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Consultative workshop on the National Policy on the Digitisation of heritage resources: 3 February
Attend this meeting or send your comments on the policy document as a matter urgency.
Who owns African cultural patrimony?
We share some of the points made in an online debate currently being played out on the H-Net listserv.
The National Security Archive
This Washington-based archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.
International Museums Day 2011 to focus on Africa
The International Council of Museums’ (ICOM) 2011 celebrations will focus on the African continent.
UNESCO and Africom have signed a new partnership agreement
This initiative aims to reinforce communications, awareness-raising and networking among the professional museum community in Africa.
The South African History Archive welcomes Supreme Court of Appeal Judgement
The Supreme Court of Appeal has ordered the Presidency to release the Khampepe-Moseneke report into constitutional and legal challenges in Zimbabwe.
Actions taken against whistleblowers raise alarm
Employees who courageously blew the whistle on corrupt practices at Telkom and in the health insurance industry have come under fire.
Tanzania launches the National Data Archive
This initiative will enable the general public and other stakeholders to access statistical data online.
Rwanda Genocide Archive officially launched
The Rwanda Genocide Archive was officially launched on 10 December 2010 at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda.
Swakopmund Protocol on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge and Expressions of Folklore
This agreement affirms the principle that local communities are the custodians of their traditional knowledge and empowers them to exercise rights over their knowledge and resources.
Repatriation of museum objects
The Brooklyn Museum in the United States of America is preparing to return about 4 500 pre-Columbian artefacts taken from Costa Rica roughly a century ago.
One City Many Histories, a South African History Online project
This initiative has made information on South Africa’s nine 2010 FIFA World Cup™ host cities previously scattered in diverse specialist literatures broadly available.
Iranian human rights activist jailed for 11 years
An Iranian human rights lawyer has been jailed for actions deemed “detrimental to national security”
Access to Information and the Making of South African Pasts
Invitation to attend a Dialogue Forum: Access to Information and the Making of South African Pasts at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in February 2011.
