[liberationtech] SMS questions

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb]

Hi Richard,

Depending on the information your colleagues want to collect, and depending on how onerous the control of the telco system is, FrontLine SMS might be useful.

http://www.frontlinesms.com/
http://www.frontlinesms.com/technologies/frontlinesms-overview/

Hope it helps,
Bernard

On 27 Aug 2013, at 17:36, Richard Brooks <rrb at acm.org> wrote:

> I have colleagues living in a small country, far, far
> away with a history of rigged elections who want to
> put in place a system for collecting information
> using SMS. The local government keeps shutting
> down the systems that they put in place.
> 
> I think I understand their needs and wants. SMS is
> really not my strong point. If anyone with an understanding
> of SMS, SMS web interfaces, and/or related security issues
> would be willing to point me in the right direction
> (or discuss potential issues) I (and by extension
> they) would be grateful.
> 
> The alternative is for me to dedicate my excess cycles
> to researching those issues from scratch, which sounds
> time consuming. They kind of need help in the near future.
> 
> -Richard
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