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Covering Technovation World Pitch Summit 2019.
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Now, here's Sonia Tagare.
>> Hi, and welcome to theCUBE,
I'm your host, Sonia Tagare, and we're here
at Oracle's Agnews campus is Santa Clara, California
covering Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019,
a pitch competition in which girls from around the world
create mobile apps in order to create positive change
in the world.
With us today, we have Team D3C0DERS from Albania, welcome!
>> Thank you.
>> The members are Dea Rrozhani, Arla Hoxha,
and Jonada Shukarasi.
Welcome and congratulations on being finalists.
>> Thank you.
>> So, your app is called GjejZa, tell me more about that.
>> Okay, so, this name is in Albanian,
and it actually means find your voice,
which is also our motto.
GjejZa is focused on helping women
who suffer from domestic and gender-based violence.
So, it has all these features
that are based on our three main pillars,
helping the user identify the problem, empowering them,
and then enabling them to take action.
>> That's amazing.
And I know sometimes in domestic abuse cases,
sometimes just identifying the problem is the hardest part,
so that's awesome that's the first part in your app.
So, can you tell us more
about how someone would use the app?
>> Yeah.
So, on the first run after installation,
they would face this entrance quiz.
At the end, it gives you an evaluation
about these five questions about gender-based violence,
but it's more about self-reflection
and serving as an early warning mechanism for people
and questioning their whole perception
on gender-based violence.
After that, they come to the main menu,
which is the 30-day program which has myths about violence
that you can give the answer, if it's a true or false,
and it will give you anti-myth, mindfulness exercises,
and success stories of other women in similar situations.
Besides from the program, we have an information menu
that has contacts to municipality coordinators,
to non-profit organizations.
It has some basic information about gender-based violence
and its signs, legislation updates on laws
that women can benefit from
and some other additional information.
But also, one of the main points of our app
is connecting scattered resources in our country.
So we have all these NGOs and all these institutions
that are designed to help women,
but most of them do not know that they exist.
So when they want to separate from an abusive husband
and want to report violence, they don't know where to head.
So serving that, we have the SOS menu,
which has the emergency hotlines,
because in Albania, we have separate hotlines
for different situations, not like here in America, 911,
we have different numbers,
they change them from time to time,
and it's really important to have them all in one place
when you need them most.
We also have...
You can also connect directly to psychologists,
lawyers, doctors, and shelters
that help women who suffer from domestic violence.
>> That's amazing, it just sounds like such a great app.
>> And one more thing, which is really important,
because this feature that I'm about to mention,
is about all women, it's the opportunities menu.
So, we have collaborated with local businesses
and they have agreed to furnish the app with job notices,
so workshop notices, and coupons
that only the users of our app can respond to,
so they can benefit from that.
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,
so that's when all the questioning for violence starts.
>> And do you find that this domestic violence
is a huge problem in your community,
or how did you come up with this idea?
>> Yes, it's actually a really huge problem in Albania.
We have grown up seeing all these headlines.
The moment we open the TV,
there would be a headline that would say
husband killed wife and it would be
for the most absurd reasons.
It has all these deep cultural roots
and it's really horrible.
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.
And we see it's not getting any better,
so we decided we wanted to do something about it.
>> That is amazing, and I hope you take this app worldwide
and globally 'cause-- >> Thank you.
>> I'm sure it'll help a bunch of other people
in the world, as well.
Thank you so much, this is all the time we have for today.
Thank you for being on theCUBE and good luck for tonight!
>> Girls: Thank you!
>> I'm your host, Sonia Tagare.
Thank you for watching theCUBE's coverage
of Technovation World Pitch 2019.
'Til next time!
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