And whether as a person drawn to public service, or simply someone who insists on being an active citizen, you will be exposed to more opinions and ideas broadcast through more means of communication than ever existed before.

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On the whole the experience was positive and the levels of communication, integration and cross-pollination of ideas that resulted certainly had significant positive effects.

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Some years later, Claude Shannon (also of Bell Labs) would consolidate many of the prevailing ideas on the subject in his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" which would reference the work of Nyquist significantly.

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The overall winner will be selected at the end of the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge on 31 of May 2012, so participants can still submit their ideas on how mobile communication can help strengthen literacy.

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More than 800 ideas have already been generated in the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge, which aims to find ways of using mobile communication to help achieve literacy, develop universal primary education, address youth and adult learning needs, enhance the quality of education, and improve gender parity and equality in education.

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