Safer cities for women: Global and local innovations with open data and civic technology

Scott Hawken; Simone Z. Leao; Ori Gudes; Parisa Izadpanahi; Kalpana Viswanath; Christopher Petit

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_4

Safer cities for women: Global and local innovations with open data and civic technology

Scott Hawken
, Simone Z. Leao
, Ori Gudes
, Parisa Izadpanahi
, Kalpana Viswanath
, Christopher Petit

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12 Scopus citations

Abstract

This chapter proposes a cyclic process for improving urban safety for women using Open Data together with civic technologies such as the unique ‘SafetiPin’ app and a purpose-built city dashboard. Safety is a difficult performance criterion to measure at the scale of the local neighbourhood and street. Much existing data is at the metropolitan scale rather than fine-grained local scales. Further, the data is often gender biased and underestimates the scale of crimes such as sexual harassment. This chapter examines the challenges involved in localising global approaches to urban safety with reference to a case study in Bogota. Statistical analysis and a city dashboard, using Open Data and open source technology, are developed to provide insights into the links between different urban metrics and gender balance in Bogota.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Open Cities \| Open Data
Subtitle of host publication	Collaborative Cities in the Information Era
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	85-105
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811366055
ISBN (Print)	9789811366048
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6605-5_4
State	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Externally published	Yes

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

City dashboards
Crowdsourcing
Gender-balanced space
Open Data
SDGs
Social entrepreneurship
Urban safety
Women’s safety

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
General Computer Science
General Engineering

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