Digitizing Nigerian
Information, Culture, and Research

Over the last six months, we have trained over 100 staff, faculty, and students to create documents in the World Wide Web's HTML format.

Using FrontPage, Microsoft's cutting-edge Web editor software, and Microsoft's Internet Information Server, hundreds of pages have been created. The sites range from departmental Webs for Linguistics and Law, to pages describing the Yankari National Park, the Jos Wildlife Park, and cultural festivals around the Jos Plateau.  Staff from the state museum and students from various colleges have also participated.

Employing a Sony Mavica digital camera on loan from a visiting faculty, a HP scanner purchased by the university, and a multimedia workstation donated by Gateway Computer, we have published over 1,200 images of Jos, Plateau State, and Nigeria on the Web .

South African researcher Mike Jensen estimates that .022% of all the Web sites in the world originate from Africa.  When UNIJOS finally connects to the Internet, we intend to double that number!

Kito: "Working on the linguistics department Web page site has been a great challenge to me.  It has been fun getting to learn new things and also a lot of stress trashing your site and having to start all over again.   But for  the most part, I'll say its been a great experience to have ."