I was in touch with these people in the past. Can Free Software advocates also help them? FN
On 12 Nov 2002, Khuzaima A. Lakdawala wrote: > http://india.indymedia.org/ > > http://india.indymedia.org/about.php3 > > About Us > > What is the IMC Movement ? > > The Independent Media Center (IMC) websites is a global network of > collectively run media outlets. The people involved in helping run > these websites are self-styled media activists who share a commitment > to facilitating a culture in which people no longer see themselves as > passive consumers of 'news' and 'analyses' that are produced and > suitably packaged for mass consumption by media corporations (private > or State-run). > > For more information about how the history of the indymedia.org sites, > please see the follow this link: http://www.indymedia.org/about.php3. > > Why India-IMC ? > > The need for for a new culture with respect to media reporting of news > and analyses is, perhaps, greatest in the Indian sub-continent, and > other parts of the world that despite the end of overt colonialism > continue to be beset by the colonial mindset, and the absence of > transparency or accountability. For getting an overview of the sorry > state of the media in India, you may want to read an excellent article > by P. Sainath (a freelance journalist, and author of "Everybody Loves > a Good Drought) at the following site: > http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_06/uk/medias.htm > > More About the India-IMC: > > This India IMC site is being maintained in the interest of helping > create a network and culture of independent media reporting in the > Indian sub-continent. A small set of people, who all share a deep > commitment to the Independent media collective movement have come > together to help get this site going. We are hopeful, that as more > people begin to post news items on this site, it wil help spawn other > similar sites in various cities, towns and districts/states/provinces > of South Asia. The overall format of the indymedia.org sites is very > open. In keeping with the general format of all the indymedia.org > sites, there is a 'FEATURES' column which has to be maintained by an > editorial team; and there is a 'NEWSWIRE' column to which anyone can > contribute news/analysis items with text or multimedia content. > > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:25:31 +0530 (IST), Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > In Goa we already have one. See > > http://www.freenewsgoa.net > > If someone could support us on the technical side (PostNuke setups, > > webspace), we could surely think of doing this at a wider/national level. > > FN > > > > On 11 Nov 2002, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: > > > > > > > On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 15:26, Frederick Noronha wrote: > > > > > > > On another issue, I think that the ideals of Free Software need to be > > > > extended to other fields too (including journalism, where the money has > > > > become good in recent years in countries like India but increasingly > > > > journalists are feeling choked by their inability to express themselves > > > > freely). > > > > > > Do you think we could plan a web site where journalists could freely > > > express themselves? Or does some such thing already exist? Perhaps we > > > could also give regular daily news, if there are enough journalists > > > willing to support it. > > > > > > V. Sasi Kumar > _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
