When participants arrive, we will have an SMS poll ready for them to take via their phones or their Twitter accounts and they can choose to participate.

Intro: What is RapidPro?

SMS is the number one tool used globally to access information. We'll give a quick tour of the RapidPro SMS web application to show users what it does.

How is SMS used in 2016? Connect communication channels: Communicate with users over SMS or via social media channels. Build workflows: A beautiful GUI lets anyone create complex workflows without need for custom web development. Manage survey audience: A large toolkit for managing contacts. Collect & analyze data: All data is available for export via the API.

Deep Dive

During this part of the talk, we’ll give a detailed dive into how we built each step of the poll we used in class with RapidPro. We’ve used interesting examples in the live demo poll which provide a great way to learn about RapidPro’s extensive functionality. This section of the talk will reflect on a lot of what we've already learned during the introduction and give a more detailed description for each component of RapidPro's functionality.

API & Dashboards

An overview of the RapidPro API with examples of why to use it An overview of 2 applications that we’ve built that use the RapidPro API to create data visualizations

Hosting RapidPro

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