Red Dot Foundation- Safecity

Safecity aims to make cities safer by encouraging everyone, especially women, to voice their concerns and experiences with harassment and abuse which Read moreis then used as data to map various trends in a particular area. The organisation, through its crowdsourcing platform, collects personal stories of abuse and harassment to analyse the data and establish hotspots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The aim is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that cause violent behaviour and work on strategies towards solutions. It also works towards building community leadership in addressing the issues through campaigns and encourages communities to take ownership to further influence social and systemic change. Since 2012, the organisation has collected over 10000 stories from over 50 cities in India, Kenya, Cameroon and Nepal.