Bamako IMC starts

After I've arrived in Bamako airport at 3am this morning thanks to a three hour delay of the plane, this first intresting thing was the temperature: 19 degrees Celsius!
With the help of two Attac activists from Finnland I found a place to stay for a short night and finanlly hooked up with the french indymedia lot today.

They have secured a house in the quarter Hippodrome in the east of Bamako with the association Geekcorps, an NGO which works with Internet stuff and open publishing in Bamako, funded by USAID.
From here various preparations are done, including for this matter the IMC Bamako, that will include a cinema.
We will try to fly more Indymedia delegates in from South Afrcia and Nigeria as we have in the last miniute secured some funding from a german foundation to do so.
It is all a big chaos of course with over 10.000 people expected to come to the WSF.

Bamako IMC

Additions

For those of you that don't know

17.01.2006 17:10

For those of you that don't know;

- Bamako is the capital of Mali.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamako

- Hippodrome is a Quartier of Bamako. The Geekcorps is located in the Quartier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippodrome%2C_Bamako

- The Geekcorps is a non-profit organization that sends people with technical skills to developing countries to assist in computer infrastructure development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geekcorps

a little more info please...