Why I think digitally empowering women is important?

First of all let's start with defining digital empowerment as the search for an organization or group of persons acquire the capacity to participate freely in the digital world through the knowledge and implementation of social initiatives, involving everyone in the organization, learn from each mistake, do what works and re-use technology tools.

Digitally empowering women is very important because it is a way to achieve common objectives through technology.
In my career as startup girl I discovered along with my business partner, that violence against women is a big worldwide problem. Violence against women is an extreme manifestation of inequality that affects thousands around the world; the consequences are devastating for the physical and mental health of women and affect the development of families, communities and entire societies. For this reason, violence against women is recognized as a human rights issue.

Digitally empowering women is very important as it can help solve such problems worldwide. How? Well such a way is through a mobile application that my company (Yourbanice) is developing. The idea is to develop a Smartphone app aimed at approaching women victims of domestic violence, using alternative media and social utility bringing a new mobile phone. The project is a free application, available for iOS and Android devices, involves opening a new way to stay in touch with women who suffer domestic violence, and are given the tools and information necessary to enable them to end this situation. This app would target anyone who believes that there is a case of domestic violence in their environment or has witnessed any aggression.

The goal of creating this app is to create a useful and easy to use tool that helps detect early signs of violence. The idea is that through your mobile phone, women can learn quickly and comfortably the different resources that are available to them in each country and the steps they can take to protect themselves. It even has a section of "evidence" which aims to strengthen and achieve break the silence.

One of the main objectives of this project was to adapt to the reality we live in, where the Smartphone is already one of the most used means to access any information and it is a way to solve and empowering women throw digital technology.
I hope you can think about this project we have in mind because I am sure you have more ideas it will help to improve it, and of course it would help to solve the domestic violence problem.