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Salvaviajes
The journey through the US-Mexico migration corridor is extremely treacherous, yet every
year hundreds of thousands of people make this excursion.
As a base, Migrants pay smugglers upwards of $4000per person. The journey is filled
with lack of nutrition and nefarious parties exercising violence, fear tactics, and harassment.
Lack of stories and information straight from migrants and citizens is a serious problem.
With a myriad of nefarious drug cartels, corrupt enforcement agents and xenophobic individuals,
it's no wonder that there is a lack of shared information.
But, without quantifiable, centralized information that easily visualizes the problem, governments
and support organizations cannot make better decisions to place resources and improve situations.
As an unbiased 3rd party, Salvaviajes is a safe space for storytelling.
Many migrants already have access to cellular technology, considering them essential
Salvaviajes has an SMS app, whereby citizens and migrants can report human rights violations
en route. In addition, our website will serve as a dashboard for visualizing problematic
issues and locations.
[USABILITY] Widely available SMS technology in Latin America makes this product easily
accessible. Users will text Salvaviejes and will be prompted
by our system to answer questions regarding the issue.
It's not an emergency tool, but Salvaviajes will record issues and live stream them to
a list of VERIFIED support organizations and enforcement agencies,
including typical first responders.
[USEFUL] Because we are a secure neutral party, users are now free to report information in
a place free of fear, oppression or retribution. A user's reported information, combined with
other citizens' reported information, will help to visualize consistent problems.
[INNOVATION] The Salvaviajes tools encourage users to speak
out, empowers them with information about common problems, and gives support organizations
powerful visual, qualitative, and quantitative data.
We've spent hours on end thinking about how to keep reported information safe and secure
from nefarious parties. Our data is stored on new, secure technology from Microsoft.
And access to specific information is restricted ONLY to VERIFIED organizations. Unverified
users will be able to view synthesized and aggregated data on the dashboard. Allowing
them to view consistent problems, but not the ability to track individual reported issues.
Salvaviajes will fill the void for a safe, secure place to report issues. It provides
useful visualizations of problems. Allowing constructive organizations and individuals
a base to create solutions.
Hopefully, we're one step closer to making unheard, untold stories available to the world.
[Welcome to the team!] Your expertise and interest would be amazing
addition to the team. Please contact us at DreamTeamdatafest@gmail.com or find us in
the description
We have tons of cool updates in the works involving Amnesty International and the development
of our iOS app.
Stay connected.
Let's help make the world a safer place. Safe travels!!