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VozMob

Projecting the voices of immigrant workers by appropriating mobile phones for popular communicationwww.vozmob.net

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Google day laborer

DAYLABORERS.ORGSome of the most violent murderers, rapists, and child molesters, are illegal aliens who work as day laborers

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

Who are day laborers?

El mercado de jornaleros esta lleno de violaciones de los derechos de los trabajadores. A los Jornaleros no les pagan por su trabajo regularmente, y muchos son expuestos a lugares de trabajo peligrosos, y la mayora reciben abusos e insultos de parte de sus empleadores. El crecimiento de las esquinas combinadas con el crecimiento de violaciones de los derechos de los trabajadores es una tendencia nacional y debe de preocuparles a todos los niveles del gobierno.

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

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Research: mobile phone survey at day laborer centers

78% of the workers currently own a mobile phone.

When asked how many times a day they use their phone, 36% reported using it between 5 to 10 times day, 31% reported 1 to 5 times a day and 25% reported more than 10 times.

We surveyed 58 day laborers in 5 worker centers

78% have a cell phone29% use a pre-paid planWe found:

What do they use their phones for?

What features do they use?

Popular Education

Participatory design

Free / Open Source Software+ Creative Commons Content

System Features

Just a few of many stories

http://vozmob.net/en/node/777

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http://vozmob.net/en/node/5268Fiesta San SimonDIANA

http://vozmob.net/en/node/6534Graffiti: Social PhenomenonMARCOS

http://vozmob.net/en/node/6840HandsMANUEL

Gracias!

08/10/10

08/10/10