19 min
#5: ElsaMarie D'Silva on Gender-based and Sexual Violence GDL Coffee Break Podcast
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In this episode, host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to ElsaMarie D'Silva. She currently serves as president of the Red Dot Foundation Global, an NGO that works to end violence against women. She is also the innovator of Safecity, an online platform developed by Red Dot Foundation that uses crowdsourcing to track reports of sexual violence and harassment in public spaces and maps this data to show unsafe areas in cities. Since launching Safecity in 2012, Elsa has overseen the platform’s rise to become the largest crowdsourcing app on the issue in India, Kenya, Cameroon, and Nepal. For her pioneering work in addressing gender-based violence, Elsa received the 2013 Digital Women in Social Impact Award from She The People, the 2015 Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Dusan Stojanovic, the Government of India’s 2016 #WomenTransformingIndia award, and Vital Voices’ 2017 Global Leadership Award. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC Hindi’s Top 100 Inspirational and Influential Women.
Safecity is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public 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 causes behavior that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. You can find further inormation on Safecity here: www.safecity.in
Elsa contributed to the following publications:
"The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth: Voices from the Global Diplomacy Lab" by Anthem Press here. She Is - Stories of Women Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in India.
In this episode, host Khaldun Al Saadi talks to ElsaMarie D'Silva. She currently serves as president of the Red Dot Foundation Global, an NGO that works to end violence against women. She is also the innovator of Safecity, an online platform developed by Red Dot Foundation that uses crowdsourcing to track reports of sexual violence and harassment in public spaces and maps this data to show unsafe areas in cities. Since launching Safecity in 2012, Elsa has overseen the platform’s rise to become the largest crowdsourcing app on the issue in India, Kenya, Cameroon, and Nepal. For her pioneering work in addressing gender-based violence, Elsa received the 2013 Digital Women in Social Impact Award from She The People, the 2015 Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award from Dusan Stojanovic, the Government of India’s 2016 #WomenTransformingIndia award, and Vital Voices’ 2017 Global Leadership Award. In 2015, she was listed as one of BBC Hindi’s Top 100 Inspirational and Influential Women.
Safecity is a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public 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 causes behavior that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. You can find further inormation on Safecity here: www.safecity.in
Elsa contributed to the following publications:
"The Demographic Dividend and the Power of Youth: Voices from the Global Diplomacy Lab" by Anthem Press here. She Is - Stories of Women Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals in India.
19 min