An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

• US Election 2024

• Emerging tech
• Bots
• Generative AI

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Interactive Voice Response

Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective

• Bots
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Reports

Clara es la Asistencia Virtual del portal Decide Madrid. Utiliza tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial y el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.

• Bots
• Nonprofit tech
• Chat

WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

• OpenStreetMap

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Crowdsourcing

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent

• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Technology to strengthen citizens - Transforma a tu organización en aliada de la ciudadanía.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Latin American fact-checking organization

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.

• Twitter

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

Você sabia que muitos problemas da gestão pública podem ser solucionados com Inteligência Artificial ?

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less. One of the reasons why this happens is that we become captivated by extremists on the other side who overshadow more moderate voices. The bots below retweet messages 12 by moderates each day who our research indicates resonates with members of the other party. We also screen out messages that score high on toxicity/incivility.

• Twitter

• Bots
• Filter bubble poppers

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

Twitter bot that tweets US Capitol Hill jobs from nearly 20 sources. By Demand Progress.

• Bots
• Job boards

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

• census

• Bots

#SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.

• apps

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

A Twitter bot to tweet out procurements on SAM.gov occurring for the legislative branch

• Twitter

• Bots
• Procurement oversight

fábrica de bots (digitaliza, automatiza y analiza tus procesos) servicios y consultoría

• Bots
• Social impact design firms

WhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat

Chat can change a life

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Govtech
• Bots
• Issue reporting

With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.

• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• Bots

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Emerging Tech Projects

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant andreal time support to users.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

Holopolis bot allows always available participation. It packages vTaiwan as a contact you can add friend with and share your opinions on cases under discussion.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Helping citizens and communities to give their view on civic issues through Messenger chatbots

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

for reporting workplace harassment

• harassment

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.

• Bots
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking

• LINE

• Fight disinformation
• Emerging tech
• Bots

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic data

Chalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech