By Prabhas Pokharel - MobileActive.org
Brenda Burrell of Kubatana.net in Zimbabwe talked about Knight-sponsored project FreedomFone in a workshop titled “Bringing down the barriers: Interactive audio programming and mobile phones” at the DCI 4.0 on Sunday afternoon. FreedomFone comes from the desire to deliver information to “those who need it the most,” people with phones [...]
Tags: Brenda Burrell, FreedomFone, Kubatana, Mobile for Mobilisation, Zimbabwe
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The DCI workshop by Peter Benjamin from Cell-Life on Sunday afternoon gave its 60 odd participants a better idea of how to use Mobile Media for Social Change. We’ve put together a number of cell phone terms for you like USSD, WAP and Cellbooks, with Peter’s explanation.
Tags: Mobile for Mobilisation, Mobile for Social Change, Peter Benjamin, workshops
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The DCI team searched all over the world and we found a number of speakers who are guaranteed to blow your mind! Our keynote speaker this year is Cameroon blogger Dibussi Tande who will inform us about the state of social justice and digital media in Africa, other confirmed speakers are Elia Varela Serra from Maneno, Global Voices editor Eduardo Ávila, Brett Davidson with Ndesanjo Macha (Stop Stock-outs project), Peter Benjamin on Mobile for Mobilisation and mobile for communities entrepreneur Marlon Parker.
Tags: Africa, Brett Davidson, Cameroon, concept document, Dibussi Tande, Digital Civil Society, digital media, digital media activism, Digital Media and the Right to Language, Eduardo Avila, Elia Varela Serra, gender, Global Voices, Maneno, Marlon Parker, Mobile for Mobilisation, Ndesanjo Macha, Peter Benjamin, social justice, Stop Stock-outs
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