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Mikey Lepori, Beatriz Medeiros, Nancy Wang

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Problem

Current market tools do not provide a safe and anonymized way to report street harassment

Statistics are high - but no action to resolve
“Everyone knows ... “ but even knowing this - no action
�USA: In June 2014, Stop Street Harassment: nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting and ending gender-based street harassment worldwide commissioned a 2,000-person national survey in the USA with surveying firm GfK. The survey found that 65% of all women had experienced street harassment. Among all women, 23% had been sexually touched, 20% had been followed, and 9% had been forced to do something sexual. Among men, 25% had been street harassed (a higher percentage of LGBT-identified men than heterosexual men reported this) and their most common form of harassment was homophobic or transphobic slurs (9%).

USA: Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates conducted a nationally representative telephone survey of 612 adult women between June 17 and June 19, 2000. From this survey, they found that almost all women had experienced street harassment: 87 percent of American women between the ages of 18-64 had been harassed by a male stranger; and over one half of them experienced “extreme” harassment including being touched, grabbed, rubbed, brushed or followed by a strange man on the street or other public place. Shattering the myth that street harassment is an urban problem, the survey found that women in all areas experienced it: 90 percent in rural areas, 88 percent in suburban areas, and 87 percent in urban areas. Sadly, 84 percent of women “consider changing their behavior to avoid street harassment.”

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Our Vision

Develop an anonymized reporting system to leverage individual voices for community safety

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Process and Development

Integration with Google Maps
Developed UI on top of Google Maps with Android Studio
Set up server using Flask server to host SQLite report database
Establish HTTP connection between app and server

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Demo

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Next Steps

Meet with Office of Institutional Equity
Develop user authentication
Come up with new ways of representing reports (smaller markers, aggregating markers, etc.)
Associate app with user, tailor reports to user identity
Integrate InfoWindows instead of snippets
Anchor reports to businesses using GooglePlaces API