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

We will be presenting a paper on the Ulwazi Programme at the SCECSAL Conference in Nairobi, Kenya next month. More on the conference below, looks interesting and right up our alley! Technological developments that have taken place during the past decade have brought opportunities which have drastically changed human life. The internet has added a new [...]

I recently attended this workshop in Johannesburg. See details below, Grant. The Origins Centre at the University of Witwatersrand hummed over the weekend of 24 and 25 March during a workshop co-hosted by the APC initiative and the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG). The workshop on ‘tribing and untribing the archive’ brought together established and emerging [...]

Late last year we took part in the e-Learning Festival at the Durban University of Technology, presenting a session on our work with the KZN Literary Tourism project. The KZN Literary Tourism research project is now in its ninth year of operation. Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts [...]

Last Friday we presented a paper at the Heritage and Socio-economic Development Conference at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.  The paper was well received with participants particularly interested in the community-participation through digital technologies and collaborative  resource development aspects of the paper, two areas we have been involved with since 2008. Click here to view the [...]

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 [...]