[P2P-F] Fwd: [fcforum] JessyCom, Draft III

Mon Aug 15 17:09:11 CEST 2011

great, thanks for letting us know how this goes!

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:04 PM, marc garrett <
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> I am trying to join it now :-)
>
> marc
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> http://www.furtherfield.org
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>> From: *Dmytri Kleiner* <dk at telekommunisten.net <mailto:
>> dk at telekommunisten.net**>>
>> Date: Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:49 PM
>> Subject: [fcforum] JessyCom, Draft III
>> To: fcforum at list.fcforum.net <mailto:fcforum at list.fcforum.**net<fcforum at list.fcforum.net>
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>>
>> Hey, I'd love to have comments and feedback on this current
>> Telekommunisten project:
>>
>>
>> JessyCom, a community mobilization platform.
>>
>>
>> Some of us may remember our parents being part of a calling tree or
>> phone tree while we where in school.
>>
>> Each Parent would have a list of a few other parents, when the school
>> had a message, they would call the parents on top of the tree, who would
>> then call the other parents on their list and so on, until the entire
>> community got the message.
>>
>> Cory Doctorow, quoted by Becky Hogge in "Barefoot into Cyberspace," notes
>> that "The main job of activist organizers prior to 1995 or so was stuffing
>> envelopes and setting up phone trees [...] Mailman and Apache took 95% of
>> the heavy lifting of the shoulders of activists"
>>
>> The JessyCom system is something like Calling Tree 2.0.
>>
>> The system was inspired by the fact that many residence of the Jessy Cohen
>> neighborhood, where the system was launched, have infrequent internet
>> access and little or no calling credit.
>>
>> JessyCom implements a variation on the "Random Phone Call" broadcast
>> model to efficiently enable a community to share information by having
>> the system call people and connect them to each other on the phone,
>> creating an ad-hoc Phone Tree.
>>
>> For social movements operating in underprivileged or peripheral
>> communities participation is made possible by the fact that only
>> a phone that is able to receive incoming calls is needed,
>> calling credit is not required in most countries where inbound
>> calls are free. Internet access is not required.
>>
>> The mobile phone is by far the most ubiquitous technology on the planet,
>> no other platform can hope to reach as many people. Conservative estimate
>> of mobile phone usage indicate that 1 in 6 people globally have a mobile
>> phone, while internet access is available to less than half that number.
>>
>> And yet, despite it's accessibility, a calling tree is not inefficient.
>>
>> Each tier of the tree grows exponentially from the size of the previous
>> one, it remains a very fast and efficient system for getting
>> information out to a lot of people. Since people often answer phone
>> calls right away, but may not read email for some time, a community can
>> be mobilized a lot faster. People also generally answer the phone far
>> more often then they read bulk email, even when it comes from a wanted
>> source.
>>
>> One of the applications that military organizations have used calling
>> trees for is the rapid deployment of reserve troops.  Social movements,
>> also, could benefit from a system that can quickly deploy engaged
>> supporters.
>>
>> When people of think of Flashmobs or Smart Mobs they generally imagine
>> people using microblogging or SMS texting to organize, but telephone
>> conversations facilitate such mobilizations even more efficiently.
>>
>> The impersonal nature of the email and web pages delivered by Mailman
>> and Apache, results in more superficial and weaker links within
>> movements.
>>
>> Supporters become more inclined to simply forward generic texts and
>> links, and not often actually engage with each other to discuss and
>> spread statements and calls to action. Participants becoming more
>> focused on a nucleus of movement leaders, rather than each other.
>>
>> While Cory's claim that internet based organization eliminated 95% of the
>> work of activists may well be correct. It also removed ways in which
>> people could actually connect and engage with a movement. So movements
>> have less people actively involved and more people passively involved.
>>
>> There is quite a large difference in focus and engagement between passing
>> on a call to action by actually talking to a real person about it as a
>> part of phone tree, vs quickly clicking "like" on a Facebook status update
>> and hoping your friends will notice it.
>>
>> The JessyCom network broadcast model is based on conversations between
>> real people. Feedback allows  the person delivering the message to correct
>>
>> misunderstanding, etc, and even receive information from the personal
>> they are calling. Relationships among people who have talked to each other
>> are naturally stronger than among those email address is simply included
>> on the same distribution list.
>>
>> Telekommunisten will continue to work with the Digital Art Lab to take the
>> prototype developed as part of the Jessy Cohen Project and bring the
>> platform to other communities looking for ways to engage and mobilize.
>> Such communities are welcome to contact us to get involved.
>>
>> Information about the current Jessy Cohen Project based system can be
>> found here:
>>
>> http://www.jessycom.co.il/**about?lang=en<http://www.jessycom.co.il/about?lang=en>
>>
>> --
>> Dmyri Kleiner
>> Venture Communist
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