Senior Finalist Team D3c0ders: Dea Rrozhani, Jonada Shukarasi, Arla Hoxha; D3c0ders from Albania speaks with Sonia Tagare at Oracle's Agnews Campus in Santa Clara, CA during Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019.
#theCUBE #Albania #WomenInTech @SiliconANGLE theCUBE @Technovation
Albanian girls address domestic violence
One in two Albanian women suffer from domestic abuse, announces the pitch video for Team D3c0ders app GjejZâ, which won first place in its group. Albanian for “find your voice,” GjejZâ addresses a problem that the girls encounter daily in the media and their personal lives. “[Gender-based violence] has all these deep cultural roots, and it’s really horrible,” said team spokesperson Dea Rrozhani. “We would see it among our peers, the early signs of it, of course, and we would see how that would soon develop to what we see today in the news.”
Rrozhani and fellow D3c0ders Jonada Shukarasi and Arla Hoxha set out to create an app based on three pillars: “Helping the user identify the problem, empowering them, and then enabling them to take action,” Rrozhani said.
The app starts with a quiz designed to raise awareness of what constitutes gender-based violence. “It’s about self-reflection and serving as an early warning mechanism for people and questioning their whole perception on gender-based violence,” Rrozhani said.
The next stage is a 30-day program that educates women on myths and truths of domestic violence and empowers them through mindfulness exercises and success stories from women who have survived abusive relationships.
An information menu that connects users to local organizations offering help and support make the app not just empowering, but practical.
“One of the main points of our app is connecting scattered resources in our country,” Rrozhani stated. “We have all these NGOs and all these institutions that are designed to help women, but most [women] do not know that they exist.”
The app offers direct connection to not just non-profits, but to emergency services, psychologists, lawyers, doctors, and shelters that help women who suffer from domestic violence.
GjejZâ’s secret weapon is its opportunities menu. On the surface this resource doesn’t directly relate to domestic violence, but is a forum for businesses to post job opportunities, workshops, discounts and coupons aimed at women.
“But the thing is when a user, even though they do not suffer from domestic violence, if they enter the app for the opportunities menu, they also go through the entrance questionnaire,” Rrozhani explained.
Women are made aware of their own miseducation and misunderstandings of domestic violence through their answers to the quiz. This raises their consciousness to behaviors that support the cycle of violence in their own lives and those of their friends and family.
Winning the challenge brings longer lasting rewards than a trip to Silicon Valley. Technovation gave a total of over $50,000 in scholarships and funding to this year’s finalists. This means Team D3c0ders (pictured) has the opportunity to develop their app further, bringing awareness of gender-based violence to more women in Albania and potentially to the world.
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Senior Finalist Team D3c0ders: Dea Rrozhani, Jonada Shukarasi, Arla Hoxha; D3c0ders from Albania speaks with Sonia Tagare at Oracle's Agnews Campus in Santa Clara, CA during Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019.
#theCUBE #Albania #WomenInTech @SiliconANGLE theCUBE @Technovation
Albanian girls address domestic violence
One in two Albanian women suffer from domestic abuse, announces the pitch video for Team D3c0ders app GjejZâ, which won first place in its group. Albanian for “find your voice,” GjejZâ addresses a problem that the girls encounter daily in the media and their personal lives. “[Gender-based violence] has all these deep cultural roots, and it’s really horrible,” said team spokesperson Dea Rrozhani. “We would see it among our peers, the early signs of it, of course, and we would see how that would soon develop to what we see today in the news.”
Rrozhani and fellow D3c0ders Jonada Shukarasi and Arla Hoxha set out to create an app based on three pillars: “Helping the user identify the problem, empowering them, and then enabling them to take action,” Rrozhani said.
The app starts with a quiz designed to raise awareness of what constitutes gender-based violence. “It’s about self-reflection and serving as an early warning mechanism for people and questioning their whole perception on gender-based violence,” Rrozhani said.
The next stage is a 30-day program that educates women on myths and truths of domestic violence and empowers them through mindfulness exercises and success stories from women who have survived abusive relationships.
An information menu that connects users to local organizations offering help and support make the app not just empowering, but practical.
“One of the main points of our app is connecting scattered resources in our country,” Rrozhani stated. “We have all these NGOs and all these institutions that are designed to help women, but most [women] do not know that they exist.”
The app offers direct connection to not just non-profits, but to emergency services, psychologists, lawyers, doctors, and shelters that help women who suffer from domestic violence.
GjejZâ’s secret weapon is its opportunities menu. On the surface this resource doesn’t directly relate to domestic violence, but is a forum for businesses to post job opportunities, workshops, discounts and coupons aimed at women.
“But the thing is when a user, even though they do not suffer from domestic violence, if they enter the app for the opportunities menu, they also go through the entrance questionnaire,” Rrozhani explained.
Women are made aware of their own miseducation and misunderstandings of domestic violence through their answers to the quiz. This raises their consciousness to behaviors that support the cycle of violence in their own lives and those of their friends and family.
Winning the challenge brings longer lasting rewards than a trip to Silicon Valley. Technovation gave a total of over $50,000 in scholarships and funding to this year’s finalists. This means Team D3c0ders (pictured) has the opportunity to develop their app further, bringing awareness of gender-based violence to more women in Albania and potentially to the world.
