PetaBencana.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

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

People can request digital security help using their everyday messaging apps. We provide secure Signal, Whatsapp & Telegram channels for your community.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A research paper

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

The company behind Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram

• commercial

• Social media

Esta é uma plataforma de monitoramento de casos que levaram, puderam levar ou podem levar a bloqueios de aplicações de Internet no Brasil. Aqui se encontram materiais originais e análises, em português e inglês, de casos envolvendo bloqueios no país.

• free speech

• Circumvention tech
• Timelines

The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Engagement journalism

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.

• WhatsApp
• Telegram

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Indonesian Whatsapp hotline

• WhatsApp

• Fight disinformation

A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

TSE coordinated a fact-checking coalition, comprising nine renowned fact-checking organizations from the media, named “Coalizão para Checagem – Eleições 2020” (Fact-Checking Coalition – 2020 Elections).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• Chat and messaging

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

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat and messaging

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Turn helps social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations that improve lives at scale.

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
• COVID Engagement Projects

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.

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa

• WhatsApp

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

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

GovChat is a web platform that also uses Whatsapp and USSD to allow citizens to connect with government representatives.

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology

• WhatsApp

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

• US Election 2020
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.

• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Platform coops

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.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Grassroot 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.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy