Add a text hotline to your services for fractions of a cent per text! Carrier Pigeon lets your team receive & reply to clients’ texts in Slack. Carrier Pigeon is currently used by abortion access organizations to provide information, find clinics, and answer clients' questions - securely & confidentially.

• Slack

• SMS tools
• Hotlines

SMSsync is a simple, yet powerful SMS to HTTP sync utility that turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway by sending incoming messages(SMS) to a configured URL (web service).

• apps

• SMS tools

The All-In-One platform for citizen-centric campaigns

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal 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

The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).

• guides

• SMS tools
• Participatory budgeting

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Digital participation platforms