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 # Mobile apps tap the crowds to fight street harassment - By Springwise.com

 

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[Mobile apps tap the crowds to fight street harassment](http://bit.ly/dYBZtt)

Some 80 to 90 percent of women have experienced harassment on the street, yet traditionally there's little they can do about it. That's the primary motivation behind [Hollaback](http://www.ihollaback.org/), a crowdsourcing project that aims to help victims fight back by sharing their stories online and using a mobile app to focus attention on the perpetrators.

Street harassment is what New York-based Hollaback calls a “gateway crime”, with implicit acceptance of it helping to legitimize other forms of gender-based violence. We've already seen a variety of initiatives spring up in Mexico in response to such abuse — including a [women-only bus service](http://www.springwise.com/transportation/women-only_bus_service_in_mexi/) and [female-friendly taxis](http://www.springwise.com/transportation/pinktaxidepuebla/), for example — but Hollaback hopes to address the problem at a deeper level by publicly raising awareness about the issue.

[continue reading at Springwise.com](http://www.springwise.com/non-profit_social_cause/hollaback/)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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