In South Africa, where WhatsApp dominates as the most widely used social media platform, the messaging app is evolving beyond just helping people communicate and get services. Tregter, a Cape Town-based startup established in 2019, uses WhatsApp chatbots to gather data for research, even in underserved rural communities.
“A big use case for chatbots is data collection,” says Ferdinand…
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