Presentation

Fight violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres.

The one I chose is API.

A. Exploratory research

  • Noonlight: Feel Protected 24/7
      • Noonlight
    1. Project carriers

      2. Zach Winkler created in 2013 at the University of Missouri in response to the high number of crime reports and the slow identification of the location of people making calls by 911 services.

    2. Beneficiaries

      3. Noonlight originally started as a way to get students from one point to another safely, and now it allows users to connect other apps and smart devices through the Noonlight app.This creates a way for users to get help even when they are unable or unaware of the emergency by allowing the connected app or device to trigger the Noonlight alarm for them. Therefore, every user who uses this app are benefitial from this project.

    3. Users

      4. In the beginning, due to a fact that this app is created in the university, the first round of users must be the students.
      In 2016, Downtown St. Louis partnered with SafeTrek and offered a six-month free subscription to 4,000 downtown residents, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
      In 2018, the St. Louis MetroLink contracted with Noonlight to offer their riders access to Noonlight's safety app. Similarly, Washington University in St. Louis offers a free subscription to all students, faculty, and staff.
      In addition, Noonlight also support safty solutions to Tinder, Canary, Fossil and Wyze. Therefore, those four apps users are also part of users of Noonlight.

    4. Need

      5. Noonlight is able to obtain users' exact GPS location within 5 meters in seconds of triggering the alarm.

    5. Principle

      6. This creates a way for users to get help even when they are unable or unaware of the emergency by allowing the connected app or device to trigger the Noonlight alarm for them. This solution also sends first responders vital details to make them more aware of the situation and better prepared.

    6. Main technologies involved

      7. Dispatch API; Online communication; Locating tech.

    7. Sources

      8. Noonlight official website

    8. Other info

      9. For customers: America's No. 1 Safety App.
      For deevlopers: Full-service emergency response APIs.
      FOR PSAPs & FIRST RESPONDERS: Empowered PSAPs and first responders.

  • SHEROES
      • SHEROES
    1. Project carriers

      2. A bevy of investors including Google’s Rajan Anandan, Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Flipkart’s Binny Bansal has invested in a startup that helps women find career opportunities.

    2. Beneficiaries

      3. SHEROES is a women-only social platform, a safe, trusted, high-empathy and constructive space, powered by communities, a chat-based helpline, resources, opportunities and conversations, it also creates prevention of sexual harassment at work platform and a Managed Remote Solutions program. Hence, the type of beneficiary should be women who used SHEROES. Meanwhile, their husbands or family are potential beneficiary as well.

    3. Users

      4. SHEROES is a women-only social platform, so women especially in India because it is an Indian platform.

    4. Need

      5. To its enterprise customers, SHEROES offers a range of jobs & products including Brand Solutions, SHE-prevention of sexual harassment at work platform and a Managed Remote Solutions program.

    5. Principle

      6. SHEROES.in is a career destination for women. You can find opportunities, get career guidance from mentors, access career resources and be a part of a community exclusively for urban professional women. Also it is powered by communities, a chat-based helpline, resources, opportunities and conversations.

    6. Main technologies involved

      7. Online communication.

    7. Sources

      8. SHEROES official website

    8. Other info

      9. SHEROES is the largest social networking app and personal app for women where women like you share their interests through videos and posts, use the free women helpline, get free health advice, find and share recipes, make new friends, get free legal advice, get relationship advice, get free beauty and fashion tips and so on.

  • SOS Alert
      • SOS Alert
    1. Project carriers

      2. Google's SOS alerts, introduced in 2017, are activated during crisis events where the public safety might be at risk.

    2. Beneficiaries

      3. Anyone who gets involved in an emergency situation during a crisis or who is closed to the risky place.

    3. Users

      4. Anyone who feels to meet an upcoming emergency or nearly everyone.

    4. Need

      5. SOS Alert is an emergency Android app that enables you to reach out to your emergency contacts when you’re facing a dangerous situation and informs them about your location.

    5. Principle

      6. SOS Alert has a very simple interface so anyone can easily use it and serves no ads. You can send a help signal to your emergency contacts with just one tap or even send pre-stored SOS messages.

    6. Main technologies involved

      7. Online communication; Locating tech.

    7. Sources

      8. SOS Alert official website

    8. Other info

      9. SOS Alerts also aim to make emergency information more accessible during a crisis. We bring together relevant and authoritative content from the web, social media, and Google products, and then highlight that information on Google products such as Search and Maps.

  • UrSafe
      • UrSafe
    1. Project carriers

      2. UrSafe was founded by a team of professional women and men who care deeply about personal violence—and some who have experienced it themselves, its app was created by two medical professionals and an Air Force veteran to protect users in almost any assault situation.

    2. Beneficiaries

      3. The direct users and their family behind.

    3. Users

      4. UrSafe partnered with more than 240 countries and territories, so travelers have added security also, so the travelers are the users.
      If there is an emergency, 911 calls will be sent to the nearest dispatch center rather than first bouncing the signal to wherever the caller's area code is. So the government in the US. is also a part of users.

    4. Need

      5. To adapt to modern safety and security needs.

    5. Principle

      6. A hands-free personal safety Android app, UrSafe is integrated with 911 so you can alert the authorities in an unsafe situation. It is a voice-activated security app in which you can set safe words that trigger various responses.

    6. Main technologies involved

      7. Google map API; Recording tech; Locating tech.

    7. Sources

      8. UrSafe official website

    B. Depening

  • Noonlight: Feel Protected 24/7
      • Noonlight
    1. Carriers and actors of the project

      2. As what mentioned above, noonlight has cooprated with other apps, for instance, Tinder has partnered with Noonlight to give you backup every time you meet up with someone new.
      If you’re in the U.S., connect Noonlight to Tinder so you can:
      1. Add a badge to your chat threads and let people know you’re protected by Noonlight.
      2. Share where, when and who you’re meeting IRL via Noonlight’s Timeline feature.
      3. Discreetly trigger emergency services if you’re feeling uneasy or in need of help.

    2. Research question

      3. 1. How can we enhance our female user-group one step further after cooperating with several companies?
      2. How data from high accident areas or time periods can improve or help women to further prevent or protect themselves?

    3. The reason why I selected this project

      4. Noonlight is a unique app that lets you deal with potential threats as well as actual threats. It works in two ways – firstly, you can use it when you’re not sure whether to call 911 or not. Secondly, you can use it when you’re actually in trouble and want the help from authorities.
      Meanwhile, women's status and security of life have been greatly compromised since the COVID-19 has started, it is necessary to find the balance point about how to protect while not preventing from going outside for fun.

  • User scenario
    1. Users

      2. The users are everyone who used noonlight. In ths case, it would be a female.

    2. Persona

      3. First name: Lily.
      Age: 38.
      Profession: Professor of Psychology.
      City: Chicago.
      Family status: Parents & one brother.
      Income: $80,546.
      Hobbies: Reaing & listening music.
      Desires: Go home earily.
      Frustrations: Frequent evening classes.
      Major issue related to the subject: Recently, there are more and more criminal cases occured closed to the parking lots, Lily started to be nervous, his brother told her to download "Noonlight", which could real-time positioning. But Lily still did not feel so great.

    3. Key features

      4. Share location & Send message.

    4. UX storyboard
      5. UX storyboard
  • Technical analysis
    1. General principle

      2. Firstly, using product when detecting an emergency and calling Noonlight's Dispatch API; secondly, Noonlight will contact user via text or phone call; thirdly, Noonlight will contect appropriate emergency services if unable to confirm user's safety; finally, first responders will provide fast and informed response, using rich data shared by Noonlight.

    2. Technical overview - API version

      3. -Noonlight REST API v1.0.
       The Noonlight API enables developers to integrate emergency service dispatching, such as Police and EMS, with their applications.
      The API creates an alarm when an API call is made which is handled by one of the dispatchers at Noonlight's 24/7 monitoring centers.
      Filtered #Safety in the first priority; #B2B, #Emergency, #Fire, #Internet of Things, #Monitoring, #Police, #Security in the second priority.
      The API can be utilized to create alarms, update an alarm status, retrieve alarm information, and update persons.

      More info about Noonlight REST API v1.0

      -Dispatch API
       Simplify multi-channel message delivery with one powerful API. It could be used through Dispatch API to customize your messaging logic.
      Dispatch API is used to interact with backend services though a customized server token.
      Indicate "camera" as the “triggering event” to send in the footage associated with the alarm for Noonlight's dispatcher to review.
      Besides, if your use case requires dispatching on a non-static emergency location, you can send location updates to the Dispatch API.

      More info about Dispatch API

    3. Add value thanks to APIs

      4. Firstly, APIs create a direct channel between clients and backend services, it saves a lot of time. Besides, connecting to APIs, and creating applications that consume the data or functionality exposed by APIs, can be done with a distributed integration platform that connects everything, hence, the info could be transfer to designated destination.