Towards Making an Anonymous and One-Stop Online Reporting

System for Third-World Countries

Tarik Reza Toha1, Md. Moyeen Uddin2, MD. Nayeem Reza3, Md. Abdullah Al Maruf4, Amit Chakraborty5, and A. B. M. Alim Al Islam6

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

Email: {1tarik.toha, 2moyeen.neeyom.crv, 3reza.uranium, 4ropymaruf2010, 5amitchakraborty074}@gmail.com, and 6alim_razi@cse.buet.ac.bd

Background•The main obstacles of national development in third-world

countries are corruption [1, 2], crime [2], violence [3], abusesagainst women [4, 5], etc.

‒ Such problems are not often considered with utmost significance

•One of the most prominent reasons behind failure to solve thesesocial problems is under-reporting

‒ Sexual violence and rape are the most under-reported crimes [6]

‒ 68% of occurrences of violence against women go unreported in adeveloping country of South Asia namely Bangladesh [7]

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Motivation•Some context-specific online reporting systems have been

developed to tackle the social problems in an isolated manner

‒ I Paid A Bribe [8] focuses on bribery only

‒Ushahidi [9] allows to report violence only

‒ Protibadi [10] covers violence against women only

•In order to facilitate minimizing the extent of under-reporting,an anonymous and one-stop online reporting system needs tobe developed for general people of third-world countries, whichis yet to be developed to the best of our knowledge

System Implementation Conclusion and Future Work•We develop a one-stop online reporting platform with an

option for anonymity that can empower the generalmass, especially living in third-world countries, with apowerful tool to achieve their rights more comfortably

‒ It can also help the respective authorities to address variousproblems in a more systematic manner

•Report reviewing and public reporting subsystems areyet to be analyzed, designed, and implemented

‒According to studies [11, 12, 13, 14], at present, there is nostructured way to validate crowd sourced data

•We plan to analyze whether anonymity decreasescredibility

‒Our goal is to devise a method to provide anonymity withoutcompromising credibility

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Figure: Our crowd sourcing subsystem providing a general anonymous reporting platform (http://cse.buet.ac.bd/ureporter/public/index.php/report/create)

Proposed Methodology

Figure: Process flow of our proposed reporting systemFigure: Block diagram of our proposed reporting system

Central Repository

System

...

Crime

Corruption

Terrorism

Harassment

Hassle

...

Review

...

Human Rights Commissions

Policy Makers

Law Enforcement

Agencies

...

Crowd Sourcing Report Reviewing Public Reporting

• Summary: Total submitted reports = 14 (unnamed = 5, named = 9)

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