Congratulations! A similar app won Google's Social Impact Challenge 2014 [1] in Brazil. It's named PLP 2.0 [2], and it's aimed mainly at women that suffer from

Congratulations! A similar app won Google's Social Impact Challenge 2014 [1] in Brazil. It's named PLP 2.0 [2], and it's aimed mainly at women that suffer from violent partners. A few friend and I built something similar for a hackathon made by the brazilian Chamber of Deputies on Genre [3]. Our main differentiator was that we didn't rely on having a smartphone at all, as our focus was on low-income women in Brazil, which (we thought) is the class that needs something like this the most. Although smartphone use is increasing very quickly in Brazil, only 20% of the brazilians had one in 2014. Ours worked by having a phone number where people would call via a fast-dial number (so it would need just one button press), then it would start recording the audio and send an SMS to NGOs that work with women's protection so they could call the cops or whatever was deemed necessary. Obviously, by not requiring a smartphone we wouldn't have access to the person's location. The solution was based on the fact that ~70% of the attacks occur on the victim's home. We would pre-register the person's number and addresses (home, work, etc.), so that when we received a "help request", we would know where to start looking for her. This was the best we could do with a dumb phone. [1] https://desafiosocial.withgoogle.com/brazil2014 https://desafiosocial.withgoogle.com/brazil2014 [2] http://www.plp20.org.br/ http://www.plp20.org.br/ [3] https://github.com/thacker/botao-do-panico https://github.com/thacker/botao-do-panico