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1. Ana Brandusescu, Renée E. Sieber and Sylvie Jochems
1
The Challenges of Integrating
Texting and Mapping for
Community Development in Canada
2. Community development &
mobile phones
Community development: a process where community
members collaborate by means of an organized
intervention with the goal of empowering them vis-à-vis
circumstances that affect their lives (Lyndon 2011)
Mobile phones are already in communities
Case studies in developing world: mobile banking,
epidemiology, fishing & agriculture industries (e Silva et al.
2011; Tortora & Rheault 2011; Aker & Mbiti 2010; Bailard 2009; Molony 2009; Patnaik et al. 2008; Wong 2008;
Abraham 2007)
Few North American case studies; even fewer that are
youth-based (Rice et al. 2008; Walsh et al. 2998; Campbell 2006; Ito 2005)
Texting with online & mobile mapping combination
Challenges: building and maintaining an ICT for
community development
3. Literature review
Sieber, Elwood,
Ghose, Goodchild
ICTs
(mobile tech)
Foth, Albert, Flournoy,
Lebrasseur, Loos,
Mante-Meijer, Haddon,
Marshall, Taylor, Yu
McKnight, Kretzmann,
Block, Lyndon,
Goodchild Katz, Donner, Proulx
Yzer & Southwell,
Hardey, Horst &
Miller, Aker & Mbiti,
e Silva (A.S), Sutko,
Salis, e Silva (C.S)
Community
Mapping
Lyndon, Burns,
Williams,
Windenbank,
Jones & Silva,
Shragge & Toye
Blackburn-Cabrera,
Kayne, Clement,
Gurstein, Longford,
Moll, Shade, Gov’t
of Canada
Zook, Graham, Shelton,
Gorman, Chiao, Roche,
Propeck-Zimmermann,
Mericskay, Forrest
Rice, Lee, Taitt,
Boone, Campbell,
Walsh, White,
Young, Ito
Community
Development
Participatory
GIS
Community
Informatics
Telecom
Youth &
Crisis ICTs
mapping
5. Context: Lachine, Montreal
Why is it generalizable?
Inner-city neighbourhood of Montreal; 7,340 low-income
residents (18 % of Lachine pop.) (Statistics Canada 2007)
Table de Concertation Jeunesse de Lachine
Technology project for youth
15
2
3
6. Developing the mapping portion of
the application
Ushahidi:
Technical expertise;
coding knowledge
Web server-based
Crowdmap:
Less technical version
of Ushahidi (no coding
knowledge required)
Cloud-based
For less-technical
experts
Friendly user interface
4
7. Acquiring the hardware
SIM card from mobile provider with GSM network
Hardware must be compatible with software:
FrontlineSMS
CDMA network vs. GSM network
GSM modem
‘Unlocking’ modem procedure
5
6
8. Developing the texting portion of
the application
FrontlineSMS
Crowdmap Addon/Plugin
3 ways to enable SMSs on Crowdmap
5,6
SIM & GSM modem
9. Enabling messages sent to
Espaces Lachine
1. SMS
2. Smartphone app
3. Email
4. Twitter
5. Direct post on website
4
7
13. Becoming a system administrator
Web 2.0 deployments: Ushahidi and Crowdmap
Mashable tools for crises, with little time to develop
and deploy the system
Ushahidi Setup vs. All the Other Stuff
“Verification, documentation,
integration with other
systems, SMS debugging,
& taxonomy development”
9
14. Contending with resource
availability
1. Restrictions and lack of availability exist in telecom
hardware used to receive SMSs on Crowdmap
2. Cloud-based SMS gateway Clickatell offers no phone
numbers with area codes in Canada
3. Rogers mobile provider has a “Rogers One Number”
SMS gateway but does not provide integration APIs
4. FrontlineSMS is solely GSM network-based, limiting
interoperability with hardware from other telecom
networks (e.g., CDMA)
15. Obtaining a geolocation from an
SMS
1. Parsing of geolocations in the SMSs:
– Texting-mapping platform does not automatically geolocate
SMSs
– E.g., Chez Brandusescu
– 160 character SMS limit
2. Inferring location demands human intervention
– Description of place
– E.g., Weather, sculpture in (unnamed) park
3. Certain methods of sending messages were more effective
than others
– participants had to manually enter the URL to see their
messages: https://espaceslachine.crowdmap.com
– SMS > smartphone app
16. Confronting the nature of Canadian
mobile network providers
Telecom environment in Canada
Finding the right provider; GSM vs. CDMA
Interoperability with FrontlineSMS
Library of Congress, ‘unlocking’ of mobile phones
illegal in US (January 26, 2013)
Restrictive attitude affects interoperability
17. Keeping pace with change
Table struggled to keep pace with changes during
application development
Application development and deployment will likely
exceed the time needed to acquire the actual texts;
Crowdmap platform was less generalizable than
expected
From Classic Crowdmap to New Crowdmap (public
beta): ‘Map Anything’
Upward compatibility is not assured
18. Conclusion
Mobile phones for CD: Big data, texting-only, handset
access, sociological studies of phone use (e.g., e Silva et al. 2011)
Small data focus & in-house texting application
Promises of Web 2.0 and mobile technologies
Should we even try?
Mobile phones: Connection to physical community when
time limits the physical connection
Value to be an early technological adapter
Early adoption involves risk
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Editor's Notes
Mobile phones hold high promise for CD. What is CD? Power and tools in their daily lives
A tool that already community members; mobile phones are already in communities
Many case studies in developing world; some examples include mobile banking, epidemiology, fishing & agriculture
Few North American case studies; And youth in North America? Besides more generalized mobile phone use, few studies that target youth are conducted;
We argue that texting offers the potential to involve youth in CD. Youth have and use mobile devices, where usage occurs even among poor youth; further we want to combine texting with online and mobile mapping
Just a min, no more ; to show an overview of the complex relationship of the fields we are working with. Combining community development and community informatics theories and how much ground we cover.
Why generalizable? Because it’s an inner-city neighbourhood in Canada; working class, low-income urban settings; other neighbourhoods of cities in Canada, or the US that are inner city – Toronto (Jane & Finch, Lawrence Heights), East Vancouver, Chicago, Detroit, LA, New York, etc.
Ushahidi:
Technical expertise; PHP coding knowledge for installation and management process
Crowdmap:
Less technical version of Ushahidi (no PHP knowledge required)
Cloud-based
For less-technical experts
Friendly cloud-based user interface
Ushahidi’s own ‘Allocation of Time’; time expended for technical development (the small circle depicts time allocated towards the ‘Ushahidi Setup’
The small circle belies the significant skill level required to complete development
A closer look at ‘All the Other Stuff’
Texting-mapping platforms and the applications built on top of them do not automatically geolocate SMSs
Description of place is made by participant in a familiar and colloquial way
Depending on the exactness of the location, a participant could run out of characters for other content
The overall attitude towards restricting usage raises difficulties in realizing the interoperability potential of the various tools we are using
From changes during the development of the application from the community end, changes are being made in the developer, Crowdmap end; our version is now called the Classic and a new version, New Crowdmap was just released last week. Changes are ongoing and very
New Crowdmap: public beta, May 6: create immersive maps, effortlessly add media, follow maps you like, search the crowd (new version is not yet available in French)
Promises of Web 2.0 and mobile technologies of ease of use on both the participant side and the developer side
We found the application challenging to develop and deploy
If texting-mapping apps development to empower poor people is so difficult then should we even try?
Near future of cellphone companies in Canada may not improve access to these types of projects in inner-city areas
New workarounds continue to emerge
Mobile technologies offer a connection to their physical community when they have less time to be physically connected
Value in terms of funding and other resources for an organization to be labeled an early technological adopter