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fábrica de bots
MonterreyTu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)
A Voté chatbot sur WhatsApp
Paris, FranceIl assiste les utilisateurs dans leur parcours de vote : pour vérifier leur inscription sur les listes électorales, leur rappeler les dates limites pour s’inscrire, les dates des élections 2022 et la procédure pour faire une procuration.
Connect WhatsApp with your CRM
The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.
PetaBencana.id
JakartaPetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.
WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers
San FranciscoEnd-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan
Chequeado's WhatsApp bot
Latin AmericaLatin American fact-checking organization
The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.
Cazadores de Fake News
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)Somos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.
Wappid
ColombiaA referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp
Comprova
BrazilComprova brings together journalists from 28 different Brazilian media companies to identify and explain rumors, fabricated content and manipulation tactics that might influence the 2018 presidential election campaign.
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South AfricaPodcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Praekelt.org
Johannesburg, South AfricaWhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products
211CHECK
Juba211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.
Amandla Mobi
South AfricaAmandla.mobi is a platform that aims to "turn every cellphone in South Africa into a democracy tool" by using Whatsapp, SMS, USSD, Web and social networking to run multi-issue and multilingual campaigns so that people can connect and call for accountability on various matters.
Ask Without Shame
UgandaAsk Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS. Medical experts and counsellors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018, scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.
MobiSAM
South AfricaMobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.
GovChat
South AfricaGovChat is a web platform that also uses Whatsapp and USSD to allow citizens to connect with government representatives.
RaRaRe
58 Omorinre Johnson Street, Lekki Phase I, Lekki, NigeriaA Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa
“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.”
The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
Menlo Park, California, United StatesFor this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp: The Widespread Use of WhatsApp in Political Campaigning in the Global South
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyThe 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.
Simple. Secure. Reliable messaging.
HeLawyer
BeninHeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.
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