South Asia | India | Technology

Meet the women entrepreneurs who are tapping AI to revolutionise fashion ecommerce

If data is the new oil, artificial intelligence is the new electricity. AI is helping e-sellers add a personal touch to the shopping experience for buyers. India’s ecommerce market is estimated to be worth $84 billion by 2021 (as per the latest RAI report), which means more offline merchants are coming online. And one of the sectors seeing a revolution, courtesy AI, is fashion retail. Fashion retailers, even those from small towns, are embracing technology, to be seen at par with or as more progressive than their counterparts in metro cities. And a few women-led startups are guiding th

South Asia | India | Crimes

Can the Safecity app make Delhi safer for women?

Source: theguardian

The Safecity app lets women share their stories of harassment and abuse in public spaces in cities. Elsa D’Silva, one of its founders, says that women can use it to report “what happened, where it happened and when it happened”. D’Silva started to form the idea for Safecity during a visit to Sweden where, having recently begun working on women’s issues following 20 years in the aviation industry, she met the founders of HarassMap – a project that, among other things, uses online and mobile technology to work towards ending sexual harassment and assault in Egypt. Shortly after D�

South Asia | India | Technology

Six Indian Women in the Techie World to Watch Out For

Source: The Times of India

Apart from the Kalpana Chawlas and Sunitha Williams of the world, there are other Indian women too who are making an equally big splash across the world with their work and achievements. Making a headway in the male-dominated techie world of Silicon Valley has still been difficult for most women, not just Indians. So it is a big deal, when some women manage to carve their name in the wood at Silicon Valley. Here's a list of six Indian women who made it big in the techie world and continue to grow.