Tag Archives: eGovernment

Textizen, Public Engagement using Telecom APIs

I had the good fortune to talk with Serena Wales, CTO of Textizen, about how they are using SMS to encourage people to be more involved in their communities, non-profits and local government.  Textizen uses SMS because of its ubiquity to engage people through surveys, over 90% of Americans have text. Textizen began at a […]

The Telco API: Services examples with the potential to raise ARPU by up to 36%

In a previous weblog article I discussed how the Telco API is much more than a method of exposing capabilities from telco networks to third party applications.  As these slides show, Telco API.pdf, the Telco API impacts all services in an operator’s business.  Using the classic demand curve, we can break its impact into three […]