The Asia Foundation Releases One-Stop Shop for Mobile Solutions to End Violence Against Women

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The Asia Foundation Releases One-Stop Shop for Mobile Solutions to End Violence Against Women

This application was ideated by Ms. BUN Rachana who was awarded the VXW Award. In partnership with The Asia Foundation and Golden Gekko, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development-funded VXW Award gives activists exclusive access to world class quality design, facilitation, and developer support to build, use and scale mobile technology solutions to end violence against women in Cambodia.

This application was ideated by Ms. Sum Dany who was awarded the VXW Award.
In partnership with The Asia Foundation and Golden Gekko, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development-funded VXW Award gives activists exclusive access to world class quality design, facilitation, and developer support to build, use and scale mobile technology solutions to end violence against women in Cambodia.

Open Box is a tool for organizing change. Whether a union, a network, or a community group, Open Box provides a notification platform and coordination system tailored for women who organize and attend trainings, workshops, peer support, and other events related to women's empowerment, education about rights and laws, and/or response services and support. Key features allow organizers to get their message out and empower women to share event notices, confirm attendance for events, access network analytics, and a get updated information through a newsfeed in a secured space.

Open Box was ideated by Ms. Tephalin Ou who was awarded the VXW Award in 2015.

In partnership with The Asia Foundation, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development-funded VXW Award empowers activists to help change the pattern of abuse and provide a way to mitigate, protect, or respond to violence against women through technology.

Ms. Ou is an active member of the Food and Service Sector Workers Union in Cambodia and is committed to advancing the rights of women both in the workplace and in Cambodian society.