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Maneno
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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? Of the total number of users on the internet, only 1 percent are from Africa, and of that amount even fewer are bloggers. Maneno is working to overcome what other systems see as nuisances, converting them into the foundation of a powerful content-delivery system for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Initially based upon a lightweight framework created and personally used by the founders, “Maneno” was founded in 2008. It allows those with limited or narrow-bandwidth internet to use a system that is lightweight and straightforward in functionality. But while being fast to access, “Maneno” is also a system that is full-featured and gives those who join the ability to have their own, personalized space on it, writing in a way that is as unrestricted as they see fit.
On a continent with over 2,000 languages, crosscommunication is an issue that is often forgotten about. “Maneno” is a system where multiplelanguage versions for articles can sit on top of one another for immediate access. The interface for the site has also been also translated in to as many languages as possible to remove linguistic barriers, which are seen more and more in an increasingly Anglophonic web.
Constantly building upon these cornerstones, “Maneno” strives to be a continually free system that aggregates and promotes the content within it so that those using it are not just writing in a vacuum but for an audience.
Links: www.maneno.org
Initially based upon a lightweight framework created and personally used by the founders, “Maneno” was founded in 2008. It allows those with limited or narrow-bandwidth internet to use a system that is lightweight and straightforward in functionality. But while being fast to access, “Maneno” is also a system that is full-featured and gives those who join the ability to have their own, personalized space on it, writing in a way that is as unrestricted as they see fit.
On a continent with over 2,000 languages, crosscommunication is an issue that is often forgotten about. “Maneno” is a system where multiplelanguage versions for articles can sit on top of one another for immediate access. The interface for the site has also been also translated in to as many languages as possible to remove linguistic barriers, which are seen more and more in an increasingly Anglophonic web.
Constantly building upon these cornerstones, “Maneno” strives to be a continually free system that aggregates and promotes the content within it so that those using it are not just writing in a vacuum but for an audience.
Links: 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 a finance manager, a researcher and strategist. Miquel Hudin Balsa, a web developer, leads technology development (http://subsaharska.maneno.org).