SISCHAIN
Sischain is a tool to help fight gender violence against women. Gender violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most prevalent human rights violations, taking place everyday, many times over, in every corner of the world. However, the actual number of denounces every year is shockinly disanalogous to the problem.
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We want to change that. From counting reports we should count the need for help!
Sischain aims to create an anonymous community of mutual support among women that is based on 3 pillars: Sisterhood, Blockchain and anonymous social networks.
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This infrastructure will create a bank of time to share experiences and exchange opinions. A time bank of mutual support. That time is accounted for through the Sischain app. Women will be able to spend time together, share their experiences and meet other women willing to help them both digitally and physically, in secure networks that we will implement throughout the cities. We hope that through Sischain women will become stronger, feel supported and get empowered.
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1 in 2
women have experienced
sexual harassment
1 in 5
women have experienced
stalking
1 in 3
women have experienced
physical and/or sexual violence
1 in 20
women have been
raped
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2020
2.5 billion €
is the annual financial cost of gender violence against women in the sanitary system
14 billion €
is the annual intangible cost of gender violence against women
Impacts of gender violence in women's welfare
Headaches
Headaches
Cry for no apparent reason
Joint and back pain
Insomnia
Depression
Mood swings
Permanent fatigue
Anxiety and stress
Irritability
Gobierno de España
Women have suffered sexist attacks
at least once in their life
Including indecent exposure and verbal violence
Without indecent exposure and verbal violence
Severe attacks
in 2018
Including indecent exposure and verbal violence
Without indecent exposure and verbal violence
Severe attacks
Still, in 2018 80% of rapes in Spain were not reported
Why there are so
many unreported crimes?
“The fear of not being believed and a lack of confidence in the justice system are paralyzing. The victim’s story is bound to be questioned and they are then re-victimized.”
Amparo Díaz,
domestic violence attorney
The 3 axes of SISCHAIN
“To all the girls that I met drunk in clubs bathrooms:
I hope you’re doing fine.
I miss you all.”
Sisterhood is "an experience of women that drives the search of positive relations and existential and political alliance, from body to body, to contribute with specific actions to the social elimination of oppression and mutual support in order to achieve general and individual empowerment of women.”
Sisterhood has been always present, when mothers and daughters defend mutually from violence, or your sisters and friends try to make you renounce a violent relationship.
But it can be something bigger: when women, that are not necessarily friends, support each other, they listen to each other and they are up to sacrifice their own safety and integrity for demanding justice to other women that they don’t even know
“I believe you”
A sister's journey
through Sischain
This is Lidia. Lidia is experiencing digital violence from her ex-boyfriend
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One day she finds the Sischain QR code and she scans it with her phone
QR code
Lidia downloads and creates a new account in Sischain
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Lidia requests a meeting with a sister of the network, Estela
Estela aggrees to meet to talk as some years ago she also had a similar experience
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She decides to hire a professional from Sischain
Through meeting with Estela and other sisters, after some time Lidia feels better and stronger
Some time later
Both can review each other in Sischain app
Estela verifies Lidia in the app
Estela and Lidia meet in a safe place and talk about their experiences
Safe Place
Through meeting with Estela and other sisters, after some time Lidia feels better and stronger
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some months
later
This is Maria. Maria also experiences digital violence
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One day she finds the Sischain QR code and she scans it with her phone
QR code
She creates an account and she requests a meeting with Lidia
Both can review each other in
the app
Lidia verifies Maria through the Sischain app
Maria and Lidia meet in a safe place and talk about their experiences
Safe Place
Blockchain is an innovative technology based on a decentralized system without intermediaries, offers anonymity and allows network transactions. Transactions are done using tokens. These tokens can be coins, goods or services. That is, you can exchange anything that can be transcribed in code. In our case, we will start with a time token.
This technology will allow in our social network anonymously a Time Bank among women to support each other through this tool. The transactions that occur, completely anonymous and untraceable, will manage to show the need for support and help, shifting from the paradigm of measuring violence.
How blockchain works?
Rosa requests time to meet in a safe place from Mireia
In blockchain technology, Rosa's request of time can be represtented as part of a ‘block’; like a piece of a puzzle
The Block
This block is broadcasted to everyone on the network, showing that a sister of the network requests time from another sister. However, noone can see the names of the sisters.
Once everyone in the network has approved the request, the request becomes valid
The Blockchain
Τhe block that contains the request can be added to the chain, which provides an indellible and transparent record of the requests that have been made
Mireia receives the request of Rosa and she approves it. The only thing left to do is set up the date and time of the meeting
Anonymity and lack of traceability become mandatory to protect victims. Due to the digitization of our society, we have more accessibility to provide help and knowledge, which makes data collection even more crucial. However, our access to the media is more traceable than ever, which is why we need new tools to provide anonymity to victims.
Anonymous social media are based on share and interact with content and information completely anonymously across platforms mobile or web.
The fundamental aspect is that the content or the published information is not related to a particular identity or profile. These nets have promising future uses as a authentic communication channel. It also protects the users of the risk of exposure, and of questioning of survivors of gender-based violence
