Tech for Good: Tackling Domestic Violence and Abuse

Registration in advance is essential on Zoom webinar page below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_20kv8uZOQ7m_9RuKNuXEEw

Our Tech for Good July event focuses on how tech innovations are being used to tackle domestic violence and abuse. The figures are shocking. UN data shows that 1 in 5 women and girls under the age of 50 will have experienced physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner within the last 12 months (based on data from 87 countries). Across the world, women and girls have their most fundamental rights violated - the right to life, security and protection from violence. Globally tech is beginning to be harnessed to address this. There’s lots more that can be done. Our event showcases:

The HeHop app https://hehop.org/en/home-en/ uses blockchain technology to support victims of domestic violence capture evidence in a clean and traceable manner. The app launched in June 2020 in France and plans are underway to pilot it in Ireland. HeHop aims is to increase the rate of reporting and convictions of domestic violence crimes. HeHop are the winners of the Social Innovation Tournament 2019.

Omdena http://omdena.com/ a global collaboration platform that allows a volunteer community of data scientists and domain experts to use AI to solve social challenges. Omdena has been working with Red Dot Foundation in India on a number of projects looking at preventing sexual harrassment and preventing gender violence. Their latest project is looking at how COVID19 has shown a marked increase in cases of domestic violence.

Our speakers:
Sandy Beky is a learning and change management business leader and founder. She has been very active in promoting gender equality, in her role as the President of the Professional Women’s Network in Paris, France (2013-2015) and a member of the French ministerial delegation at various editions of the Global Summit of Women including Sao Paulo, Warsaw, Tokyo and Basel Sandy has co-authored 8 books and white papers on various topics from well-being at work and circular HR to climate change. In April 2019, she co-founded HeHop.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandybeky/
https://twitter.com/SandyBeky

Rudradeb Mitra started his career as an AI researcher in 2002 and co-authored ten research papers. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he entered the startup world and built six tech startups, including one on insurance tech ML startup. He is an avid writer and wrote his first book titled “Creating Value With Artificial Intelligence: Lessons learned from 10 years with building AI products”. His current interest is to build AI solutions for social good through global collaboration. He has also been invited to speak in over 100 events and is Google for Startups mentor and a senior AI advisor of the European Financial Management Association.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitrar/
https://twitter.com/ArtimBedar

Máirín Murray co-founder of Tech for Good Dublin is your host.
Watch our TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTYeb6g4ivY J

Need Support?

Women’s Aid Ireland https://www.womensaid.ie/

Women’s Aid Northern Ireland https://www.womensaidni.org/

Dublin Rape Crisis Centre https://www.drcc.ie/

• national organisation offering services to women and men affected by rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment or childhood sexual abuse.

Safe Ireland https://www.safeireland.ie/get-help/

Aoibhneas – Domestic Abuse support for women and children http://www.aoibhneas.ie/services.html

Staying Safe Online Resources

Technology can be used in a positive way to support victims however it can also provide abusers with even more ways to threaten and control.

https://safelives.org.uk/sites/default/files/resources/Staying%20safe%20online%20guide.pdf

https://www.techsafety.org/resources-survivors/technology-safety-plan

https://www.refuge.org.uk/our-work/forms-of-violence-and-abuse/tech-abuse-2/resources/