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By Amy Saunderson-Meyer - Media Shift Idea Lab

By Sabina Panth - The World Bank

Brenda Burrell Demonstrates how to use Freedom Fone on Youtube

By Ken Banks in National Geographic News Watch

Innovator, anthropologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Ken Banks shares exciting stories in Digital Diversity about how appropriate technologies and mobile phones are being used throughout the world to improve, enrich, and empower billions of lives.

By Women's Net

Women'sNet – a Feminist organisation based in Johannesburg, is excited to announce a Call for Participation in its upcoming Freedom Fone training workshop, aimed at community radio stations in South Africa. 

By Vactor News - The Trusted Source for Emerging Tech

Depending on who you ask, journalism is dead or dying. And no matter who you ask, the Internet is the only thing to blame. Now, one of the Web giants at least partly responsible for the downfall of print media is looking to make amends.

By Daniel West for Demos

I recently found a very interesting article by Kevin Randall from Fast Company "The Boob-Tube, Not YouTube, Is Transforming the World". This is a good opportunity to clarify a bit where the Web Foundation stands in that discussion. In few words, the article is about the power and impact of the Web on Social and Economic development, and how it relates to other medias, TV, mobile, radio..

A guide to getting SMS campaigns up-and-running in the shortest possible time and with the minimum of fuss. Read the article

So get pissed off and start a Facebook group. Launch a Twitter hashtag. Translate compassion into action. But realize that the most effective action probably involves aggregating and disseminating information, building knowledge and awareness that’s an asset even if it doesn’t lead directly to political change. Read the article by Ethan Zuckerman

Audio interview with leading UN voices on the value of technology in development and demo - It is technologies like mobile phones, which are being used by the United Nations to achieve its goals of development, says the UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon. Read the article

By Jonathan Marks

My dissertation focuses on the impact of digital resistance on nonviolent political transitions. Digital resistance is a term I use to describe the convergence between civilian resistance and digital activism in countries with repressive regimes.