VozMob is a project that aims to give immigrant workers a voice by using mobile phones for popular communication. They conducted a survey of 58 day laborers across 5 worker centers and found that 78% owned a cell phone, with 29% using prepaid plans. The project then created a mobile application called Mobile Voices to allow day laborers to easily post content, send alerts and messages, and share stories using their mobile phones. The goal is to empower immigrant workers through participatory design and popular education using affordable mobile technology.

2. VozMob Projecting the voices of immigrant workers by appropriating mobile phones for popular communication www.v ozmob.net

3. Partnership

4. Supporters

5. Community partner: IDEPSCA

7. Google results for “day laborer”

8. daylaborers.org “ Do you really want this in your neighborhood?” Day Laborers site in Farmingville, Long Island, NY Photograph courtesy of Dave Drew Top result: anti-immigrant hate site

9. Who are day laborers?

10. Composite Technology Index (Modarres and Pitkin, 2006) Problem: Digital Access Inequality

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15. What features do they use?

16. Mobile Voices was created to “give voice to the voiceless”

18. Popular Education + Participatory Design

19. Free / Open Source Software + Creative Commons Content

20. System Features

22. vozmob.net CMS: edit remix tag translate share

23. Send to phones alerts groups msg of the day how-to etc…

24. export print open APIs Cross-platform

25. (Coming soon): Maps + GIS

26. Participatory graphic design

27. (Coming soon): codesigned site theme

28. Just a few of many stories

29. http://vozmob.net/en/node/777 “ Jacqueline” MADELOU

30. http://vozmob.net/en/node/6132 “ Green Gardeners in Action” RANFERI

31. http://vozmob.net/en/node/5268 “ Fiesta San Simon” DIANA

32. http://vozmob.net/en/node/6534 “ Graffiti: Social Phenomenon” MARCOS

33. http://vozmob.net/en/node/6840 “ Hands” MANUEL

34. ¡Gracias!