The Entomology section of the Natural Museum Windhoek, Namibia had 70.000 paper based records on insect specimen and no funds to document these records. So they started a competition. They developed software which was user-friendly on a capture screen that allowed the participants to transfer the paper record into computerized data. Information gain of the students is not the first aim but in cooperation with the Namibia SchoolNet programme nature observation projects with insects such as agricultural pests monitoring is currently under way.
Every participant get a poster on Namibian cultural entomology.
More information can be found on the web of the Natural Museum of Namibia, the first in Africa to be online. More Tools developed See materials developed.