In Mexico, they “can disappear”, so it is said that in those lands they sequence a person. Kidnappings are so common in this country that a group of digital activists has created a TxatBot to facilitate overcoming the administrative and legal barriers that citizens may have. This project is a clear example associated with the gap, in this case linked to the gap in relation to administration and laws, to the cracks generated by systems in the transmission of knowledge to people. The routes suggested by EscapBot are based on the obligations of the authorities, existing protocols, expert advice and laws.
Project development can be found in GitLab. They seem to have used a TxatBot service, integrable in many messaging platforms. They've associated it with Whatsapp, both to understand the administration and the legal system, and because most people who are in a gap situation in the digital world and perhaps the potential users of such a project are simple people. The promoters of this project ensure that in Mexico the most humble people use Whatasapp.
The project is promoted by the Technical Groups Rudas, Codeando México and 5º Element. They are aware that, in some way, the initiative suffers from certain deficiencies from the point of view of privacy, as warned by users in the privacy note, emphasizing that for the TxaBot service to work it has to take the phone and the IP number.
In our country we have not seen the birth of civil society, but in Mexico, where different governments have been behind many disappearances, it has led citizens to create roads outside the system. In order to give some light in complex, rigid and numerous bureaucracies.