Mobile application to track missing youngsters propelled

New Delhi, Jun 29 A Mobile application for tracking missing and abandoned children was launched by Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi here today.

The application, dedicated as 'ReUnite', is a cooperation between Bachpan Bachao Andolan drove by Satyarthi and IT major Capgemini.

Missing kids should not be considered as just figures as it's a disaster for the guardians whose lives are thrown off track subsequent to losing their friends and family, Satyarthi said.

"Each missing child reflects hope and dream of family that loses them," he said.

Prabhu lauded Bachpan Bachao Andolan and Satyarthi for working for the kids and hoped the application would help in rejoining missing youngsters and their folks.

The application will use Amazon Web Services based on face acknowledgment innovation to match the photos of missing children with a database to give result after face matching.

The application will be associated with missing children's database of Delhi Police.

It's a multi-user platform which can be used to upload photographs of missing children. Guardians of missing children will have the capacity to report details of such children.

Capgemini head working officer Ashwin Yardi said that the thought for the application flourished at an inside hackathon event organised by the company.

"After the tech challenge to create a pool of idea to address the issue of missing kids in India was finished, the triumphant group's answer was taken forward to develop the application," he said.

The database for the application will be updated mostly by end users who will turn out with points of interest and picture of missing children and transfer it. The photographs of missing children will exist in algorithmic equations just and not be saved in physical memory of the telephone.

Every year, around 44,000 children go missing in the country, of whom only 11,000 are saved, said a Bachpan Bachao Andolan representative.