Map places and secure your city with a ‘safetipin’


New mobile and online app collects detailed information and assesses how safe a place is

The city is often touted as the safest metropolis, but a number of residents will tell you there are parts of Chennai where one would definitely feel unsafe.

So which are the ‘good’ neighbourhoods, and which are the ‘bad’? And what can be done about them?

To conduct a safety audit of the city, and physically map spaces on a safety scale, city-based NGO, Prajnya, has tied up with ‘Safetipin’, a mobile and online platform that collects information about safety in cities by engaging individuals.

“So far, we have conducted 358 audits in the city, primarily in parts of Royapettah, Tambaram, Shenoy Nagar/Anna Nagar, Besant Nagar and Thiruvanmiyur. We are hoping to reach 1,500 audits in the next six weeks but urgently need volunteers to help,” said Anupama Srinivasan, programme director, Prajnya. 

Once this number is reached, ‘Safetipin’ will be formally launched in Chennai so that users will have a database to begin with, she said.

How this works is simple: between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., volunteers with a smartphone that has the ‘Safetipin’ app go to a location in the city, pin the spot on a map using GPS and then rate the spot.............click for more

 

Source: The Hindu

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