Development has many meanings depending on the context. In this context, it is the positive transformation/change of people’s ways of living, attitudes and behaviours as a result of their exposure/access to relevant, ...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group was established in 1964, and its mission is to mobilize resources for Africa’s economic and social development. With this objective in mind, the institution aims at assisting African ...
The capacity to recognize actionable value in existing or new information or events, and to use such information efficiently in various ways, including the ability to use information to innovate -that is, to restructure ...
• Primary source of SA published
documentary heritage
• Wealth of information
• Books, periodicals, newspapers, maps,
special collections, government
publications, foreign official publications
The objects of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) and the functions it is required to perform are prescribed by the National Libraries Act, Act 92 of 1998. The NLSA is the primary resource of South African published ...
‘Digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material are essential to highlight cultural and scientific heritage, to inspire the creation of new content and to encourage new online services to emerge. They help to ...
The world today is interconnected. Now more than ever before it is easier than it was before to access information and advance ideas through technology. We are in the 21st century. In recognising this as the South African ...
Agriculture is a crucial sector for most of sub-Saharan Africa. In Kenya for instance agriculture is the largest sector in the Kenyan economy, generating a quarter of the gross domestic product and two-fifths of export ...
The digitization of heritage and knowledge sources has been adopted relatively recently in Africa. Digitization has depended largely on external funding through grants from foreign trusts, overseas educational institutions ...
The digitization of heritage and knowledge sources has been adopted relatively recently in Africa. Digitization has depended largely on external funding through grants from foreign trusts, overseas educational institutions ...
Advances in information and communication technologies led to the emerging of modern digital systems which facilitate sharing and preservation of information and innovations. These systems are thus supportive of the cultural ...
The paper highlights the strategic role of regional and national policies for digital libraries and archives in promoting access to knowledge for development in Africa. It views regional/national information policies as ...
Presented at the 2nd International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,
14th – 18th November, 2011
We were commissioned in late 2009 to create the National Policy on Digitization for the Department of Arts and Culture. This policy was subjected to public participation in early 2011, receiving positive comment and critique, ...
International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA 2)(2012-04-11)
This strategic planning conference will bring together Directors of National Archives, Libraries and Museums and tertiary institutions across Africa to discuss how they can design and implement national digitisation ...
The South African higher education environment was re-landscaped to redress, inter alia, an apartheid higher educational system. In this re-landscaping process, the M.L.Sultan and Natal Technikons were merged to create the ...
The realities of the present era of globalization and information and communication technologies (ICT) culminating in the African Virtual Library and Information Network (AVLIN) have made it expedient that African information ...