Authors : Francis Fernandez Balahadia and Joel M. Bawica
Abstract: The study analyzed existing literatures to understand the needs in developing mobile application to provide women with tools to protect themselves from gender-based violence. Literatures give different perspectives on how to protect women but comprehensive and complete information on Violence Against Women (VAWs) is in need to assess existing studies and application. The proponents proposed a mobile application that can give the user the capability to send incident report to the related response agency, different laws regarding VAWs to educate the users, send notification to the families and response team if emergency occurs with corresponding location through GPS, list of different government agency help lines. The application can be used through mobile application by individual users and web portal wherein administrators will be the one to receive reports and incidents. Furthermore with the proposed application, it can provide free, simple reporting procedures, ensure specific accessible response mechanism in place to react to cases and establish systematic reporting and monitoring of ICT related forms of VAW that are instituted at all level, so that, trends can be monitored and addressed by the related response government offices.
Francis Fernandez Balahadia and Joel M. Bawica, 2017. Developing Mobile Application for Public Awareness on Violence Against Women. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 8518-8522.