The truth that an increasing number of panic apps are showing isn’t a fad, they’re essential.
And that is possibly indicative of a sense of lack of confidence but additionally of a grim fact.
The cause of the 2 elementary panic buttons that perform national (one for home violence and the second one for secure early life), a brand new one (just one week outdated) that applies handiest throughout the barriers of the Municipality of Athens and an older one who operates as a pilot from 2022 in AUTH campus.
The phenomenon isn’t Greek.
To say simply two examples, along with the ones similar to our personal programs: panic button for resort workers used to be established via the state of New York, but additionally for employees in massive retail outlets (it’ll be carried out from the New 12 months of 2027).
One downloads the entire programs simply, very simply.
Simplest from there till he will get the facility to make use of the “panic button” and will name the Police, there are some procedures – each within the first and 2nd programs.
In terms of home violence, he must have already long gone to a counseling heart or a police station first. This isn’t to mention that the entire different options don’t seem to be essential: recommendation and give a boost to, helplines, inquiries to assist be told and notice how a lot possibility one is at, and so forth.
The diary, the place incidents of abuse are registered, may be specifically helpful.
All this will also be accessed via everybody within the utility, which is then again “hidden” in order that the “attacker” can’t hit upon it.
As a result of, and this can be a essential part of the platform, it seeks the golden ratio between coverage and pace of motion.
Indicative: handiest throughout the first 10 months of 2024, 3,500 sufferers of home violence (together with 195 males) gained panic buttons, whilst the Police had been referred to as 400 instances.
Pre-registration is needed to make use of the facility to name the Police within the secure early life app.
Some of the must haves is the declaration of a depended on grownup.
In a different way, the content material (which will also be accessed with out pre-registration) is a wealth of knowledge at the problems with abuse, overlook, violence and delinquency of minors and steering on techniques to give protection to your self, the potential for reporting anonymously or via identify and connecting to the devoted phone line 10201.
And right here the numbers are indicative of its usefulness: within the first week of operation, 595 other people had downloaded the appliance and 158 had crammed within the pre-registration shape.
Two essential inventions are offered via the SafeAthens utility of the Municipality of Athens, which used to be introduced about 10 days in the past – it handiest works throughout the barriers of the municipality.
At the one hand, it permits the consumer (along with a message to the Police) to create 3 contacts of family members (who will have to even have downloaded the appliance) and to whom, if they’re in peril, a predetermined message shall be despatched.
However, together with the message, a are living monitoring hyperlink is shipped that provides the consumer’s location and is up to date each and every hour.
Additionally, because the managing director of DAEM, Lazaros Karaoulis, knowledgeable us, if the consumer belongs to a inclined staff (he’s deaf, blind, and so forth.) that is discussed within the message, in order that those that come to the rescue know this prematurely.
Additionally of explicit significance are the purposes of the alarm and the potential for a digital name – one thing that may paintings proactively in a imaginable threat.
Already 837 other people have downloaded the appliance.
In the end, a pilot is any other utility, AUTh Campus Protection, which used to be created via the Middle for Digital Executive of the Aristotle College of Thessaloniki and issues the reporting of emergencies (well being, unlawful or screw ups) throughout the AUTh campus.
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