NEW DELHI: Aiming to ensure safe and secure environment for women employees, IT industry body NASSCOM today felicitated winners of All India App Fame Contest 2013, which focused on creating solutions for women safety.

The theme for this year was 'Collaborating forces for Women Safety', which invited applications from students, developers and corporates to design apps that help women in a distressed situation and work as an emergency response tool, NASSCOM President Som Mittal said at the awards here.

"The basic utility behind the apps was to help women in a distressed situation and work as an Emergency response and crises communication tool," Mittal added.

Top 10 mobile app winners were awarded at the Appfame Contest 2013, and NASSCOM will help these winners to reach out to as many women through appropriate platforms.

GoSuraksheit, an app developed by Hughes Systique India, enables users to seek help from the contacts they trust the most from almost anywhere. This application arms users with 4 extremely strong e-weapons which can be used at just a click of a button.

Similarly, Sentinel by MindHelix Technosol Pvt is a GPS-based mobile security application. Anyone with a mobile phone and Sentinel, in an emergency, can send his/her GPS location and an SMS alert to friends, the company's security division or to the cops.

Likewise, "Nirbhaya: Be Fearless" developed by SmartCloud Infotech is a mobile app that sends SOS/Distress messages with location updates to predefined SMS contact groups, Facebook wall and secured web portal. This app has great location accuracy (follows GPS and Mobile Tower location) and gives location updates even when the victim is moving.

Other awarded apps include SafeBridge (Telerik India), FightBack ( Tech Mahindra), One Touch SOS (Ideophone), inE Rain (Concert Technologies), iFollow ( Aucupa Innovative Solutions), SafeTrac (KritiLabs) and PanicGuard ( PanicGuard Ltd).

"To ensure their safety and security, the industry, the government and law enforcement agencies need to come together and partner to devise appropriate measures. I am extremely pleased with the innovation that we have seen in these apps that focus on women safety," Mittal said.

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