Alumna Creates App to Help Victims of Sexual Harassment in Bangladesh

Public sexual harassment has become a large and growing concern in urban Bangladesh and around the world. Many women report that these incidents make them feel unsafe in their communities. 

When there was a rise of cases in Bangladesh, Georgia Tech College of Computing alumna Nova Ahmed (CS Ph.D. 10) became part of an effort to provide security to women in Bangladesh. She and a team of colleagues developed a specific design intervention, called Protibadi, to support women…