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June 2012

Helping to address maternal mortality in Africa

Sunday 06/17/2012  22:33  |  by Brenda Burrell

Freedom Fone trainers have been in Nairobi this month to assist with the first deployment of the platform for a reproductive health hotline.

Thanks to support from Women on Web / Women on Waves, reproductive health activists from Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya were able to use the opportunity to gather in the east African city to learn how to use the Freedom Fone software and discuss its potential as a channel for sharing information with mobile phone users.

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Beating censorship in Zimbabwe

Wednesday 06/13/2012  02:00  |  by Webmaster

AlJazeera, Listening Post

A look at how, even in the digital age, the best way for Zimbabweans to get the news is to pick up the phone.

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Freedom Fone's Dialer version used to facilitate feedback in Zimbabwe

Tuesday 06/12/2012  16:15  |  by Brenda Burrell

As part of the Quality Assurance testing of Freedom Fone's new Dialer version, Kubatana engaged citizens in Zimbabwe around the thorny issue of billing by the country's sole energy supplier - the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC).

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The place for IVR in telecentres, a look at Freedom Fone

Friday 06/08/2012  14:28  |  by Webmaster

Posted on Telecentre.org blog by Cleopa Timon Otien

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