Presented at the IAMCR 2012 Conference, Durban, South Africa. The Ulwazi Programme uses the public library infrastructure, Web 2.0 technologies and the community to collect and disseminate indigenous knowledge and local histories. This user-generated content is compiled in an online digital library in the form of a website and access is provided through current mobile …
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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 …
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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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 …
