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Live ATM Alert is a hashtag campaign started by a group of youngsters from a Facebook community called 7PM Status on 13th November 2016. The community founded by Aashin Thampy, a Kochi based activist, caters to various social causes that affects the common man.
On 8 November 2016, the Government of India announced the demonetization of all ₹500 and ₹1,000 banknotes of the Mahatma Gandhi Series. The scarcity of cash due to demonetization led to chaos outside banks and ATM's across India, which became a daily routine for millions of people waiting to withdraw cash for their daily needs. ATM's ran out of cash after a few hours of being functional, and around half the ATM's in the country were non-functional.
The Facebook page 7PM Status launched a campaign for crowdsourcing locations of ATM's which were live and working. Jyothis Thaliath, a bank employee based out of Kochi and one of the members of the 7PM Status community, coined the idea of Live ATM Alert. The page asked its members and followers to post the location and details of the ATM's in their vicinity, which were live and dispensing cash, including a hashtag #LiveATMAlert or by tagging 7PM Status in their post in Facebook or Twitter. 7PM Status would in turn collate all gathered information and broadcast it to their followers in regular intervals.
The campaign was well received by the public and its success was covered in national and regional news media. Usama Shihabudeen, a freelance programmer, who is a also part of 7PM Community, setup a live video feed of the crowdsourced data and published it on Facebook.
References
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