Its a New Year and we’ve kicked it off by visiting two schools – one in Hammarsdale and the other in Umbumbulu – where we will be running the phase two of the Ulwazi Schools Project. This innovative project uses digital heritage to teach research, media and digital literacy skills to students from disadvantaged schools. Weekly …
Category Archives: Strategy
2011 – A YEAR IN REVIEW
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 …
The Number in my Pocket: the Power of Mobile Technology for the Exchange of Indigenous Knowledge
Niall McNulty and Ulwazi project leader Betsie Greyling presented a poster at the The Third International m-libraries Conference (https://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 …
ccrri Archive
We have been working with the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity for the past few months, digitizing (with the help of DISA) their archive of news-clippings, to make them available online in an easy to use and searchable database. We are happy to announce that a Beta version of the website is …