Cape Town – Technology has a huge task to carry out in forestalling and fighting sex based brutality (GBV).
This is as per Warren Myers, the originator and CEO of South Africa’s driving security and clinical reaction stage, AURA.
Myers was important for a cautiously chosen board to talk about another guide for innovation and its function in tending to GBV during a live online course.
South Africa’s yearly 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children is in progress, featuring the scourge of GBV just as the significance of handling it.
The mission began on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until Human Rights Day on 10 December.
Joining Myers on the board in talking about the significance of security and innovation was Vumacam CEO Ricky Croock, Mara Glennie of the TEARS Foundation and Unam Mahlati, Senior Operations and Logistics Manager for Uber SA.
“Wellbeing is a critical mainstay of a flourishing society, a need for human thriving, and a non-debatable common freedom. The way that ladies live in dread each day smothers development and progress and endangers the eventual fate of our country,” said Myers.
Innovation can be a helpful apparatus in wrongdoing anticipation by engaging ladies with the way to get help with the occasion they feel perilous. “The AURA stage guarantees anybody can get to the innovation that empowers security organizations to rapidly arrive at survivors of homegrown maltreatment. It offers a security net and true serenity through on-request crisis administrations where possible casualties of wrongdoing can find support from the nearest reaction vehicle quickly or less,” he says.
Myers added that they mean to change the outlook of culprits where they start to feel a genuine dread of being secured.
As a feature of its pledge to having any kind of effect during 2020’s 16 Days of Activism AURA will guarantee the accessibility of 1 000 reactions for the TEARS Foundation to help them in their endeavors in giving admittance to emergency mediation, promotion, directing, and avoidance instruction administrations for those affected by abusive behavior at home, rape and youngster sexual maltreatment.
TEARS’ free innovation based administrations which can be gotten to by dialing *134*7355#, helps 88 217 casualties of GBV per annum.
A month ago, the Vodacom Foundation has declared the dispatch of a bleeding edge and free application intended to help in the battle against GBV.
Brilliant Sky SA application is allowed to download on the two iOS and Android gadgets on the App Store and Google Play Store individually. It offers help and data for any individual who might be in a harsh relationship, or for those worried about somebody they know. It is accessible in English, IsiZulu and SeSotho.
Brilliant Sky’s highlights incorporate a short survey to assist clients with recognizing various types of misuse and the kinds of help accessible. It gives the client data about GBV, the various types of GBV, and different contextual analyses.
Utilizing geolocation, the application gives data on help administrations accessible in South Africa, including a registry of police headquarters, medical clinics and NGOs the nation over. The application doesn’t share anybody’s very own subtleties and guarantees the total security of its clients.
