[UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa

[Meddie Mayanja]

Thanks, Pete

I am sure the telecentre community in East African region will seize this opportunity to broaden their local content activities or even initiate new ones. Great that you have shared this.

Best, Meddie 



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From: ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org [mailto:ugabytes-bounces at lists.ugabytes.org] On Behalf Of Pete Cranston
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:52 PM
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Subject: [UgaBYTES] Local Content in East Africa

Hi

What are people and organisations in development in East Africa doing with Local Content?

I'm reviewing what has been happening in with Local Content since we last worked in the area for the Open Knowledge Network, with IICD and with telecentre.org. I am working with Peter Ballantyne and the reserch is for www.ikmemergent.net. We'd like to hear from people and organisations who are working in this field. We are interested connecting with the original partners of those projects, but also with other people working on Local Content.

When we talk about Local Content we mean "the expression of the locally owned and adapted knowledge of a community - where the community is defined by its location, culture, language, or area of interest", the definition used in Peter Ballantyne's 2002 paper. We know that content is expressed in all forms - voice, song, text, art objects, pictures and videos and many more. Increasingly this content is being captured online, and newer Web 2.0 tools are also having an impact.

We are focusing on East Africa at this stage, partly because this is a small piece of research and we want to look at issues in some detail and partly because we know about some work that is happening in that region. 

Please get in touch if you'd like to talk about what is happening. I am travelling to Kenya, and possibly Uganda, either in mid-June or mid July this year, and would like to meet and talk to people who would like to be connected to the research and develop ideas for how the subject could be developed. 

Best wishes

Pete

Pete Cranston
skype: petecranston
mobile: +44 (0)7917 390133 



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