With the generous support of ARCADIA and on the occasion of the National Museum of Kenya’s centennial, JSTOR successfully convened a workshop and symposium in Nairobi, Kenya from January 26-29, 2010 in collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya, and Professor Heinz Ruther and the Zamani Project team at the University of Cape Town. The workshop included a three-day introduction to GIS for archaeologists and heritage site managers from various partner organizations across Africa. The fourth day included a symposium of lectures and talks given by notable academics and technologists discussing how GIS and digitization are changing fieldwork, research, and scholarship in disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, paleontology, and geography.

Individuals that participated, attended, and spoke at the symposium included scholars and executives from AFRICOM, British Institute in Eastern Africa (an institute of the British Academy), Google Kenya, University of Nairobi, Trust for African Rock Art, the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of Witwatersrand, Zanzibar Stone Town Conservation and Development Authority, and the University of Dar es Salaam.

In the weeks ahead we will post links to some of the presentations. For now, please visit this link on Flickr for some photographs from the events in Nairobi.

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