Using AI for women’s safety

ElsaMarie
3 min readOct 5, 2019

Safecity collaborated with OMDENA on an AI challenge. Here’s what we learned and why is it important.

This past week I spoke with a group of students at the University of District of Columbia about crowd mapping sexual violence in public spaces. . I explained to them how the anonymous stories women and girls share on my organization Safecity’s website gives us clues on location based trends and patterns that contribute to the violence.

One of the students mentioned that some of the DC metro subway stations attract predators around when they are shutting…

ElsaMarie

Contradiction of sorts — dreamer and doer, introvert yet extrovert, grounded whilst always flying. Feminist. Know more www.elsamariedsilva.com; www.safecity.in