The Africa PID Alliance (APA) is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Kigulu Cultural Museum aimed at preserving and digitizing indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage across Africa.
This collaboration advances APA’s core mission to secure the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage through digital infrastructure development. Kigulu Cultural Museum, renowned for its dedication to preserving Uganda’s cultural heritage, will provide critical expertise and resources as a community engagement partner and contribute metadata for DOCiD™.
” Our indigenous knowledge systems contain solutions to many contemporary challenges, from medicine to sustainable agriculture, implementing persistent identifiers for these systems ensures that these invaluable resources remain accessible within the global research ecosystem”, remarked Joy Owango, the Africa PID Alliance project lead.
“Our heritage enables us solve our problems, only that it has been tempered with and in most cases condemned! It is upon us who are around today, to mitigate the condemning, preserve, protect and promote our valuable heritage for our grandchildren to enjoy it”, said Prince Kitaulwa Abraham, the Kigulu Cultural Museum Representative.
The collaboration particularly emphasizes engagement with cultural museums, recognizing their essential role in advancing knowledge and driving research agendas. Both organizations will work jointly to create awareness about the importance of persistent identifiers among knowledge managers, curators, and the broader research community.
About Kigulu Cultural Museum
The community museum was started by the Princes and Princesses of Kigulu Chiefdom, one of 11 Chiefdoms that makeup Busoga Kingdom in Eastern Uganda. It showcases artefacts used by our ancestors, the foods eaten, much of which is medicinal, herbal medicines used, documented literature about our heritage, runs cultural/ heritage and historical sites.
Our mission is to have a cultural research centre on indigenous knowledge, practices and mitigate the wrong notions about our heritage.
For more information about Kigulu Cultural Museum, visit: https://ucoma.or.ug/
About Africa PID Alliance
The Africa PID Alliance is dedicated to securing the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage. Through the provision of reliable open research infrastructure services, the alliance enables access to knowledge and metadata about digital objects, with a strong emphasis on Africa’s unique contributions to global research.The Africa PID Alliance is the Open Infrastructure program of the Training Centre in Communication
For more information on the AfricaPIDAlliance visit: https://africapidalliance.org/