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Cell Phone Voter ProjectIWPR’s innovative Afghan election initiative is reaching beyond print to deliver news on cell phones to voters across the country.The Cell Phone Voter Project extends a free callback service delivering up-to-date news in Pashto and Dari to inform members of the public, civil society activists and journalists. Afghans can dial a number and listen to IWPR election stories from any mobile handset for free.The project is taking election news to remote and troubled areas of…See More
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Cell Phone Voter Project

IWPR’s innovative Afghan election initiative is reaching beyond print to deliver news on cell phones to voters across the country.

The Cell Phone Voter Project extends a free callback service delivering up-to-date news in Pashto and Dari to inform members of the public, civil society activists and journalists. Afghans can dial a number and listen…

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