In addition to this support network, The Sorority also puts victims in contact with associations and local police forces. “They know us [et] when one of the community members contacts them, they can intervene more quickly.”
Concerns about the real-time location feature have also emerged. The creator specifies on this subject that “as soon as the application is closed by the victim, it is no longer possible to track their geolocation”. Thus, “the real-time position of users is not known and cannot be used as a weapon by malicious people”.
In a very short time, women and people from gender minorities have trusted these types of applications all over the world. Today, 500,000 people have downloaded the application and 220,000 profiles have been validated, 14,500 safe places are offered, either with people who agree to open their doors, or in commercial establishments which place themselves in support for victims during their opening hours.
“The great strength of our community support system is being able to help each other without ever judging each other, since strangers have no preconceptions about the situation of the victims,” underlines Priscillia Routier- Trillard. “They can therefore move forward more quickly without wondering if they are wrong, or if the situation is simply unchangeable.”
For Priscillia Routier-Trillard, the challenge for the coming months will be to make the manual profile moderation system more efficient. “The latest figures are gigantic, we had to moderate 120,000 profiles in the space of five days. Needless to say, we didn’t sleep much.” One solution would be to “use more and more new technologies to help us, this would relieve us of a significant burden,” she says.
To respond to this, “we are not immune to creating our own tool using artificial intelligence, while keeping control over what we are doing,” she explains. “We believe that a final step of hands-on moderation will always be necessary, no matter what.”
In the future, the creator of The Sorority wishes to further expand this support community to the most remote or dangerous regions for women. The larger the community, the more effective it will be, especially in countries where violence against women is still numerous, such as Colombia, Mexico, Ivory Coast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Other applications to combat violence against women such as App-elles or Garde ton corps are available on the App store and Play Store.
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