Who We Are

McN2 is a consultancy with a focus on Web 2.0 and open-source software in an African context. It specialises in digital cultural projects,  including community, heritage and archival initiatives as well as digitisation and the development of content.

Niall McNulty is a digital media consultant with a MA from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.  Since 2005 he has developed and managed a number of academic and research projects for local government, academic institutions and other organisations. He has been instrumental in setting up the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity’s online archive, the Encyclopaedia of South African Art, Culture and Heritage’s wiki and the eThekwini Municipality’s indigenous knowledge management programme. He has also been involved in developing cultural tourism trails and digital archives of academic journals.

Niall has an in-depth knowledge of coding html, css and php, has managed MySql databases and has hosted websites for many years.  He has managed design as well as production teams, content-managers and research assistants.  He has experience in digitising documents and images to associated standards and is well-versed in image manipulation.  Niall has also worked with digital audio and video, facilitating its storage and distribution online. A firm believer in open-source content-management systems, he has used MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal, Greenstone, OJS and Omeka.

Grant McNulty has significant experience as an academic researcher and consultant. Through his current PhD work (Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town), he has a growing conceptual knowledge of history and the functioning of heritage in South Africa. He has an MA in Zulu from the University of Natal, a postgraduate qualification in digital video production and experience in the digitisation and manipulation of video for use in various contexts (promotional purposes, online and digital storage).

Grant worked on developing the first digital video archive of human communication (CAVA) at University College London’s Department of Human Communication Sciences. He has also worked as a research associate at UCL, using digital video to improve cross-cultural pharmacy consultations and as a research assistant with the National Heritage Council of South Africa.  Grant has an interest in new social media networks and keeps abreast of developments in this field. He has successfully implemented social media campaigns to guarantee our web projects a valuable online presence.