Chennai suburbs will have Ladies Only cyber cafes
Posted on: 19/Jul/2013 12:41:31 PM
Ladies and girls have been enjoying special buses, railway coaches and colleges. Now they will have separate cyber cafes in the Chennai suburbs to ensure secure internet accessibility to them. Women in general and more so in the suburbs, do not use cyber cafes much for a variety of reasons, even though they may be conversant with computers and the internet. Santhosh Kumar Subramanian of start-up firm EmpowHer aims to create safe, comfortable and information-rich spaces for women. The project is planned for city suburbs like Tambaram or small towns like Kanchipuram, around 70 km from Chennai.
Subramanian while speaking about this said, “We are doing our pilot study. As per current indications, ladies only cyber cafe`s will be successful in suburbs and small towns and not in Chennai (proper). Whether in the city or in its suburbs the browsing history in computers at cyber cafes does not automatically get deletes, hence, there is a strong possibility of women users getting embarrassed by accidentally viewing porn sites. Further, the cafes in suburbs and smaller towns in the state are located in such places that women try to avoid them”
According to Subramanian, a grant has been awarded to EmpowHer by the Omidyar Grant for Entrepreneurship in South Asia by Harvard University`s South Asia Institute. The grant aims to assist projects and organisations looking at entrepreneurial solutions to social and economic problems in South.
