Mobile Devices in Evangelism and World Missions in a Digital Age Timothy Jore

Media use in 2000

Media use in 2010

The rise of the mobile phone in 10 years

The rise of the mobile phone in 1 year

71 babies 406 new mobile phones In each minute were together...

What can a mobile phone do?

Why is mobile growing so rapidly? Communication & social connectivity Economic opportunities Information & education Entertainment Content creation Personal technology

so what?

Everyone, everywhere is equipping themselves with the technology to hear (and watch) the Gospel.

Sideloading enables a crowd-sourced, low-cost, Internet- independent content distribution model

Mobile Evangelists

Portable Hotspot 100s of GB of evangelistic videos Provides WiFi hotspot Web downloads to any WiFi-capable phone

Which is easier to smuggle into a limited-access country?

The only library some will ever have books audio video

books audio video A tool to create, not just consume

The Mobile Ministry Forum Consortium of ministries using mobile Learning together Working together 2 nd Annual Consultation, December 11-13

Questions?

A Calling

How will we reach the least of these?

The traditional content-creation model

An emerging content-creation model

Features of this new model Openly collaborative Self-selecting Massively distributed Technology (mobile)- enabled Incredibly capable

Traditional model: Britannica 120,000 articles (web) 1 language <5,000 contributors restricted access, read-only

Openly collaborative model: Wikipedia 20+ million articles ~270 languages 15.7 million contributors unrestricted access, read/write (open collaboration)

Volumes of Britannica

Volumes of Wikipedia

A brief, painless guide to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) copyright just happens copyright = all rights reserved

IPR Pop Quiz Q: what can you legally do with copyrighted content? A: whatever you have permission to do

An Obstacle

Open Bible Stories 30 stories of the Bible, in every language, in text, audio & mobile video door43.org/stories

The future of the global church is Open!

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