The White House Challenge: Is it seriously worth it?

"The Obama Administration believes that one way to help combat sexual abuse on college campuses may be through mobile phone apps, and with the Department of Health and Human Services, has announced a contest to help develop these tools to help promote student safety.

The contest is called Apps Against Abuse and its part of the administration's Challenge.gov program, whereby the federal government issues a challenge and people build apps and crowdsourced solutions."

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but the idea of the app is:

• connect with friends in real-time
• be able to let your friends know your whereabouts with frequent check-ins

Isn't that what dialing does?  Text messaging?  What do you think?

Read more here: White House Challenges Developers: Build Apps to Prevent Sexual Assault

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