The artist's “smart X tension” was honoured with an Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2004, category Digital Communities.
In 2001/02 the Tonga.Online project established the first community-based Internet and Computer Centre in one of the remotest areas of Zimbabwe. Encouraged by the response, the project is now striving to reach out to other villages and across the waters of the Zambezi River into Zambia.
Programme information from Prix Ars Electronica Archive. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.