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

Mobile Devices in Evangelism and World Missions in a

Digital Age

Timothy Jore

www.distantshoresmedia.org

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 we’re 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

http://mobileministryforum.org

Consortium of ministries using mobile

Learning together

Working together

2nd 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 Stories30 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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