TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT ERITREA’S PRINTED HERITAGE: BUILDING THE NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY OF ERITREA Copia
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UNIPV structure involved:Â Department of Political and Social Sciences
UNIPV Team: Prof. Massimo Zaccaria
Project Duration:Â 4 years
Start Date December 2018 : End Date: December 2022
Coordinator:Â University of Pavia, Italy
Partner countries involved:Â Eritrea
Partners:Â Research and Documentation Centre of Asmara, Hiob Ludolf Centre for
Ethiopian Studies of the University of Hamburg
Budget:Â 300.000 euro
Description
The project’s overall objective consists in fostering and improve the quality of Digital
Cultural Heritage Initiatives (DCHI) in Eritrea. This objective will be attained through 1)
offering training, mentoring, guidance, arise awareness and prepare a Draft of the National
Archive and Library Policy of Eritrea; 2) provide state of the art equipment for the Digital
Cultural Heritage Initiatives (DCHI) in Eritrea. The acquisition of these skills and the use of
this equipment will be tested; 3) through the implementation of a pathbreaking
preservation project: the creation of the National Digital Library of Eritrea. In parallel to this
last action (5), ten small digital libraries will be created and distributed to a selected group
of disadvantaged educational institutions and local staff will be trained in their use.
The final aim consists in improving RDC’s capacity to perform its role as a provider of
innovative cultural and educative services to civil society.
