Kindly App

[amreenp7]

Context
Gitanjali Rao is an inspiring young girl who collaborated with UNICEF via the Voices of Youth project. She is also the Times Magazine Child Of The Year and creator of the Kindly app – an app designed to reduce cyberbullying. ICTD and the DOC Director’s Office had a call with Gitanjali, Child Protection Unit, and the OED Safeguarding Unit.

Opportunity
Currently, Kindly is a stand-alone app that can be downloaded. However, there is an opportunity to develop an API that allows any interactive chat application to keep an eye out for cyber-bullying and then promote it to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.

Goals
Develop a proof of concept within 3 months that is open-source, accessible, and easy for other technical users to contribute to.

Proposed Solution
An API-based solution that integrates with existing social media platforms to flag words related to bullying.

High-level Implementation Plan

• Scoping call with Kindly team --> Filling out the Concept Document
• POC vision, feature backlog
• POC development
• POC user testing
• POC updates (based on feedback)
• POC launch --> marketing, outreach efforts
• Possibility to nominating this product as a DPG?

[nathanfletcher]

Repository for how I got started https://github.com/nathanfletcher/ml_text_classification