Digital Heritage, Digital Libraries, Community Engagement, Mobile, Digital Humanities

The Ulwazi Programme in 20 Slides from McN2 on Vimeo. Niall McNulty introduces the Ulwazi Programme at the Durban PechaKucha evening, 2nd February 2012.

The Ulwazi Programme is an initiative run through the Libraries & Heritage Department of the eThekwini Municipality, which uses Web 2.0 technology, the public library and the community to collect indigenous knowledge and local history. Presentation given at PechaKucha Durban on the 23rd February 2012. Click here to download …

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 [...]

I read with particular interest that certain Shembe sites in Inanda are now heritage landmarks as the Shembe and Inanda have featured in a fair bit of my work. My Master’s dissertation focussed on the functions of dreams and visions in the Shembe Church at Inanda, we have been working on a mapping prototype for [...]

Map Inanda is the first project of its kind in KwaZulu-Natal to integrate sophisticated GIS (Geographic Information Systems) with the development of unique heritage resources and the promotion of heritage sites. The initial website is based on work that McN2 Consulting has been doing in Inanda with the eThekwini Municipality, KZN Literary Tourism and the [...]