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Applications Invited for Chat for Impact Accelerator
Organization: Turn.io
Apply By: 21 Sep 2022
About the Organization
Incubated within Praekelt.org, Turn.io was born out of the need to reduce the cost and sustainability of large-scale SMS programs such as MomConnect. In 2017, leveraging a partnership with WhatsApp, the South African Department of Health and Praekelt.org, Turn.io enabled MomConnect to send their audience WhatsApp messages at scale using the WhatsApp Business API.
Introducing WhatsApp resulted in an explosion of engagement. Not only were mothers 6.7x more likely to reach out to the MomConnect Helpdesk, they were also 3x more likely to stay engaged thereafter.
New tools were essential to support Helpdesk operators engage in impactful health conversations at this scale. And the potential impact was too great to keep this within Praekelt.org.
So we setup Turn.io
Turn.io is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBO) optimised to build world-class software products for social impact organisations.
Using Turn.io, MomConnect now sends over 400,000 pregnant women health messages every week and receives over 10,000 health questions weekly.
Turn.io now works with over 150 social impact organisations who have built chat services to improve health, employment, education, climate, agriculture, humanitarian response, financial inclusion and civic engagement.
About the Fellowship
Based on the success of the Chat for Impact programme launched in 2021, we’re excited to expand this year to support a further 100 organisation with 8 Bootcamps of which twenty will each receive $25,000 in financial support to scale their service for social change.
We’re looking forward to seeing this year’s cohort develop and scale their breakthrough solutions to change live.
The 6-week virtual program launches in October and provides mentorship and support to social impact organizations that want to build and scale a WhatsApp chat service.
- 20 organisations will receive US$ 25,000 in prizes to launch a live chat service on the WhatsApp Business Platform.
- Mentorship from WhatsApp and social innovation experts.
- Learning from world-class organizations about how they successfully built their chat services.
This 3-day virtual event showcases and celebrates organizations globally using WhatsApp to achieve impact.
- Inspirational Keynote
- Panel discussions by key industry experts
- Strategic and hands-on sessions
- Free access to Summit content
- Invitation to participate in a Chat for Impact community of practice
Eligibility
If you are an organization that is actively driving social progress and is ready to scale your service using WhatsApp, then this is for you.
By agreeing to be considered as a Successful Accelerator Registrant, you represent and confirm that you will by the 20th of September 2022 have: -
a LIVE WhatsApp Business Application (WABA);
sent a minimum of one thousand messages in the first three months after completing onboarding to the WhatsApp Business API;
submitted a proposed use case (“the Proposed Use Case”),
attended at least one Chat for Impact Bootcamp session in either the 2021 or 2022 calendar year (if in the 2021 year, the candidate must not have already participated in the Accelerator Program;
The follow organizations will NOT be considered:
- Governments.
- Any government agency, e.g. political parties, the military, national security and/or law enforcement.
- Any non-profit organization that represents a government.
- Any private service providers to governments, e.g. campaign strategy, voting, government aggregators.
- No promotion, political campaigning, voter data gathering or any sort of election influencing will be allowed by any type of organization.
How to Apply
Application deadline for Accelerator Program
Sep 21.
Summit - Nov 14 – 16
For more information please check the Link
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