Thank you for participating in this collaborative competition. We value the time and effort you’ve put forth and we would like to offer you feedback and some thought provoking questions from our Evaluation Team. Please use this input as both potential insights into your innovations, as well as constructive ideas for how to improve or grow your organization.
The Rede Jovem Project is unique in the way it transcends the class-based information divide by using an appropriate technology that is widely available to many. However, the high cost of mobile phones could be a barrier to implementation and scalability in other low-income countries, and more clarification as to the project’s business and sustainability plan is needed.
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Temos também uma vasta gama de acessórios originais da marca para esses telefones, muito mais do que você iria encontrar na maioria das lojas. Todos os telefones celulares são totalmente nova, nunca foi bloqueada microtelefone (desbloqueado) Battery Charger (alguns podem exigir adaptadores adicionais) Inglês manual do fabricante garantia * Shipping através de serviços de correio expresso.
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since I just made a similar comment to another finalist, Alive&Kicking, let me utter a quick idea that crossed my mind while reading this. Would it be possible to have youths not only use the network and activities it promotes, but also make them active in keeping it running? Offering internships around cell phone technology, community integration, pr, lobbying etc.?
Jasper Nicolaisen
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Yes, Jasper.
We can make this project more interesting and more valuable with other ideas like yours. This is just the pilot phase. Thank you for help us!
Alice
A way to spread the use of SMS and maybe reduce the cost of the program was to estimulate celular bueyers, especially youths, to state if they to want to receive this kind of message when they buy the cel phones. As cel phone companies have phones designed to diferent users profile, when selling a phone cel to a 16 to 24 person, they might also offer a plus service, but with no cost or at leas at lower ones. I believe this could be easily done with Oi and among Oi users. I also understand government could estimulate this among other cel companies and they could also foresee it as a good social responsibility action. Rede Jovem would be responsible for message contents from NGOs and this could be a service you'll be selling. Just ideas.
Best,
Marta Litwinczik Sinoti
It is a very good idea.
Information is the only way to empower people!
The mobiles became a gadget widely used and taking the opportunity to spread information, knowledge and forming people’s conscience is a very smart and good strategy!
Congratulations!
Thank you Bart,
In Rede Jovem Program we believe, like you, that send information and knowledge to youth people is the best way to minimize the gap of oportunities, especially in Brazil.
Thanks again!
Alice
Adorei a proposta e espero que possamos estreitar a parceria com a Sec Mun de Saude para amplair o numero de jovens abrangidos pelo projeto.
Abs, Viviane
I like your idea and i was drawn to it because i was also thinking about using SMS more in our project. We train people from poor communities to use video to communicate their stories, ideas, projects and perspectives. We build local capacity so that they can continue to use this tool as a means of social mobilisation and advocacy. Id love to keep in touch with all the community members we train, directly. Currently we do this via our local NGO partners & email...but this is limited and hard to get a 2 way communication going. It would be great if these people who are on the other side of aid/development could be more involved in global debates and be able to contribute their perspectives and ideas more...they are the experts...not the development "specialists" & academics. I want to have a forum where people could send texts to individuals/beneficiaries directly. Be great also for monitoring & evaluating projects and linking with potential individual donors. Each message could add enough credit to their phone so they can then text back some replies...is this technologically possible? I wonder if any phone compny would be interested in supporting this idea? Any advice would be great. If you are interested to know more about Participatory video see our entry. Good luck!
Chris
Director Insight
I echo the sentiments of the other respondents that you've come up with a very innovative use for text messaging, Alice. To broadcast information about sports and cultural activities, employment opportunities, and health via cell phones is creative and, I'm certain, very useful for the many residents of favelas. You're also speaking to the paramount question that all of us should be confronting: How do we bridge the chasm between the very rich in our societies and everyone else, especially the very poor?
Two questions emerged for me from your entry: First, you note that 68% of Brazilian households have mobile phones and that "most" residents of favelas do. Does this figure for the favelas hover around two-thirds of households there, too? Second, is illiteracy a problem? That is, are there residents of favelas who use mobile phones for oral communication but lack the ability to read text messages? If so, is there a way for them still to share in this valuable information that you send?
Steve Byars
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
This is really interesting concept to use mobile phone technology to provide information and it sounds like it is already starting to have a positive impact in Brazil to get more young people active.
I'm interested to know if the participation rates were different for male and females? Did the girls turn up to the activities as often as the boys. I was also wondering when reading your post, what age group you have targeted for the pilot program and from what age are young people likely to start using a pre-paid mobile phone in Brazil?
Is the aim of the project to keep providing new information via sms or to keep youth regularly active once they enrol in a local sport activity?
Best regards,
Jackie
Jackie Lauff
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Hi Jackie,
Thank you for your comment and questions!
At this moment we don´t have the rates per gender, but we will provide it. It´s really interesting and important to know if the participation and the rates are diferent, between male and female youngsters. I´ll let you know as soon as we have this information.
The benefited boys and girls in the pilot program are 17-24 years old. In Brazil it´s common to start using mobile phones since 15 years old. 80% of the pre-paid phones in Brazil, are owned by people with less than 30 years.
About the aim, our great mission is to provide information. To let them know about the free opportunities available where they live. We know it´s important to keep them active, but in the pilot program it was not possible. Maybe on the next phase we can start send some "keep going" messages to them, after they start some activity.
Alice,
This is great! A friend had a good idea that you may want to incorporate which is what about adding ad-hoc notices about pick-up games. I used to play basketball on Saturday mornings and was never sure if my friends were going to show up, it would be awesome to get some sort of text notification (SMS) telling me that there was a pick up game in my neighborhood but they need a few more players, etc.
Might want to add this function too, i.e. a way to enable anyone to sign up for a geographic area and be notified of last minute opportunities that are informal and self organized. You would have to have a feature that enabled a street player to send in a note to some central location/ server that would then ping everyone in my geographic area. Sort of like the instant response messages you get when you email the subway systems in London or other US cities to get schedule delays. I send a text and get an immediate text back.
One question though - as an athlete, I totally get this project, but wondering what the social impact is that you envision beyond just having access to opportunities to play sport?
I am sure there are a ton of other ways this could be expanded!
Interesting but what has happened to our society when we have to buy off our children with sports goods or mobile phones?
Dear Ms. Gismonti:
Thank you for participating in this collaborative competition. We value the time and effort you’ve put forth and we would like to offer you feedback and some thought provoking questions from our Evaluation Team. Please use this input as both potential insights into your innovations, as well as constructive ideas for how to improve or grow your organization.
The Rede Jovem Project is unique in the way it transcends the class-based information divide by using an appropriate technology that is widely available to many. However, the high cost of mobile phones could be a barrier to implementation and scalability in other low-income countries, and more clarification as to the project’s business and sustainability plan is needed.
Warm regards,
The Changemakers Evaluation Team
Temos estoque para vender diferentes tipos de telefones celulares, consoles vídeo game (Xbox 360, psp, Ipod), em grande quantity.Find inferior à lista de produtos disponíveis.
Há desconto para grandes compras, e nossos produtos são garantidos novo produto, feito em fineland com total garantia e acessórios. SL TRANSPORTE LIVRE PARA CIMA DE 10 UNIDADES E ENCONTRAR EXTRAORDINÁRIA DA SUA UNIDADE 2 ORDER Você pode comprar estes telefones Gsm nossa loja loja on-line em preços extremamente competitivos.
Temos também uma vasta gama de acessórios originais da marca para esses telefones, muito mais do que você iria encontrar na maioria das lojas. Todos os telefones celulares são totalmente nova, nunca foi bloqueada microtelefone (desbloqueado) Battery Charger (alguns podem exigir adaptadores adicionais) Inglês manual do fabricante garantia * Shipping através de serviços de correio expresso.
Nós enviamos em qualquer lugar do mundo através de correio expresso, em 48-72working horas. Telefones / PDAs são também as especificações europeias. Multi Lingual: turco, Inglês, gregos, russos e indianos. Línguas: turco, Inglês, Português, Romeno, búlgaro, grego, holandês, russo, indiano Por favor, não hesite em contactar-nos e com os seus Quote Localização
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Hi,
since I just made a similar comment to another finalist, Alive&Kicking, let me utter a quick idea that crossed my mind while reading this. Would it be possible to have youths not only use the network and activities it promotes, but also make them active in keeping it running? Offering internships around cell phone technology, community integration, pr, lobbying etc.?
Jasper Nicolaisen
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Yes, Jasper.
We can make this project more interesting and more valuable with other ideas like yours. This is just the pilot phase. Thank you for help us!
Alice
Alice,
A way to spread the use of SMS and maybe reduce the cost of the program was to estimulate celular bueyers, especially youths, to state if they to want to receive this kind of message when they buy the cel phones. As cel phone companies have phones designed to diferent users profile, when selling a phone cel to a 16 to 24 person, they might also offer a plus service, but with no cost or at leas at lower ones. I believe this could be easily done with Oi and among Oi users. I also understand government could estimulate this among other cel companies and they could also foresee it as a good social responsibility action. Rede Jovem would be responsible for message contents from NGOs and this could be a service you'll be selling. Just ideas.
Best,
Marta Litwinczik Sinoti
It is a very good idea.
Information is the only way to empower people!
The mobiles became a gadget widely used and taking the opportunity to spread information, knowledge and forming people’s conscience is a very smart and good strategy!
Congratulations!
Thank you Bart,
In Rede Jovem Program we believe, like you, that send information and knowledge to youth people is the best way to minimize the gap of oportunities, especially in Brazil.
Thanks again!
Alice
...E manutenção da proposta de inclusão. Não podia ser diferente com equipe tão competente.
Sucesso, sempre ! (Já dei meu voto !!!)
Alê
Obrigada pelo voto! Vamos passar pra frente e conseguir muitos votos!
Com esse premio teremos muito mais chance de ampliar o projeto!
Ótima a idéia desse projeto.
Estão de parabéns!!
Anna Carolyna
Tendo sugestões, encaminhe para 0800@redejovem.org.br ok:>
Abraços,
Alice
Adorei a proposta e espero que possamos estreitar a parceria com a Sec Mun de Saude para amplair o numero de jovens abrangidos pelo projeto.
Abs, Viviane
Olá,
temos todo interesse em desenvolver um parceria com a Sec de saúde para um 0800 voltado para a saúde do Adolescente.
Farei contato para a gente organizar isso!
Abraços,
Alice
Hi ,
I like your idea and i was drawn to it because i was also thinking about using SMS more in our project. We train people from poor communities to use video to communicate their stories, ideas, projects and perspectives. We build local capacity so that they can continue to use this tool as a means of social mobilisation and advocacy. Id love to keep in touch with all the community members we train, directly. Currently we do this via our local NGO partners & email...but this is limited and hard to get a 2 way communication going. It would be great if these people who are on the other side of aid/development could be more involved in global debates and be able to contribute their perspectives and ideas more...they are the experts...not the development "specialists" & academics. I want to have a forum where people could send texts to individuals/beneficiaries directly. Be great also for monitoring & evaluating projects and linking with potential individual donors. Each message could add enough credit to their phone so they can then text back some replies...is this technologically possible? I wonder if any phone compny would be interested in supporting this idea? Any advice would be great. If you are interested to know more about Participatory video see our entry. Good luck!
Chris
Director Insight
I echo the sentiments of the other respondents that you've come up with a very innovative use for text messaging, Alice. To broadcast information about sports and cultural activities, employment opportunities, and health via cell phones is creative and, I'm certain, very useful for the many residents of favelas. You're also speaking to the paramount question that all of us should be confronting: How do we bridge the chasm between the very rich in our societies and everyone else, especially the very poor?
Two questions emerged for me from your entry: First, you note that 68% of Brazilian households have mobile phones and that "most" residents of favelas do. Does this figure for the favelas hover around two-thirds of households there, too? Second, is illiteracy a problem? That is, are there residents of favelas who use mobile phones for oral communication but lack the ability to read text messages? If so, is there a way for them still to share in this valuable information that you send?
Steve Byars
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Hi Alice,
This is really interesting concept to use mobile phone technology to provide information and it sounds like it is already starting to have a positive impact in Brazil to get more young people active.
I'm interested to know if the participation rates were different for male and females? Did the girls turn up to the activities as often as the boys. I was also wondering when reading your post, what age group you have targeted for the pilot program and from what age are young people likely to start using a pre-paid mobile phone in Brazil?
Is the aim of the project to keep providing new information via sms or to keep youth regularly active once they enrol in a local sport activity?
Best regards,
Jackie
Jackie Lauff
Free University Berlin
University Challenge
Hi Jackie,
Thank you for your comment and questions!
At this moment we don´t have the rates per gender, but we will provide it. It´s really interesting and important to know if the participation and the rates are diferent, between male and female youngsters. I´ll let you know as soon as we have this information.
The benefited boys and girls in the pilot program are 17-24 years old. In Brazil it´s common to start using mobile phones since 15 years old. 80% of the pre-paid phones in Brazil, are owned by people with less than 30 years.
About the aim, our great mission is to provide information. To let them know about the free opportunities available where they live. We know it´s important to keep them active, but in the pilot program it was not possible. Maybe on the next phase we can start send some "keep going" messages to them, after they start some activity.
Thank you again!
Alice
Alice,
This is great! A friend had a good idea that you may want to incorporate which is what about adding ad-hoc notices about pick-up games. I used to play basketball on Saturday mornings and was never sure if my friends were going to show up, it would be awesome to get some sort of text notification (SMS) telling me that there was a pick up game in my neighborhood but they need a few more players, etc.
Might want to add this function too, i.e. a way to enable anyone to sign up for a geographic area and be notified of last minute opportunities that are informal and self organized. You would have to have a feature that enabled a street player to send in a note to some central location/ server that would then ping everyone in my geographic area. Sort of like the instant response messages you get when you email the subway systems in London or other US cities to get schedule delays. I send a text and get an immediate text back.
One question though - as an athlete, I totally get this project, but wondering what the social impact is that you envision beyond just having access to opportunities to play sport?
I am sure there are a ton of other ways this could be expanded!
Awesome entry!
Z