“A digital library is an online collection of digital objects, of assured quality, that are created or collected and managed according to internationally accepted principles for collection development and made accessible ...
In today's information age, knowledge has become the gold standard. A great deal of information is being generated every day in central and local governments and this is likely to increase with the continued empowerment ...
The paper discusses the situation at Burundi Archives in modern society, its role, development and future. It provides an overview of the current socio-political and economic environment after four decades of civil war ...
The paper discusses the situation at Burundi Archives in modern society, its role, development and future. It provides an overview of the current socio-political and economic environment after four decades of civil war ...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, through the Division for ICT, Science and Technology, and in partnership with donors and other multi stakeholders, has played a significant role at national and regional ...
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, through the Division for ICT, Science and Technology, and in partnership with donors and other multi stakeholders, has played a significant role at national and regional ...
The challenges (from an African perspective)
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Lack of coherent approach
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Limited understanding of the complex issues relating to digitization
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Donor influence –many donors tend to enforce their own agendas
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Lack ...
In organisational context KM refers to the totality of strategies aimed at creating smart organisations able to leverage knowledge from its various information and communication assets, to learn from past experiences whether ...
Sigauke, Delight T.; Nengomasha, Dr C. T.(2012-06-14)
The National Archives of Zimbabwe Act (1986) has declared that historical records in particular must be protected against any destruction, defacing, alteration, mutilation or damage. Despite this, the pace at which ...
Sigauke, Delight T.; Nengomasha, Dr C. T.(2012-06-14)
The National Archives of Zimbabwe Act (1986) has declared that historical records in particular must be protected against any destruction, defacing, alteration, mutilation or damage. Despite this, the pace at which ...
The closing plenary session was facilitated by Felix Ubogu and Abraham Azubuike. The plenary commenced with the presentation of suggestions and nominations for the ICADLA Conveners, the ICADLA Standing Committee Members, ...
AAU is the association of private and public academic institutions in Africa that are recognized by law in their countries as higher education institutions.
•DATAD is the initiative was born out of a pilot project in 2000 ...
Many archives have special collections that experience or could experience consistent use by publishers and broadcasters to illustrate a particular historical period or subject field. Archives and archives professionals, ...
The summary and recommendations are captured in the following communiqué, presented at the conclusion of the First International Conference on African Digital Libraries
and Archives (ICADLA-1), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ...
The digitization of heritage material for publication on the worldwide web is a site of struggle and the real challenges are not technological or technical but social and political. What is at stake is the politics of ...
The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) Library is establishing an institutional repository (IR) to preserve, and provide wider visibility and accessibility for, its intellectual outputs. In order to understand stakeholders’ ...
Since 2008 Malawi Libraries have created more than ten digital library collections of local publications such as dissertations, theses, reports, scientific papers, speeches by politicians and newspaper articles on HIV/AIDS ...
Over the years there has been steady progress in demand for electronic access to electronic information by researchers, academics, scholars, policy makers, etc.