The politics of digital" reform and revolution": towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitisation

Limb, Peter The politics of digital" reform and revolution": towards mainstreaming and African control of African digitisation. Innovation, 2007, vol. 2007, n. 34. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

[img] Text
Article.050.pdf

Download (166kB)

English abstract

Current challenges regarding the frame of reference and control of African digitisation projects pose serious questions about their future direction. The author suggests practical strategies aimed at mainstreaming resources and increasing African control, including the need for readers of Innovation – librarians, information scientists, archivists, and historians – to engage in the "politics" of securing this control. By maintaining ethical approaches and flexibility, by listening closely to priorities of African partners, by continuing to initiate worthwhile projects in the North yet also practically supporting African initiatives and by directing limited-end pilot projects towards mainstreaming,we can help to turn expropriation of African resources towards the harvesting of African (and Northern-based) resources for mutually beneficial use.

Item type: Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords: African digitisation, research, open access,FAO_AGORA, Research4Life
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information
B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
E. Publishing and legal issues.
H. Information sources, supports, channels.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HN. e-journals.
H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HP. e-resources.
I. Information treatment for information services
Depositing user: Thembani Malapela
Date deposited: 22 Nov 2015 16:02
Last modified: 22 Nov 2015 16:02
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/28392

References

J. Britz and P. Lor, “A Moral Reflection on the Information Flow from South to North: An African Perspective,” Libri 53, 3 (2003):160-173

M. Pickover, “Negotiations, Contestations and Fabrications: The Politics of Archives in South Africa Ten Years after Democracy,” Innovation no. 30 (2005), pp. 1, 10.

C. Saunders, “A Historian’s View,” News from the Nordic Africa Institute 2 (2005):26–27.

D. Cogburn, “Elite Decision Making and Epistemic Communities: Implications for Global Information Policy,” in S. Braman ed. The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime (New York: Palgrave, 2004).

M. Robins and R. Hilliard, eds. Beyond Boundaries: Cyberspace in Africa. (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2002); P. Zeleza, “The Dynamics of Book and Library Development in Anglophone Africa” in Roger Stringer ed. The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa (Oxford: INASP, 2002).

www.inasp.info/pubs/bookchain/profiles/zeleza.html

D. Rosenberg, Towards the Digital Library: Findings of an Investigation to Establish the Current Status of University Libraries in Africa (Oxford: INASP, 2005).

M. Pickover and D. Peters, “DISA: An African Perspective on Digital Technology,” Innovation no. 24 (2002):14–20.

P. Lor, “Preserving African Digital Resources: Is There a Role for Repository Libraries,” Library Management 26, 1/2 (2005): 63-72.

P. Limb, “The Digitization of Africa,” Africa Today 52, 2 (2005): 3-19.

T. Mendina and J. Britz, eds. Information Ethics in the Electronic Age: Current Issues in Africa and the World (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004)

P. Limb, “Ethical Dilemmas in Southern African Archives and Libraries,”Innovation no. 24 (2002): 51-58,

A. Dick, The Philosophy, Politics, and Economics of Information (Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2002).

L. Friedman and M. McGarvie, eds. Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in

American History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003);

N. von Hoffman, “Buffet’s Billions” Nation (10 July 2006) (available at

www.thenation.com/doc/20060717/howl); S.M. Naseem, “A Face Lift for Capitalism” Dawn (17 July 2006) (available at www.dawn.com ).


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item