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    Project Jagriti: Crowdsourced child abuse reporting
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014) Dhruv Chand, M.; Sankaranarayanan, S.; Sharma, C.
    Child abuse and its myriad forms often go undetected due to the geographically distributed and widespread nature of the crime. The process of reporting is also long and is often used as an excuse to allow the proliferation of these activities. To prevent the crime from going unpunished, this paper introduces a browser based web application and a mobile application called Project Jagriti that uses the power of Crowdsourcing to ensure justice for the child victims. All reports of child abuse filed using the platform are forwarded to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC); a body constituted by the Government of India to oversee child welfare and expedite the process of recovery and rehabilitation of the victims. The platform also provides anonymity for encouraging users. © 2014 IEEE.
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    A mobile application for Women's Safety: WoSApp
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016) Chand, D.; Nayak, S.S.; Bhat, K.S.; Parikh, S.; Singh, Y.; Kamath, A.A.
    The safety of women is a concern of increasing urgency in India and other countries. The primary issue in the handling of these cases by the police lies in constraints preventing them from responding quickly to calls of distress. These constraints include not knowing the location of the crime, and not knowing the crime is occurring at all: at the victim's end, reaching the police assuredly and discreetly is a challenge. To aid in the removal of these constraints, this paper introduces a mobile application called WoSApp (Women's Safety App) that provides women with a reliable way to place an emergency call to the police. The user can easily and discreetly trigger the calling function by shaking her phone, or by explicitly interacting with the user interface of the application via a simple press of a PANIC button on the screen. A message containing the geographical location of the user, as well as contact details of a pre-selected list of emergency contacts, is immediately sent to the police. This paper describes the application, its development, and its technical implementation. © 2015 IEEE.