VOTO: Making a Case for Mobiles

VOTO: Making a Case for Mobiles

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  Making a Casefor Mobiles Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition - Nov 10th, 2015
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  Name: Sadabai Rasheed Challenge:Sadabai’s soy crop is suffering from shattering losses. Her village has not seen an extension officer in over a year. Location: Pong Tamale, Savelugu District, Northern Ghana
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  Names: Rashid Imoroand Lizzy Jakalia, Soybean Specialists Challenge: Recently received soy training. Resources are online. No fuel to reach Sabadai’s village. Location: Soy Growing Lab, Tamale, Ghana
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  3Bpeople CHALLENGE Organizations cannot havedialogue with ~50% of the world’s population DistanceInfrastructureLanguagesLiteracy
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  DISRUPTION Everyone now hasa mobile phone “In 2013, there were some 96 cell phone service subscriptions for every 100 people in the world.” -UN Telecommunication Agency, 2014 “By June 2014, there were 329 million unique subscribers in Africa, equivalent to a penetration rate of 73% of people older than 15 years old.” -GSMA, 2014 What is your Mobile Strategy?
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  3Bpeople Interactive Voice Calls andSMS SOLUTION 2-way SMS and IVR mass-communication for emerging markets
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  PRODUCT
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  Mothers accurately (>90%)report fever, diarrhea and cough in their children using IVR. Marriage status has a greater influence than insurance coverage when it comes to Rural women’s access to healthcare. Peer-to-peer messages have a greater impact on healthy behavior change than authority messages. In countries where mobile penetration is above 72%, mobile surveys are within +/-2.5% of face-to-face household census.
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  Why IVR (Voice)? 10x2x 4x Based on a VOTO & World Bank comparative study in Ghana, 2014
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  Some of our550+ Users
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  Reaching Farmers Hotlines -Radio + Mobile Shortcodes + Content Trees Outgoing Extension Messages Outgoing Weather/Market/Agro
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  Partner Makes Some/MostData Publically Available NGO partners Partner Makes All Data Available - Recognizable Not Advisable. Jeopardizes privacy and trust. Making Call Logs Available ideas42 Our Relationship with Open Data M4D Insights and Best Practices votomobile.org Blog
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  Open Data: What’sin it for businesses? How can we get commercial players on board?
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  Thanks for listening! StacieIrwin [email protected]