Crowdmapping on the mitigation of sexual harassment

Abstract

Sexual harassment is a gruesome act of violence that almost 84% of women in Bangladesh, according to Sajida Foundation [21], from the age of three to sixty, have endured it. With the use of crowdsourcing technology, our proposed idea has centralized towards the development of a system to bring down the statistics of such crime. Exploiting an open source crowdmapping platform along with Frontline SMS, an open source software used to collect information via text, to create a cartographic representation of incidents of sexual assault that are reported through multiple channels and data streams, including SMS texting, email and Twitter, while respecting the integrity of the victim. The objective of our vision is to be able to use this platform in the real world to overcome the cultural and environmental constraints that have hindered traditionally in collection of data for protection of women.