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Supporting Safer Communities Safety. Community. Technology Building safer cities through community engagement Kalpana Viswanath
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Supporting Safer Communities Public spaces need to be designed to foster gender and other forms of equity and promote people’s engagement and inclusion, especially the more vulnerable groups.
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Supporting Safer Communities Public participation is essential to understand and give visibility to what happens in certain spaces, to document community knowledge about the place, and in particular, to capture the daily experience of women.
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Supporting Safer Communities Safetipin is a map-based online and mobile phone application that works to make our communities and cities safer by providing safety-related information collected by users and trained auditors What is Safetipin 1.To develop a measure for safety 2.To provide extensive, reliable, safety data to all stakeholders 3.To engage citizens, communities and service providers in making cities safer Safetipin Goals
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Supporting Safer Communities Safetipin Features Conduct Safety Audits Report Harassment or Hazards Safety Score of Areas Tracking Important numbers to call Locate nearest police stop or hospital Currently available in English, Hindi, Spanish and Bahasa
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Supporting Safer Communities Doing Audits
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Supporting Safer Communities Each audit or report of harassment, hazard or place will appear as a pin on the Safetipin app Each point gets uploaded immediately and is then available for anyone to see. The red pins signify unsafe points, orange a bit safer and green pins would be relatively safe points.
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Supporting Safer Communities
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Tracking
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Supporting Safer Communities Analytics Engine Simple tool for data analysis Provided to all partners and collaborators for data analysis
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Supporting Safer Communities Audits Conducted Pilot study in Chennai, Kerala, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata,Guwa hati and Jaipur in partnership with local organisations Almost 20,000 audits across the country
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Supporting Safer Communities Impact Project 1. S-W Delhi Police Working with Dwarka police to ‘Change Red to Green Pins’ Project SALAMAT between Safetipin and Police Have circulated newsletter on safety to the community Audits Light Security
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Supporting Safer Communities Impact Project. Safety Centres Need a phone/tablet or a computer Any person with a safety-related complaint can come and have it recorded in Safetipin Regular discussion with the community on all safety related issues; to come up with possible actions or advocacy approaches Data made available / regularly sent to all local authorities
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Supporting Safer Communities Impact Project 3. Metro Audits Gurgaon Metros score well Comparative Assessment across locations
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Supporting Safer Communities Impact Project 4: DTC Terminals Mehrauli Bus Terminal Audits Nehru Place Audits
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Supporting Safer Communities Working With Safetipin Set up safety centres in neighborhoods and community areas Use data from Safetipin to start conversations about safety Address lack of safety in public transport Work with service providers to improve safety and inclusiveness of public spaces
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Supporting Safer Communities Search for Safetipin and download FREE from: Web: www.safetipin.com www.facebook.com/safetipin @safetipinDOTcom
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