To support the development activity within MoFS, we are going to start open discussion about the usage of the travel card in Finland. More than that, we are interested in the possibilities to utilize the mobile phone in those same settings. What would you expect from a mobile phone that would take the place of a travel card and act as a ticket in public transportation?
We are interested in the different ways how people use the travel card and would like to hear "travel card stories": What are the typical ways to use the travel card? What kind of good experiences people have in using it? And, on the other hand,we are also interested in the possible problems as well: Are there occasions in which the travel card has not performed according to the expectations? Should someone have experience in using similar systems elsewhere, that is of interest, too.
If you are interested in contributing to this issue, just post a message here in the MoFS seed of this RTE Community forum. But if you wish to give your feedback anonymously, you can also use the form (see the link at the end; The form is currently in Finnish, but do use the only text field of the form for that and omit the rest of the form, we aim at fixing the language issue...)
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MoFS-projektiin liittyen olemme käynnistäneet avoimen keskustelun ja tiedonkeruun matkakortin käytöstä ja mahdollisuuksista korvata matkakortti kännykällä. Olisitko sinä valmis vaihtamaan matkakorttisi kännykällä käytettävään palveluun? Millaisia odotuksia sinulla olisi tällaisen palvelun suhteen?
Olemme samalla myös kiinnostuneita yleisemmin matkakortin käytöstä, käyttötavoista ja käyttökokemuksista. Millaisia hyviä kokemuksia sinulla on matkakortin käytöstä? Oletko joskus törmännyt tilanteeseen, jossa se ei ole toiminutkaan odottamallasi tavalla? Molemman tyyppiset tarinat ovat näkökulmastamme kiinnostavia. Kerro sellainen meille!
Toivomme, että asiasta voidaan käydä keskustelua tällä keskustelufoorumilla, mutta ajatuksia voi lähettää myös anonyymisti www-lomakkeen kautta. Lomake löytyy osoitteesta http://tinyurl.com/d8ekfw.
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Ok, sorry for posting the original message in Finnish only. Now there is a translation into English included as well. Thanks for the notification :)
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The problem with converging technology is that it also leads to converging risks. Therefore it should always ring a moral bell when someone deliberates still one more use for already powerful mobile devices. As a matter of fact I presented just about this topic to Nokia some two weeks ago. They asked me beforehand to create a scenario for the future. As my presentation was all about privacy concerns I wrote a short dystopic story for them. I'll post here an excerpt from that story as it relates to mobile phones as a payment method. Hope you excuse me for a slightly longer post!
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...The most critical change that took place is a classic example of a failure of market forces when left alone to work without rigorous moral considerations. In the end it was all about a very simple and as such a supportable thing - decreasing the transaction costs. Transaction, the manifestation of an exchange, is the most basic element of the market economy. Being so basic and common they take place in billions every day, giving the corporations billions of reasons to care about their cost. So the goal was to decrease the transaction cost for making any purchase by leveraging the modern mobile technology.
By that time almost all of the people had a mobile phone. First it was made possible to reliably identify the carrier of a mobile phone that was done by adding a small chip in each of the phones. As an end result the corporations had streets full of identifiable people and it was about time to take advantage of that. In their next move, they played a very clever round of chess here, it was made possible to make a purchase simply by using your identifiable phone. All you needed to do in a shop was to get the things you wanted and walk away. The shop surveillance system would automatically detect everything you bought together with your identity and charge your bank account accordingly.
Soon the politicians had yet another visiting delegate of businessmen. This time, as always, they came with a lot of information. First they showed the politicians how happy people were with the new and easy way of bying. They had figures and they had interviews and it all glorified the benefits the people gained. They also showed how low the transaction costs had sunk. The evidence was clear. Everyone was winning and it was easy for the politicians to decide that this was the way to go and other methods of payment wasn’t practically needed anymore. Use of any other payment method became very expensive and soon withered away. The same had happened earlier to banking when people were forced online with high service fees at the counter.
The new way of payment was quickly deployed everywhere: in the public transportation, in the libraries, even in the hospitals. From this point on it was practically impossible for anyone to do anything without carrying an identifiable phone with them. This way, in effect, the corporations had crushed the resistance of the few who still hadn’t opt in for the mobile revolution. Now the market was irresistibly open for their dominance...
