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SAFETIPIN| VOLUME 5 JULY 2015
ABOUT SAFETIPIN
ABOUT SAFETIPIN
SafetiPin Highlights
Safetipin Track App launched
SafetiPin is a complete map-‐based mobile phone application, which works to make our communities and cities safer by providing safety-‐related information collected by users. SafetiPin helps improve safety in many ways: ® See safety score of a locality before visiting ®Allow your friends or family to track you if you are feeling unsafe ®Find nearby Medical facilities, police stations and local transport ®Contact service providers if you need help ®Alert your friends and family if you are in an emergency
• Safetipin launches a new tracking app called Safetipin Track
• Safetipin partners with the Secretary of women, Bogota, Colombia
• Safetipin App available in Mandarin now.
• Safetipin awarded the Catalytic Fund by Cities Alliance in partnership with UN Habitat
• Safety audit report of 8 cities in India released.
• Safetipin begins data collection in collection in Kenya.
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Safetipin Track App launched
SafetiPin Track is a family locator and GPS tracker app designed to give you control over your own safety. It allows users to set rules to alert your family and friends if something unusual happens, without having to initiate it each time. There are four kinds of rules, each of which can be used multiple times. 1. ‘I am late’. Set this rule for routes you use very often, for example between work and home. If it takes you longer to reach, an alert will be sent to your selected family and friends. 2. ‘I am in transit’. This is complementary to the ‘I am late’ rule. An alert will be
sent each time you leave your set location and another when your reach. 3. ‘I am in an unsafe place’. If you need to frequent some not-‐so-‐safe areas, set this alert to let friends know when you get there and when you leave 4 ‘I am outside a safe place’. Use this, if you want your family and friends to know every time you step outside your defined safe places. This feature can be used as a kids tracker. You can set these rules for some days in a week, for some times in the day, or just between specified dates. You can set different people to be informed for each rule
you set. SafetiPin Track also provides a number of basic GPS Tracker features to help if you find yourself in uncomfortable situations. Set rules and alerts for family
The Cities Alliance Project with UN Habitat
The Cities Alliance is a global partnership for urban poverty reduction and the promotion of the role of cities in sustainable development. Safetipin has been awarded the a project under the Catalytic Fund to carry out data collection and work with local governments to improve safety in 3 cities across 3 continents -‐ Bogota in Colombia, Nairobi in Kenya and Delhi in India. This project is in partnership with UN Habitat.
Safetipin App now available in Mandarin
The Safetipin app has been translated in Mandarin for our users in China and around the world who speak the language. Safetipin is now available in 5 languages globally – English, Hindi, Bahasa, Spanish and Mandarin.
Safetipin Nite Update
Safetipin Nite our app for collecting night time data through photographs is a first of its kind. We hope to cover cities around the world and share the data with key stakeholders including governments, urban planners, police, civil society organisations, etc. Currently data is being collected in Delhi, India and Nairobi, Kenya. In Delhi we have covered almost 6000 Km of road and another 1000Km in Nairobi. Uber has partnered with us to help in data collection.
Safetipin signs an MOU with the Secretary of Women of Bogota, Colombia
Dr. Kalpana Viswanath the co-‐founder of Safetipin signed an MOU with Marta Lucia Sanchez Segura the Secretary of Women in the city of Bogota, Colombia. The 3 year partnership will include large scale data collection using Safetipin Nite. This data will then be analysed and used for improving the safety situation of the city.
Safetipin Audit Report of 8 cities in India
Safetipin has released a safety audit report of 8 cities in India. The cities covered in the report are Delhi, Guwahati, Pune, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Calicut and Jaipur. Each of these cities has over 800 audits which have been conducted by our partners (Jagori, North East Network, Samyak, Prajnya, Sakhi and Vishakha). The report is a first of its kind document which details the unique safety problems in each city and offers recommendations for change. The report is a
strong document for advocacy and action. To read the full report please see -‐http://safetipin.com/projects/7/how-‐safe-‐is-‐your-‐city-‐safety-‐audit-‐report-‐of-‐8-‐cities
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Delhi Safety Audit Report
The Safetipin team has released a report on based on 12000 safety audits done in Delhi since September 2013. The report covers residential areas, universities, popular markets, main roads, ring roads, bus terminals, metro stations, and lower income neighbourhoods in Delhi
NCR. The report is a comprehensive analysis of the safety situation in the city with recommendations on how the situation can be improved. To read the full report please see -‐ http://safetipin.com/projects/6/safety-‐audit-‐report-‐of-‐delhi-‐safetipin/
Safetipin partnership with Gurgaon Traffic Police Safetipin and the Gurgaon Traffic Police have partnered to collect and use data generated by the Safetipin App. For this two training sessions were conducted in June for the Road Safety
Officers and the Women Safety officers and the Police. A total of 60 officers of the Gurgaon Traffic Police are now trained to use the Safetipin app. All of this has been done under the aegis of
the Joint Commissioner of Police Ms. Bharti Arora. The existing and new data collected using Safetipin will be shared with the police in order to improve safety in the city.
Safety Scores of bus stops in Delhi Safetipin embarked on an exercise of analysing the safety of bus stops in Delhi are using our existing data. Safetipin has generated a Safety Score at 275 bus stops. These bus stops are located in all parts of the city -‐ north, south, east , west and central. We calculated the safety score of a bus stop where there were at least three safety audits within a 100 metre radius. Based on an average of the safety audits, a Safety Score is generated on a measure of 1 to 5, with 1 being the least safe to 5 being the safest. Of the 275 bus stops that we have data about, under 20% had a score of less than 2. 44% of the bus stops had an average safety score between 2 and 3.5 and approximately 35% had scores higher than 3.5. While extremely few bus stops had a score of 5, there were quite a few that had scores of 3 and 4 which are above average safety. On the whole, a majority of bus stops had fairly good scores.
Safetipin data collection using OSAM Open Space Audit Mapping is a technique developed by our partners Bengaluru Needs You to share the data collected by Safetipin with citizens. It involves putting up large maps with the audit data represented and inviting citizens to interact with the safety audit data and give their inputs. Safetipin hosted two OSAM events this quarter :-‐
• Malviya Nagar – Safetipin in partnership with Jagori and the Maviya Nagar Police hosted an
OSAM event in the Malviya Nagar main market on the 19th of June, 2015. Many residents of Malviya Nagar and the nearby localities came and shared their safety concerns and mapped out spots that need to be improved. The Police also interacted with the residents and took feedback. The team from Safetipin and Jagori facilitated conversations and took down all the feedback which has been compiled into a report for advocacy.
• Raahgiri Gurgaon– The Safetipin team hosted an OSAM during the Raahgiri Day in Gurgaon on 28th June, 2015 in Gurgaon. We shared our safety audits findings and the citizens of Gurgaon shared their concerns regarding the city. Some feedback included lack of street lights, poor policing, and harassment by autos.
Safetipin Pilot in Dhaka Bangladesh with MJF and DFID A pilot program of safety audits was launched in Dhaka on 9th June 2015 in collaboration with Manosher Jonno Foundation (MJF) an NGO that works with the poor and marginalized. A two-‐day workshop was conducted on 9th and 10th June 2015 with the volunteers and team of MJF. At the workshop, the participants were given an orientation on the SafetiPin app and how to conduct safety audits, followed by mock safety audits. On the evening of 10th June, MJF volunteers were accompanied by the SafetiPin trainer to initiate the audit process. As a part of their Violence Free Spaces Program, MJF will be carrying out safety audits in Dhaka to collect safety information and share it with government stakeholders
Improvement Projects in Badarpur
After the release of Safetipin and Jagori’s report in March on the safety situation of lower income neighborhoods in Badarpur improvement has been seen in the communities. The police and the local MLA have taken action on the recommendations and CCTV cameras have been installed on the roads, the police patrolling has increased in the area, and construction work has begun on two more community halls. The report was compiled over a period of 9 months using the Safetipin app. This advocacy document has brought visible change in the lives of people in the community.
Safetipin partnership with Janaagraha Safetipin has partnered with Janaagraha a non-‐profit based in Bengaluru, that works with citizens and the government to improve the quality of life in Indian cities and towns. They will display the data collected
by Safetipin on the I Change My City platform of Janaagraha which has 1.4 lakh subscribers. We plan to get the citizens to conduct safety audits and use that data to address safety concerns in the city.
UN Women Safe Cities Global Leaders Forum
UN Women hosted an event on Safe cities for Women in Delhi in June. It was attended by 120 participants from 24 cities and included local government functionaries, NGO's, women's groups, international donors, police, media etc. It was inaugurated by the Minister of Urban Development, Government of India and was addressed by Ms. Lakshmi Puri, the Deputy Executive Director of UN Women. Cities involved
in the UN Women Safe Cities Program presented the exciting work happening all over the world to create safer and more inclusive cities for women and girls. Kalpana Viswanath, our co -‐founder, made a presentation on Safetipin at the panel on Access and Use of
Mobile Phones to Prevent, Document and Respond to Sexual Harassment and other forms of Violence
against Women in Public Spaces.
Safetipin Presented at UN Habitat Governing Council
During the UN Habitat Governing Council held in April 2015, Hilary Murphy of UN Habitat and United Nations Environmental Program made a presentation on Urban Mobility and Safety-‐ Emerging Technological Innovations and talked about the Safetipin app and our partnership to collect data in three cities Delhi, Nairobi and Bogota. The session was well attended by urban stakeholders from countries around the world.
CNN IBN Coverage of Safetipin On 1st July 2015 CNN IBN covered Safetipin in its Networked India segment. The news report covered the Safetipin app and has an interview with our co-‐founder Kalpana Viswanath. To see the report follow this link -‐ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Cg7zMr8m4
Presentation at Connect Karo
Safetipin was invited to Connect Karo , hosted by EMBARQ India, the World Resources Institute’s cCenter for Sustainable Transport in India, on April 15th & 16th, 2015 at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. Over 250 experts, local and international, including government officials, policy-‐makers, and practitioners in the field of urban transport and planning will convene to participated. Manish Sisodia, Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi spoke about smart cities. Kalpana Viswanath, Co-‐founder made a presentation at the session on Gender, Safety and Transport.
SAFETIPIN| VOLUME 5 JULY 2015 Last Mile Connectivity Study
This is Safetipin’s latest city based project to understand how commuters of Delhi metro experience the journey to and from their homes. We have carried out intensive safety audits of 13 metro stations on the Delhi Metro line. In addition to the audit on Safetipin, the
volunteers interacted with 3 stakeholders – the commuters, the Delhi Police, and the transport service providers like autos, rickshaws, grameen seva autos, metro feeder bus and DTC buses. A comprehensive report has been prepared and is now being shared with various
departments of the government. The 13 metro stations covered in the first leg of the project are – Chattarpur, Saket, AIIMS, HauzKhas, Central Secretariat, Rajiv Chowk, New Delhi,ChandiniChowk,Vishwavidyala, Azadpur, Jahangirpuri, Rithala and Kashmere Gate.
Summer Internships Summer Internships – Safetipin announced month long summer internships for young adults. The idea behind the internship was to create an opportunity for young people to learn about the issues of gender, mobility, urbanisation, advocacy and technology through the approach of Safetipin. After a selection process Veronica
Sudesh a student of Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College for women and Pragya Tikku from the Institute of Home Economics were selected to intern with Safetipin and have an experiential learning experience.
