Listly by Beth Kanter
This is a list of examples of good bot design and marketing. Not all of them are from nonprofits, but a good list to give you some ideas to design.
.This bot was launched to promote a series on National Geographic Television. While it is no longer active, you can read about how a more sophisticated bot works. It was developed with AI programming language so when you chatted with it, it was like chatting with the real Einstein.
The Pope's Bot can help you be more spirtual
This bot is designed by a nonprofit in South Africa to help pregnant women receive important health information via Facebook Messenger.
This bot dispenses great advice and tips for marketing your bot. While not nonprofit specific, the content is useful. But more importantly, this bot illustrates the potential for using bots to deliver educational content. This bot is more advanced and takes a bit of design work.
This bot is about how to design and market bots . While the information is about selling different services, there are some good tips and examples.
This bot is designed to help Facebook Fans sign up for more information about Climate Reality. Example of use of bot for lead building.
Designed to engage people in a conversation with "Yeshi" a young girl from Ethiopia on her daily walk to get water.
Use of Bots for youth engagement around a development report
Robot therapist.
This bot will share the history of Anne Frank or help you plan your visit
This bot shares the history and educates about democracy in Australia.
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This report from the ICRC looks at the overall trend of messaging and considerations about how it can be used by humanitarian organizations to deliver services to vulnerable populations like refugees or getting food to those in famine areas or to influence public policy.
Here are 6 chatbots, developed using AI and cognitive APIs, that are helping improve the world, for everyone.
How the WFP developed it pilot and what it learned
Research on the adoption and use of messaging.
SEATTLE – A local nonprofit is using chat-bot technology to scare people if they try to buy sex online.With the help of volunteer programmers from Microsoft, Robert Beiser and his group Seattle Against Slavery are creating chat bots to pose as online sex w
After an election year marked by heated exchanges and the
distribution of fake news, Twitter bots earned a bad
reputation—but not all bots are bad, suggests a new study
co-authored by Emilio Ferrara, a USC Information Sciences
Institute computer scientist and a research assistant professor
in the department of computer science at the USC Viterbi
School of Engineering.
Paper is here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184148
In this episode, I spoke with Marc-André Séguin, an immigration lawyer with the firm Exeo, in Montreal. Earlier this year, Marc-André and his partner Francis Tourigny, launched the first immigration chatbot in Canada. Immigration Virtual Assistant, or IVA, is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot.
Want to make Canada your new home? Explore your options.
Artificial intelligence (AI) combined with our human ingenuity is helping us “do good” in new and better ways.
Why you should care about bots if you care about social justice
You can order food, schedule flights, and get recommendations for pretty much anything you can think of. We’re still in the early days, but all the latest chatbot statistics all say the same thing…
Accessed through Facebook, the chatbot allows users to experience the life of Sellu, a farmer and fisherman in Sierra Leone