Mozilla Community Space Bangalore

FirefoxOS - Bachchao Project

Feb 8, 2015
2 minute read

Mozilla India in association with The Bachchao Project hosted a FirefoxOS hack day yesterday at The Mozilla Community Space Bangalore.

The Bachchao Project is a community effort to build Open Source Technologies with a focus on:

  • Personal Safety with focus on women.
  • Empowering prevention of Gender Based Violence.
  • Enabling fight against Gender Based Violence.

Chinmayi, gave us an overview of the project and the impact the apps are creating in our daily lives.

Jai and Kaustav helped explain about FirefoxOS to the particpants before they get started hacking on getting the below apps into the Marketplace:

  • bachchao – Bachao is a mobile app for personal security especially designed for women. Bachao can be used to keep trusted friends informed of your location when traveling to a new city or staying out late.Apart from this Bachao is created to help mitigate the danger in various situations.Bachao provides two main services in the event of a crime:

    • It sends an alarm via SMS to one or more trusted friends. It records a video which can serve as a digital witness when no live witnesses are around. The message that your friends receive includes location information to help them get possible help for you.

  • i-rode – The i-rode application is designed to share and store the public transit by an individual. It is designed to help make decisions about boarding a particular transit based on the ratings of fellow travelers.Every time a traveler rates his/her journey it is stored by the app (In doing so, we tried our best to not store and share the personal information) and the transit is shared to the support group of the traveler. The ratings stored are then used to send information the next time one decides to take the public transport vehicle.

  • safemaps – Safemaps is safety based heat map dynamically created from various data sources. The App will be used to display this heat map and also act as a interface for crowd sourcing information.

Looking forward for more such collaborations which help in fulfilling Mozilla's mission.