Our app is hoping to bridge the time between an incident happening and people who are in the vicinity of the event hearing about it. We see our app as a peer-to-peer tool and what makes our emergency notification system better is that it is a two-way form of communication. Not only can people view incidents, but they can also report them based on what they see, comment, add pictures, and view live updates in a social way.

So to use our app, users have to log-in with facebook, after which their profile picture, first name, and mutual friends will be attached to anything they post. With Facebook authentication, we’ve noticed that trolling isn’t as prevalent in our current locations.