21,679.15, but with still some donations to process (at least
>$5,654),
>giving the biggest part of the needed money for the project would have big
>consequences for imc-finance (altough i think this conference is really
>important and i think it's very important that we help getting the money
>together if needed)
>
>so i suggest to (if possible) try to get an idea of the amount still
>needed, so we can put it in a proposal for finance
>
>other ideas on this?
>
>greets
>sorry for the delay
>joeri
>
>
>sphinx wrote:
>
>>Imc-Africa Working group is asking imc-finance to support with the fairs
>>of the
>>African delegates, food and stationery for the Dakar Conference .
>>-In the coming days we'll continue with trying to raise funds through other
>>sources. We appeal to all the activts as well as imcs in this list to use
>>their
>>know-how in helping us in this process of fund raising as well as
>>spreading the
>>information to potential sources of support.
>>-We will implore the imc-finance working group to treat this as an
>>application
>>for funds. That is 3days tranlation, 14days discussion(dateline is then 3rd
>>february2004).
>>All funds that we happen to get in the interim, we'll inform imc-finance
>>about
>>and hope imc-finance can make up the needed amount. Every funds that We
>>shall
>>get in the interim shall go first for the tickets. This is all meant to
>>catch-up with time as most of the African delegates need to get visas to
>>go to
>>Senegal.
>>-We are pleading with all imcs to put a temporary donation link(button)
>>in this
>>respect on their various websites.
>>
>>Details:
>>
>>The Dakar Conference
>>
>>In the four years since indymedia started in Seattle in 1999, it has
>>succeeded
>>to make a mostest impact on the media worlds as a whole and in the political
>>left scene in particular.
>>Much of the build-up have taken place in the global North thanks to the well
>>developed multimedia infrastructure. Which allows for both quick and
>>cheap production of media content. Yet indymedias in South
>>America have made substantial progress despite poor multimedia
>>infrastructure.
>>This characteristic growth being partly due to existing social support
>>structures developed over the years of social struggles in South America
>>as well
>>as emphatic support of Global North Activists.
>>In Africa for lots of resons indymedia development has been very slow.
>>To give
>>the indymedia growth process in Africa a push, the indymedia Africa working
>>group with other activists groups took upon Organising an
>>Alternative(indymedia)
>>Conference in Dakar from the 1st to the 14th March 2004. Delegates will
>>be coming from ; South Africa, Ambazonia (Ex-British Southern Cameroons),
>>DRCongo, Angola, Kenya, Madiaq (South Spain and
>>Morocco), Nertherland, Germany, Switzerland, UK and USA. Three quarters
>>of the
>>delegates will be from Africa. The main point of the Conference will be
>>to exchange experiences and try to
>>figure-out the way forward with indymedia in Africa despite the lack of
>>suitable
>>social support structures and multimedia infrastructure.
>>This undertaking is now threatened by the lack of funds to cover the fairs of
>>the African Delegates and basic needs for the conference . We are hereby
>>soliciting for donations to support the Conference.
>>Donations can be sent by paypal.com to imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
>>
>>or by bank transfer to : Zentralkultur e.V Account No: 269 35 70
>>BLZ/Bankcode 60050101 S.W.I.F.T-code SOLASDEST Password: indymedia
>>Africa Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg Germany
>>For those who need receipts for tax deductions please indicate by email
>>to imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
>>We'll greatly appreciate any contribution no-matter how small .
>>IMC-Africa Working group.
>>
>>
>>
>>Update of the situation:
>>-Fair situation for the moment looks as follows:
>>3South Africa = 877*3= 2631 Euro 3Ambazonia(Ex-British Southern
>>Cameroons)=750*3= 2250 Euro 1 DRCongo =1200 Euro 2 Angola =1100*2=2200
>>Euro 3Kenya=1100*3=3300 Euro 2Madiaq(Spain and Morocco) = 450 *2=900 Euro
>>Total= 12481 Euro
>>
>>-Feeding and stationery for the 14days of the conference will cost at least
>>1300Euros.
>>
>>TOTAL=12481+1300=15481 Euros
>>
>>-Materials for use in workshops:
>>.Bak from Imc-ch is bring a computer with a portable content management
>>system
>>and a host of other software. .Tony from imc-uk is also going to send us
>>some videos and some other meterials.
>>In the worst case scenerio this may be all we may have like equipment ´; thus
>>the best way to increase the utility will be to connect them to a projector.
>>Thus we desperately need a projector as well as a printer.
>>
>>---original list of needs was :
>>
>>-A beamer /projector
>>1.-Five computers (at least) 2.-Three video recording machines and a
>>video editting machine. 100 video
>>cassettes. 3.-Three mini-disc recorder/audio recording machines. 200
>>pieces of
>>mini-disc/tapes. 4.-Three printers. 5.-5 small radio transmitters. 6.- 10
>>video cassettes of films made by other indymedia video working groups to
>>be used in screening . Software needs 1.-We need to ask indymedia-tech to
>>load the computers for use in the tour with
>>one of the many freesoftware Operating System. 2.-Need a portable version
>>of an indymedia production system which allows
>>articles and other content to be published and produced on the computer
>>without
>>internet connection. 3.-We need an easy to use audio editing program.
>>4.-We need an easy to use video editing program. 5.-We need an easy to
>>use lay-out program.
>>
>>
>>
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