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Building social cohesion and increasing technical skills through a national initiative focused on community history
The Challenge
The Ministry of Culture of Colombia sought to increase use of information technology through public libraries. The Shift team set out to design a project that could increase technology adoption through public libraries, strengthen social capital through shared local history, and engage the whole country in storytelling to advance the peace process. This became an opportunity to leveraged Colombia’s public library system to recover the photographic memory of the country.
Our Approach
Help create a decentralized collection of Colombia’s national history through community-based history digitizing events, community programs with embedded technology training, and story sharing events designed to strengthen social cohesion.
Stats and Impact
900+ libraries participated
110,000k+ people participating in photo and memory sharing events, learning new tech skills
10k+ pictures in collection
We helped design a project that could create a community-centered narrative of Colombian life
Created methodology for digital sharing that allowed the National Archive to discover and display history without extracting materials from the community, opening the door for future community support and shared resources
The project resulted in increased intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, and a 12% increase in social cohesion, as measured by third party evaluation by Centro Nacional de Consultoría