ABSTRACT
This chapter presents developments within the ongoing digitisation of cultural heritage of ovaHerero and ovaHimba indigenous communities in rural Namibia. It describes communicative and technical processes from several sessions for co-designing, co-developing and the future implementation of an Indigenous Knowledge Crowdsourcing Management System to provide elders from such communities with digital tools to gather, store, classify and curate their traditional knowledge. The chapter focuses on the task request management co-design process. New trends in cultural heritage reflect a global movement of citizen and community participation promoting values such as democratisation in the making of history. Crowdsourcing cultural heritage, as the act of involving the wider public in the different activities of cultural preservation, such as collecting, locating, transcribing, and curating has gained an impressive portfolio in sometimes. With an increasing integration of social media in everyday life, heritage practices are experiencing a major shift towards wider digital participations globally.
