Ismail Fourokwas one of this year Highway Africa award winner for Innovative Use of New Media. Ismail has used web 2.0 techniques on his project www.sowetouprisings.com  to map the historical 1976 Soweto uprisings activities in South Africa that led to the killing young students such as Hector Paterson. The project uses Google map and blogs to allow community and world visitors to understand the route and causes of the 1976 Soweto uprising. The aim of the project is also to allow community in Soweto to start participating by using this Web 20 enabled tools to promote and preserve this historical effort that contributed to the end of apartheid government.

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Interviewee: Ismail Farouk

Interviewer:  Chris Kgadima, Nkgowa Media

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