Technology-Enabled Gender-Based Violence Solutions: The Story of Red Dot Foundation and Safecity

by Andrea Adams, Elsa Marie D' Silva

Overview

This insightful book explores how non-profit advocacy, thought-leadership, and technological innovation are helping to highlight the full prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence and develop local, evidence-based solutions on the global stage.

Using the journey of the Red Dot Foundation and its flagship web application Safecity, this book outlines how the 55,000+ stories captured on the Safecity app are linked to criminology literature that uses place as a unit of analysis. Using examples of successful interventions conducted by the Red Dot Foundation and how these processes utilize critical research practices, it also presents how technology is being used to leverage theory and practice that can eliminate sexual and gender-based violence.

Providing detailed explanations of cases and outcomes of gender-based violence, this book will be of interest to academics of criminology, gender studies, women’s studies and violence and abuse studies as well appealing to social organisations and practitioners in these fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032444291
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/29/2025
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Andrea Adams is an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Crime, Justice, and Security Studies at the University of the District of Columbia, USA, the co-CEO of Red Dot Foundation Global, and a licensed attorney.

Elsa Marie D’Silva is the Founder and CEO of Red Dot Foundation and Red Dot Foundation Global and leads the team.  Elsa is a world-renowned Social Entrepreneur and thought leader with deep connections throughout the world for her work in fighting gender-based violence.

Table of Contents

Introduction.  1.Red Dot Foundation.  2.Literature Integrated Review.  3.SGBV Reporting: The “Performance Censure” and the Importance of Place.  4.Qualitative Review.  Conclusion.  Appendix 1.The Spectrum of Abuse: Incidents and Harms of Sexual Gender-Based Violence.  Appendix 2.Review of Studies.  Appendix 3.All Data Dashboard.