Mozilla Festival, November 2012

Attendees: Linda Kamau, Heather Leson

http://mozillafestival.org/

 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
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How Polling traditionally works? Who are you voting for? What are their positions? How do I register? What can I vote