Freedom Fone | it's for you

Coming soon to a phone near you.

Does your community need access to information but has limited or no access to the internet or email? Do you want to be able to share more information than 160 characters allows? Freedom Fone offers the possibility to extend the reach of information to citizens and groups presently excluded from the information loop because of lack of access to resources such as computers and the internet.

The 1-2-3s of I.V.R.

Have a laugh at this voice menu from hell!

“Press 3 if you've pressed 1 because you were not satisfied. Press 4 if you've pressed 1 because you were not satisfied to have pressed 2 because you were not satisfied with your message. Press 7 to do it again, 8 to listen to your options again or 9 to not repeat those options...”

Free Kiswahili synthetic voice for Freedom Fone a possibility

Friday 01/15/2010 05:47 | by Brenda Burrell

Freedom Fone's ability to fulfill it's promise as a must have tool for bridging the digital divide has yet to be determined. Millions of poor people have access to mobile phones, but with tariffs as high as they are in countries like Zimbabwe, experimentation in this field is still costly. And of course, for our project these are early days.

Molo and Kubatana's partnership helps put information in the hands of Zimbabweans

Thursday 01/14/2010 06:26 | by Brenda Burrell

Kubatana, a Zimbabwean non-profit organisation committed to democratising access to information, was awarded a Knight News Challenge grant in May 2008 for its Freedom Fone software development project. The Freedom Fone project aspires to help civic organisations extend their information in an audio format to mobile phone users.

How does FreeSWITCH compare to Asterisk?

Tuesday 12/29/2009 05:26 | by Brenda Burrell

Open source telephony platform, Asterisk, has been used for years as an inexpensive alternative to proprietry PBXs, democratising this previously closed service industry. Why then did Freedom Fone choose to use FreeSWITCH as its telephony component instead of Asterisk? Our Project Architect, Alberto Escudero Pascual, will answer that question in the new year, but until then clues lie in this comment from Telecom Monthly: