“Maneno” by www.maneno.org received a Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2009.
In Swahili, “maneno” means “words”. Words form the core of everything important to “Maneno”, a site built completely from the ground up to be a blogging and communication platform to meet the needs of the Sub-Saharan blogger and writer. But why yet another blogging system when there are so many already?
About www.maneno.org
Maneno’s board of directors are Rebecca Wanjiku, a journalist and blogger from Kenya (http://dispatchesfromafrica.maneno. org), Elia Varela Serra, a journalist and photographer (http://twiga.maneno.org), and Saul Wainwright, a South African with experience as…
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.