Recent factory fires in Bangladesh and Pakistan have prompted the India-based company LaborVoices to create a crowd-sourced system to generate information on workplace conditions. Workers are able to to leave messages anonymously through a voice-activated system on workplace safety and compliance; in turn, the information is available to workers for free, while retailers will have to subscribe to the service.
To learn more about this new technology, please visit: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/12/24/can-mobile-phones-improve-factory-fire-safety/