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Zimbabwe: Fighting for democracy with FrontlineSMS

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 @ 11:31 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Zimbabwe
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Elections, Internet & Telecoms, Technology, Politics
Languages:: English

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Kenny writes about the use of FrontlineSMS in Zimbabwe: “A local NGO seeking to promote human rights and good governance, Kubatana were the very first users of FrontlineSMS when it launched back in 2005, starting a trend which has seen the software used for similar activities in a number of other countries around the world. In their own words, FrontlineSMS finally opened up the possibilities for text messaging in their work, and I knew they had plans to use it during the 2008 elections. This is what they've been doing.”

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