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04 Oct Using Safetipin Nite to Collect Safety Data in Cities
Safetipin has launched a new app earlier this year called Safetipin Nite. This app has been specifically designed to take photographs of the city at night in order to supplement the data that is collected on Safetipin through crowdsourcing. The Safetipin app works as a...
04 Oct Safety Audits by Women’s Groups in Delhi on December 16, 2014
On the night of December 16, 2014, a group of women's organisations in Delhi led by Jagori, set out to conduct safety audits across four routes of the city. Safetipin was the app used to conduct these audits that were done between 7:30 and 10:30...
04 Oct Violence Against Women: A Tale of Two Public Cultures
This weekend, the State Commissioner for Police in Victoria Australia, Ken Lay, resigned due to illness in his family. The work that Ken Lay and his predecessor, Christine Nixon, accomplished in changing police culture on violence against women should be honoured. Intimate partner violence –...
04 Oct The Sustainability Challenge for Inner City Safety in Johannesburg
Johannesburg inner city, although less than 130 years old, presents as tired and over-burdened. Developed and evolved as a thriving business hub, the city centre is now home to an estimated more than 500 000 people. The population is multi-cultural and multi-lingual ...
04 Oct Expanding safety audit tools: Body-map storytelling
Feminist organizations and researchers have worked for decades to create safer cities for women and eradicate gender violence. Despite the progress made, gender violence continues being a major issue today in most societies and it reflects the impacts on gendered, racialized and sexualized...
04 Oct Safetipin finds patronage in Jakarta
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok), DKI Jakarta’s Vice Governor, encourages the citizens of Jakarta to start using the Safetipin app. As being reported by Kompas.com last Tuesday (14/10), Ahok asked the head of every district and village in Jakarta to download the app, so that the officers may respond to...
04 Oct City Planning: Built Environment and Personal Safety
City Planning – Built Environment and Personal Safety Many researches indicate that real and perceived dangers of personal safety restrict an individual's lifestyles and movement. But still we find that a significant portion of our physical activity like walking, cycling, and physical exercise takes place...
03 Oct Feeling safe vs Being safe – are they the same?
There are some restaurants / pubs in a mall in Gurgaon, India which have been in the news for violence and harassment of women. Police have to visit due to complaints and occasionally fights have broken out outside (or even inside) these places. This mall...
03 Oct Is safety perceived differently by men and women?
Yes is the answer. Women and men do perceive safety differently. Based on over 1500 audits conducted by 120 people, we can conclude that women do perceive spaces differently. This probably comes as no surprise to anyone. What is surprising however, is that the difference while...
