Kubatana got support for our Freedom Fone project from the Knight News Challenge back in 2008. Today we’re excited to let you know who this year’s competition winners are. You can check out the six groovy media projects here.

Banner at the World Refugee Day commemorations in South Africa.
Photo credit: PASSOP

Recently Kubatana’s sister project Freedom Fone won the Index on Censorship Innovation Award. Freedom Fone facilitates the sharing of pre-recorded audio information over mobiles phones. We are consistently trying to improve the Freedom Fone software and . . . we would like you to actively help us do this.

We’ve read something published by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) on load-shedding which raises a Lot of concerns. And if we’re concerned, we’re sure you will be too.

Listen to what they say is Fact and let us know if you think it’s Fiction. Your opinion counts!

Here’s what we need . . .

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A French designer Maxime Pécourt has created a series of movie posters, using the cult object of each movie.  Click here for the other super cool posters

A little while ago we had the real pleasure of dropping in on the Open Studio Art Event in Athlone which featured artists like  Misheck Masamvu, Gareth Nyandoro, Aubrey Bango, Masimba Hwati, Tafadzwa Gwetai and others. There was such a good vibe with artists working in situ, as well as great entertainment and of course … The Art was amazing. Let’s hope there will be more of these creative artistic gatherings in Harare.

A weekend full of events for Mark Zuckerberg. It began with Facebook going public on Friday and share prices jumped from $38 to $42; thanks to my subscription and yours too as a Facebook user. And on Saturday Mark got married in private. Yes it was a private event with no uninvited guests including me – His Friend on Facebook. I didn’t even get a word – not even a small e-card for the wedding. I just saw photos on Monday morning. I was very bitter about this. Mark Zuckerberg got married in private and yet he wants everyone on Facebook to know our business with those third party applications.  Facebook is good but not with the nasty requests for my personal data which keep on coming from the third party applications that Facebook introduced on its social networking platform. The reason why the Facebook founder decided to go private for his wedding clearly shows that there is no privacy on Facebook.