A presentation by Peter Andries, ATiT Youth Anti-Corruption Forum in Brussels on 27 May 2010. Session: ICT for Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC)

1. Pigeon An SMS based networking & data collection tool

2. Where did the idea come from? Conferences / workshops Looking for a mechanism to: let participants contact each other data collection from audiences Common technological denominator: SMS Standalone PC equipped with GSM modem Pigeon software

3. What technology is used SMS Server Tools 3 Free software package that can be used to send and receive text message GSM modem or mobile phone with PC Cable Drupal on WAMP or LAMP Opensource web application framework Custom coding Link between Drupal and the SMS Server Tools Interface, logic

5. Some screenshots

6. How does it work? Data collection tool Questions for the respondents can be added and are assigned a unique code (voting, polls) Questions can be asked by participants by means of texting Statistical processing possible

7. Questions that come in from the audience Questions that are asked to the audience

10. What can you do with it? Conference Workshop Forum, e-mail, web Radio, podcast TV Leaflets Newspaper …

11. Care to try it out?