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Asia Front Page In the FieldPublished December 21, 2012 at 12:28 No Comments
By Emily Cholette, FrontlineSMS:Radio Project Intern I’ve been volunteering with the FrontlineSMS:Radio project and recently had the pleasure of speaking with Colin Spurway of BBC Media Action, an organization which helps people around the world to harness the media to promote change in their communities. Colin is the Project Director of Loy9 (pronounced ‘Loy Pram-booun’), a multimedia initiative
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CGHR In the FieldPublished April 24, 2012 at 14:03 10 Comments
The team at Better FM, a radio station in Fort Portal, Uganda, were the most recent testers to install FrontlineSMS:Radio as part of the ongoing trial. Florence Brisset-Foucault, a researcher for the Centre of Governance and Human Rights (CGHR) at Cambridge University in the UK, is currently in Uganda, and helped with the installation, saying
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In the FieldPublished April 19, 2012 at 13:27 No Comments
By Peter Westman, FrontlineSMS:Radio Intern Whilst FrontlineSMS is well known for being used in low infrastructure environments with little or no internet access and limited smart phone availability amongst audiences, we often hear cases of the software being used in contexts to complement many other technology options available. While Amy and I were in Cambridge
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In the FieldPublished April 4, 2012 at 13:52 1 Comment
As part of World Vision’s food aid programme in south east Kenya, FrontlineSMS is being used to improve delivery of supplies, share information with beneficiaries and gather data from rural communities. Under a mutliplatform approach they are also working with the popular local radio Anguo FM to relay information on issues including malnutrition in children, market
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Africa In the FieldPublished January 30, 2012 at 10:42 No Comments
Infoasaid has recently shared some news about an initiative with Save the Children in Wajir, Kenya which is using radio to share information about health, education and food security. Meanwhile FrontlineSMS is being used in the same area to communicate with field workers and community representatives. The objective of Infoasaid – a consortium of Internews and
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Africa In the FieldPublished December 19, 2011 at 13:08 2 Comments
Guest Post by Dr. Karen Greiner, University of South Florida Earlier this year we heard from Equal Access about their radio project in Chad and Niger. Dr. Karen Greiner conducted 3 months of field research over a two-year period as an external evaluator of the radio programs. Drawing on this work in the below post, Dr. Greiner
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Asia In the Field North AmericaPublished November 30, 2011 at 15:56 No Comments
Guest post from FrontlineSMS user Gordon Gow, University of Alberta republished from FrontlineSMS.com Here at the University of Alberta we are using FrontlineSMS to support graduate student research in communication and technology. Among its range of activities, the Mobile Applications for Research Support (MARS) Lab provides access to FrontlineSMS and mobile phones to allow students
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Africa In the FieldPublished November 28, 2011 at 13:49 9 Comments
Following from our post in September, “FrontlineSMS:Radio Trial Begins,” Geoffrey Muchai, one of our FrontlineSMS developers gives an update on his visit to one of the radio stations which is taking part in the trial. By Geoffrey Muchai I have been working on the FrontlineSMS developer team based in Nairobi and have recently been involved
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Asia In the FieldPublished November 23, 2011 at 15:39 2 Comments
By Zydrone Krasauskiene, Editorial Manager, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty FrontlineSMS software has opened up new frontiers for Radio Mashaal -literally- by creating a completely new and unorthodox way of making interactivity possible for Pashto-speaking audiences in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reports the news where a free press
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Asia In the FieldPublished October 26, 2011 at 10:46 1 Comment
FrontlineSMS in combination with radio has great potential for use as a peacebuilding tool. Hussain Abdullah from FrontlineSMS:Radio recently spoke with Francis Rolt, who was previously the Director of Radio for Search for Common Ground (SFCG) and is the founder of Radio for Peace Building, to find out how FrontlineSMS has been used in efforts
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