Yes We Can...A vision to make this world a better place.
Since the last two years I have been wondering about how can we make the world a better place for women. Hearing about the 16 December Delhi rape case, shocked I was to learn , how somebody could be so cruel to that innocent women, who was somebody's love, somebody's daughter, somebody' mother, somebody's sister. Punishing the rapist was just like a medicine which will treat the symptoms but not the disease itself, although punishing the rapists was also as important as preventing rapes.
A few days after that rape case, soon Delhi was a place of multiple ongoing protests. You could actually find people in each and every locality people carrying out rallies. Seeing this , I wondered "If so many people in this world are against crime against women, then why does it even happen". We have seen in the history of the world , that finally the world will go to a state where the things are according to the majority, and majority of this world want an end to this. This led me to wonder that what was actually going wrong in our system that this time the majority was not able to establish its demand.
Years passed by and I got into an engineering college, and still that question pestered me. Then one day I got introduced to the concept of open source, where everything was open to everyone, this means everyone gets a chance to do what they desire to, to implement changes they want to. Everyone gets the power to change the world. I still remember my first contribution to Mozilla Release Engineering which was a feature enhancement and it actually saved a lot of time of a lot of developers all around the world. That day I could actually feel the power of open source.
Then one day again I heard of rape cases, and again the same questioned bothered me. But this time i could understand the problem a little better. The crux of the problem was that the people were not getting the chance to change what they wanted to. The 10000 people who carried out rallies could never know where the crime is happening and hence they could not help the victim.
Now there was one question in my mind...
How to give power to these people to change what they want to change?
The answer was simple enough "Open Source". Although they may not seem to be even related, but again I remembered my contribution to Mozilla. Now the problem was to connect Open source the people.
Although I never really thought of this but in some part of my mind I was always brainstorming about this, and one day I found it. It was simple, just inform those 10000 people of that crime , and even if 10 of them actually reach the location of the victim , the rapist would not even think of touching the victim.Then they would actually have the power to stop that crime. And also one problem is that the victim may not be in a position to actually make a call, but yes she can always press a single button which is on her home screen.
And here the solution was and pursuing computer science enabled me to implement it. Make an App which when touched informs the police and the people who actually want to help. Now how do we collect the people who want to help? Simple, ask them to volunteer.
So basically what this project will do is connect the victim and helpers. If the helpers want a safe society for their sisters and mothers, they will help. History has shown us that connecting the right people is what is required for anything to be successful, and this is what exactly my project will do.
Since the last two years I have been wondering about how can we make the world a better place for women. Hearing about the 16 December Delhi rape case, shocked I was to learn , how somebody could be so cruel to that innocent women, who was somebody's love, somebody's daughter, somebody' mother, somebody's sister. Punishing the rapist was just like a medicine which will treat the symptoms but not the disease itself, although punishing the rapists was also as important as preventing rapes.
A few days after that rape case, soon Delhi was a place of multiple ongoing protests. You could actually find people in each and every locality people carrying out rallies. Seeing this , I wondered "If so many people in this world are against crime against women, then why does it even happen". We have seen in the history of the world , that finally the world will go to a state where the things are according to the majority, and majority of this world want an end to this. This led me to wonder that what was actually going wrong in our system that this time the majority was not able to establish its demand.
Years passed by and I got into an engineering college, and still that question pestered me. Then one day I got introduced to the concept of open source, where everything was open to everyone, this means everyone gets a chance to do what they desire to, to implement changes they want to. Everyone gets the power to change the world. I still remember my first contribution to Mozilla Release Engineering which was a feature enhancement and it actually saved a lot of time of a lot of developers all around the world. That day I could actually feel the power of open source.
Then one day again I heard of rape cases, and again the same questioned bothered me. But this time i could understand the problem a little better. The crux of the problem was that the people were not getting the chance to change what they wanted to. The 10000 people who carried out rallies could never know where the crime is happening and hence they could not help the victim.
Now there was one question in my mind...
How to give power to these people to change what they want to change?
The answer was simple enough "Open Source". Although they may not seem to be even related, but again I remembered my contribution to Mozilla. Now the problem was to connect Open source the people.
Although I never really thought of this but in some part of my mind I was always brainstorming about this, and one day I found it. It was simple, just inform those 10000 people of that crime , and even if 10 of them actually reach the location of the victim , the rapist would not even think of touching the victim.Then they would actually have the power to stop that crime. And also one problem is that the victim may not be in a position to actually make a call, but yes she can always press a single button which is on her home screen.
And here the solution was and pursuing computer science enabled me to implement it. Make an App which when touched informs the police and the people who actually want to help. Now how do we collect the people who want to help? Simple, ask them to volunteer.
So basically what this project will do is connect the victim and helpers. If the helpers want a safe society for their sisters and mothers, they will help. History has shown us that connecting the right people is what is required for anything to be successful, and this is what exactly my project will do.
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