Niall McNulty has been invited to present at a meeting of the Oral History Association of South Africa, to be held in Kimberley on the 15th March. Niall will be discussing his work on digital media projects such as the Ulwazi Programme, which uses oral history methodology to collect indigenous knowledge and local history from communities around [...]
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Hello Internet, do you speak Zulu?
Internet: “Not yet, but I’m learning”. Zulu as an online language There is still a noticeable lack of online content in Zulu, despite the fact that over 11 million South Africans list Zulu as their first language, according to Census 2011, and the fact that Zulu-language newspapers are thriving. With the growth in Internet usage [...]
Highway Africa New Media Award for Ulwazi Programme
Niall McNulty was part of the team that came runner-up in the ‘Innovative Use of Technology for Community Engagement’ category at the recent Telkom-Highway Africa New Media Awards. The 16th Highway Africa conference took place from the 9th – 11th September 2012 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, in association with the Global Forum for Media [...]
Libraries as Community Memory: Modalities of Preserving Indigenous Knowledge for Posterity
Niall McNulty was recently in Kenya, running a workshop on ‘Libraries as Community Memory’ for the National Museums of Kenya, in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Nairobi. Click here to download the presentation … Click here to download the paper (presented at SCECSAL 2012) …