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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. Making radio more accessible in Ghana.

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Great reads from around the web on October 11th

Amy Sample Ward

Are they adopting new methods fast enough to respond to their constituents in the digital age? Donate Your Account seems to allow anyone to set up a campaign, and allow others with Twitter or Facebook accounts to automatically re-broadcast messages from that campaign." But how is Congress responding?

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