A burgerrechtenorganisatie has a ‘smart’ bracelet to develop those professionals must protect. With the help of gps-signals may, among other through social media alarm be beaten if it is suspected that an aid worker has been kidnapped.
The bracelet was developed by Civil Rights Defenders, an organization that deals with civil rights and the support of professionals. According to the organization, the bracelet, when it is triggered, a series of pre-programmed messages through the mobile network to send. For example, the organization for which the counselor works to be informed of where he or she is and what happened.
According to Civil Right Defenders will be there, among other messages will be automatically sent when the bracelet is unfastened. Also, a care worker, you must manually choose to have a message sent when he or she feels threatened. Messages are also disseminated through social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and citizens are asked to timelines of wearers of the bracelet to keep an eye on.
Meanwhile the bracelet distributed to 55 health workers that the device in the next year and a half for testing. As possible, is then chosen for a wider roll-out, says Civil Right Defenders there still be financial support for need to have.
