Eyeline CIS (Novosibirsk, Russia) for Stop Human Trafficking App Challenge

A mobile service that can help to combat human trafficking in Russia and all over the world. It allows people in any country to get important information or send messages, and it costs nothing to the end users. It needs neither state-of-the-art smartphone nor Wi-Fi connection. It's available anywhere in the world, it's lightning fast, works on any mobile phone, which is especially important in emergency situations for human trafficking victims or high-risk groups who cannot pay or haven't access to the internet when they need it. http://globalussd.com

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• #StopHTapp;
• USAID;
• Demi
• Ashton
• Foundation;
• NetHope;
• USSD;
• GlobalUSSD;
• mobile;
• technology;

[Carla33TS]

The thing is that after you have been kidnapped you will probably not have a chance to call/send any messages. And giving users possibility to send alert message free of charge is nice, but not solving any problem here (I think it would be a rare case when yo're phone is so broken that you don't have few cents to send simple SMS to police . /family…)

[xandred]

@Carla33TS The app CAN really solve the problem. It gives an opportunity to use ANY mobile phone including one that doesn't belong to you, or have zero balance. Or, imagine that a sudden victim doesn't have a local SIM and every SMS in roaming costs $2 in some countries.

In short, unlike other apps that mostly educate people about the issue (which it also does), this app can help a victim in some cases.

[Carla33TS]

@xandred "Woman was beaten and put to tiny dark cellar. By accident she found old mobile phone in corner. "I am saved!" -she thought. Unfortunately traffickers knew about this phone and they checked it has zero balance ! Well, she could call free police number but they would hear it. What they didn't plan is that she can still send a free message with CIS software - and the best part: she could send this message even despite the fact that it wasn't really her phone !. Amazing technology guys :)

[xandred]

For safety reasons, in most cases the service's response will contain brief info like contacts, useful phone numbers, etc that isn't stored in the phone memory so the criminals won't trace that a victim tried to reach help. And, unlike SMS, the service's outgoing message doesn't leave a copy in phone's memory either.

[groutdave]

Great idea. Did you win 3rd place in the challenge?