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Receive field reports from election monitors or citizens by voice mail; provide news updates to field staff via voice menus.

Share health information using voice menus; receive questions, reports and feedback via voice messages; use polls to measure opinion.

Enable journalists and citizen reporters to discreetly and promptly file audio reports on events as they happen, using ordinary phones.

Create voice menus to share agri-extension services, such as pest control tips or market prices, with offline small scale farmers.

Provide breaking news updates via voice menus; receive field reports and queries using voice messages; use polls for focused feedback.

Answer FAQs and provide status updates using voice menus; gather feedback on services and products using incoming SMS and voice messages.

What is Freedom Fone?

Freedom Fone makes it easy to build interactive, two way, phone based information services using interactive audio voice menus, voice messages, SMS and polls. The DIY platform is accessible, user-friendly, low-cost, global and does not require Internet access for users and callers alike. It takes advantage of audio to address language and literacy barriers when reaching out to the millions of people living on the margins of the information society.

Tanzania revisited - more training in Dar es Salaam

Saturday 06/04/2011 21:50 | by Brenda Burrell

Wow, it’s hot in Dar, and this is winter in Tanzania. My ankles are swollen and it helps to sleep with a fan on at night. The city seems to be booming...buildings are going up in the city centre, bill boards compete for consumer shillings and the morning rush hour(s) is a force to be reckoned with. The most prominent products for sale are mobile related services – Tigo, Airtel (previously Zain) and Vodacom compete through vibrant advertising for a share of this lucrative market. Thanks to the competition, call and SMS costs have become very affordable in Tanzania.

Now available! Freedom Fone v1.6.5OR

For those of you who like to keep Freedom Fone as simple as possible, you'll be pleased to know that our final release of v1.6.5 is now available.

This version is formally called v1.6.5-04 OR LTS.

Note though that once installed, v1.6.5-04 should immediately be patched to v1.6.5-05.