Digitalibrary Malaysia – digital archives of significant documents and events on Malaysia, a project of Malaysiakini.com.
The digital archive aims to build an online collection of historical documents, books, photos, publications and personal memoirs that is open to the public in order to build a better understanding of Malaysia’s recent political history, contributing towards a healthy and informed discussion of Malaysia’s political future.
While there’re many national archives which collect lots of historical documents, there’re very few that focus on recent history, say, in the range of 30 years time. National archives or commercial archives run by mainstream media also often neglect materials from grassroots movements. Access to these recent histories of local communities are in many aspects essential to civil society development, nationally and regionally. Citizen journalists will also benefit from availability of such documents for their investigative news reporting.
Civil society organizations could use ICT to archive their materials in a systematic way and made them accessible to the public, enhance the understanding about the issues they concerned.
