ANC Archives Available Online

[Esther Josias-Manuel]

Apologies for cross-posting.Please refer all enquiries directly to Mr David Larsen on the contacts below.

It was a proud moment for us last Monday evening. The ANC Digital Archive was officially launched at a gala dinner at the Sandton Convention Centre - the culmination of 19 months of hard work for us in spearheading the technical aspect of the project. 

I believe the project represents a highly significant step forward for building digital archives in South Africa and the continent as a whole. Not only is the archive one of the most significant on the continent as far as a liberation struggle goes - the ANC being the oldest liberation movement on the continent, their struggle covered the longest period in the history of liberation from colonial domination - but the entire project was accomplished by African organisations. The work of digitisation was done by experts from Africa from two leading African academic institutions and three small and medium enterprises from South Africa. And the digitised archive is being stored and presented to researchers around the world on an archival digital repository system developed by an African company.  To top it off even the funder was South African. All of this means this is truly a first for digitisation on the continent and a greatly encouraging leap forward for our digital future. It truly is Africans telling Africa's story!

Find out more about:
The launch of the ANC Digital Archives including the President's speech
The digitisation of the ANC Archives in pictures 
Making the digital archives work - steps to overcoming challenges in navigating the archives 

All the best and I look forward to your response,

David

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