- To be able to critically assess whether applications meant to enhance women’s safety are useful, and identify shortcomings and challenges. - To learn to identify the different fields of information that are available about apps in the Play Store and on developers’ website, and to develop a sense of what those fields might indicate. - To be able to evaluate applications on their privacy policies, and develop a sense of what fields would will be empowering to a user

- Smart phones running Android and an Internet connection. - Pre-printed pages of the applications from the Play Store. - The apps we most often use are VithU, Himmat, Nirbhaya: Be Fearless, Raksha, Eyewatch Women, My Safetipin, Damini and Pari - selected for the range of actors involved in their creation, and for the range of issues that emerge. You can find more apps used in India in this database, developed for our research. - Pre-printed set of guiding questions on (i) Features (ii) Data policies - Pen, paper