| 7 | | The WSF still has one foot firmly in the 20th century: NGOs, Organisations, Institutions, Funding Dependence, Ecologically destructive transcontinental flights and equally anti-ecological forum sites. It has also been having the greatest difficulty, I think, in placing its other foot in the agora offering the greatest freedom – cyberspace. |
| | 7 | The WSF still has one foot firmly in the 20th century: NGOs, Organisations, Institutions, Funding Dependence, Ecologically destructive transcontinental flights and equally anti-ecological forum sites. It has also been having the greatest difficulty, I think, in placing its other foot in the agora offering the greatest freedom – cyberspace. |
| 11 | | May First/People Link seeks funding to continue and expand this work over the next year. There are four critical meetings - Cochabamba + 1 in Montreal, the Paris World Social Forum IC meeting, the COP17 convergence in Durban, South Africa, and Rio + 20 in Brazil. May First/People Link is seeking: $51,420 to help build diverse international participation in these meetings. |
| | 11 | May First/People Link seeks funding to continue and expand this work over the next year. There are four critical meetings - Cochabamba + 1 in Montreal, the Paris World Social Forum IC meeting, the COP17 convergence in Durban, South Africa, and Rio + 20 in Brazil. In addition, we seek funding beyond the convergences themselves, to provide follow up capacity building work for the lcoal anchor organizations. This follow up work is critical to ensuring the sustainability of the technology infrastructure developed during the convergences. |
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| | 13 | May First/People Link is seeking: $51,420 to help build diverse international participation in these meetings. |
| 21 | 23 | Our movement work with the social forum began with the US Social Forum in 2007, where we helped lead the technology sub-committee overseeing the first social forum with full online registration from beginning to end. In 2008, at Social Forum of the Americas in Guatemala, we held our first collaborative democracy workshop linking participants in Guatemala with participants in New York, in real time. We repeated this workshop at 2009 World Social Forum in Belem, Brazil (this time brining in Belem, Guatemala, Quebec and New York in French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English). In 2010 we were invited to support the Global Conference on Climate Change in Cochabamba, where we provided a free video stream of all major events using all free and open source software. In June 2010, May First/People Link was central to the organizing of the technology working group and media center. Our Social Forum work continued in October at the World Education Forum in Palestine. In December, the UN Bolivian Mission sponsored our tech support work during the COP16 meeting in Cancun. And, most recently, we provided support to both the World Social Forum in Dakar (where we were accepted onto the International Committee) as well as helped organize the Indymedia Africa center taking place during the forum. |
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| 23 | | Our work with international convergences complements two other important MFPL projects. |
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| 25 | | In 2011, in collaboration with the Praxis Project, we are launching a [wiki:techies_of_color Techies of Color Training Institute]. This program provides an intense, supportive mentored training program for activists of color in the United States to become professional-level, politically progressive and movement involved technologists. Capacity building both inside and outside the country are each critical in their own right, and more importantly they are mutually supportive. |
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| 27 | | In addition, we are developing a [wiki:international_outreach_and_training International Outreach and Training]. The goal of the project is to provide follow up training to the local organizations anchoring the international convergences. This extra step is critical in helping the local, anchoring and participating organizations benefit over the long term from the brief period of intense labor and expertise that becomes available during the convergence. |
| | 25 | Through our work, we've developed important relationships with local organizers around the globe. Most notably in the Middle East through our work at the World Education Forum and in Africa through our work at the World Social Forum and the Indymedia Africa media house. In both regions we are in communication with coalitions of groups requesting additional support to build on the technology developed during the convergences. Rather than outsourcing technology work, these organization wish to create in-house expertise around their Internet use. |
| 50 | | * World Social Forum |
| 51 | | * First meeting in 2011 will be held in Paris at the end of May. |
| 52 | | * ''Second meeting has yet to be determined.'' |
| 53 | | * Several convergences will be held each year. We will work with those that are close to use both politically and geographically. |
| 54 | | * The Cochabamba +1 convergence will be held in April 2011 in Montreal. |
| 55 | | * COP17 will take place in Durban, South Africa in December 2011 |
| 56 | | * ''Not all convergences have been announced and often our assistance is requested at short notice. In 2010, we organized technology at 4 convergences.'' |
| | 48 | * April 2011: Cochabamba +1 convergence in Montreal |
| | 49 | * May 2011: World Social Forum IC meeting in Paris. |
| | 50 | * July 2011: Follow up training, Palestine (continuing work from World Education Forum in 2011) |
| | 51 | * December 2011: COP17 will take place in Durban, South Africa |
| | 52 | * March 2012: Follow up training, Place to be determined, Africa (continuing work from WSF in Dakar and COP17 in South Africa) |
| | 53 | * June 2012: Rio + 20 in Rio, Brazil |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | ''Not all convergences have been announced and often our assistance is requested at short notice.'' |
| 65 | | ||'''Montreal Convergence''' || || |
| 66 | | ||Travel (4 people by train from NY) ||$650 || |
| 67 | | ||Food/Accommodations (space donated by Alternatives Intl) ||$560 || |
| 68 | | ||Support work (Minimal stipends for 4 people, 1 week) ||$2000 || |
| 69 | | ||Technical Equipment ||$250 || |
| 70 | | ||'''Montreal Total''' ||'''$3460''' || |
| | 64 | ||'''Montreal Convergence''' || || |
| | 65 | ||Travel (4 people by train from NY) ||650 || |
| | 66 | ||Food/Accommodations (space donated by Alternatives Intl) ||560 || |
| | 67 | ||Support work (Minimal stipends for 4 people, 1 week) ||2,000 || |
| | 68 | ||Technical Equipment ||250 || |
| | 69 | ||'''Montreal Total''' ||'''3,460''' || |
| 73 | | ||'''COP17 Durban Convergence''' || || |
| 74 | | ||Travel (airfare 4 people) ||$8000 || |
| 75 | | ||Food/Accommodations (4 people, 3 weeks) ||$4200 || |
| 76 | | ||Support work (Minimal stipends for 4 people, 3 weeks ||$6000 || |
| 77 | | ||Technical Equipment ||$500 || |
| 78 | | ||'''Durban Total''' ||'''$18700'''|| |
| | 72 | ||'''COP17 Durban Convergence''' || || |
| | 73 | ||Travel (airfare 4 people) ||8000 || |
| | 74 | ||Food/Accommodations (4 people, 3 weeks) ||4200 || |
| | 75 | ||Support work (Minimal stipends for 4 people, 3 weeks ||6000 || |
| | 76 | ||Technical Equipment ||500 || |
| | 77 | ||'''Durban Total''' ||'''18,700'''|| |
| 81 | | ||'''Rio + 20 Convergence''' || || |
| 82 | | ||Travel (airfare 4 people) ||$8000 || |
| 83 | | ||Food/Accommodations (4 people, 3 weeks) ||$4200 || |
| 84 | | ||Support work (Minimal stipends for 4 people, 3 weeks ||$6000 || |
| 85 | | ||Technical Equipment ||$500.00 || |
| 86 | | ||'''Durban Total''' ||'''$18700'''|| |
| | 80 | ||'''Rio + 20 Convergence''' || || |
| | 81 | ||Travel (airfare 4 people) ||8000 || |
| | 82 | ||Food/Accommodations (4 people, 3 weeks) ||4200 || |
| | 83 | ||Support work (Minimal stipends for 4 people, 3 weeks ||6000 || |
| | 84 | ||Technical Equipment ||500.00 || |
| | 85 | ||'''Rio + 20 Total''' ||'''18,700'''|| |
| 93 | | ||Travel (4 people) ||$2400 || |
| 94 | | ||Food/Accommodations (2 people, two weeks) ||$2880 || |
| 95 | | ||'''Paris Total''' ||'''$5280''' || |
| 96 | | || |||| |
| 97 | | ||'''Estimated Cost of 1 Other WSF Meeting''' ||'''$5280''' || |
| 98 | | || |||| |
| | 91 | ||Travel (4 people) ||2,400 || |
| | 92 | ||Food/Accommodations (2 people, two weeks) ||2,880 || |
| | 93 | ||Paris Total ||5,280 || |
| | 94 | ||Estimated Cost of 1 Other WSF Meeting ||5,280 || |
| | 95 | ||'''WSF Total''' ||'''10,560''' || |
| | 96 | |
| | 97 | === Post Convergence Capacity Building Work === |
| | 98 | |
| | 99 | ==== West Bank ==== |
| | 100 | |
| | 101 | Costs for one trip, with two trainers to assist four organizations, two week training |
| | 102 | |
| | 103 | ||Travel ||3,000 || |
| | 104 | ||Translation ||1,000 || |
| | 105 | ||Food/Accommodations ||1,400 || |
| | 106 | ||Trainer compensation ||2,000 || |
| | 107 | ||Website hosting ||800 || |
| | 108 | ||Equipment (laptops and A/V equipment for organizations) ||2,000 || |
| | 109 | |
| | 110 | ||'''West Bank Training Total''' ||'''10,200''' || |
| | 111 | |
| | 112 | ==== Africa ==== |
| | 113 | |
| | 114 | Costs for one trip, with two trainers to assist four organizations, two week training |
| | 115 | |
| | 116 | ||Travel ||3,000 || |
| | 117 | ||Translation ||1,000 || |
| | 118 | ||Food/Accommodations ||1,400 || |
| | 119 | ||Trainer compensation ||2,000 || |
| | 120 | ||Website hosting ||800 || |
| | 121 | ||Equipment (laptops and A/V equipment for organizations) ||2,000 || |
| | 122 | |
| | 123 | ||'''Africa Training Total''' ||'''10,200''' || |
