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 …
The Ulwazi Programme: Local Users, Local Language, Local Content
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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