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An application for mobiles that allows launching a request for geolocated assistance without being observed by the abuser has been the winning idea of ​​the I Contest of Technological Ideas for Gender Equality held by the School of Telecommunications Engineering of the UPCT.

The idea of ​​the 'Puertas Violetas' app, developed by the Free Open Source Club UPCT and presented by Cristian Gutiérrez López, a graduate student in Telecommunication Systems, has been the most valued among the fifteen proposals that were submitted to the competition that the Polytechnic of Cartagena has made on the occasion of the International Day against Gender Violence.

The application, based on tools already available on smartphones, allows "anyone who is suffering an episode of gender violence, at the push of a button, send a predefined message of request for help to a person of confidence to the Once the location is sent, a call is made to 016 and the microphone is activated so that the recording can be used as proof ", summarizes the student of the UPCT, emphasizing that the whole process would be carried out with the black screen for that is not perceived by the aggressor.

The second prize went to the 'IgualdAPP' proposal, carried out by the Tech Club of the UPCT and presented by María Ángeles Fontcuberta Zornoza, to disseminate activities related to diversity and equality and to give an anonymous channel to students to ask for help before problems of inequality or exclusion within the university context.

The third prize has been won by the idea 'Virtual reality: women and telecommunications', by the student Marta Martínez Molina, to make the female contribution to the development of telecommunications known in an interactive way.

Finally, the Young Promises prize was for the 6th grade Primary School of the Murcia school Francisco Giner de los Ríos, whose tutor is María Medina Marín, for her ideas to promote equality and fight against gender violence.

All the prizes of this contest with which the UPCT aims to promote ideas and technological concepts in the field of Telecommunication Engineering that serve as a tool to prevent and combat violence against women, as well as to promote gender equality, will be destined to the purchase of scientific and educational material and equipment.

Source: UPCT