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.

Freedom Fone - Appliance Version 1.5

Version 1.5 is currently going through pre-release testing and should be available for download from this website before the end of February 2010.
 
In addition to the functionality offered in Appliance version 1.0, this new version adds:
 
Internationalisation of GUI

  • Localisation to Swahili will be completed before March

Installer

Making sense of all the noise – testing Freedom Fone v1.5pre

Friday 02/19/2010  11:59  |  by Brenda Burrell

I've spent time recently testing the pre-release version 1.5 of Freedom Fone in Zimbabwe. Lots of little bugs have presented themselves but for the most part this version has been a revelation. The closest tech support has been Alberto in freezing Stockholm and Giovanni somewhere in Italy. I am sweating it out in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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.

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