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The technology provides tools to fight gender violence

Posted On 07 Mar 2017
Bolivian Carmiña Santamaria, along with a team of experts in new technologies -among them Ecuadorian Carlos Villavicencio- created Kwema, a bracelet that activates an alarm system when the user is in trouble. Globally, one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence, according to UN Women. In Ecuador, 6 out of 10 women suffer from gender-based violence.
Figures like these have fueled the project of the Bolivian visionary. For Santamaria, the reality is that Kwema and other similar devices are the symptoms that the empowerment of women in the contemporary society also implies technologies that help to protect a vulnerable group.

I Feel Safe works as a mobile application which, after pressing the phone’s power button five times, sends an alert to the local authorities with a user’s location map. Besides its functionality, one of the aspects that stand out when creating these devices is the design. That is why enterprises such as Safelet or Roar (Athena) bet on gadgets that look like jewels to go unnoticed.

Source: http://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/tecnologia-herramientas-gadgets-violencia-genero.html

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