Niall McNulty will be presenting a paper at the forthcoming International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference 2012, in the Digital Divide session. Niall’s paper looks at local content created by and for local users in the local vernacular, using the Ulwazi Programme as a case study. The full conference programme is available here. IAMCR is the …
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Information for Sustainable Development in a Digital Environment
We will be presenting a paper on the Ulwazi Programme at the SCECSAL Conference in Nairobi, Kenya next month. More on the conference below, looks interesting and right up our alley! Technological developments that have taken place during the past decade have brought opportunities which have drastically changed human life. The internet has added a new …
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Tribing and Untribing the Archive
I recently attended this workshop in Johannesburg. See details below, Grant. The Origins Centre at the University of Witwatersrand hummed over the weekend of 24 and 25 March during a workshop co-hosted by the APC initiative and the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). The workshop on ‘tribing and untribing the archive’ brought together established and emerging …
Developing e-resources for research: the case of the KZN Literary Tourism project
Late last year we took part in the e-Learning Festival at the Durban University of Technology, presenting a session on our work with the KZN Literary Tourism project. The KZN Literary Tourism research project is now in its ninth year of operation. Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts …
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