Messaging Applications for Development: Project catalog

Echo Mobile’s research focused on 14 organizations that have deployed messaging applications for development projects across different regions and sectors.

The findings from each project have been summarized in one-page briefings that provide insights for development practitioners and technologists.

Projects covered in the catalog include:

• Agricultural Value Chain Activity (AVC) USAID, Uzbekistan
• Amigo Anônimo Alcoholics Anonymous, Brazil
• #BangaloreIsBurning and Save Bangalore’s Trees, Jhatkaa, India
• DZCareer Souktel and World Learning, Algeria
• Ebola Broadcast Service BBC Media Action, Sierra Leone and Liberia
• Ebola Community Action Platform (ECAP) Mercy Corps, Liberia
• Farm.ink, Kenya
• Food Bot and the AIDA Chatbot Builder World Food Programme and InSTEDD
• MomConnect Praekelt Foundation, South Africa
• RapidPro Surveyor, UNICEF
• Shujaaz Well Told Story, Kenya
• Tarjimly
• U-Report, UNICEF