Bots for Messenger Challenge Finalists

Congratulations to the Winners & Runner Ups for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge!

It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

Middle East and North Africa

Gaming and Entertainment

Winner: Morocco: Trivoxx

Trivoxx is a trivia game to test a user's knowledge on three categories: Sports, Science, and General Culture. In Trivoxx, you can play against a friend via the Challenge menu. Available in Arabic, French and English.

Winner: Egypt: Mastermind Games Bot

Mastermind Games Bot is a collection of six interactive games to solve codes based on various combinations of logic and memory. Every time a user guesses the correct code, a cave safe will open to obtain a diamond. Users can share games with their friends as they vie for the top scores and unlock achievements.

Productivity and Utility

Winner: Egypt: Mr. Ink

Mr. Ink is a book consultant bot where users can share a book title or a photo of a book cover, and Mr. Ink will return its description, author, rating, and reviews.

Winner: Jordan: Eila (Heroes Burgers & Wings)

With Eila, customers can open up the restaurant's Facebook page and order food to their homes or for priority pick up simply by chatting with their bot. Already live with five businesses, they offer a bot-as-a-service for conversational commerce. The goal is to grow these bots into a full pack of automated tools to help businesses sell with the help of artificial intelligence. Official Eila Page.

Social Good

Winner: Egypt: MathHook

MathHook brings math into everyone's lives! Users can find solutions to single and sophisticated math problems; learn how to type problems in latex; and search for math courses from the kindergarten to college levels via a database of 3000+ YouTube videos such as numberphile, Khan Academy, etc. MathHook also creates a community for teachers and students to chat 1:1 via whisper or group chat by sending images and videos of math problems to solve.

Runner Up: Egypt: Adam 9 months

Adam 9 Months aims to build community of pregnant women. The user set her language and current week of pregnancy to get immediate access to week related information, fetal development videos, workouts and many other pregnancy tools. Adam 9 Months encourage social activities between the new mom and her friends by providing tools like "vote for the best baby name" and "hospital bag checklist". Our community members can communicate through messages in clean environment where each one identity is safe. Adam 9 Months allow users to search for nearby pregnancy care centers, baby stores or maternity services providers.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Gaming and Entertainment

Winner: Senegal: WoboT MWG

WoboT (Multilingual Words Games) is a gamified chatbot using famous games to test and increase a player's vocabulary, and can be played alone or with remote friends. Currently offered in French and English, WoboT has aspirations to grow into new languages starting with Spanish, German and Arabic.

Runner Up: Nigeria: Laide Bot

Laide is an assistant to help buy airtime, order food, and buy movie and event tickets. For movies, users can view descriptions and trailers before buying tickets. For food, review menus and order food. All payments are currently handled by a PCI DSS (payment card industry data security standard) certified platform called Paystack.

Productivity and Utility

Winner: Ethiopia: LangBot

LangBot is a gamified language learning service, where users earn points, badges, level up and compete to get on the leaderboard by learning. Subscribe to daily reminders, review words using a spaced repetition algorithm, translate sentences, and chat with a bot to practice any language. LangBot currently teaches French, but the chat extension can translate to and from 15 languages.

Runner Up: Kenya: BridelyBuzz

Bride.ly Buzz is a wedding planning bot that assists it users to successfully plan their wedding by providing them with various tools to make the planning process smooth, such as a calendar, 12 month checklist, bridal party management, vendor management, guest list management, wedding trends, and vendor suggestions.

Social Good

Winner: Kenya: MyTichaa

MyTichaa is a fun, digital tutor to help students revise for final exams by doing interactive quizzes. Verified teachers can submit and curate questions as well.

Runner Up: Nigeria: Hyper-cv

Hyper-cv allows users to create résumés quickly and effectively. A user can draw information from their social media account, Linkedin and Facebook, to quickly generate their résumé. Users can also manually edit a résumé. Once completed, résumés can be downloaded as pdf files to share.

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

Congratulations to the Top 60 Finalists for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge!

After receiving over 1000 submissions across 64 countries in the Middle East and Africa, we are excited to announce the top 60 finalists below.

Congratulations to the top 30 bots in sub-Saharan Africa and top 30 bots in the Middle East and North Africa! A special congratulations to the 12 student submissions as identified with a *

Kudos to everyone who learned how to create a bot for the first time! The judges were blown away by everyone's creativity and commitment to grinding out the best bots. We look forward to seeing what you build in the future. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

Middle East and North Africa

Games & Entertainment

Egypt: Harry Botter*
Egypt: Mastermind Games Bot
Egypt: Tic Tac Toe
Jordan: HiiTBee*
Morocco: BoTrolls
Morocco: Gamebot
Morocco: Trivoxx
Palestine: Mamobot*
Egypt: MysteryBot

UAE: Playalong Live

Productivity & Utility

Egypt: Adam (9 months)
Egypt: The HireHunt Bot
Egypt: Hangouts Assistant
Egypt: MathHook*
Egypt: Scientebot
Jordan: Evii (Heroes Burgers & Wings)
Lebanon: Blink My Car
Morocco: Salaat First
Saudi Arabia: WeCook*
UAE: Converter

Social Good

Algeria: Midwife Bot
Egypt: ChefBot*
Egypt: Blood Bot
Egypt: Mr. Ink
Egypt: Lancerbot*
Egypt: Mujeeb-Marj3*
Egypt: HarassMap Bot
Tunisia: nTalk
UAE: Social Perks
UAE: Yom

Sub-Saharan Africa

Games & Entertainment

Cameroon: quizzcoin
Ghana: Artista Bot*
Ghana: Known Fact
Madagascar: Gifter Bot
Madagascar: Smart Game Grimoire Bot
Nigeria: Laide Bot*
Senegal: WoboT MWG
Uganda: Mamas' League
Uganda: Nutshell Bot
Zimbabwe: Sphinx The Game

Productivity & Utility

Benin: Boolo
Ethiopia: Selam Habesha
Ethiopia: LangBot
Kenya: EatOut
Kenya: Sign Language Dictionary Bot
Kenya: BridelyBuzz
Madagascar: Alfred Bot
Nigeria: Headwork
Nigeria: Hyper-cv
Zimbabwe: PopTime Bot - Movie Companion*

Social Good

Cameroon: cuisto*
Kenya: mytichaabot
Kenya: Mingo
Kenya: Uchaguzi Kenya*
Nigeria: Baba politricks
Senegal: EmergencyBot
Senegal: Botfoot*
South Africa: Poli*
Tanzania: Wedding Planner Bot
Uganda: DaktariHealth

Developers Building On The Messenger Platform

When launching the Bots for Messenger Challenge, Facebook decided that in addition to seeking out and promoting innovation on new platforms like Messenger, this contest would also provide developers in the region with an opportunity to up skill themselves on the Messenger Platform by reaching beyond their perceived limits in leveraging the platform to create great experiences. It is our belief that competitions like this will help to create a new generation of bot developers that would go on to enable businesses leverage the platform to meet their business goals. This belief was validated by the overall high quality of the submissions we received. Here is a list of developers who created functional and compliant bots for Messenger. Their contact information is listed on their Facebook Pages should businesses and organizations wish to explore their submissions and interact with the teams who built them.

Middle East and North Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

Gaming & Entertainment

Botswana: 8tar
Cameroon: QuizzBot
Ghana: Artista Bot
Ghana: Known Fact
Madagascar: Gifter Bot
Madagascar: Smart Game Grimoire bot
Madagascar: Dragula
Madagascar: Tales of Mamma's Spicy Sauce
Nigeria: Laide Bot
Nigeria: TV Series Bot
Nigeria: PLAYWHOT
Senegal: WoboT MWG
Tanzania: Swali Quiz Bot
Uganda: Nutshell Bot
Uganda: PanyaFun
Zambia: The veil of hidden shadows
Zimbabwe: Sphinx The Game

Productivity & Utility
Benin: Boolo
Cameroon: Monda Bot
Cameroon: Cameroun Emploi
Cameroon: My Health Bot
Cameroon: Romeo
Cote d'Ivoire: MESSENKA
Ethiopia: Selam Habesha
Ethiopia: LangBot
Ethiopia: Ethio Culinary
Ethiopia: Selam Taxi Bot
Ghana: MERGDATA SURVEY
Kenya: EatOut
Kenya: BridelyBuzz
Kenya: Janta bot
Kenya: KaziBot
Kenya: Pia Events
Kenya: TimedMe
Kenya: InstaSave Bot
Kenya: Pasha Habari
Kenya: Hashmi Barbeque
Kenya: Artt Bot
Kenya: Mr Peddy
Kenya: Bima Bot

Madagascar: Dr Bot
Madagascar: Sex Education Bot
Madagascar: Bot Security
Nigeria: IDP bot
Nigeria: Baba politricks
Nigeria: Bayanai
Nigeria: Surrogate bot
Nigeria: Emergency Reporting
Nigeria: Agency
Nigeria: Dr Lex
Nigeria: DiseaseInfo
Nigeria: GaniBot
Nigeria: Drug Bot
Nigeria: Medicbot
Nigeria: ZeroImpunity
Nigeria: MobiLearn
Nigeria: Ima.Ai
Nigeria: Zobi
Nigeria: healthChat
Nigeria: BioBot
Nigeria: MobiLearn
Senegal: EmergencyBot
Senegal: Botfoot
Somalia: SOMALIA BLOOD BANK
South Africa: Poli
South Africa: Drippy
South Africa: TransportBot
South Africa: Smart Betty
Tanzania: Wedding Planner Bot
Uganda: DaktariHealth
Uganda: DaktariBot
Uganda: EastAfroTourism Bot
Uganda: Teens Against HIV
Uganda: CitizenReporter
Uganda: Dr. Bot
Zambia: Coach Sam: Defensive Driving Coach

It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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It is our honor and privilege to announce the winning and runner up bots for the Middle East and Africa Bots for Messenger Challenge. From the 60 Finalists announced on May 16, our judges had an incredibly difficult time deciding the winners amongst the high quality bots. Ultimately, these 6 winners and 6 runner up bots were selected as the most innovative bots on Messenger in the Middle East and Africa across these three categories:

* Gaming and Entertainment
* Productivity and Utility
* Social Good

Thanks to everyone who supported and participated in this Bots for Messenger Challenge! We look forward to seeing the continued innovation and talent emerge from the Middle East and Africa. Keep shipping! #messengerchallenge

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