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

该项目探讨了如何最好地增强全球南部的中学和大学教育工作者和学习者在资源匮乏的环境中发展数字故事讲述的能力。这是通过使用在南非和博茨瓦纳进行的案例研究来实现的，在该研究中，学习者和教育工作者将通过一个名为MetSemegogolo的数字档案馆探索文化遗产，MetSemegogolo是茨瓦纳语(https://www.metsemegologolo.org.za).)中的“古镇”MetSemegolGolo由剑桥大学联合执导，总部设在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，是一个开源的原型数据库，包含关于殖民前非洲城市主义的考古数据、遗产物品、历史地图、口述历史和诗歌。该项目在元语义学开发者、数字遗产专家和南部非洲教育工作者之间开展了一个互补的英美合作，目的是探索在资源匮乏的教育环境中进行数字故事讲述。通过加深与非西方文化遗产的联系并从非西方的角度保护文化遗产，在全球范围内正在进行的数字人文去殖民化进程的一部分，是增加全球南方的数字表现形式。

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.