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Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Getting More People and Information Online in Africa -- including Nelson Mandela’s and Desmond Tutu’s Archives

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As one of the most influential leaders of our time, and the face of South Africa’s incredible transition to democracy, Nelson Mandela’s name is almost synonymous with efforts to create meaningful dialogue and promote social justice. It is with huge excitement that today we announce a $1.25 million dollar grant to the Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory, which will help to preserve and digitize thousands of archival documents, photographs, and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Nelson Mandela.


The online Mandela archive, which will be made available to the global audiences in the future, will be a wealth of information for those wanting to learn about and research the life and legacy of this extraordinary African statesman. The online multimedia archive will include Mr Mandela’s correspondence with family, comrades and friends, prison diaries, and notes he made while leading the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid in South Africa.

 

A grant of the same size has also been made to the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, for the documentation and digitisation of Desmond Tutu’s archive, as well as an interactive digital learning centre.

At Google we want to help bring the world’s historical heritage online -- and the Internet offers new ways to preserve and share this information, in Africa and elsewhere. Recent examples of our efforts in this field include our partnership with Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem-based archive of Holocaust materials, and our partnership with some of the world’s most famous art museums, through the Art Project.

We are also delighted to be announcing additional grants, also through the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation, which will help bring many more people online across South Africa and Africa, so that they can benefit from better access to information. These include grants to the Tertiary Education and Research Network (TENET) of South Africa ($750,000 for continued work to assist South African universities with Internet and information technology services), the Nigeria ICT Forum ($500,000 to support efforts in improving access to Internet infrastructure in tertiary education institutions in Nigeria), and the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon ($1,250,000 to enable more people in numerous African countries to participate in and contribute to the global Internet).

Posted by Daniel Lederman, New Business Development, EMEA, and Julie Taylor, Communications, Sub-Saharan Africa

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Plus d’internautes et d’informations en ligne en Afrique – dont les archives de Nelson
Mandela et de Desmond Tutu


Immense leader de notre temps, figure majeure de l’incroyable transition démocratique de l’Afrique du Sud, le nom de Nelson Mandela est presque synonyme de dialogue constructif et de quête de justice sociale. C’est un grand bonheur d’annoncer aujourd’hui que nous offrons 1,25 million de dollars US au Centre de mémoire de la Fondation Nelson Mandela, dont l’objet est de préserver et de numériser des milliers de documents d’archive, de photographies et de matériaux audio-visuels sur la vie et l’époque de Nelson Mandela.

Les archives Mandela en ligne, qui seront dans un deuxième temps mises à disposition du public, constituent un très riche fonds d’informations pour ceux qui souhaitent connaître et étudier la vie et l’héritage de cet exceptionnel homme d’État africain. Les archives multimédias en ligne comprendront la correspondance de M. Mandela avec sa famille, ses camarades et ses amis, les journaux qu’il a rédigés en prison et les notes écrites lors des négociations qui ont abouti à la fin de l’apartheid en Afrique du Sud.

Un don du même montant a également été effectué au Centre Desmond Tutu pour la Paix du Cap, pour la documentation et la numérisation des archives de Desmond Tutu, ainsi que la création d’un centre d’apprentissage numérique interactif.

Chez Google, nous voulons aider à mettre en ligne l’héritage historique de l’humanité et Internet offre de nouveaux moyens de préserver ces informations, en Afrique et partout dans le monde Parmi les exemples récents de nos efforts dans ce domaine, citons notre partenariat avec Yad Vashem, mémorial qui regroupe à Jérusalem les archives relatives à l’Holocauste, et notre partenariat avec les plus célèbres musées du monde, à travers le projet Art.

Nous sommes également très heureux d’annoncer d’autres dons, toujours par le biais du fonds Google Inc. de la fondation Tides, qui aideront à relier à Internet un nombre croissant de personnes en Afrique du Sud et en Afrique et à leur offrir ainsi un meilleur accès à l’information. Google va faire un don au Tertiary Education and Research Network (TENET) d'Afrique du Sud (750 000 $, pour continuer à aider les universités sud-africaines à accéder aux services Internet et informatiques), au Forum TIC du Nigéria (500 000 $ pour soutenir les efforts d’amélioration de l’accès aux infrastructures Internet dans les établissements d'enseignement supérieur au Nigéria), et au Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) de l’université de l’Oregon (1 250 000 $ pour permettre à plus de personnes issus de nombreux pays africains d’accéder et de contribuer au réseau Internet mondial).

Poste par Daniel Lederman, New Business Development, EMEA, et Julie Taylor, Communications, Afrique sub-saharienne
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