Crime in technology resource constrained environments
has been shown to adversely affect economic growth by
deterring investment and triggering emigration. To address this
secure reporting channels are being investigated to encouraging
anonymous crime reporting. In this paper, we present a system
(CryHelp App) developed to enable residents of a university community
situated in technology resource constrained environment
to facilitate secure and covert crime reporting.We focus primarily
on the usability of the application. The system was developed
on the basis of user centric iterative approach. Deployment
and evaluation results of our prototype system demonstrate that
overall the system scored a 77.06% usability rating with a
standard deviation of 0.05 for contributing scores on System Use,
Information Quality and Interface Quality. This is indicative of
the fact that users found the system to be very usable.