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

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 [...]

Through funding assistance from the Goethe Institut, we have helped to rolll out the Ulwazi Programme 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 will be run at four township and rural schools [...]

We are pleased to announce that, Sprig, the multi-authored green blog we run in out spare time, was awarded a runner-up prize at the South African Blog Awards. We won this award last year and are pleased to again be included in the top three.  

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 [...]

Last week we provided training, in conjunction with the Ulwazi Programme, for the Rural Women’s Movement.  The training was divided into two parts; the use and practice of oral history and an introduction to ICT.  The idea behind the training was that participants would be given valuable skills for their own work and could also [...]