- Digital technology solutions for the benefit of the society
- Missing Alert App: free mobile phone app for finding missing people faster
For 17 years, COSMOTE has been supporting the work of the Organization ‘The Smile of the Child’, providing high-tech solutions and telecommunications services that make it easier for the organization to care for children and respond to disappearances in Greece.
The latest technological solution added to those provided by COSMOTE is the free Missing Alert App for mobile phones, enabling the easier discovery of missing people in Greece. In total, COSMOTE provides ‘The Smile of the Child’ with:
- Telecommunications coverage of the National SOS Helpline for Missing Children 1056 and the European Hotline for Missing Children 116000,
- Exclusive internet access for 7 mobile emergency medical units,
- COSMOTE TV for the Smile’s 15 homes hosting children,
- Over 400 fixed-line, mobile and internet connections,
- Support for the Disaster Recovery Area at Athens International Airport,
- Upgrading and support for the Missing Alert App
The value of the above technological solutions offered by COSMOTE for the needs of the Organization "The Smile of the Child", exceed every year €350,000, and a total of 6 million euros over a period of seventeen years.
Missing Alert App: the free application for finding missing persons
The advanced Missing Alert App, which was designed and developed by COSMOTE for the Organization ‘The Smile of the Child’, enables all citizens to participate, in real time, in searches for fellow human beings who have gone missing.
Users who download the app from Google Play or the Apple Store, can: Receive notifications about current disappearances and the progress of searches; provide the organization ‘The Smile of the Child’ with information on a case, wherever they are and at any time, via chat or telephone; protect their loved ones who are in vulnerable groups at high risk of going missing (e.g., due to dementia, intellectual disability), by registering their personal data, via the app, to accelerate the missing-alert procedure and launching of a search should it be needed.
The app is managed exclusively by a specialized team from ‘The Smile of the Child’, which forwards user information to the Hellenic Police and other co-competent institutional agencies in response to every incident of a missing person in Greece.
The mobile app’s ease of access, in combination with advanced technological features, strengthens the toolkit of ‘The Smile of the Child’ in the effort to quickly locate missing children and adults.
COSMOTE uses technology and innovation to create solutions and applications for a better world for all. It’s total social contribution in 2020 – through various actions and initiatives – reached €5.1 million.
