A couple of weeks ago I went down to the Highway Africa conference in Cape Town, which was excellent. The theme of the conference was African Media and Global Sustainability Challenge and sessions looked at citizen journalism, Internet security, media innovation and the use of social media in the newsroom. Apart from the fascinating seminars I …
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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 …
Libraries and games – a paradigm shift
A couple of weeks back we helped the Ulwazi Programme put on a display for a Library Week event held for eThekwini Municipality schoolchildren. As part of the display, we had a big-screen TV playing oral history interviews we had done over the past few years, as well as a few computers where the schoolchildren …
Classification and its consequences
The Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity is holding a symposium on classification next week. Niall McNulty will be taking part in a session on classifying information, where he will discuss the Ulwazi programme and the process and purpose of classifying intangible heritage. Two sessions are also open to the public: Classifying …