We’ve had another interesting year where we’ve cemented our work on digital heritage as well as explored the areas of e-citizenship and the possibility that digital media holds for the environmental movement. In no particular order, here are a few things we have done that we’re proud of …
Projects
- We’ve worked on the Goethe Institut/Ulwazi Programme’s School’s Project. Read more …
- Together with the Communication Factory, we re-designed the Ulwazi website. Check it out here …
- Working with KZN Literary Tourism, we launched the South Coast Writers trail. Read more …
- OneWorld commissioned a survey and report from us, on how best to implement a climate change knowledge-sharing platform. Read more …
- With designer Dominic Strauss, we designed a poster for the M-Lib Conference in Brisbane. Check it out here …
- We developed and launched an experimental heritage mapping project Map Inanda. Read more …
- We digitised and made available online a number of literary documentary videos. Watch them here …
- We redeveloped our own site, making it a lot easier to navigate and we think, really attractive!
- We developed a new blogsite for trend forecaster Christopher Reid. Go check it out …
- We initiated a social media strategy for Urban Earth.
- Niall continued with existing projects – managing the Ulwazi Programme; digitisation and media management for the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity; research and content and social media management for KZN Literary Tourism; editing and blogging on Sprig.
- Grant started working with the Tombouctou Manuscripts project – providing social media and web management – and with Sustaining the Wild Coast – establishing their social media strategy.
Conferences and Events
- Niall attended the Highway Africa Conference where he was a New Media Awards nominee, coming runner-up in the NGO category.
- Niall presented a paper at the Indigenous Knowledge Technology Conference in Windhoek, Nambia. The paper will be published in a special issue of the Knowledge Management for Development journal.
- Niall presented a session at the Durban University of Technology’s e-Learning Festival.
- Niall facilitated a workshop on the eThekwini Municipality’s digital offerings at a Library Week event.
- Niall participated in the UNESCO/ccrri workshop on the development of a communication advocacy strategy for the city of Durban.
- Niall participated in the Classification and its Consequences Symposium at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Grant attended the ASnA Conference. Read more …
- Grant attended a series of workshops run by the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative. Read more …
- Grant attended the Department of Arts and Culture’s Digitisation of Heritage Resources. Read our thoughts here and here and see Grant’s post on the Archival Platform.
Training
- Niall co-taught the News Media and the Internet Society course for the Internet Studies department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- Niall co-taught the Literary Tourismin KwaZulu-Natal Course for the English Studies department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
- We provided oral history, media development and ICT training to the Rural Women’s Movement.
Awards and Recognition
- We came runner-up in the Environmental Category at the SA Blog Awards.
- We came runner-up at the Highway Africa New Media Award, NGO Category.
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An article on South Coast Writers trail was published in The Witness. Read it here …
Enjoy the summer holidays and see you next year. We have a number of interesting projects on the go and look forward to sharing them with you in 2012.
Cheers,
Niall and Grant