A smartphone application to help women fight sexual assault was launched on Wednesday in New Delhi.The "Fight Back" app created by Indian non-profit Whypoll will enable the user in alerting her friends or family at the press of a single key. An SOS message via text message, email and Facebook is delivered and once the SOS is activated, the recipients are able to track the sender's location via GPS and come to her aid.Sexual assault cases against women are on a rise in New Delhi. The city now tops the list of India's most unsafe cities for women, with 489 reported rape cases in 2010, up from 459 in 2009, according to police statistics.
The Fight Back app is priced at Rs.100 for a year. The application is currently available only in English but it will be soon offered in various other Indian languages also. It will also reach nine more cities by the end of 2012.
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