BubbGuard

Inspiration

Oh dear. Where to begin about this unseen demise due to violence and not because of the Covid19 virus itself? Where we all wanted to rest and meditate during #StayTheFuckHome, my team and I are terribly busier with the unprecedented rise of domestic violence ("KDRT" in Indonesia) and online harassment ("KD" in Indonesia). We knew it has been around for long but because Covid19 forces the society, from the under-aged to seniors to be a netizen. Some are digital natives, some are immigrants. And so, offline harassment do follow and move online, more than ever.

UN has addressed this issue of how "homes that feel like prison" to survivors of domestic violence and for government to pay attention to the unseen impacts of Covid19 in mental health.

We decided to create a response idea around April and with this competition, to test this out whether it's actually needed in this world, a guardian of the online galaxy!

What it does

We're a a) protected online bulletin for "harassers profiles" (just like a WANTED bulletin). b) highly-regulated online community for netizens to share information and protect each other for advise c) AI chat-bot to auto-chat harassers - we fight your fight to give the user their peace of mind

How we built it

We built it by using the framework react native, to make UI and becked nodeJS. We store our database using firebase.

This is how we're going to receive data, analyse, design and implement our app to be smarter: a) collect user data b) we will analyze the data and sort it out to make AI logic, c) after the AI ​​logic we will test connect it to the social media API every user wants security d) the security we offer, e.g.: scan the communication (mostly text windows) and report warnings (Green / Yellow / Red).

Challenges we ran into

Awareness, market fit, and gender-tailored approaches. What we needed to first understand is even though our survey mentioned 100% female gets the harassment, males do too, and it's more difficult for them to open up and talk to someone, or even to seek professional help because of the male ego and toxic masculinity.

Our results showed top priority lies on how to architect our solution based female netizens' pain points.

There's a reluctance during market fit questionnaire, but we managed to steer clear on the demand where under-aged users are more vulnerable, therefore it's the parents' duties to purchase our product, and later to focus on our secondary target market which are female users with smaller spending power aged 20-27YO.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Firstly, we've gotten more than 500 people to join our polling in Indonesia! That means something is really up. And knowing that we're here to do truly protect our current and next generation for there'll be continuous child traffic, sexual molestation and 'catcalling' that moves online, and it will never, ever end.

It's our first step to validate our idea, during the process of this development, so we're a bit more confident and really wanting to know what GIT judges think.

What we learned

This journey has been nothing but a blessing! Wow. We did learn a lot of things as we compared respondents from two countries (UK and Indonesia) for our survey.

For starters, even though that it's a basic necessity and purchasing a peace of mind, some are still reluctant to purchase a sort of 'antivirus for online harassment' product (without the price point being mentioned). Some even answered _ "don't have the money to spend"_ which to us, it means that their own safety isn't their priority, and they'd place their spending power on other things that is deemed their own priority.

However, we're sure that our product is needed in the near future, with the data provided by our respondents, the average score of 7.6/10 feels very distressed when they're faced with online harassment, mainly sexual, it's our duty to communicate importance of self-vigilance and daily protection because a user will spend more time online than in the offline world in the age to come.

What's next for BubbGuard

We're in the process of designing a specific survey for males in the future, where our results showed top priority lies on the female users. We don't want to leave anyone behind because under-aged users are non-gender specific, we're here to protect the children and tweens, at the very least.

Development-wise, we're going to continue collecting data, and hire linguists to read, deconstruct and feed our AI better. We target to receive 500,000 case reports within 6 months in order for us to create a basic beta AI-Chatbot and start to defend our users.

Built With

• react-native