Heather Ford, Executive Director of iCommons, has blogged about a great initiative that they have planned for South African Heritage Day on Monday, 24 September.

In celebration of Heritage Day, iCommons will be running a parallel real and virtual campaign where we invite South Africans to upload a photograph or two to Wikimedia Commons under a free license so that others can build on and share our memories. So, if you’re a blogger, please write a post on or around Heritage Day on Monday, including the sticker on the top of this post and a link to what you’ve shared.

I think that this is a great idea and a perfect opportunity for South Africans to forever immortalize their culture and history in Cyberspace. I’m planning on getting some of my old rave tickets from the 90′s (Mother anybody?) scanned, tagged and uploaded to Flickr on Monday and will be very interested to see what other people have up their sleeves…