Approximately 15 million girls and young women have experienced sexual assault or rape at some point in their life. India is burning with outrage, as another incidence of gang rape and death has sent the Indian Judicial system into a spiral. The rates of Rape are not novel in the Indian Diaspora. No laws have been implemented to mitigate rape and sexual assaults. Even though some projects have been recognized to mitigate the events of rape and sexual harassment, their grassroots reach is less than none.

As Artificial Intelligence is already permeating the industry and organizational set-up, its role in mitigating gender-based violence is heavily scrutinized.  Here are the top AI solutions that are assisting in mitigating sexual assault cases.

Safecity and Omdena

Formed after the 2012 Nirbhaya Gang-rape in India, this AI model is a collaborative technique by Omdena and Safecity project. This model leverages open-sourced data as well as Safecity's database to build heatmaps, and safe routes using Nearby Search, Directions API and Grid Coverage techniques.

Sis bot

Known as Sis bot, this technology provides 24/7 information services like how to report to the police, how to preserve evidence, and what support services or compensation the sexual assault survivors are entitled to by law.

Nex AI-

In the wake of the #metoo movement, the Nex AI model assists in preventing sexual harassment and assault in an organizational set-up. By leveraging Machine learning algorithms to identify potential bullying, and sexual harassment in the company's documents, emails, and chats, the bot helps in analyzing and reading the anomalies in the language, frequency, or timing of communication, thus drawing the patterns across weeks.

Callisto

As sexual assault cases across campuses are gaining momentum, Callisto provides a platform for detecting sexual assault and rape offenders. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the system detects the repeat offenders of sexual assaults by a process known as matching.

Aware

Another technology that has been evolving for mitigating sexual assault cases in the organizational set-up is Aware. It leverages Predictive AI to identify the compromising behavior of the employees within an organization.

However, India is not the only country with an increase in gender harassment cases. Over the past months, the world has witnessed resistance by Women in Mexico as well. In Mexico, the women took over the streets as the country enraged with protests, demanded the paralyzed government to make a law that would quell the gender-based crime in the country.