Spacetube is a group-to-group chat tool built on top of Matrix, a secure decentralised communication protocol.

• Chat and messaging
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure.

• Digital security and privacy
• Chat and messaging

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

Polychat ermöglicht flüssige Crossplattform Kommunikation – niedrigschwellig und out-of-the-box: Statt einer gewöhnlichen Chat-Gruppe eröffnet ihr eine Polychat-Gruppe.

• Chat and messaging
• Group communication tools

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Chat and messaging

The only FOSS-based service offering Matrix chat server hosting

• Matrix

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Internal communication and coordination
• Chat and messaging

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

• Bots
• Nonprofit tech
• Chat and messaging

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram? Authenticate your preferred one with one click!

• commercial
• Discord

• Internal communication and coordination
• Chat and messaging

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Chat and messaging

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

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Chat and messaging

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Hardware
• Chat and messaging
• Justice tech

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

• WhatsApp

• Govtech vendors
• Bots
• Social impact design firms

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

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat and messaging

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

A useful comparison of videochat solutions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Chat and messaging

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

EFF Guide to Messaging

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

• maternal health
• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

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• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation