The Ulwazi Programme: A Case Study in Community-Focused Indigenous Knowledge Management

McNulty, Niall

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-7392-4_13

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“…South Africa has taken major steps and still making serious efforts to ensure the preservation of IKS through the use of technology and digitization (Greyling and McNulty, 2012; McNulty, 2014). This paper established that the main source of IK in the institutions is primary sources, and other sources of IK are print materials, journal articles, documentaries and published theses related to IK.…”

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Digitization of Indigenous knowledge systems in Africa: the case of South Africa’s National Recorded System (NRS)

Balogun

2023

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to highlight the indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) preservation efforts in South Africa, with a focus on the National Recordal System and the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Documentation Centres (IKSDCs) across South Africa. Design/methodology/approach Anchored in the interpretivist paradigm, the qualitative research approach was adopted to explore the objectives of the study. The multiple case study method was considered appropriate and adopted for the study. The data for this study was collected through comprehensive face-to-face interviews and Web content analysis. The population of the study consisted of the staff at the IKSDCs in the selected academic institutions. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the following set of participants in each academic institution: IKS managers/coordinators, digitization officers and online collection administrators. Findings The findings provide an in-depth understanding of the IKS landscape in South Africa. The findings and recommendations of this paper would be useful to researchers who wish to know more about digitization efforts in South Africa. It would also be useful to all stakeholders and policymakers. Originality/value The paper brings to the fore the efforts of the South African government in preserving IKS through documentation and digitization. The paper highlights the sources of indigenous knowledge, types of indigenous knowledge captured, how the indigenous knowledge is ingested in the repositories and how the data is captured. Generally, the roles of the IKSDCs in the capture and preservation of IKS are highlighted.

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Digitization of Indigenous knowledge systems in Africa: the case of South Africa’s National Recorded System (NRS)

Balogun

2023

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“…uLwazi in South Africa is another community archive embracing ICTs. McNulty (2014, p. 1) describes uLwazi as “the Programme, in the form of a localized Wiki, functions as a collaborative online archive of local knowledge and histories that are collected from the community by volunteer fieldworkers and then shared via the Internet and on cell phones”. Some of the few examples in Zimbabwe’s community archives which have adopted the use of ICTs are Tarcisius George Silundika Cultural Community Centre (TGSCCC).…”

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Proposed independent organisational structure for memory institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Bhebhe

2021

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Purpose The idea of convergence of cultural institutions, especially the libraries, archives and museums (LAMS) to operate as one, has a long theoretical history which unfortunately has not been translated into practice. This subject has been discussed by a number of scholars but the implementation has just remained theoretical with only a few countries practically adopting such an organisational structure. In Africa, this concept of LAMS is yet to gain traction. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is aimed at proposing such LAMS structures for African nations, especially in Zimbabwe and South Africa considering the emergence of community “archives” which have blurred further the distinction between museology, archiving and librarianship. The motivation in advocating for the adoption of LAMS is also driven by the theory behind participatory archives which thrive on the advanced use of internet including social media platforms that can make it possible to have one-stop virtual archive on the cloud that also incorporates museums and libraries. Design/methodology/approach This is a concept paper which reviewed the literature on national and community archives in Zimbabwe and South Africa which were purposively selected because of their long history in archiving. This was done to come up with a proposed “independent” national heritage organisational structure. “Independent” structure because this paper was based on the assumption that the independence of decision-making in national archival structures in Zimbabwe and South Africa is compromised and biased towards the ethos of political parties’ ruling governments. Findings Proposed integrated framework for community archives into the sustainable national archival system which also incorporates the role that can be played by universities. The framework is likely to be feasible and of benefit in the countries that are struggling to have national mainstream independent archives which are just not paying allegiance to those who are in power. Originality/value This study is unique in the sense that it mixes LAMS and the concept of independent archival structure in a regional comparative nature that involves Zimbabwe and South Africa.

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Exploring Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Implications of ICT Use: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous People in Malaysia

Walid

Ibrahim

Ang

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The Ulwazi Programme: A Case Study in Community-Focused Indigenous Knowledge Management

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Digitization of Indigenous knowledge systems in Africa: the case of South Africa’s National Recorded System (NRS)

Digitization of Indigenous knowledge systems in Africa: the case of South Africa’s National Recorded System (NRS)

Proposed independent organisational structure for memory institutions in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Exploring Socioeconomic and Sociocultural Implications of ICT Use: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous People in Malaysia

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