# Digital Repatriation

DevFeed: [Digital Repatriation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/digital-repatriation-17127.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2024/12/09/digital-repatriation>)

Author: Mulenga Kapwepwe; the SummitShare team

Published: 2024-12-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [immersive web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/immersive-web.md>)

Tags: [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [digital](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/digital.md>), [history](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/history.md>), [next-billion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next-billion.md>), [web3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web3.md>)

## AI overview

An update on Mulenga Kapwepwe's Summitshare initiative, which explores using blockchain technology and digital representations of artifacts to support African cultural heritage preservation and repatriation. The proposal could connect digital artifacts to physical originals and use virtual or augmented reality to make heritage more accessible.

## Source excerpt

The following is an update from Next Billion Fellow Mulenga Kapwepwe and her initiative "Summitshare". For more about the Next Billion Fellowship Program and to apply, please visit https://nxbn.ethereum.foundation/. Mulenga Kapwepwe, founder of the Women's History Museum of Zambia posed a question in 2022 to a small group...