All OPAN members launched significant online projects between 2010 and 2023 to preserve, organize, display, and celebrate everyday photography, and enhance the collective cultural heritage of our countries.

We independently organized these portals according to place, time, and theme, because it made sense to us, and to users. We built rich interfaces with innovative code: sophisticated mapping, timeline, exhibit, geolocation tools and public forums. Emerging outside of GLAM institutions and typical archival channels, we considered user experience and encouraged enjoyable exploration.

We have made thousands of incredible pieces of private history publicly available through easy-to-navigate interfaces. We were clearly filling a clear public need in our communities that wasn’t being met by established institutions in our countries. 

And then we found each other. Now our goal is to unite our initiatives and help each other.