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Bots

    Conversational bots help make information and action more accessible across a wide range of domains, from health to voter registration.

    Resources

    • Facebook AI has built and open-sourced Blender, the largest-ever open-domain chatbot.
    • Dialogflow by Google “gives users new ways to interact with your product by building engaging voice and text-based conversational interfaces, such as voice apps and chatbots, powered by AI.”
    • IBM’s Watson Assistant is free for the first 10,000 API calls per month.
    • Microsoft’s Azure Bot Service is a managed service purpose-built for bot development.

    Change.org India’s Messenger Bot

    Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

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    ParticipaBOt

    Una plataforma de participación ciudadana digital que permite visibilizar y priorizar propuestas ciudadanas a nivel nacional

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    Cofact

    Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking

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    Belisar.io

    A bot of legislative proximity that seeks to promote communication between government and citizens through artificial intelligence.

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    CoVIg-19 Plasma Bot

    Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones

    Ask Nameesa

    Nameesa, which is an AI powered conversational and personal engagement platform that automatically responds to people inquiries about Coronavirus (COVID-19) with information from credible sources such as WHO and Ministry of Health.

    #SelfCare

    #SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.

    Rosie

    An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.

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    RadicalRelay

    Radical Relay is your feisty aunty helping you ask those questions before, during, and after an appointment or ER visit.

    Curbie

    With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.

    Roo

    Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

    Apptivism

    Helping citizens and communities to give their view on civic issues through Messenger chatbots

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    Ushahidi’s Facebook Messenger bot

    Meeting people where they already are

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    Aunt Meiyu

    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

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    Cofacts

    Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

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    Bots for Charity

    Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

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    New/Mode

    New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.

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    Chalmers

    Chalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.

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    Text Power

    MESSAGING FLOWS FOR CAMPAIGNS AND ORGANIZATIONS

    smscollect

    Build SMS bots for remote surveys

    @congressedits

    tracked edits made to Wikipedia from U.S. Capitol computers

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    LISA

    Robot Lawyer Lisa works with you and another party to generate a mutually-satisfactory Non-Disclosure Agreement without involving human lawyers

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    Amicable

    Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant andreal time support to users.

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    WeSpeak

    WeSpeak is a citizen feedback platform

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    Law Padi

    LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria. It nowprovides virtual assistance on legal issues through a chatbot.

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    Wagbot

    Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

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    Quartz Bot Studio

    The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

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    Robota

    Robota is a chatbot that guides workers to file a lawsuit against their current or former employers.

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    FarmChat

    Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

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    Health Complaints Assist

    Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

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    Botcheck.me

    We use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.

    AppCityLife

    APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

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    HelloVote

    HelloVote was an experiment in civic engagement via mobile voter registration, and was built and launched on a rapid timeline.

    Spot

    for reporting workplace harassment

    Grove.ai Democrats bot

    Chatbots for the next generation of digital organizing

    URBEM

    URBEM es una plataforma para digitalizar trámites y servicios de gobierno, y automatizar la atención ciudadana con Inteligencia Artificial.

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    Tinder bot used in UK elections

    We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.

    DoNotPay bot

    The World's First Robot Lawyer

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    WorkIt Walmart employee app

    AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

    Article One

    Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

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