DNA Project
	Students and academic staff from the
	Polytechnic of Namibia and Utah Valley
	State College (UVSC) met in Windhoek this
	past July for a month long workshop. During
	the workshop lasting friendships were
	created, knowledge exchanged,
	partnerships established, but most
	important was the birth of the Digital
	Namibian Archive (DNA).
	Media Release | DNA Launch Speech Michael Harper
	The Polytechnic of Namibia and Utah Valley State College (UVSC), in partnership with the
	Namibian Archive Centre, teamed up to make Namibia’s archive records available in digital
	format, hence the name Digital Namibian Archive. This task includes digitizing thousands if
	not millions of old and new photographs, documents, audio and video files that hold
	Namibia’s culture, heritage and history. The process is expected to take five years.
	All the parties involved have pledged their dedication and resources to see the completion
	of this gold mine of information. A state of the art media lab filled with the latest
	multimedia equipment was set up at the Polytechnic of Namibia library, solely for this
	purpose.
	UVSC donated the equipment, which had been held up somewhere in Europe, but
	fortunately found its way to the Polytechnic were it was urgently needed. The lab which is
	the centre of the DNA project will see more additions of equipment over the course of this
	five year project. UVSC have pledged to ship in the equipment as the project progresses.
	Students and staff members of the Poly have been left with the task of making sure the
	project stays on course.
	Close Window