4. Planning your mobile campaign
Your model of
change involves:
connecting
marketing
informing
reporting
engaging
alerting
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5. Audience
• With whom do you want to communicating?
• Trained Agents? Supporters? “The Crowd”?
• Inward? Outward? Two-way?
• What phones does your audience have?
• National? International? Multinational?
• Does your audience have to pay to
participate?
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6. Tools
• Voice Freedom Fone
• SMS Obama for America
• Mobile Web JavaRosa
• Apps Extraordinaries
• Pictures and Video Digital ICS
• Missed Calls / Call me backs SocialTxt
• USSD
• Money Transfer M-PESA
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7. Models
• List building
• Voting
• Fundraising/Payments
• Viral marketing
• Crowdsourcing
• Location- or context-based
engagement
• Guerilla efforts
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8. How the bad guys using mobile
• Disseminate hate speech
• Misinformation
• Rigging elections
• Tracking activists
• Blocking services
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10. SMS in Data Collection: the challenge
• Thousands of observers spread
to difficult areas
• Make a statement on national
character of the election within
24 hours
• Identify problems quickly so
that they can be remedied
• Concerns about results
management
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11. SMS in Data Collection: the solution
• Observers text information using predefined codes
• Messages are processed producing live reports that
are monitored at the national headquarters
• Reports are used to alert authorities, make press
statements, and deploy additional observers.
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12. What we learned
• Growing pains of going to scale
• Communication out was just as valuable
• Live data changes things in unexpected ways
• Every phone is different
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13. Where do we go now?
i.e. what I need from you?
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14. Providers
• Thank you
• Pricing
– Recipient Pays stifles social causes
– Toll free text lines
– Pricing in developing countries that reflects mobile's
role in human development (nod to one-cent text)
– Non-profits pricing is the long tail
– Better models for mobile fundraising
• Standardize service offerings in plain language
• Free up my location
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15. Geeks
• Make it easier Rapid Android
• Play nice Open Mobile Consortium
• Think beyond SMS and
smart phone apps.
• Think about scale
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16. Activists
• Be creative – think
beyond SMS and
“the T-word”.
• Consider new program
models
• Empower along the
way
• Share your successes
and disasters on
mobileactive.org
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