Title: Have Your Say with CGNet Swara - Tribal Citizen Media in India. A New Case Study
Author: PrabhasPokharel
Source: MobileActive.org
Date (published): 08/07/2010
Date (accessed): 04/08/2010
Type of information: case study
Language: English
On-line access: yes (HTML)
Abstract:
"We have another new case study up where we report on an innovative audio-based citizen journalism project in Chhattisgarh, India. Tribal citizen journalists have been reporting news in their own languages through a new service called CGNet Swara. CGNet stands for Chhattisgarh Net. The service allows citizen journalists to call in and record news in one of four local languages. The news that has been produced has been picked up in India's mainstream media, and some reports have led to concrete action: in one case, teachers whose salaries hadn't been paid for months were paid after a news report elicited a calling campaign from listeners."

Title: Talking Book Pilot Results
Pages: 10 pp.
Source: literacybridge.org
Publisher: Literacy Bridge
Date (published): 16/09/2009
Date (accessed): 09/12/2009
Type of information: research paper
Language: English
On-line access: yes (pdf)
Abstract:
The Talking Book is an affordable and durable audio computer that enables people to record, access, and share knowledge—regardless of poverty, illiteracy, and lack of electricity. The Talking Book was developed between 2007 and 2008 to increase literacy skills and to spread audio information of any kind. The portable, battery-powered device allows users to record and play 70 hours of audio messages, copy messages between devices, access recordings by customizable categories, and interact with learning applications.
This document reports on the results of an initial pilot that began in early 2009 and focused on spreading health and agriculture information in a remote village in Ghana.

See also:
The talking book of Literacy bridge
Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) Secretariat blog, 04/11/2009