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Freedom Fone Interviewed on the BBC

Knight 2008 News Challenge Winner
Amanda Atwood

by Amanda Atwood (Bio), December 17, 2008

Tagged: democracy, health, ICT, information, ivr, mobile, radio, zimbabwe

Freedom Fone's technical director, Brenda Burrell, was recently interviewed by Digital Planet, the BBC's weekly world technology update. Read the article, or listen to Brenda speak about Freedom Fone, and the potential of mobile phones as a vehicle for voice based information services.

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