Red Dot Foundation

Red Dot Foundation works at the intersection of gender, data and technology, urban design and community engagement. Its flagship program is Safecity, a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public and private spaces. This data which maybe 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 cause behaviour that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. Since the launch of the Safecity platform on 26 Dec 2012 we have collected over 45,000 stories from India and abroad and have directly reached over 1 million people. Our Mission: Red Dot Foundation aims to make cities safer by encouraging equal access to public and private spaces for everyone especially women and girls, through the use of crowdsourced data, community engagement and institutional accountability. 

 

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