I was going through facebook and I saw that one of my friend had shared about a missing person and was asking her friends to share and help find the person. That is when I thought how with the current technology and smartphone it is so easy to circulate information about such incident so soon. In most of the cases, people/kids who are lost are either suffering from old age/ mental illness and hence not able to think very clearly or it can be kids who just dont know what they are doing and wander away from their guardians. In both these cases, if the information about such incident can be spread to various people in that area very quickly, may be someone can actually have noticed the person and hence able to share information about their location or atleast give more updated information.
Hence, there is a scope for a website and an android app where you can quickly upload/post the photo of the person lost and if not photo,atleast some concrete information about the person and that information should be sent to various people based on their last reported location so that they can help in finding the person immediately. One more usage of such a app can be comb areas across the city to help find people who have been lost for say few days. May be there can be a group of volunteers who just roam around their home/office area with the image of the person lost in their city and try to report if they can get some information about the person or just update that the missing person was not possibly in so and so area. This way, atleast police and the relatives of the missing person can have better idea of where the missing person is.
Ofcourse may be chances of able to find a missing person through this might be very bleak especially if the person has been missing for more than few days but atleast even few missing people are found through this, then it will be fruitful.
Ofcourse one more way of extending this application is for police to post wanted people’s photo so that people who notice such person can report to the police. The website can also act as a shield to protect the identity of the person who has revealed the location of the wanted criminal.
