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Dear Sir/ Madam, Greetings! Happy to share the 28th interview post on Open Interview https://openinterview.org/. In this interview, *Chao Tayiana Maina*, a Kenyan historian and digital humanities scholar, talks with me on her tryst with sustaining cultural heritage using digital technologies and making the African Digital Heritage a successful initiative. She is the Founder-Director of African Digital Heritage and has co-founded the Museum of British Colonialism and Open Restitution Africa as well. Chao shares her experiences and thoughts on initiating archival work for sustaining African heritage with the right blend of digital technologies. She specifically talks on what kind of digital technologies are being used in the archival work and how research, innovation, identification of skill-gap, training, outreach and user literacy play an important role in the entire archival exercise. Having worked with museums in different parts of Africa, she reveals that there is a positive response and tremendous need for sensitising the communities about the importance of preserving cultural heritage. *Chao Tayiana Maina: The success of African Digital Heritage is a result of innovative, insightful and holistic approach* https://openinterview.org/2023/07/17/chao-tayiana-maina-the-success-of-afric... Kindly go through the interview transcript and post your valuable comments on the blog. Best regards, -- Santosh C. H., PhD https://santoshch.weebly.com/ University Librarian Central University of Haryana http://cuh.ac.in/ Mahendergarh-123 031 Haryana, India http://library.cuh.ac.in/ Cell: +91-99874 28147 *Editor, Open Interview https://openinterview.org/* .. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.