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January, a bumper month for the Ulwazi Programme

By on February 8, 2013 in Ulwazi Programme

The Ulwazi Programme website had its best month yet in January, receiving 22,235 visitors. This was the most visitors the website has received since its launch five years ago! These visitors accessed 41,499 pages. Most visitors found the Ulwazi website through search engines, with Google being the major entry point. With no budget for promotion, all the [...]

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Luthuli Museum visits the Ulwazi Programme

By on January 28, 2013 in Ulwazi Programme

The Ulwazi Programme had a visit from Luthuli Museum research officer Kristy Stone, who attended our programme meeting on Friday, where community journalists shared the stories they had been working on. The Luthuli Museum is starting a similar community history project in Groutville and Kristy came to see how we operated. Let’s hope she learnt [...]

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The Archival Platform Visits KwaZulu-Natal

By on January 3, 2013 in Ulwazi Programme

Jo-Anne Duggan and Mbongiseni Buthelezi from the Archival Platform recently visited KwaZulu-Natal and chatted to Niall McNulty about the Ulwazi Programme. Our journeys of learning about the archival sector continue to take us to different towns and cities around the country. In November, Jo-Anne Duggan and I visited KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). The trip began with my [...]

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Invitation to Green Map workshop

By on November 28, 2012 in Ulwazi Programme

The Ulwazi Programme has partnered with Imagine Durban to bring heritage sites to their Green Map project. They are having a workshop next week to encourage community participation in the mapping process, see below for details. Imagine Durban invites you to a workshop and brainstorming session on how you can benefit from the eThekwini Green [...]

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Preserving Cultural History

By on September 13, 2012 in Ulwazi Programme

The Ulwazi Programme is highlighted in the  Winter 2012 Carnegie Review, under a section called ‘Preserving Cultural Heritage’. From the review: The Ulwazi Program is an initiative of the eThekwini Municipal Library to preserve the indigenous knowledge of local communities in the greater Durban area. This innovation, developed and implemented by the software applications section [...]

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