WOMEN’S SAFETYANU & NAVEEN JAIN

OBJECTIVE: To leverage technology to empower communities with a transformative solution that ensures women’s safety.

BACKGROUNDOur safety from physical, social and emotional harm is a fundamental human right. However, one in three women globally have faced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime+. Recent social measures and technological advances have failed to keep us safe.We believe that if a society can help keep women safe, everyone will be safer - including vulnerable populations like children and elders.Sexual assault knows no borders and victims are not limited to any one country. Even in the United States women continue to experience acts of sexual abuse in alarming numbers. The US Bureau of Justice estimates that one in five women will experience rape or attempted rape during their college years. In 2010, the United States was ranked 9th out of over 50 countries in the number of reported rape incidents. In New Delhi, a study conducted in 2012 revealed that

92% of women experienced some form of violence in public spaces in their lifetime, according to the United Nations++.Many nations do not have a universal emergency access number (like 9-1-1 in the United States) that victims can call to report a crime. Despite the universal need for women’s safety, basic emergency reporting and response networks, do not exist in much of the world. We imagine a future where communities empowered by technology will guarantee the safety of each member, shifting the onus of safety from the individual back to the collective, making us all responsible for a safer world.COMPETITIONThe Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to leverage technology to empower communities to rapidly respond to threats against any of its members, ensuring that help is always available when needed.

The winning team’s solution will trigger location-accurate alerts in emergency situations even in low-connectivity scenarios, transmit alerts to a network of responders and rapidly provide a response to the user within 90 seconds that help is on its way, exhibit a novel approach to building or combining existing and/or emerging technologies to better connect users and responders. The winning technology willcost no more than US $40, to help ensure it is affordable.PRIZE PURSEUSD 1,000,000 will be awarded asGrand Prize.TIMELINEPrize launch: 24th October 2016Registration deadline: 28th April 2017First shortlist announced: October 2017Final testing: April 2018Grand prize winner announced: June 2018Competition timeline: 20 months

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Safety is a fundamental human right and should not be considered a luxury for women. - Anu Jain, philanthropist and entrepreneur

BACKGROUNDOur safety from physical, social and emotional harm is a fundamental human right. However, one in three women globally have faced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime+. Recent social measures and technological advances have failed to keep us safe.We believe that if a society can help keep women safe, everyone will be safer - including vulnerable populations like children and elders.Sexual assault knows no borders and victims are not limited to any one country. In New Delhi, a study conducted in 2012 reveals that 92% of women experienced some form of sexual violence in public spaces in their lifetime, according to the United Nations++. Even in the United States women continue to experience acts of sexual abuse in alarming numbers. The US Bureau of Justice estimates that one in five women will experience rape or attempted rate during their college years. In 2010,

the United States was ranked 9th outof over 50 countries in the number of reported rape incidents.Many nations do not have a universal emergency access number (like 9-1-1 in the United States) that victims can call to report a crime. Despite the universal need for women’s safety, basic emergency reporting and response networks, do not exist in much of the world. We imagine a future where communities empowered by technology will guarantee the safety of each member, shifting the onus of safety from the individual back to the collective, making us all responsible for a safer world.COMPETITIONThe Anu & Naveen Jain Women’s Safety XPRIZE challenges teams from around the world to leverage technology to empower communities to rapidly respond to threats against any of its members, ensuring that help is always available when needed.

The winning team’s solution will trigger location-accurate alerts in emergency situations even in low-connectivity scenarios, transmit alerts to a network of responders and rapidly provide a response to the user within 90 seconds that help is on its way, exhibit a novel approach to building or combining existing and/or emerging technologies to better connect users and responders. The winning technology willcost no more than US $40, to help ensure it is affordable.PRIZE PURSEUSD 1,000,000 will be awarded asGrand Prize.TIMELINEPrize launch: 24th October 2016Registration deadline: 28th April 2017First shortlist announced: October 2017Final testing: April 2018Grand prize winner announced: June 2018Competition timeline: 20 months

WEBSITEsafety.xprize.orgSPONSORSAnu JainAnu Jain is an entrepreneur with a deep commitment to philanthropy. Anu co-founded several successful ventures including Lavish Life, InfoSpace and Intelius/inome. She is passionate about giving back and making a difference, with a focus on education, girls and women empowerment. Anu believes that everyone should have equal rights to all basic needs as well as the best education possible, regardless of their socio-economic situation.

Anu is a trustee of the board and a member of the Visionary Circle at the XPRIZE Foundation, a nonprofit focused on using exponential technology to solve the grand challenges of humanity. She is sponsoring an XPRIZE to come up with the best solution for the safety of girls and women in India. She is also on the advisory council of the UN Foundation Girl Up campaign that specifically focuses on empowering adolescent girls in the US and around the world. Anu is also on the US-India Advisory Board of Girl Rising, a global campaign for girl’s education.

Anu is a director of the board for Bellevue LifeSpring, an organization dedicated to serving underprivileged children and their families in the local Bellevue community. She has served on the advisory board of Pratham, an early learning education non-profit as well as on the board of the United Way of King County and a six-year term as a board member at University Preparatory Academy.

Anu holds a BA in business administration and economics from SUNY, Stony Brook, NY, and an MBA from Rutgers University in New Jersey. She grew up in many different countries as a UN child. Anu and her husband have three children who are all entrepreneurs and actively involved in giving back to the community.

Naveen JainNaveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of Moon Express, World Innovation Institute, iNome, TalentWise, Intelius, Infospace, in addition to serving as an advisor to the UK Longitude Prize and as a member of the Explorer club. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, WSJ, INC and Huffington Post. As a trustee and vision circle member at the XPRIZE Foundation, he is focused on finding entrepreneurial solutions that address global challenges in health, education, poverty, agriculture, and access to clean water.

He has been recognized globally for his entrepreneurial success and leadership, and has been awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the Albert Einstein Technology Medal for pioneers in technology. Naveen was named “Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur” by Silicon India, and won the Red Herring Lifetime Achievement Award for leadership in the technology industry, being named one of Red Herring’s Top 20 Entrepreneurs.

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Contact: womens.safety@xprize.org

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