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    The document discusses the EPROM program which uses mobile phones to promote education, research, and entrepreneurship in Africa. EPROM is developing curriculum on mobile phone programming for universities in 10 African countries. It is also funding research projects using mobile phones such as mobile medical apps and reality mining of social networks. The program aims to help entrepreneurs create mobile applications for African markets like SMS services, alerts, and directories. Txteagle is presented as a platform allowing individuals with basic phones to perform small tasks and earn money.

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    The document discusses the EPROM program which uses mobile phones to promote education, research, and entrepreneurship in Africa. EPROM is developing curriculum on mobile phone programming for universities in 10 African countries. It is also funding research projects using mobile phones such as mobile medical apps and reality mining of social networks. The program aims to help entrepreneurs create mobile applications for African markets like SMS services, alerts, and directories. Txteagle is presented as a platform allowing individuals with basic phones to perform small tasks and earn money.

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    The document discusses the EPROM program which uses mobile phones to promote education, research, and entrepreneurship in Africa. EPROM is developing curriculum on mobile phone programming for universities in 10 African countries. It is also funding research projects using mobile phones such as mobile medical apps and reality mining of social networks. The program aims to help entrepreneurs create mobile applications for African markets like SMS services, alerts, and directories. Txteagle is presented as a platform allowing individuals with basic phones to perform small tasks and earn money.

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    Mobile Phones in Africa: Education,

    Entrepreneurship, and Research!

    Nathan Eagle!
    nathan@mit.edu!

    Who Uses Mobile


    Phones?!

    Why Africa?!
    !Africa: fastest growing

    mobile phone market in


    the world.!

    !Underserved mobile
    software market.!

    !10,000s of computer
    scientists graduating
    every year!

    EPROM:"
    Entrepreneurial Programming and Research on Mobiles!

    !Education!
    !Research !
    !Entrepreneurship!
    http://eprom.mit.edu!

    EPROM: Education"
    Developing the Curriculum...!

    !Python for Rapid


    Prototyping!

    !SMS Bootcamp!
    !Mobile Phone
    Programming for
    Entrepreneurs!

    !Java: MIDP Development!


    !Mobile Web Apps!

    EPROM: Education"
    Expanding the Curriculum!
    10 countries:!

    Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Senegal, Ghana,


    South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria !

    !Under the direction of 15 local computer science


    professors and lecturers!

    EPROM: Research!
    !mDSS - Mobile Medicine!
    !Sim-Based App Dev!
    !Realty Mining Africa!
    !SMS Bloodbank!
    !BoonaNet!

    EPROM: Entrepreneurship"
    Mobile Application Development!

    !SMS Gateway!
    !Air Time Regulator!
    !Stolen Car Alerts!
    !Business Directories!
    !Pre-Paid Electricity!
    !Weather Forecasts!
    !MoSoko (Craigs List)!
    !Crush Lists...!

    txteagle!

    txteagle!

    Kenya!
    ! - English Speaking!
    ! - >75% Literacy Rates!
    ! - 12M mobile phone subscribers !
    Yet almost half the country is unemployed. !

    txteagle!

    There are over 1 billion literate, mobile phone


    subscribers in the developing world, many living on
    less than $5 a day. !

    txteagle!

    Corporations are inundated with small tasks


    that need to be done. !

    txteagle!

    How to increase ARPU?!


    How to monetize underutilized capacity?!

    txteagle!

    We can now enable these tasks to be


    distributed and completed via a mobile
    phone anywhere in the world.!

    txteagle!

    Kenya!

    The Dominican Republic!

    txteagle!

    Compensate subscribers for reporting


    news as it happens.!

    txteagle!

    Accumulate enough txteagle credit, and


    have a bank account opened in your
    name.!

    txteagle!

    Grameen VPOs have downtime too!


    Multiple accounts can be set up for
    users of a single phone. !

    txteagle!

    The Voice Channel !


    Targeted Radio Ads? !
    Market Research?!

    Network Data Mining: !


    Behavioral Inference of Complex Social Networks in
    the Developing World!

    Reality Mining!

    Eagle, N. Machine Perception and Learning of Complex Social


    Systems", PhD Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2005.

    Network Data Mining!


    UK!
    ! - 1 month (Aug 05)!
    ! - 12B calls!
    ! - 250M unique numbers!
    Rwanda!
    ! - 3.5 years (2005 - present)!
    ! - 1M subscribers!
    ! - Course Tower Data!
    Coming soon:!
    ! - Kenya, Bolivia !

    External Connections!
    International Calls to and from Rwanda!

    Diffusion over the


    Network!

    !Computational
    Epidemiology !
    !"Pathogens" in Social
    Networks!

    !"Infecting" the Right


    People!

    !Quantifying Influence!

    Large-Scale Behavior!

    Diversity & Deprivation!

    N. Eagle. Behavioral Inference Across Cultures: Using Telephones as a Cultural Lens, IEEE
    Intelligent Systems, Aug. 2008, Vol 23 (4), pp. 60-62.

    Example Projects!

    Images from the SENSEable City Laboratory: http://senseable.mit.edu/

    Get Involved.!

    Nathan Eagle!
    nathan@mit.edu!

    txteagle!

    Got tasks?!

    Nathan Eagle!
    nathan@txteagle.com!

    Get Involved.!

    Nathan Eagle!
    nathan@santafe.edu!

    Thanks.!

    EPROM: Education"
    Python for Rapid Prototyping...!
    import appuifw
    appuifw.note(uHello World!)

    !Cross Platform!
    !Open Source !
    !Successful (Google, NASA, etc)!
    !Scripting Language!
    !Extending and embedding abilities!
    !Good standard library!
    !Reasonable memory footprint!
    !Access to full phone functionality!

    Image from: Michele Marchetti, Python brings application ideas to life NRC 2004

    Cheap Phones"
    Decade-old Technology"
    Price of an unlocked
    GSM phone with simcard and airtime in
    Nairobi: $15 (USD) !

    The Mechanical Turk"


    Artificial Artificial Intelligence"
    There are over 1 billion
    literate, mobile phone
    subscribers in the
    developing world, many
    living on less than $3 a
    day. !

    Deployment!
    txteagle prototypes:!
    Bolivia!
    Rwanda!
    Uganda!
    The Dominican Republic!

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