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Únete al canal oficial de la campaña Harris-Walz para recibir anuncios importantes, contenido exclusivo, y mucho más. (with 28k followers)
InOut.bot
WyomingInOut.bot uses the official WhatsApp API from Meta to send and receive your messages to/from the most popular platforms. Works with IFTTT.
Gali Fakta
IndianaA new kind of media literacy game specifically tailored for an Indonesian audience.
Chat for GenAI Accelerator '24
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility.
To help build a better future for refugees, UNHCR’s chat services suit their preferences, meet their needs, and safeguard their data
Chat for Impact
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)WhatsApp community hosted by turn.io
Voices of Venezuela
ColombiaVoices of Venezuela fue creado para construir un puente de entendimiento entre culturas, para combatir la xenofobia y mostrarle al mundo que los venezolanos contribuyen a sus comunidades de acogida, permitiendo que todos prosperen. Website is down but social media is active.
Farmer.CHAT
India (Bhārat)An AI Assistant by Gooey.AI and Digital Green to make vetted farmer knowledge accessible.
SocorroBot
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.
Whatsapp Link Extractor
LondonOur WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.
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.
WhatsApp Proxy feature
Menlo Park, California, United StatesWhat 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's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks
Cazadores de Fake News
Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaSomos 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.
The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.
Wappid
ColombiaA referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Comprova
Brazil (Brasil)Comprova 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.
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
fábrica de bots
MonterreyTu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)
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.
GovChat
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)GovChat is a web platform that also uses Whatsapp and USSD to allow citizens to connect with government representatives.
Simple. Secure. Reliable 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.”
Grassroot
Johannesburg, South AfricaGrassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.
Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
Ask Without Shame
UgandaAsk Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology
HeLawyer
Benin (Bénin)HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and 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.
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.
Amandla Mobi
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Amandla.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.
RaRaRe
58 Omorinre Johnson Street, Lekki Phase I, Lekki, NigeriaA Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa
MobiSAM
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)MobiSAM (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.
Turn.io (previously Engage Whatsapp app)
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Change the face of social impact engagement globally
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