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June 2010

Inappropriate interference with MDC audio service

Tuesday 06/29/2010  11:31  |  by Amy Saunderson-Meyer

The Econet lines of the MDC audio news and information service were recently suspended a few days after its launch.

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Spreading the word

Monday 06/21/2010  14:35  |  by Amy Saunderson-Meyer

Fred’s diary is rather full these days. We have been testing and debugging a pre-release copy of version 1.6 and eagerly anticipate its imminent launch at the end of June.

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Workshop challenges in Bulawayo

Thursday 06/10/2010  14:57  |  by Brenda Burrell

In late May, Amy & I went down to Bulawayo to run a hands-on Freedom Fone training workshop for 11 participants based in Zimbabwe's City of Skies. The workshop was hosted there by a vibrant community radio station called Radio Dialogue. That will sound like a contradiction in terms as Zimbabwe has yet to award a broadcast licence to any community radio station in the country.

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Bulawayo’s pioneering voices

Wednesday 06/02/2010  12:57  |  by Amy Saunderson-Meyer

I had visions of Bulawayo being a sleepy little hollow and perhaps in some ways it is.  But last week, after arriving at Radio Dialogue nestled in Pioneer House in Bulawayo’s central business district, I was very pleasantly surprised.  We were in the City of Skies to run a practical two-day workshop with six local organisations on using Freedom Fone and Pioneer House seemed to me, to be pioneering the way!

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