ZeroCrime let you view & map crimes around you

A new web app ZeroCrime has been launched recently with an urge to fight crime using technology and crowdsourcing. It is an online application that allows citizens to report and view criminal activity near them.

It is actually a map based app where users can file unofficial crime reports and can also view criminal activity filed by other users. Through this app users can view high risk zones highlighted around any locality of any city of India only. Also one can get location-based safety alerts on your smartphones.

The filed report is put on a map for Zerocrime users to read. In the future, Zerocrime readers will be able to see a heat map of high-risk zones and location-based safety alerts will be pushed on to the user's smartphones through the Zerocrime mobile application.

The aim of Zerocrime is to empower users with the knowledge of criminal activity around them. This initiative will help citizens and travelers get aware of high-risk zones near them. The company behind the app also plan to partner with NGOs and law enforcement agencies to share key crime-related insights with them. The app claims this initiative will help decrease crime and help the user indirectly.

Zerocrime is Delhi based startup and was started by three young professionals who were tired of the increasing criminal activity around them. It is a simple initiative that makes us and fellow-citizens aware of our surroundings.

Safecity.in Mapping Unsafe areas for Women in India

Safecity.in is a new portal that provide information & aggregation platform to help identify hotspots in a city where women abuse,verbal comments, graphic behavior, menace or any type of sexual harassment has been reported. Any women can report any bad incidence happened to them to website which in turn identify locations where women have experienced or witnessed any type of sexual harassment. This platform only provides information based on voluntary unverified reports.

Any one can submit report of bad behaviours against women on portal in any cities of India by searching the city from search box and share the incident by writing details of it. One can submit report as news, pictures or even videos.

One can also submit report via mobile android app - SafeTrac and also via tweet over twitter using hashtags #pinthecreep or #safecity and help the portal to map unsafe areas over a map and aggregate all the reports.

As per the number of incidence reported in the portal, region in and around New Delhi lead all other Indian region with 789 indecent behaviour against women till date followed by Hyderabad region,

One of the best feature of portal is user can get alerts as emails of any kind of sexual harassment in 1-100 KM of his/her living area.

One of a anonymous user reports incident of Chandni Chowk, New Delhi location she wrote - "While walking down the streets of chandni chowk during afternoon , two men bumped into me and pinched my breasts and then making weird facial expressions."

The portal has different wherein you can submit reports and get alerts such as - catcalls/Whistles, chain snatching, commenting, indecent exposure, sexual invites, rape/sexual assault, touching or groping etc.

Although internet penetration in India is only 12% something and women of rural areas where Internet is still a luxury kind of thing and SafeCity.in might not get report submission from rural areas and may not even managed to map unsafe areas in rural regions. Nevertheless, this good effort made by the portal might alert the urban women population on unsafe areas around them.

India's Tourism Ministry launches 360 degree street view Website with Genesys

Mumbai based Geospatial technology startup company Genesys has launched in partnership with India's Tourism Ministry a 360 degree street view website - WoNoBo.com. WoNoBo.com is an Internet service platform that combines various audio and visual location finding technologies like geospatial to give a complete overview of the location that the user is trying to find.

Wonobo lets its users find directions across several cities, search for places, even look inside thousands of businesses and interesting places. The 360 degree street view map is available 12 major cities in India - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Agra, Bangalore, Jaipur, Pune, Surat, Goa and within few weeks it will be expanded to 54 more cities.

The site offers user generated content while offering social media capabilities such tagging of location for restaurants, petrol station, ATMs etc. and facilitating creation of local communities online by creating user generated stories, guides, walking tours which further helps other users to use them.

Users can also rate and give reviews of monuments they are seeing on Wonobo and help other people who wants to visit the places. The website tied up with tourism ministryo of India so as to promote Incredible India campaign by introducing theme-based city walks on Wonobo.com platform.

As of now the website doesn't offer any mobile application and is restricted to website only. When we went through the the website it is comparatively slow to other website in its niche and doesn't offer much guides, stories or walking tours as claimed possibly because it very new and launched recently.

According to Wonobo officials the website has taken an investment of about $35 million and two years of development in India.

MappedIndia.com - All things Indian Startups Over Map

Few desperate entrepreneurs from IIT Chennai have launched a portal dedicated to map all things related to Indian startup community and ecosystem MappedIndia.com - the mission of this project is to put all Indian start-ups , Incubators and Vc's on one map , one place, connected.

If you see other startup community of other countries like US, Berlin and Israel they have dedicated portals that map all things related to startups over an interactive map that includes startups, accelerators, VCs, R&D centres and co-workings etc. For example - MapYourStartup.Co for US, Made In NY for New York only (US), Berlin has BerlinStartupMap.com and MappedInIsrael for Israel.

MappedInIndia fill this concept for Indian Startup ecosystem that will map Indian startups, accelerators, incubators, coworkings, investors, hackerspace as well as startup events in India. Within a week of its launched the portal managed to have about 80+ organisations across india registered on this mapping site. I believe this is very humble and very simple effort towards Indian startup ecosystem.

Unfortunately in India we don't have an extensive database of all stakeholders in start-up ecosystem even if it exist it's paid , it's a cumbersome task to find list of VCs, investors and startups nearby . I hope and wish this effort will result in extensive list of all things related to Indian startups and especially list of VCs and investors that will surely be a milestone as free resource for Indian startups ecosystem.

However if the portal also envisage an interactive list of VCs, angel investors and incubators where users can sort,search and filter by name, fundings, geographical location etc it will be another milestone in this area.