Pune 13 January 2014 : Monali Thakur Lead Actress in Nagesh
Kukunoor’s film “Laksmi” and Melissa Lee Ohm –Former US Marine and personal
safety expert were present at the second day of a two day
special event on Women’s Safety and Technology organized by Pune based
SmartCloud computing. The company which developed the well known “Nirbhaya –Be
Fearless” App last year has launched a unique
initiative “Mark your City Safe Campaign” for womens safety . The two day
event was graced by Lila Poonawalla who launched the initiative , Founders
of SmartCloud Infotech Gajanan Sakhare and Ajit Patil, Vishwas Mahajan
President TiE and Shabnam Asthana senior member Nirbhaya Fearless team .
SmartCommute a comprehensive solution for Employee Commute
Safety was launched on the occasion
Monali Thakur said that sometimes women come across certain
situations which lead us to believe that we live in a hopeless world. There are
many such personal experiences that I have been through. The question that must
be asked is Are we human? . This is the tagline of our upcoming film ‘Lakshmi’
which talks on the same subject . She stated that while she never got a
chance to meet Laksmi on who the film was based, she saluted her and said that
females like “Lakshmi” who fight against injustice gave her a lot of
hope.
The two day program kicked off with the
launch of “Mark your City Safe Campaign” for womens safety on Sunday at
the hands of Lila Poonawalla at MCCIA Auditorium .
Lila Poonawalla at inaugural event said
that it is good that the awareness on women’s safety is increasing . However
Men should also be a part of Women’s Safety and this should start right from
the student level. Both boys and girls should be taught the importance of why they
should respect each other .
Gajanan Sakhare said that “Mark your
City Safe Campaign” is an advancement of “Nirbhaya: Be Fearless ” which
we launched last year . This feature is important because it can tell which
areas in the city are safe and unsafe according to people . One will have to
download the free Nirbhaya App currently available for Android phones and
participate in the “STAMP Feature ”. Then the user will have to
stamp an area as safe or unsafe based on certain criteria’s. Over a period of
time users will start to see clusters with different coloured labels as we see
on internet heat maps . Red coloured labels will denote unsafe while green will
denote safe areas . The app will also notify or send a pop up if a user is
nearby an unsafe area .
He added that we don’t want to leave the
initiative at that but we want to make it an end to end solution . We are
already working on designs of some small wearable gadgets for women . Once we
receive the patent we will bring them for use . Also Human interaction is
necessary in cases of emergency . So we plan to have a 24x7 call centre in Pune
to start with which can be trained to respond in emergency / SOS
situations . We are talking to all the stakeholders involved in emergency
situations like NGOs ,Ambulance Services, Volunteer Groups and the police
.
He said that to make these things a reality apart from our
technological expertise , we have onboard former US Marine and expert in
personal safety training Melissa Lee Ohm who have served in Iraq and
Afghanistan and has a vast experience in personal safety training . Peter
Relan a serial entrepreneur from Bay Area US and s his incubator
program called Studio9+ has invested in smart cloud and will help
in desgining effective wearable gadgets
