VozMob

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VozMob
Open-source storytelling platform for recent
immigrants in Los Angeles to create and publish
stories about their community, directly from
mobile phones

• cheap
• intuitive
• any phone
• any network
• private
• our way
• multi-lingual
• multi-country

http//vozmob.net
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Partnership
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Google results for day laborer
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Top result anti-immigrant hate site
daylaborers.org Do you really want this
in your neighborhood?Day Laborers site in
Farmingville, Long Island, NY Photograph
courtesy of Dave Drew
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Who are day laborers?
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Problem Digital Access Inequality
Composite Technology Index (Modarres and Pitkin,
2006)
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Research mobile phone survey at day laborer
centers
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We found

• We surveyed 58 day laborers in 5 worker centers
• 78 have a cell phone
• 29 use a pre-paid plan
• Phone expenses vary between 20-180 /month
  with 50 paying less than 50/month

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What do they use their phones for?
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What features do they use?
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Mobile Voices was created to give voice to the
voiceless
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Popular Education Participatory Design
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Storytelling with mobiles

• tell the story voice-mail radio - show it.
  photo-reporting
• pictures and sound slide shows
• movies

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Storytelling say it.

• Voicemail to blog
• Gcast -gt RSS
• call 1-888-65-GCAST (888-654-2278) a voice will
  ask you for the number of the phone you
  registered with enter 888-8-VOZMOB
  (888-886-9662) it will ask you for a 4 digit
  pin enter 8888 record something. then press
  all in english.
• Gizmo -gt email -gt drupal
• one number, message in Spanish, post to blog
• Next step voipdrupal

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Storytelling show it.
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Storytelling narrated pictures, slide shows,
videos
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Free / Open Source Software Creative Commons
Content
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System Features
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• Post from (almost) any phone
• Cheap any phone or provider, no data plan
  needed, pre-paid ok, MMS bundles
• Easy voice calls, sms, or mms

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vozmob.net CMS edit remix tag translate share geo
-locate etc.
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Send to phones
registration alerts groups msg of the
day how-to etc
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Cross-platform
export print open APIs
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Maps GIS
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Participatory graphic design
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codesignedsite theme
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research
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suppliers roll-out technology
users adopt reject
users appropriate
users baroquize creolize cannibalize
suppliers re-claim
suppliers co-opt adapt block
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suppliers roll-out technology
users appropriate
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suppliers roll-out technology
users appropriate

• what is possible with cheap technology
• phones as gateway technology
• evaluate participatory design process
• storytellings role in community building
• assess impact (individual, IDEPSCA, beyond)
• examine surprises

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MMS as closed technology

• Using one's own phone (not provided by carrier)
• - Unlock
• - Settings
• - Dowload from carrier not always possible
• - Dowload from device maker few offer that
• - User entered some phones don't allow that
• - MMS-to-email gateways non standard
• Media as attachments
• Send pointer to storage space
• Gateways non symmetrical
• ? Missed innovation potential
• MMS as transitional technology, building block to
  others
• Compare with SMS twitter, frontlineSMS, ushahidi

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open research
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http//vozmob.net main project
site Research/coordinationhttp//blog.vozmob.ne
t -  research bloghttp//wiki.vozmob.net - 
project wikihttp//class.vozmob.net -  USC class
wikihttp//tags.vozmob.net -   del.icio.us tags
for vozmobhttp//list.vozmob.net -  project
mailing listhttp//devlist.vozmob.net -
development mailing list Technology
development http//dev.vozmob.net -   bugs,
features requests (redmine)http//code.vozmob.net
-  code repository (gitorious) irc//chat.freenod
e.net/vozmob - weekly chats http//sandbox.vozmob.
net - test site
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Supporters
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credits
vozmob team Steve Anderson, Natalie Arellano,
François Bar, Melissa Brough, Mark Burdett,
Adolfo Cisneros, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Nidhi
Dewan, Pedro Espinosa, Amanda Garces, Maria De
Lourdes Gonzalez, Carmen Gonzales, Chris
Guitarte, Josh Haglund, Philip Javellana, Crispin
Jimenez, Charlotte Lapsansky, Manuel Mancia,
Gabriela Rodriguez, Marcos Rodriguez, Benjamin
Stokes, Cara Wallis, graphics adapted
from originals by Rini Templeton (riniart.org)
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Gracias!
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Just a few of many stories
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MADELOU
http//vozmob.net/es/node/687
Jacqueline
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ADOLFO
Jornaleros
http//vozmob.net/en/node/2837
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RANFERI
Green Gardeners in Action
http//vozmob.net/en/node/6132
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MARCOS
Graffiti Social Phenomenon
http//vozmob.net/en/node/6534
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MANUEL
Hands
http//vozmob.net/en/node/6840