Niall McNulty and Ulwazi project leader Betsie Greyling presented a poster at the The Third International m-libraries Conference (http://www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries) in Brisbane, Australia recently. The poster outlined the Ulwazi Programme’s plans for developing a system to collect indigenous knowledge via mobiles phones in the eThekwini Municipality. View the poster … Read the abstract …
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Libraries and games – a paradigm shift
A couple of weeks back we helped the Ulwazi Programme put on a display for a Library Week event held for eThekwini Municipality schoolchildren. As part of the display, we had a big-screen TV playing oral history interviews we had done over the past few years, as well as a few computers where the schoolchildren [...]
Oral history and ICT training for the Rural Women’s Movement
Last week we provided training, in conjunction with the Ulwazi Programme, for the Rural Women’s Movement. The training was divided into two parts; the use and practice of oral history and an introduction to ICT. The idea behind the training was that participants would be given valuable skills for their own work and could also [...]
Classification and its consequences
The Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity is holding a symposium on classification next week. Niall McNulty will be taking part in a session on classifying information, where he will discuss the Ulwazi programme and the process and purpose of classifying intangible heritage. Two sessions are also open to the public: Classifying [...]