Good day all,
The Hack UR Culture Lekgotla 2021 registrations are underway, kindly read
through and register today if one of the thematic areas is your interest.
Also, note that the due date for registration to be a speaker is tomorrow.
Best regards,
Bobby Shabangu
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Date: Mon, 13 Sept 2021 at 15:15
Subject: Reserve your spot for the #HackUrCulture2021 Lekgotla,
registrations closing soon.
To: <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com>
We can't wait to see you at this year's #HUC2021 Lekgotla. Register now to
reserve your spot as a speaker or attendee.
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*Molweni, Avuxeni, Hello, #HackUrCulture Community & Happy Heritage Month!*
In this week’s mailer, we’re giving you a quick recap of the #HUC2020
hackathon winners and funded projects.
The #HackUrCulture2020 hackathon gathered a community of professional
creatives, software developers, researchers and cultural heritage experts
to collaborate on solving a set of challenges.
Using internet channels to find each other and form teams, the teams then
had to self organise, engage in training and workshops to better understand
the challenges so they could develop and build solutions across the
different problem tracks.
The Sub-Saharan African leg of the 2020 Hack Ur Culture (HUC) hackathon
resulted in a one-month long pan-African digital sprint, virtually hosted
with individual participants from 24 African countries.
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In November 2020 we saw the virtual exhibition go live in collaboration
with the Fak’ugesi - African Digital Innovation Festival
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where the winning projects were showcased.
For the inaugural Hack Ur Culture, the HUC committee opted for 3 prize
categories to ensure sufficient latitude when assessing the various
projects. The 3 categories were as follows:
- Overall Winners: 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place
- Most Compelling Project: 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place
- Best Team Spirit: 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place
To assess the different projects submitted to HUC, a highly credible panel
of judges were assembled made up of representatives from different GLAM
institutions and stakeholders from across the cultural and creative
industries.
*1st Prize for Best Overall Project went to District 6 Social App by Team
Artyfact:*
“Artyfact was represented by five team members residing in Senegal,
Cameroon and Ghana. They developed a digital location-based platform that
allows users (District 6’ers) to interact with their environment through an
auditory and visual gamified experience.
They do so by interacting with their immediate environment (maps & shops)
together with the audio files relevant to the marked locations making it
easier to learn about the history.
This is backed through a gamified process through a leader board and
progress tracking. District 6'ers can explore and interact with archives:
this is a refreshing and exciting way to learn about history with friends.”
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The Goethe-Institut approached 2 of the project teams to fund their
projects for further development. These projects are:
1. Mogau’s Kingdom By Culture Code in partnership with Book Dash
2. Strictly Silk by Hack Circle in partnership with The Nest Collective
- *Book Dash Game - Mogau’s Kingdom:*
Culture Code chose to work with the Book Dash data set to transform one of
their open-source books into a game.
The project aims to bring awareness to Book Dash’s online library of books
by creatively adapting their open access books to make a fun, engaging
edutainment experience that will appeal to a younger audience and assist
Book Dash with their vision to ensure that every child owns a hundred books
by the age of five; before they enter school.
- *Strictly Silk Online:*
Is a safe online space for the queer community to gather in Kenya
especially under the limitations of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The website was built in collaboration with the Nest Collective, one of the
GLAM partners from Nairobi, Kenya.
The project aims to pivot & replicate all that has been done and learnt by
Nest Collective in the Strictly Silk physical space into a viable virtual
space taking into consideration access, community fostering, safety,
ticketing, shopping from event vendors and assurance in digital security
all with due diligence and care.
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The #HUC2020 Lekgotla will take place *on Twitter & Zoom platforms *for an
open dialogue and discussion *between 27-29 September 2021* as part of our
campaign leading up to the *#HUC2022 Hackathon*.
To register for the online lekgotla as a *presenter/speaker**, please
follow this link to complete registration.*
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*(Deadline:
15 September 2021)*
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To register for the online lekgotla as an *attendee**, please follow this
link to complete registration.*
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Once you have registered and wish to participate as a *speaker*, note that
all speakers will be requested to join our *speakers/presenters Briefing
session on 21 September 2021. *
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Follow our new Hack UR Culture accounts on social media to stay informed on
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Hello Everyone
I hope this email finds you all well. Wikimedia South Africa will be
hosting its Annual General Meeting on 25 September 2021.
There will be a morning session where the agenda will be tabled and a
discussion about the chapter's activities.
A one-hour intermission followed with the elections of board members.
*Date*: 25 September 2021
*Time*: 10:00 to 13:00 with 1-hour lunch intermission and *resumes at
14:00* return
for board elections
*Location*: On your computer via Zoom register to join
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Please feel free to make contact if you may have any questions
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
Reg. No. 2012/038827/08
Hello everyone
I just want to let everyone know that the upcoming Wikipedia community
meetup for the South African community was to be held on Saturday the 4th
of September 2021 has been postponed to the 2nd of October 2021. Further
details to follow.
WikimediaZA would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
Reg. No. 2012/038827/08
Hello Everyone
I hope this email finds you all well. Wikimedia South Africa will be
hosting its Annual General Meeting on 25 September 2021.
*Date*: 25 September 2021
*Time*: 10:00 to 13:00 with 1-hour lunch intermission and *resumes at 14:00*
return for board elections
*Location*: On your computer via Zoom
Further details to follow nearing the date
Kind regards
Shupai Mchuchu
Chapter Administrator
Wikimedia South Africa NPC.
6 Spin Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Office +27 (021) 565 0143
Reg. No. 2012/038827/08