Chat helpline called Akancha uses AI to reduce cyber crime

Vijay Shekhar Sharma (founder & CEO of Paytm), Ritesh Malik (founder- Innov8), The Indian police & various other influencers have come together to support India’s largest social impact initiative against cyber harassment, named as ‘Akancha Against Harassment’.

In an innovative use of AI technology, the initiative runs country’s only private national multilingual chat helpline for cyber safety. This helpline allows users to get information anonymously, as well as trigger SOS in a crisis situation.