Reach More People: SMS Data Collection with RapidPro

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Claim: SMS reaches broad audiences — more than 90% of the world's population over 6 will have a cell phone by 2020 and 350 billion text messages are sent every month — and RapidPro actually builds workflows, collects responses, stores expressions/variables, and exposes a live API. Examples: Rwanda health reporting, Libya SMS voter registration, a demo calling an external Pokémon API (812 Pokémon) that sometimes fails. Built artifacts: Flow editor, CSV export, a Track Pro dashboard using celery and Highmaps — real dashboards that run and scale; hosted option TextIt exists.

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1. 0:00SMS data collection intro
2. 2:52Why SMS for data collection
3. 7:52RapidPro features
4. 11:48Today's survey flow
5. 23:51RapidPro API for analysis
6. 28:05Summary and getting started
7. 30:55Q&A on trust and API

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