South African-built platform using WhatsApp and AI to crack down on crime

[Daniel Puchert]

Using AI and WhatsApp to crack down on crime in South Africa

Community Wolf aims to make South African communities safer by enabling efficient crime reporting using artificial intelligence and WhatsApp.

The platform, founded by Nick Mills and Michael Houghton, allows South Africans to report suspicious activity in their language of choice to a chatbot that relays the information to law enforcement and security teams.

 

[Diesal]

The tech sounds easy enough, but will SAPS be onboard, that's the real challenge

 

[Bliksis]

Where have we read this before? Hmm.

 

[nicroets]

Where have we read this before? Hmm.

Maybe you watched Minority Report ?

 

[jezzad]

WhatsApp messaging pricing via API is crazy. This is going to cost a small fortune to maintain and run.

 

[deweyzeph]

Just wait for the City of Joburg to come up with another by-law to outlaw this as well.

 

[Dylan_G]

Just wait for the City of Joburg to come up with another by-law to outlaw this as well.

As well? What else did they outlaw?

 

[Bliksis]

Maybe you watched Minority Report ?

No, we read it here first.

 

[airborne]

WhatsApp messaging pricing via API is crazy. This is going to cost a small fortune to maintain and run.

Are you referring to the cost WhatsApp charges business to be able to access their api to send and receive bulk messages?
What is their pricing approximately?

 

[B-1]

Are you referring to the cost WhatsApp charges business to be able to access their api to send and receive bulk messages?
What is their pricing approximately?

Not far off sending bulk SMS.

 

[Conack]

They should use Telegram.

 

[airborne]

Not far off sending bulk SMS.

Wtf that's costly, WhatsApp must be milking it because it seems every business is jumping on the Whatsapp bandwagon incl the big guys.

 

[Gudnews]

Where's the app to apply for an ID/passport?

 

[jezzad]

Are you referring to the cost WhatsApp charges business to be able to access their api to send and receive bulk messages?
What is their pricing approximately?

The cost to send.

You can see pricing here - https://business.whatsapp.com/produ...th Africa¤cy=Dollars (USD)&category=Marketing

This is based on Marketing category roughly US$0.04 per message so R0.73 per message.

 

[jezzad]

Not far off sending bulk SMS.

Way off bulk SMS. Marketing messages are roughly R0.73 per message via whatsapp.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

They should use Telegram.

if telegram does not simply disable your account, not answer support queries and ignore all attempts at getting telegram to work,
then yes, lets use telegram, great idea.