Radically Reshaping the Future of Mobile Information Creation, Access and Sharing
This two-day Summit event aims to think disruptively and imaginatively about what the future might bring for Base-of-Pyramid mobile users over the next five to ten years. We’ll be considering the devices, services, content, interfaces and interactions that could transform uptake and benefits within these communities. We will also be thinking about what this fresh thinking might mean for “rest of the world” users, and whether there are overlooked alternatives to the orthodoxy of current platforms.
Together, attendees will create a series of probes, concepts, design provocations and innovations that will be distilled by the second day of the event. Our team will then present a selection of these to stakeholders and users to garner initial reactions and suggestions that will help us develop a series of locally designed and deployed prototypes.
Event details
Location: Microsoft Research India, Bangalore (see map)
Dates: 25th & 26th June 2015 (see agenda, below)
Booking: The event is by invitation and limited in numbers; we want to ensure a great balance of different perspectives. Please register your interest if you would like to take part.
The event is free to attend, and will include all refreshments and a dinner. Attendees will need to fund their own travel and other costs.
Agenda — 25th & 26th June, 2015
| Day 1 | Activity | Day 2 | Activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Registration opens; breakfast and coffee available | 08:30 | Breakfast and coffee available | |
| 09:30 | Introduction and scene setting | 09:30 | Introduction: Day 2 in focus, and reflections from wider partners on the first day's outputs | |
| 10:00 | Who is in the room? | 10:00 | Getting physical. A short tutorial on three key technology themes that will define the future of mobile interaction in the near future | |
| 10:15 | Radical hack. Participants will spend time in each of four "departure stations," thinking about and sketching their ideas for how the materials given could be used to create, access or share content | 10:15 | Creating scenarios. Lots of technologies are imagined to be the future of technology in the "developed" world, but there are few examples of their use elsewhere. Here participants will create scenarios to imagine what these could mean for Base-of-Pyramid contexts | |
| 11:30 | Break | 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:45 | Participants choose the area they felt most creative at and, in a group, create a "hack narrative" of their ideas | 11:45 | Participants choose the technology they felt most creative with, and work on a scenario, or their main critique of it | |
| 12:30 | Report back from radical hack | 12:30 | Report back from physical hack | |
| 13:00 | Lunch, refreshments and networking | 13:00 | Lunch, refreshments and networking | |
| 14:30 | Building from enablers. Questions will be posed for the groups of participants to answer with regards to several key themes in Base-of-Pyramid mobiles | 14:30 | Probe provocation idea fair. All the ideas from the Summit will be displayed, and participants will have chance to browse and critique, then choose the most promising from their perspective | |
| 15:30 | Break | 15:30 | Break | |
| 15.45 | Given the outputs of the previous session, participants will think about what we could really build for Base-of-Pyramid users in the next three to ten years | 15:45 | Review of the event and look forward to the future | |
| 16:30 | Report back from building from enablers | |||
| 17:00 | Day 1 summary; forward look to Day 2 | 17:00 | Close | |
| 17:30 | Close and depart for dinner |