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circleof6 app aims to prevent sexual violence

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2012)

The White House put together a competition last year to try and encourage developers to build mobile apps dedicated to helping stop sexual violence, and a winner of that competition has just arrived in the App Store. circle of 6 is that app -- it's an emergency notifier that allows anyone to ...

Brooklyn filmmaker working on app to help prevent sexual assault

by Michael Rose (Dec 16th, 2011)

When it comes to creating innovative apps to address municipal, environmental or social issues, the answer increasingly comes down to crowdsourcing. The public problem-solving site ChallengePost serves as a platform for innovative ideas from developers, working in areas as varied as the NYC ...