One-line solution summary:
Empowering civic engagement and safer police interactions through mobile-enabled education, resource sharing, reporting and AI data analysis
Pitch your solution.
Reyets is a mobile smart app paired with an AI powered database. The Reyets app lets people know their rights, document abuse and get help. Incidents reported through the app are fed into the Reyets dashboard that serves as an AI powered analysis and record keeping database. Data is then analyzed and used to support investigations into misconduct, help write better policies and used by public defenders to support witness accounts in court.
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What specific problem are you solving?
People don’t know their rights, and when they are violated, reporting misconduct is difficult, since each of the over 18,000 police departments has its own unique process of reporting police misconduct. As a result, 95% of people do not report police misconduct. Conversely, research indicates that a lack of public participation is a barrier to true police accountability. While Community-Led Policing (CLP) programs are effective tools to increase public participation, lack of access to resources is a barrier to widespread adoption.
What is your solution?
Reyets is a mobile smart app paired with an AI-powered database. The Reyets app lets people know their rights, document abuse, build easy-to-follow action campaigns and get help. Incidents reported through the app are fed into the Reyets dashboard that serves as an AI-powered analysis and record-keeping database. Data is then analyzed and used to support investigations into misconduct, help write better policies, and used by public defenders to support witness accounts in court.
Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?
Reyets helps black, brown, and immigrant communities. These communities are over-policed, arrested at higher rates, and have access to fewer resources than other communities. For example, black motorists are stopped at over 400% more then white motorist.
Our solution provides help at the hyper-local level by partnering with grass-root organizations and providing know your rights tools, connecting people with resources and organizations.
The result is that instead of feeling helpless people are empowered and less likely to be victims.
Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
Create new public safety systems that ensure racial equity and provide alternatives to harmful technologies such as biased facial recognition.Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.
The current public safety system relies on a policing system that is ill-equipped to respond to many of black, brown, and immigrant communities' needs. Although 95% of all calls to police are for non-violent issues, an armed officer is sent.
Reyets is helping build an interconnected network of community-led programs. Community-Led Policing is an organizational strategy that allows the community to solve problems, through witnesses, data collection, and reform efforts. A good example of this is a group in Baltimore that came together and uncovered that every 14 days in Maryland, someone is killed by police. Using the data, they compiled on officer-involved deaths they successfully pushed for a host of police reforms at the local, county, and state levels
What is your solution’s stage of development?
Pilot: An organization deploying a tested product, service, or business model in at least one community.In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?
Washington D.C., DC, USAExplain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.
We have built our core platform have organically acquired 7,000 users and are in talks to launch pilot programs.
Who is the Team Lead for your solution?
Wa'il Ashshowwaf
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Which of the following categories best describes your solution?
A new application of an existing technologyWhat makes your solution innovative?
Our approach makes digital activism and collation building accessible and scalable by using smart technology and targeting measurable change at a hyper-local level.
Using this approach will result in the largest interconnected network of community organizations resulting in:
- Increased citizen witnessing and civic engagement
- Improve understanding of rights and provide greater access to resources
- Provide insights that support reform efforts
Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:
Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals does your solution address?
Select the key characteristics of your target population.
In which states / US territories will you be operating within the next year?
In which states / US territories do you currently operate?
How many people does your solution currently serve? How many will it serve in one year? In five years?
Current: 8,000
One Year: 100,000
Five Years: 100,0000,000
How are you measuring your progress toward your impact goals?
We will plan to remove the barriers to civic engagement, and measure impact by:
- Number of civic engagements
- Number of people helped by resources
- Decrease in cases of police brutality/ misconduct
What type of organization is your solution team?
For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
How many people work on your solution team?
4 full time, 1 part time, 6 contractors
How long have you been working on your solution?
3 years
How are you and your team well-positioned to deliver this solution?
CEO + Cofounder
Helped 500+ founders build startups. Founder @unstucklabs.com & rooam.co. Worked @Walt Disney, Pepsi, HSBC. Studied @Harvard, Georgetown and CalState. Consulted @Desmond Tutu Truth + Reconciliation Commission, S. Africa & US Dept of State Fellow
Justin Moore
CJO - Chief Justice Officer
Top 40 Lawyers under 40, Forbes Mastermind, Moore’s cases and work have garnered national media attention in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, NBC’s Today Show, CBS Evening News, ABC’s Nightly News, BBC, CNN, Fox News, BET and The ROOT.
Berker Hazar
CRO + Cofounder
Immigrated to USA with $50 and a dream. As a student supported himself in obtaining two master's degrees. Through savings and real estate investing purchased a restaurant and started an insurance company turning it into a multi-million dollar business.
Ibrahem AlHaidari
CFO + Cofounder
Talented engineer, salesman, investor, and entrepreneur. Cofounded multiple businesses including a successful telecom and fiber optics startup over 10y ago that has grown into a multi-million dollar business.
What is your approach to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive leadership team?
As a founding team consisting of black, brown, and immigrant backgrounds we are keen to expand the diversity.
We recognize the importance of include females and other underrepresented groups as part of the time, especially given the causes that we serve.
To that end, we recently launched a fellowship program and onboarded 7 fellows (5 female, 2 males) that represent black, Latin, transgender, LGBTQA+, and immigrant backgrounds.
We are actively seeking to expand the leadership team with inclusion of more roles female leaders as well.
Do you primarily provide products or services directly to individuals, to other organizations, or to the government?
Individual consumers or stakeholders (B2C)In which of the following areas do you most need partners or support?
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The Elevate Prize for Antiracist Technology? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The GM Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The HP Prize for Advancing Digital Equity? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the Innovation for Women Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if the prize funder is specifically interested in my solution
Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for The AI for Humanity Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.
Yes, I wish to apply for this prize
Solution Team
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Wa'il Ashshowwaf CEO and Cofounder, REYETS: Social Justice Network
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Solution Name:
REYETS: SOCIAL JUSTICE NETWORK