Digital Storytelling on African Urbanisms: A Model to Empower Education Initiatives Across the Global South

本项目探讨了如何在资源匮乏的环境下，最大程度地增强南方国家中学和大学教育工作者和学习者的能力。这是通过使用在南非和博茨瓦纳进行的案例研究来完成的，学习者和教育工作者将通过名为metsemegologolo的数字档案探索文化遗产，即茨瓦纳的“古镇”（https://www.metsemegologolo.org.za）。Metsemegolgolo是一个开源的原型数据库，由剑桥大学共同指导，位于威特沃特斯兰德大学、比勒陀利亚大学和夸祖鲁-纳塔尔博物馆，包含考古数据、文物、历史地图、口述历史和关于前殖民时期非洲城市化的诗歌。该项目在metsemologologie开发者、数字遗产专家和南部非洲教育工作者之间开展了互补的英美合作，目的是在资源匮乏的教育环境中探索数字故事。从非西方的角度来看，通过加深与文化遗产的联系和保护，全球南方国家越来越多的数字表现形式是全球数字人文去殖民化进程的一部分。

This project explores how to best empower secondary school and university educators and learners in the Global South to develop digital story telling in low resource environments. This is done through the use of a case study carried out in South Africa and Botswana where learners and educators will explore cultural heritage through a digital archive called metsemegologolo, 'ancient towns' in Setswana (https://www.metsemegologolo.org.za). Metsemegolgolo, co-directed by Cambridge and based at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Pretoria and the KwaZulu Natal Museum, is an open source prototype database containing archaeological data, heritage objects, historical maps, oral histories and poetry about precolonial African urbanisms. This project develops a complementary UK-US collaboration among the metsemegologolo developers, digital heritage experts, and southern African educators with the purpose of exploring digital storytelling in low-resourced educational environments. Increasing digital representations across the Global South is part of the ongoing process of decolonizing the digital humanities globally by deepening connections to, and preservation of, cultural heritage from a non-Western perspective.