Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Mobile Text Messaging

Not everyone can afford a laptop.

Or find an internet connection. In Algeria, 1.9 million people use the internet regularly. However, nearly everyone has a mobile phone. To be exact, Algeria has 28 million mobile subscribers and that is projected to increase to 36 million subscribers over the next two years. Wireless penetration level in Algeria will increase from 82.5% to 104.3% by 2010.

Tomorrow we'll discuss how the Utah Senate has experimented with mobile text messaging to communicate.

With the right utilization, this tool could be incredibly effective here.

I talked to the visionaries at Vox Parters about this presentation and they were very positive. In fact, they believe Algeria is in a prime position to pioneer mobile information potential. Here is a Power Point Presentation they sent along of some ideas you might consider.

See you tomorrow.

5 comments:

Wendy Madsen said...

... cibarA ni gnipyt erew fi sa thgir ot tfel gnidaer si txet ym tub ,won tghir hsignE ni gnipyt maI .pirt siht fo tsom eht ot drawrof gnikool ma I taht noitatneserp eht si sihT

Wendy Madsen said...

Can you tell what's going on in my last comment? (Scroll down if you can't figure it out.)

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For some reason, as I was typing my comment, the screen was filling in the text right to left, as if I were typing in Arabic ... how cool is that? Brain teaser for the day: Decifer the message in the previous post!

Fleur said...

That sevirra em netfo gnirud ym noitalipmoc! I etirw ni hcnerF dna nehw I ssap sdrawot eht barA, I tegrof ecid emit ot egnahc eht egaugnal ro eciv sdrawot that, neht ym txet seog tuo sa eht ruoy. tI si ynnuf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Arabic is a very very beautiful language I like a lot. This is my native language

"كان الملتقى جد رائع، احب كثيرا العمل الجماعي"

Ric Cantrell said...

Thanks FZ. I love it too. Your language looks beautiful and it has a powerful sound.

FZ and Wendy: Tuo ti derugif yllanif i!!! Wow.

Wendy Madsen said...

Perhaps we have discovered a new secret code! Anyone else figure it out, yet?

Fatmazohra, IFEL gave each of the NCSL faculty one of the posters from the conference and I will treasure it because of the artistic Arabic letters flowing right to left.