Mozilla Festival, November 2012
Attendees: Linda Kamau, Heather Leson
http://mozillafestival.org/schedule/sessions/902-election-hacking-with-opennews/
Problems:
Diversity of devices connected on demand
- feature/smart
- all different screens
- SMS, WAP
Lots of info
- geolocation
- Accessibility of info
- designing for diversity
- mobile sites/apps
Solutions
- Live information
- Responsiveness
- SMS
- WAP
- Geolocation
- screen reader for everyone
- your robot friend.ambient, valet
Outreach
Paper First
Churches, gathering places
Traditional media
SMS conversation
Where are you?.. I am in Nairobi
Here is your polling station... xxxx
Challenges:
1. SMS/USSD:
- design conversation/interaction
- account for typing errors
- cost
2. Mobile Web
- good device recognition a must
- design for low bandwidth connections (no rd)
- offer offline if browser allows
- geolocate information if browsers allow
3. Overarching
- 42 dialects, there is a limit to English and Swahili
- cost of SMS/Data
- gathering and presentation of lots of data
How Polling traditionally works? Who are you voting for? What are their positions? How do I register? What can I vote