The Child Abuse Reporting System (CARS), a smartphone application that allows for the reporting of child abuse to the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), has been selected by Research In Motion (RIM), and is currently being featured in its BlackBerry App World.
RIM, the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has featured the app on its ‘Carousel’, where the company features innovative, high-ranked applications across the world.
CARS is the second app of its kind in the world and the first in the region.
It is also the first application of its kind to be approved by Research In Motion, for listing in BlackBerry App World.
Advocacy group, Help JA Children, led the development process for the application.
The groups’ chief advocate, Brandon Allwood, says, the application’s recognition by RIM is important, as the group seeks to get more people to download CARS.
Registrar at the OCR, Greig Smith, is also applauding the gesture, and has commended the Blackberry team for recognizing the relevance of CARS.
According to Smith, the fact that CARS will be one of the featured applications in Blackberry App World, is a testament of the significant role that technology can play, in ensuring fast and convenient submission of child abuse reports to the OCR.
Currently, CARS is only available for BlackBerry smartphones.
CARS, which is free, may be downloaded from the BlackBerry App World and from the OCR website.
CARS allows users to submit reports anonymously, and the information entered, is not cached or stored anywhere on the phone.
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