Please add your name and brief project details in the table below. If you need to add a new row, simply 'tab' from the last cell of the current bottom row.

Enter only the digits of your KU number (i.e., no leading "K ...") in the first column; enter your first name followed by your surname in the second column (for example, Chris Hutchison). Create a hyperlink from your name to your profile: go to your profile page and grab the URL from the address bar (e.g. http://museum101.wetpaint.com/account/cshutchison), then return to this page and click the 'EasyEdit' button, select your name and click the Link button in the EasyEdit Toolbar, paste your profile URL into the 'Link to' field, and click 'Add link'.

Enter a short (but descriptive) title for your project in the third column (not more than 10 words). Add a short descriptive summary of your project in the next column, 250 words maximum; and in the final column identify the thematic area(s) (e.g., "oral histories", "contemporary art gallery", "virtual community", "audio archive", "intangible heritage"). Save and close this page when you are finished.

When you are ready to do so, create a sub-page to this page (the name of the page should be your real name) and enter a more extensive proposal--see examples in the side menu. I shall give feedback on this full proposal which, when complete, will be your first coursework submission (both here and on paper via the student office).

Finally, as and when your project prototype has an
internet presence, add a hyperlink to it from this page and / or from your proposal page.

Your KU number	Your name	Your project title	Project summary	Thematic area
k0638369	Konika Bahl	East African Asians digital Archive of their History in Uk 1960-present	A Digital Archive of the History of East African Asians (EAA) in the UK 1960-present	Digital history,Social Tagging
K0625207	Jamil Mohammed	The Story of the troubled region of the ***** Delta	A digital history telling the story of the troubled region of the ***** Delta and the events surrounding it.	Digital history
k0641040	Richard Doherty	The Origins of the Great Depression	The project analyzes the great depression. Its main aims are to provide a brief history of the great depression (origins) and analysis on how the different actors (households, firms and governments) in the economic system were affected. Theoretical and intellectual elements will be explored to ensure the reader has enough information to understand the issues which resulted in the great depression, and how it affected different members of society. Click link for detailed description	Global Repository
K0541641	Sandeep Ruthu	1947 India Partition - Eyewitness Accounts	My project invites individuals who personally experienced unique memories in India during the volatile racially influenced 1947 India partition to log their accounts and share them with others from all cultures and backgrounds across the world via my Web site.	Digital History
0520695	Adnan Nawaz	The Pathans A Tribal Journey (Tracing Footsteps)	From across Afghanistan to the North-West Frontier of Pakistan the journey of the Pathans (Pushtuns, Pakhtuns, Pukhtuns) begun where now they are across the world. They are said to be the world's largest patriarchal ethnic group, with an estimated population of 42 million and over 60 major tribes with 400 sub-clans. History dating back for several thousand years, the story of the Pathans is one of great appeal, intertwined with a history of tragedy, courage, love, pride, vengeance, honour, chivalry and innumerable feuds and battles. Since most tribal history was recorded by oral tradition rather than in writing, I aim create a social networking site where users are able to share their stories about their family and friends showing where they have come from and who they are. With videos of tribal stories, songs and dance, written accounts from some of the heroes today, pictures and drawings dating back in time, I feel my project will provide people with the opportunity to not only learn about the Pathans but also create an interactive platform where users can also input to help the site grow to become an online community.	Intangible Heritage & Social Networking
0401209	Duane Wingell	The history of Goa’s exoneration from Portugal; and its Indian Heritage	Goa is the smallest state in India in term of dimensions. It is also the fourth smallest in terms of population. Goa in its self has its own cities and capital, which sets it apart from the rest of India. This influence and heritage came from the struggle between Portugal and India over dominance of this piece of land. On its western course, Goa is surrounded by the Arabian Sea; this played an important part in the Portuguese invasion. Panaji, which is also known as Panjim, is Goa’s capital city. It has direct access to ports and the rail infrastructure. Vasco Da Gama is by far, the largest city and has much influence from the Portuguese. In 1961 this Portuguese territory was exonerated after 450 years under Portuguese rule and finally became part of India. Heritage is an important part of a persons being. I aim to implement a website with information on how the Portuguese invaded Goa, their dominance over the 450 year period, and how Goa finally became part of India. The website will contain imagery on Goa’s history, beaches and information on why each year millions of people have travelled to Goa. With direct access and communication with the curators of the state museum in Goa, I hope to implement a well-informed site that displays enough information and interaction for the user.	Digital Forms of History
K0501260	Natasha Deboo	Zoroastrianism – the legend and history of my heritage	Zoroastrianism is known to be the oldest first religion. Dated back 8,000 B.C. The religion is a founder of Zarathustra in Persia, which nowadays is modern day Iran. It was of the Persian empire, however nowadays numbers have reduced rapidly to 200,000 today. Zoroastrianism has known to be the world’s first monotheistic faith. Also religious historians, like Christian, Jewish and Muslim believe in one God and Satan, heaven and hell, the soul and resurrection – final judgement, these were all derived from Zoroastrianism. I will produce a website that will contain the history of Zoroastrian, how the religion came about. Our prophet Zarathustra. Ahura Mazda (God) meaning wisdom. How we moved from Persia to India. Some of our traditions and culture, food recipes, how we dress, songs, dancing etc… this will include images and some videos. Our three main principles in life, taught by our prophet Zarathustra Good words, good thoughts and Good deeds.	Digital History
K0513862	Erdem Gezer	Hackers, Crackers, Gamers and Noobs	Since the introduction of the computing to both domestic and industrial sectors, there have been many new trends started to appear. Especially in recent years, online gaming has made a big breakthrough in the world of entitlement. The project looks at some snapshots of online gaming and shows how online gaming communities interact with each other. Through this I am aiming to offer advices to parents, schools, and any other institution to help them to visualise what online gaming is all about. Through this approach I am also planning to demonstrate advantages and disadvantages of online gaming across different age groups. The project will take form of short video playbacks of gaming sessions and possible interviews with members of the various gaming groups (clan/gilt members) to represent they view about online gaming and what they achieve out of it.	Digital History, Digital Heritage, Captuing Current Digital Content to form history
K0637979	Chamali Mahanama	UK Sri Lankan Buddhist cultural & digital Heritage	The proposed project is to invite all members of UK Buddhist temples to publish their own digitized collections of images ,photos ,videos,and other archives to the community memory web site .	digital history
K0632231	Kelly Mahillet	Manga History	My project focuses on the history of japanese comic books (also known as Mangas) and their evolvement to manga animated versions. The website will contain the history, links to related sites, an archive and maybe if possible videos and an event calender.	digital history
k0641215	Sophie Burgess	Great Potato Famine.	I am creating a website describing the history of the Great Potato Famine in Ireland. The aim is to show people the history of the Irish, their culture and to explain the effects of the starvation and mass emigration caused by the famine still felt today.	Digital History
K0526157	Emmanuel Yeboah	The Indepence of Ghana	This project looks at the one of the first indepent west african countires. I will be exspresssing in detail of how the country was colonised by the britsh and dating back to the slave trade. This includes the battle of the ashantis and the british. All content will be collected and manged on my wiki website.	Digital history
0509052	Waqas Zafar	The History and Growth of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)	In the late 1960s to early 1970s the concept of combining the elements of multiple martial arts had was popularized in America by Bruce Lee through his system and philosophy of Jeet Kune Do. Bruce Lee believed that "the best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt to any style." I will be looking into the history of MMA and how it has evolved into what it has become now. In addition to this, I will be showing all the major stages that have influenced the rapid growth of mixed martial arts and explain why it is currently the fastest growing sport in the world.	Digital History
K0516885	Zaki Danishyar	Culture & Heritage in Hajj	Hajj is based on a pilgrimage which has quite an ancient history as it has been known since 7th century. Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca (Makkah), which is the largest annual pilgrimage in the world. It is the fifth pillar of Islam, which is an obligation that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able bodied Muslim who are physically well and can afford to do so. My aim is to implement a website that will provide information, images, and videos regarding Hajj for people. This website will help them in various aspects such as, what Hajj is, why do millions of people from around the world go to Hajj, what process do people go through to complete their Hajj and so on. In order to achieve the above-mentioned aim, I will interview a lot of people; who have already been in Hajj, to get pure information from them about Hajj. I will put my full effort to implement this website user-friendly and informative to help people around the world.	Digital History
K0626058	Ayo Agoro	African Image History	The project is to lower the threshold for archives to make the African image collection available via internet. Also to improve the accessibility to historic photographs and archival information so that the general pubilc can be attracted and the multimedia industries stimulated to make use of these resources.	Digital Image History
k0526118	Murtaza Iqbal	British Asians and the Punjabi language	Punjabi is the native language of Punjab-India, the most common language in Pakistan and the prominent language of Sikhs. It is spoken by more than 100 million people across the world and is ranked just outside the top ten languages of the world. According the 2001 UK census, there are 2.33 million British Asians, making up 4% of the UK population. 2006 estimates showed that this figure increased by over 1.2 million. Yet the second generation of British Asians, such as me, find ourselves detaching from our parental cultural background and find it increasingly difficult to include our ancestors native language in to today’s society. My project will enable first generation British Asians to tell their accounts of learning and using Punjabi in day to day life and how language requirements have changed since their childhood. It will also give a chance for young second generation British Asians to talk about how it is to grow up in a Punjabi household and how it could be made easier to preserve the native language.	Digital Heritage
k0416292	Stanley Robertson	The history the Ashanti people in Ghana.	Asante (Ashanti) History Much of the modern nation of Ghana was dominated from the late 17th through the late 19th century by a state known as Asante. Asante was the largest and most powerful of a series of states formed in the forest region of southern Ghana by people known as the Akan. Among the factors leading the Akan to form states, perhaps the most important was that they were rich in gold.	Digital History and Heritage.
0412478	Rima Patel	My family tree and time line history	My project will be exploring my family (parents/ grandparents) history from both sides, and how culture and the hertiege played a huge part whilst growing up. I will also talk about about how it felt for them when they arrived in the western culture from India and Africa in the 1970s. I will also given my own insight as a british born and include photographs of my family A family tree will be included with as much information as i am able to find as now i only have one set of grandparents left so they will help as well as my parents.	Digitial History/Heritage
k0515745	Rita Sandhu	Sikhism over time	Has western modernisation finally taken its toll on Sikh heritage? Are Sikhs’ values fading as they change their distinguishable images to blend in with the rest of society? Over time the number of religious Amritdhari/Khalsa Sikhs appears to have decreased. In today’s society it is more common to find Sahajdhari Sikhs (non-baptized Sikhs). My project will talk about Sikhism and allow people to express their opinions on the religion and interactively contribute to forums discussing important issues facing Sikhism such as the possibility of Amritdhari/Khalsa Sikhs becoming extinct in generations to come.	Digital heritage
K0523796			The aim of the project is to record the memories and experiences of CISM final year students reflecting on how their years in the university has affected their personal development, through an online exhibition comprising of an audio interviews with a combination of still images.	Oral History
K0629257	Daramfon Umoh	Ethnical Inequalities in employment in England
K0627947	Elsa Gaspar
K0510572	Mustafa Iqbal	The Polish Migration to Reading Town	Poland became a member of the European Union in 2004, and its citizens won the freedom to work in Britain. The effect of the above EU membership has triggered a major influx in recent times of Polish people migrating to cities and towns all over the UK. My project is being based solely on the migration of Polish people to Reading, a town based in the U.K.	Digital history,Social Tagging
K0744400	Brandiemary	The war in south-Africa	My project is based on the war and apartheid in south-africa, how it gained independence and how the country has developed	Digital history
K0406585	Edrine Bwambale	The Republic of Uganda And Idi Amin Dada.	My project is about the history of the Republic of Uganda and the times of the late Idi Amin Dada as the 3rd President of Uganda. The website will contain the history information about the life and the dictatorship of the Idi Amin , links to other related web-sites, videos and images and purhapes archives.	Digital History
K0431621	Carolina Reyes	Colombia's Culture & Heritage	I will be sharing the beauties of this country, to show people a bit more about this beautiful country and its culture, Colombia has many things to offer, from its beautiful land to talented people.	Digital Culture & Heritage
K0622045	Moses Sangobiyi	Fables, Folk-tales & Urban legends	This project will be as the title suggests, based around Fables, Folk-tales & Urban legends. As part of our upbringing, many of us were told stories by our elders in order to keep us on the straight and narrow. These range from Aesop's fables to those told in the far lands of Africa. Now I propose to collect as many of these stories as possible in order to create a digital library.	Digital History
K0507854	Mark Cleverley	Waxworks of Famous People	My project is to create a website about one hundred waxworks of famous people from different cultures and backgrounds.	Digital History
K0516559	Ayo Sam-Amoye	Yoruba Culture	The Oyo Empire was one of the Largest states to exist in west Africa, established by the Yoruba; it is widely accepted to come to prominence in the 15th century. Although long diminished as a major state in the region in over the years the main ethnic group have continued to exist in parts of West Africa mostly in southwest Nigeria. My project focus will be on the cultural progression of the Yoruba ethnic group and how well they have settled in the western world.I also intend for the site to accommodate some form of social indexing from the public in terms of were users will be able to share thier experience in cultural transition/integration with western culture.	Digital History & Social Indexing
K0849297	Andrew Pickard	Aboriginal Culture and History	My project will look at the history and the culture of the Aboriginal people of Australia. The site will give an insight of how the indigenous tribes survived in the bush and look at the religions and art works too. What this site will also do is allow backpackers and tourisits to share their experiences and stories of this fascinating culture for others to read and comment on.	Digital History
k0516265	Adam Zand	Zand Family Dynasty	The client for my project will actually be myself and my family as I intend to do a history of the origins and history of my ancestors and such of the famous Iranian Zand family. I myself am of course a member of this family from my father’s side but I will be focusing on the much early generation of my family from around the 18th century when the Zand Dynasty ruled and controlled all of Iran.	Digital History
0405437	Vimal Solanki	How American culture has influenced the youth in the UK	The American culture at various time periods has had a substantial impact on the young generation today. There are numerous aspects that has influenced the youth from music, clothes to gangs etc. This project will enable users to gain information on the various topics and get their views and experiences across.	Digital History
0523496	Kazeem Bakare	Music of Nigerian Culture	My project will be a system that depicts the culture and heritage of Nigerian music. The proposed system will show information on this musical heritage using different methods. This will include personal interviews via sound and video clips which will be very effective in giving users of the system a great insight into the music culture.	Digital History, Digital Heritage
0301315	Heena Patel	Hinduism and the Ongoing Controversy	Hinduism is one of the oldest religions in the world. Dated 3000 BCE, it is a blend of ancient legends, beliefs and customs which has adapted, blended with and spawned numerous creeds and practices. Even though Hinduism originated solely in India there is still ongoing controversy over which version of Hinduism is the correct one.	Digital History
K0625253	Anil Hirani	Me, Myself and I as a Museum	The aim is to build an accurate online portrayal or an exhibition of the client (myself), so that future generations can have an insight of my life, experiences and opinions. This will be done by encapsulating the past, present and even hopes and aspirations, evidencing how it all shapes and forms my life and the impact of society and how I live.	Digital History, Digital Heritage
K0615872	Harran Kumarason	Conflict In Sri Lanka	The project aims to bring understanding towards the reasoning, intent and justification from both sides (Sinhalese and Tamil) who are contesting in the ongoing conflict of civil war in Sri Lanka.	Digital History, Digital Heritage
0541636	Laxman Shah	London couch surfing experience	The aim of this project to create a social networking site for London couch surfing community to share and express their experience of traveling and events through pictures, videos, blogs, forum etc.	Social networking
K0525764	Olawole Akinkugbe	History of 3D imagery and films in Art	The aim of my project is to research into the history and gather information about the history of 3D imagery in art. And by using technology I shall build an archive to aid people to understand how 3D imagery and Film changes the way we look at art & pictures.	Digital History, Digital Heritage
K0618725	Samuel Ketter	Journey through Black History	Virtual museum exhibition of Black History	Digital, Virtual History