Items tagged by thomwithoutanh in Messaging Apps https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/messaging-apps/user/thomwithoutanh TagTeam social RSS aggregrator An open source, two-way communication platform for NGOs to interact with 1000s of beneficiaries at the same time Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:52:28 -0400 https://glific.org/ https://glific.org/ messagingapps Mon, 24 Jul 2017 12:27:37 -0400 http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/?_sp=9e3985e1-ce69-4d72-8ac3-12f5f695c6e1.1500897521032#z1Dey6AZdOqg http://mashable.com/2017/07/21/china-spyware-xinjiang/?_sp=9e3985e1-ce69-4d72-8ac3-12f5f695c6e1.1500897521032#z1Dey6AZdOqg Mon, 27 Feb 2017 01:19:00 -0500 https://qz.com/510899/whatsapp-is-now-the-primary-platform-for-political-trash-talk-in-tanzanias-election-campaign/ Fri, 20 Jan 2017 03:03:02 -0500 http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687 http://technosociology.org/?page_id=1687 messagingapps Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:02:28 -0500 http://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/cosmopolitan-las-vegas http://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/cosmopolitan-las-vegas messagingapps bots Thu, 19 Jan 2017 11:00:10 -0500 https://medium.com/@jswallez/from-1-to-100k-users-in-48-hours-b8c3f306fc17#.d28965dak https://medium.com/@jswallez/from-1-to-100k-users-in-48-hours-b8c3f306fc17#.d28965dak messagingapps Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:58:23 -0500 https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/app-downloads-up-15-percent-in-2016-revenue-up-40-percent-thanks-to-china/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/app-downloads-up-15-percent-in-2016-revenue-up-40-percent-thanks-to-china/ messagingapps Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:58:11 -0500 https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-17-at-10-02-01-am.png?w=680&h=526 https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-17-at-10-02-01-am.png?w=680&h=526 messagingapps Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:04:13 -0500 https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/oct/11/digital-sweatshops-in-disaster-zones-who-pays-the-real-price-for-innovation https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/oct/11/digital-sweatshops-in-disaster-zones-who-pays-the-real-price-for-innovation messagingapps humanitarian Thu, 19 Jan 2017 09:32:57 -0500 https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6077 https://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=6077 backdoor security messagingapps mation flows among social mobilizers and created feedback loops that unlocked new incentives. Use of peer-to-peer networking through the WhatsApp platform also produced the unintended benefit of serving as an important source of motivational encouragement for social mobilizers. Mercy Corps learning manager Sophie Roden described this benefit, saying, “Peer-to-peer networks like WhatsApp enabled young people to learn from each other, and encouraged staff to persevere in difficult contexts. Many [social mobilizers] were motivated to go the extra mile to hard-to-reach communities because they could share photos and their experience across the ECAP social mobilizer [network] and receive support from project staff.” Fri, 13 Jan 2017 12:31:26 -0500 https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/data-use-and-digitization https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/data-use-and-digitization messagingapps Data itself is increasingly harnessed for political ends, and bots are much better and faster than humans at scooping up data from one place and pointedly making it visible in another. Another Twitter bot @EveryTrumpDonor hooks into the US Federal Election database and tweets the name, location and occupation of - you've guessed it - every Trump donor. @stopandfrisk tweets every stop-and-search conducted by the NYPD in 2011. In Panama City, potholes weren't getting fixed - until a local TV station set up small pressure pads that automatically tweeted a complaint to the Department of Public Works every time a car disturbed them. Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:12:23 -0500 http://www.wired.co.uk/article/politics-governments-bots-twitter http://www.wired.co.uk/article/politics-governments-bots-twitter messagingapps bots wired carlmiller Chatbot retention has been a real problem. It’s so poor that most people don’t even get past the first two messages. According to İlker Köksal, the CEO of BotAnalytics, the initial drop-off is huge: “About 40 percent of users never get past the first text, and another 25 percent drop off after the second message. Daily retention rate is at a paltry 1–2 percent, and the monthly retention rate for bots isn’t much better, sitting at about 7 percent.” Fortunately, after hacking for the better part of 6 months, a few bots — such as the weather bot Poncho — have found the light and are seeing awesome retention and engagement rat Thu, 12 Jan 2017 05:48:46 -0500 http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/21/3-tips-on-improving-chatbot-retention/?imm_mid=0ec217&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20170111 http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/21/3-tips-on-improving-chatbot-retention/?imm_mid=0ec217&cmp=em-data-na-na-newsltr_20170111 messagingapps Thu, 12 Jan 2017 05:48:09 -0500 https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/an-overview-of-the-bot-landscape https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/an-overview-of-the-bot-landscape messagingapps A decade ago there were only 129m mobile-phone subscriptions in the whole of Africa, though even that was already ten times more than the number of fixed-line phones. But since then the number of active subscriptions has jumped to almost 1bn. At first blush that would suggest that just about every African (there are 1.2bn of them, with north Africa included) now has a phone. In fact, a large number of Africans have are consummate arbitrageurs of tariffs, switching SIM cards in and out of their phones depending on whom they are calling. Dig a little deeper into the data and it turns out that fewer than half of Africans have phones. Those who do tend to live in cities and are richer and better educated than the half who do not. The latter risk being left even further behind. This divide is even more extreme when it comes to gaining access to the internet. Although mobile phones have revolutionised the way Africans get online—most have jumped to cyberspace directly on their phones rather than on computers connected through fixed lines—many are still not connected to the world. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reckons that three-quarters of Africans do not use the internet, compared with just 21% of Europeans (see map). Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:41:24 -0500 http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21711511-mobile-phones-are-transforming-africa-where-they-can-get-signal-mobile-phones http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21711511-mobile-phones-are-transforming-africa-where-they-can-get-signal-mobile-phones messagingapps Mon, 09 Jan 2017 04:56:05 -0500 https://thenounproject.com/term/message/16033/ https://thenounproject.com/term/message/16033/ messagingapps Thu, 05 Jan 2017 08:01:17 -0500 http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12319610/whatsapp-forensic-security-deleted-chats-encryption http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12319610/whatsapp-forensic-security-deleted-chats-encryption messagingapps Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:30:25 -0500 https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-sci-tech/56787/registration-of-popular-telegram-channels-mandatory-in-iran https://financialtribune.com/articles/economy-sci-tech/56787/registration-of-popular-telegram-channels-mandatory-in-iran messagingapps Wed, 04 Jan 2017 12:29:45 -0500 https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/opinion/wire/ https://crysp.uwaterloo.ca/opinion/wire/ messagingapps Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:38:06 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h279S8vDBMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h279S8vDBMM messagingapps Wed, 04 Jan 2017 08:36:52 -0500 http://www.vocativ.com/world/yemen-world/yemen-houthi-rebels-whatsapp/ http://www.vocativ.com/world/yemen-world/yemen-houthi-rebels-whatsapp/ messagingapps Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:51:03 -0400 http://www.abc.es/medios-redes/20130102/abci-whatsapp-excursionistas-montaneos-201301021045.html http://www.abc.es/medios-redes/20130102/abci-whatsapp-excursionistas-montaneos-201301021045.html messagingapps casestudies Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:50:51 -0400 http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Docs-use-WhatsApp-to-save-heart-patients/articleshow/27252815.cms http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Docs-use-WhatsApp-to-save-heart-patients/articleshow/27252815.cms messagingapps Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:35:34 -0400 http://www.gsdrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/HQ1248.pdf http://www.gsdrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/HQ1248.pdf messagingapps Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:25:49 -0400 https://irevolutions.org/2015/06/29/social-media-disaster-response-done-right/ https://irevolutions.org/2015/06/29/social-media-disaster-response-done-right/ messagingapps Fri, 29 Jul 2016 07:25:01 -0400 https://irevolutions.org/category/social-media/ https://irevolutions.org/category/social-media/ messagingapps So when we wanted to delve into using chatbots, it was only natural that we reached out to them. Of course, not everyone we want to survey will have access to a smartphone. A large proportion of people using messaging apps at moment are young, urban, and male, introducing a bias to our surveys. But as smartphone ownership becomes more prevalent this won’t always be the case. This technology is really promising so we want to stay on top of it and see how it can be used for humanitarian purposes. As a first step, we want to use a chatbot to conduct a mobile food security survey on a messaging app. At the moment we are using Telegram because they have an API, which allows developers to easily build customized tools, but we are designing the bot so that it can be used on other messaging apps. Fri, 29 Jul 2016 02:52:00 -0400 http://mvam.org/2016/07/21/introducing-our-chatbot/ http://mvam.org/2016/07/21/introducing-our-chatbot/ messagingapps telegram chatbots Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:56:03 -0400 https://www.icrc.org/en/document/icrc-data-protection-office https://www.icrc.org/en/document/icrc-data-protection-office messagingapps Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:56:00 -0400 https://www.icrc.org/en/document/data-protection https://www.icrc.org/en/document/data-protection messagingapps Thu, 28 Jul 2016 12:55:49 -0400 https://www.icrc.org/en/document/rfl-code-conduct https://www.icrc.org/en/document/rfl-code-conduct messagingapps Thu, 28 Jul 2016 05:49:29 -0400 https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/300 https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/300 messagingapps The Humanitarian Technologies Project, a joint research project led by four universities, has taken 18 months to look at how humanitarian agencies used digital communication technologies to communicate with people following Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013. Their findings are not very flattering: in essence, many humanitarian organisations employed a top-down approach laden with assumptions about how people should communicate: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:31:06 -0400 http://sm4good.com/2016/01/08/study-technology-without-business-processes-useless/ http://sm4good.com/2016/01/08/study-technology-without-business-processes-useless/ messagingapps Tue, 26 Jul 2016 08:29:24 -0400 http://sm4good.com/2016/01/14/world-bank-digital-revolution-requires-analogue-foundation/ http://sm4good.com/2016/01/14/world-bank-digital-revolution-requires-analogue-foundation/ messagingapps He showed us a “closed group” that the PWD engineers had created on Whatsapp.  For the first three days after cyclone Hudhud, there was no electricity and no mobile connectivity. As the connections were restored, the PWD closed group became functional and that acted as the main tool of communication for information sharing. For any breach of road, the Engineers shared information through the Whatsapp group with a clear location and a short explanation of the problem. The person responsible for the area responded with a message stating how long it would take to clear the block. Even requests for tools and JCBs were made on the group. This helped identify and access required resources. The action taken was narrated on the group discussion page once the problem was solved. An updated photo showing restored road connectivity was uploaded to the group. Tue, 26 Jul 2016 02:50:00 -0400 https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/emergency-response-whatsapp-era https://blogs.worldbank.org/endpovertyinsouthasia/emergency-response-whatsapp-era messagingapps whatsapp india At social newswire Storyful, global news editor David Clinch and news editor Joe Galvin have been researching and refining their use of WhatsApp for newsgathering over the last two years. While stories like Warren’s are the “bright lights” of when using the app goes well, said Clinch, they are “an illusion in the sense of it being a consistently useful newsgathering platform.” “Because WhatsApp isn’t really a platform,” he told First Draft News. “It just isn’t. It’s a private messaging app. There’s no platform that you can search, there’s no API, there’s no geolocation you can search via some method, you just have to be connected to people. So we’ve cheated by identifying the people, in particular places where WhatsApp is very useful as a newsgathering tool, who act as the nodes.”   Verification of this kind of footage within WhatsApp, however, is almost impossible. As with many social networks, WhatsApp strips images of any useful metadata and, when images start circulating within and between group messages on WhatsApp, there is no way to trace it back to the original source. “We’ve had almost no luck or success in ever having anyone on WhatsApp identify a truly original source for content that actually was on WhatsApp,” said Clinch. “What we do have, is people say ‘I saw it on Facebook and then I shared it’ and that at least gives us a lead back to a platform.”   Mon, 25 Jul 2016 06:22:00 -0400 https://firstdraftnews.com/whatsapp-at-1-billion-how-can-journalists-use-the-chat-app-for-newsgathering/ https://firstdraftnews.com/whatsapp-at-1-billion-how-can-journalists-use-the-chat-app-for-newsgathering/ messagingapps Tue, 12 Jul 2016 11:09:25 -0400 http://reliefweb.int/report/world/briefing-paper-2-getting-europe-whatsapp-way-use-ict-contemporary-mixed-migration-flows http://reliefweb.int/report/world/briefing-paper-2-getting-europe-whatsapp-way-use-ict-contemporary-mixed-migration-flows messagingapps Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:11:19 -0400 http://7iber.com/technology/social-networking-sites-serve-occupations-interests/ http://7iber.com/technology/social-networking-sites-serve-occupations-interests/ messagingapps Tue, 12 Jul 2016 10:03:02 -0400 https://bahrainwatch.org/blog/2016/06/28/leading-bahraini-isps-are-blocking-telegram-traffic/ https://bahrainwatch.org/blog/2016/06/28/leading-bahraini-isps-are-blocking-telegram-traffic/ messagingapps Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:50:52 -0400 https://medium.com/@thegrugq/dhaka-isis-cell-comsec-b5be1ca1653d#.xb1365bkz https://medium.com/@thegrugq/dhaka-isis-cell-comsec-b5be1ca1653d#.xb1365bkz Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:49:56 -0400 https://medium.com/@thegrugq/dhaka-isis-cell-comsec-b5be1ca1653d#.v1iipl83r https://medium.com/@thegrugq/dhaka-isis-cell-comsec-b5be1ca1653d#.v1iipl83r messagingapps