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Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series: Presentation by François Bar, Annenberg School for Communication, on November 11th @ 11am. Mobile Voices: A Mobile, Open Source, Popular Communication Platform for First-Generation Immigrants in Los Angeles“Mobile Voices” is a storytelling platform for immigrants in Los Angeles to create and publish stories about their community directly from cell phones.This project seeks to enable first-generation, low-wage immigrants to participate meaningfully and confidently in the digital realm. Mobile Voices is a collaboration between faculty and students at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and members of the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA), a nonprofit serving low-income Latino immigrants in Los Angeles. This presentation will give an overview of the project to date, beginning with the initial motivation for Mobile Voices and then focusing on key components of the project: technology development; participatory approach to design, implementation, and evaluation; and scalability. François Bar is Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is a steering committee member of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication (http://arnic.info.) His research and teaching focus on the social and economic impacts of information technologies, with a concentration on telecommunication policy, user-driven innovation and technology appropriation. His most recent work examines the impact of information technology for development, in places ranging from East Africa to Latin America. He is co-Editor of Information Technologies and International Development (ITID).
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Mobile Voices
Open-source storytelling platform for recent immigrants in Los Angeles to create and publish stories about their community, directly from cellphones
community partner and users
• 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
What features do they use?
First Steps• community application for IDEPSCA• affordable ICT access• create economic/social opportunities
Brainstorm various usage scenarios• inspiration: zexe.net Sao Paulo, Barcelona, Geneve• annotated city• mobile labor market• mobile storytelling• Prototypes with EE579
Initial approach• Look for low cost internet-enabled phones
(Boost Mobile)• open source, generic tools
– Content Management System– Handset clients
participatory prototyping
Weekly workshops with members of the popular communication team
- tell the story voice-mail radio - show it. photo-reporting- pictures and sound slide shows- movies
Storytelling – with mobiles
Storytelling: say it.
Voicemail – to –blogGcast -> 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 -> email -> drupalone number, message in Spanish, post to blog
Next step: asterisk + drupal
Storytelling: narrated pics
system features
Uploads from phone- cheap: any phone, pre-paid, MMS bundles- easy: voice, text, mms- private: ?? (*67?)
Content management system- customizable: open source- multimedia: voice, text, pictures...- private: strip identifiable info
Send to phones- push: sms, mms,…- pull: shortcodes
Universal design- multiple outputs- many inputs?
open research
http://prueba.vozmob.net - sandbox test sitehttp://blog.vozmob.net - research bloghttp://wiki.vozmob.net - project wikihttp://class.vozmob.net - USC class wikihttp://tags.vozmob.net - del.icio.us tags for ‘vozmob’http://list.vozmob.net - project mailing listhttp://devlist.vozmob.net – development mailing list archivehttp://dev.vozmob.net/projects/show/vozmob - bugs, features requestshttp://code.vozmob.net - code repositoryirc: http://irc.freenode.net #vozmob
next steps
end ’08: consolidate complete designlearn the toolstest & showcase
spring ’09: extenddeploy within IDEPSCAtrain other usersrevisit design
fall ’09: distributevozmob-in-a-box
research
suppliersroll-out technology
usersappropriate
suppliersre-claim
users adoptreject
users baroquizecreolizecannibalize
suppliers co-opt adapt
block
suppliersroll-out technology
usersappropriate
suppliersroll-out technology
usersappropriate
• what is possible with cheap technology• phones as gateway technology• evaluate participatory design process• storytelling’s role in community building• assess impact (individual, IDEPSCA, beyond)• examine surprises
credits
http://vozmob.net
