Supporting Safer Cities

Technology and Data to Build

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Kalpana Viswanath

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What is Safetipin

Safetipin is a map-based
online and mobile
phone application that
works to make our
communities and cities
safer by collecting and
disseminating safetyrelated information on
a large scale through
crowd sourcing and
other methods.

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The Safety Audit

Key feature of Safetipin
What is a safety audit
Based on global experience of 20 years of safety audits
8 important parameters that define safety perception
Lighting

Openness

Tr a n s p o r t

Visibility

Crowd

Diversity

Wa l k Pat h

Security

Include a parameter Feeling in addition

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Safetipin

First app
Conduct safety audits
and record other
information
Crowdsourced data
Gives Safety Score
More than 40,000
downloads

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Doing Audits

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Each audit or report of

harassment, hazard or place
will appear as a pin on the
Safetipin app
Each point gets uploaded
immediately and is then
available for anyone to see.
The red pins signify unsafe
points, orange a bit safer and
green pins would be
relatively safe points.

Safetipin Nite

Phone with Safetipin

Nite app attached to
moving vehicles
capturing pictures

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Photographs into audits

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My Safetipin

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Safetipin Data Collection across the World

910,000
pictures

Countries

100,000
Audit pins

11,000
Kms of road

27

cities
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Safetipin Map

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Delhi Dark Spots

70,934
AUDIT PINS

6,748

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25,410

Streetlight Data in Delhi

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METRO STATIONS
JAHANGIRPURI -3.1/5
AZADPUR 3/5
VISHWAVIDYALAYA 2.7/5

17
METRO
STATIONS

KASHMERE GATE 3.1/5

NEW DELHI 3.1/5
RAJIV CHOWK 3.2/5

Visibility
Security
Lack of Para-transit
facilities.
Lighting

CENTRAL SECRETARIAT 3.3/5

INA 2.3/5
AIIMS 2.6/5
HAUZ KHAS 2.9/5
MALVIYA NAGAR 3.1/5
SAKET 3.1/5
M.G. ROAD 2.6/5

CHATTARPUR 2.4/5

SIKANDERPUR 1.9/5
IFFCO CHOWK 1.5/5
HUDA CITY CENTRE 1.7/5

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BUS STOPS

275
BUS STOPS

20%

45%

35%

40% had Poor Lighting

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Constituency Safety Report

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Report of 8 cities

Delhi
Bengaluru
Chennai
Kochi
Trivandrum
Jaipur
Guwahati
Pune

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Creating Partnerships
Government departments like Public Works
Department, Transport Department,
Municipal Bodies
Police
Urban Planners
Transport Planners
NGOs

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Open Street Audit Mapping

Displaying the Safety
Audit Map in a Public
Place like Local Market,
Park, or Courtyard of a
College.
Increased access to
safety information
even for nonsmartphone users.
Working with the
Community for
identifying issues,
auditing and preparing
a Community Action
Plan.

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Safety Chaupal
Taking Technology to
Lower Income
Neighbourhoods.
4 Step program
spanning over a
month.
STEP 1 - Orientation
STEP 2 Training
STEP 3 Auditing
STEP 4 - Advocacy
Conducted in Tajpur
Pahadi, Badarpur &
Motilal Nehru Camp,
Munirka

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Partnership with Property Portal

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Layers of Safety through SafetiPin

City Planning

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Increase use of city at night

Large-scale night-time data
Use data for planning and
improvement

Safety Decisions

Syndicate safety score to

portals like property, hotels
Score available for individual
decisions and improvement

Personal Safety

Tracking and Emergency App

SafetiPin City with safety
information

Safetipin in the News

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Bogota Partnership

MOU with Secretary of

Women, City of Bogota
and Safetipin
Collaboration with UN
Habitat Bogota
Data to be used to
improve defined areas

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Partnership with Safe Nairobi Initiative

Data to be used
to work in
certain
neighborhoods
on
improvement
projects

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Safetipin as citizen voice

Safetipin to be incorporated into Smart City

Platform in partnership with UN Women
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Supporters

NAIROBI CITY COUNTY

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Partners

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