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Area! is a personal safety guide that utilizes locally powered artificial intelligence to keep you safe.

Trusted community: Area is building a safe space for credible members of society to support one another

Real-time intelligence: Area’s trusted community share information and participate in a rigorous verification process to curb fake news


Emergency response: Area! is providing quick and easy access to support and response channels


Situational awareness: Area!’s database of over 16,000 verified incidents and real-time intelligence let’s you make informed decisions


Inclusion and Access: Area! Provides over 100mb of data to its trusted members to ensure they are never stranded or excluded from digital response channels


Its features include:



• View incidents, events and updates near you
• Real-time traffic updates to find the best route
• Share (openly, anonymously or within closed network)
• Corroborate/debunk incidents near you
• Comment, upload picture and investigate incidents
• SOS: Nearest emergency service (over 20 categories)
• Real-time location risk rating
• Receive push notifications to users for location risk updates
• API integration, open media and in-house tools


Upon meeting a verification threshold of our human-supervised AI-based verification algorithm, Area! curbs misinformation by labelling the incident with a “verified”, “disputed” or “debunked” badge.


Area! has an exhaustive and expandable list of location- specific emergency contacts to support personal safety, security, and crisis response:



• Over 15 emergency support categories and growing
• Access artisans for home emergencies
• Intelligent search tool
• Call and/or Navigate to a chosen service
• Pre-programme corporate emergency response contacts.
• Emergency response for vulnerable population: women and disabled persons.
• Access to Towntalk’s 24/7 Call Centre for response coordination.




Become an “Area! Champion” by engaging in positive behaviours and accumulating Area Points for in-app rewards.