Technology for Transparency Network Features Knight International Journalism Fellow's Mobile News Service

By: Margaret Looney | 12/01/2010

A website promoting international technology projects that increase government transparency, the Technology for Transparency Network, highlights Knight Fellow Shubhranshu Choudhary's project, CGNet Swara - a mobile news network that enables tribes in Chattisgarh, India, to report on local issues. The website features an audio interview and its transcript with Choudhary discussing his goals for the project.

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