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This would be used for a non-partisan election time get out the vote? A volunteer team bank would phone people up, say we are from the neutral Public Whip organisation, and would they like customised information about their MP, and reminder of how they have voted on their behalf over the years? There would be a script which in a chatty way people could say what they thought of various political issues, and we'd remind them of the long spent anger / love for their MP, reinvigorating them to get out and vote for / against them. Would be interested in what other uses for such a phone bank we could use. Another idea - distributed, phone based campaignsy Citizens Advice Bureaux. People volunteer to help others out who want to lobby or alter policy in some way. They call up, and the volunteers offer them advice and help them set up a petition / make an FOI request etc. Francis On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 06:03:08PM +0100, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > Is anyone interested in the idea of using Asterisk, plus increasingly big and > cheap GSM/UMTS bundles, to create a distributed phone bank? > > Volunteers state times they are available and this is held in the database - > richer information, like locations or areas of interest, could be held as > well > - and someone initiates a campaign. It retrieves the volunteers who match the > criteria, then iterates through them, initiating a call to them, playing a > briefing message, and then bridging them to the target number. You could then > do some post call processing, perhaps keeping a log of what happened on the > call. It could get smarter, too, perhaps messaging people by fancy criteria - > group membership and location, for example - and there is no reason why it > couldn't do inbound as well. > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoabbIACgkQhRiKo+HhcsDJUgCfaVBtx1kM2oGwQjJFPJoZZ4aZ 0c0AoIJAvRj6B8Gxrt6aHs5o65aT7iAe =AU9Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
