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) …
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The Final Report of the Ulwazi Schools Project
With funding from the Goethe Institut, the Ulwazi Programme was rolled out to township and rural schools in a bid to create opportunities to enhance ICT skills among the youth and generate interest in their own history and culture. The School’s project was run at four township and rural schools – two schools during the …
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Article published in the latest issue of Knowledge Management for Development Journal
Niall McNulty has recently had an article published in the international journal Knowledge Management for Development. The article – The number in my pocket: the power of mobile technology for the exchange of indigenous knowledge – explores ways in which mobile technology could be used to collect and disseminate indigenous knowledge and local history. An online …
ARCHIVAL ASPIRATIONS AND ANXIETIES
CONTEMPORARY PRESERVATION AND PRODUCTION OF THE PAST IN UMBUMBULU, KWAZULU-NATAL Grant McNulty is presenting a paper at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity seminar. This paper offers an ethnographic investigation of the contemporary preservation and production of the past in Umbumbulu, a peri-urban area to the south of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As …