Teenage girl coders from Mumbai slum are building apps to solve their problems

Routinely described as one of the largest slums in the world, Mumbai's Dharavi has been home to some unlikely innovations in the last two years, thanks to a group of local teenage girl coders who make apps that can solve their community's problems.

The girls, aged between eight and sixteen, are part of a slum innovation project in Dharavi's Naya Nagar neighbourhood, started in 2014 by filmmaker Nawneet Ranjan. Using the open source developing tool MIT App Inventor, the girls have built several mobile apps to tackle the problems that they face on a daily basis, including sexual harassment, access to water and education. Read more...