Information and Communication Technologies for Development

This has been a busy week for the Assured Labor D-Lab Team. We got people's fantasy jobs and phone numbers in order to test out the prototype, but haven't sent them any messages yet because I'm still implementing the features requested by Luis and Gari, who we met with on Tuesday morning. I'm going to finish implementing those features by Saturday, when Joseph and I will shoot the demo movie of the prototype in action. So after the movie is shot, I will migrate my code and database *back* to my desktop PC in CSAIL which, unlike my laptop, can be on and processing SMS messages 24/7, and then I'll send out fantasy job invites. We also met with Gari last night for a practice run of our presentation. Thanks to Joseph for taking a lead role in the creation of the slides, and thanks to, well, everyone, for being great speakers. We managed to give everyone a speaking part in the presentation. (That was a discussion we had earlier, since some people think two speakers is better than four.) We're still waiting to hear back from people coordinating field testing in Portuguese communities in Boston, and I'm crossing my fingers!