Dec

21

2011 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

2011 – A YEAR IN REVIEW

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 [...]

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Jul

06

South Coast Writers Trail

South Coast Writers Trail

We’ve recently launched the South Coast Writers Trail, developed with KZN Literary Tourism, designed by Disturbance and funded by the National Arts Council.  The trail includes writers such as Michael Cawood Green, Es’kia Mphahlele, Mazisi Kunene, Daphne Rooke and the editors of Voorslag (Roy Campbell, William Plomer and Laurens van der Post). Stops on the [...]

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Apr

06

Libraries and games – a paradigm shift

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 [...]

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Feb

07

Literary videos online

Literary videos online

As part of the relaunch of the KZN Literary Tourism website, we digitised a number of literary documentaries that had been produced by the project.  These are available through the website (under the Podcast tab) and also on the video-sharing website Video, where we have set up a dedicated KZN Literary Tourism channel at http://vimeo.com/channels/kznliterarytourism. [...]

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Dec

20

Transformation Open Journal System

Transformation Open Journal System

Working with the journal Transformation, we recently set up an Open Journal System (OJS) website – a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project.  Through the OJS website, we’ve made available all 73 back issues of the journal, digitized with assistance from DISA. OJS is pretty great software with [...]

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