The [10 tactics] film in fact has directed me toward the solutions I have been looking for to support our work on democratic participation. The Kubutana and Sodnet examples will now help me sensitise and inspire my colleagues. I hope we be able to implement something similar for our work in Uganda."

We support various communication technologies such as Skype, SIP, H.323 and GoogleTalk making it easy to interface with other open source PBX systems such as sipXecs, Call Weaver, Bayonne, YATE or Asterisk.

FreeSWITCH supports many advanced SIP features such as presence/BLF/SLA as well as TCP TLS and sRTP. It also can be used as a transparent proxy with and without media in the path to act as a SBC (session border controller) and proxy T.38 and other end to end protocols.

FreeSWITCH supports both wide and narrow band codecs making it an ideal solution to bridge legacy devices to the future. The voice channels and the conference bridge module all can operate at 8, 12, 16, 24, 32 or 48 kilohertz a

Freedom Fone offers the possibility to extend the reach of information to citizens and groups presently excluded from the information loop because of lack of access to resources such as computers and the internet. It takes advantage of the cell phone's role as an "access equaliser" to provide communities with the opportunity to create, listen to and act on information of immediate relevance to them.

Freedom Fone intends to deliver an easy to use telephony platform that YOU can use to build and manage dynamic information on demand services to suit your audience’s needs. Useful features in version 1 will include the ability to: create and modify voice menus; run a sms poll; make a callback in response to missed calls or sms requests; accept, tag and categorise voice messages.