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Message with Value(s)

Frontline sms at netsquared dc may 2015

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Message with Value(s)  

Dear _______,!!We don’t care about your app.!

!" " " " " " " Regards, " " " " " " " " " " " "Your users !!

Every time you build an interface, you tell users they have to learn to do things your way before they get what they want.!

!That is not user-centered.!

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User-centered design meets people where they are.!

 

So. Where are they?!  

So. SMS.!7.2 billion active mobile subscribers!3.6 billion unique users!!SMS is the only platform that reaches them all!

Interna(onal  Telecommunica(ons  Union,  2010  

Most organizations simply aren’t designed to listen at scale. !!Listening requires structure.  

Frontline Connects Platforms and Systems  

0! 20k!downloads!

Scale of Simple!

Frontline Coverage!

Multi-channel management!!!!made easy. !

Good communication is not about a platform, it’s about building better coordination and operations  

The Non-Profit Business

Ci(zens   Ci(es  &  Coun(es   State  

Multi-Channel Systems  

Na(onal  

Efficiency isn’t individual. The biggest wins come from building better information relationships between partners.  

Information is Infrastructure!

"The Value of Connected Systems!

Message-powered healthcare! Zimbabwe Ministry of Health!St. Gabriel’s Hospital, Malawi!

Pa(ents  book  appointments  with  remote  hospitals  and  clinics.  

Community  health  workers  monitory  and  report  symptoms,  enabling  officials  to  recognize  outbreaks  earlier.  

St.  Gabriel’s  handles  twice  as  many  pa(ents  at  half  the  cost.    Disease  repor(ng  in  Zimbabwe  improves  by  400%,  covering  75%  of  the  country.  

Interactive radio! Search for Common Ground, Ghana!

SFCG  used  Frontline  to  enable  community  radio  sta(ons  to  take  ques(ons  from  listeners  via  SMS.  

Listeners  can  text  in  their  ques(ons  and  get  them  answered  live  on  the  air.  

Enabling  sta(ons  to  halve  the  cost  of  listener  engagement.  

Message-powered banking! Honey Care, Kenya!

Community  based  savings  organiza(ons  (SACCOs)  use  Frontline  to  enable  members  to  remotely  deposit  into  their  accounts.  

Deposit  processing  (me  was  reduced  by  85%,  and  average  account  balance  improved  by  50%.  

Message-powered education! VSO Int’l., Papua New Guinea!

VSO  Interna(onal  used  SMS  to  deliver  stories  to  schools  in  remote  areas  where  books  were  scarce.  

Stories  and  lesson  plans  were  delivered  daily,  and  based  on  a  structured  phone(cs  curriculum.  

Students  in  the  program  were  twice  as  likely  to  meet  literacy  standards  for  their  age.  

NETWORKED LAND TITLING! Mercy Corps, Bolivia!

Mercy  Corps  incorporated  Frontline  into  a  digital  land  (tling  process  for  rural  farmers.    

Land  (tles  were  delivered  40%  faster  and  cheaper  under  the  program.  

Land  boundary  loca(ons,  agreement  statuses,  and  (tling  agency  reports  were  transmi\ed  over  SMS.  

The most powerful technology we have is!!!!!Better ways to work together. !

Message with Value(s)  @FrontlineSMS!

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