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

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

• WhatsApp

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 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

For 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.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

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

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

• maternal health
• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots