Our NGO, Red Dot Foundation (Safecity) aims to make cities safer by encouraging equal access to public spaces for everyone especially women, through the use of crowd-sourced data, community engagement and institutional accountability. Safecity is a platform that crowd-sources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public spaces. This data which may be anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behaviour that leading to violence against women and thus work on strategies for solutions.
Since our launch on 26 Dec 2012 we have collected over 10,000 stories from over 50 cities in India, Kenya, Cameroon and Nepal.
