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Use voice mail to include community voices in broadcasts, interact with studio guests; use voice menus to share news & event information.

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

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.

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

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

Pigs and protestors in Nairobi

Wednesday 05/15/2013 | 21:20
by Brenda Burrell

I arrived in Nairobi early this week to help Radio Ergo set up a Freedom Fone service to be used to receive voice and SMS queries and feedback from Somali listeners living in and outside Somalia.

Whenever I’m in Nairobi I have to depend on taxis to ferry me around, giving me a great opportunity to catch up on local politics and social issues with the ever-opinionated drivers.

FW: ElecTech presentation - Tunis March 2013

Monday 03/11/2013 | 17:19
by Brenda Burrell

A presentation by Brenda Burrell, Technical Director of Freedom Fone, on how Freedom Fone can be used as a tool for receiving and dissemination election-related information using interactive voice response (IVR), short message service (SMS) and voicemail.

http://www.fwelections.com/freedom-fone-to-collect-and-disseminate-information-via-mobile-phone/

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What is Freedom Fone?

Freedom Fone is free software that creates interactive, voice-based communication services for organisations or bodies seeking to engage with communities across mobile networks.

Freedom Fone uses voice menus to share information with any target audience, SMS polls to organise opinion surveys and callers can also leave voice and text messages on the service where call data records can be safely stored, organised and evaluated.

There are no geographical limitations to Freedom Fone. By taking advantage of both audio and text functions, Freedom Fone makes it easy to create and share information across literacy barriers in any language. We provide an effective, user-friendly and low-cost solution that helps empower marginalised communities and bridge the digital divide.