About CWIRC Chanderi Weavers ICT Resource Centre is a Community Information Resource Center set up by Digital Empowerment Foundation in early 2009 as a cluster network for Chanderi weavers that fuses technology with traditional skills and facilitates the process of value addition at all levels. It helps in enhancing the existing skills in weaving and textile…
INET Delhi 2009, Towards an Enabling Internet Access Environment was held in New Delhi – a conference themed on Internet for Development presented by Internet Society (ISOC) in collaboration with Digital Empowerment Foundation.
ACTIVITY REPORT of DEF (2003-2011 Updated) Since its inception in December 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) has engaged itself into number of activities while pursuing its mission and objectives of ICT delivery and promotion in India. The focus areas of intervention had been in development, promotion, spread and usage of content for grassroots use and…
Community Radio in the hands of community Operations and Collaborations at Tilonia, Ajmer was a three day workshop to understand operations of Community Radio by the local communities. This workshop impact was high on the communities and most of them enjoyed hands on experience during the training of the workshop. Through the workshop the local…
This was the first ever Digital Panchayat workshop held at Maharashtra spearheading through concept of Local Area Portal. In this workshop, 50 Panchayats participated in 2day long activity to understand ICT literacy through the workshop training. In a short span of time after its first pilot workshop, Maharashtra incorporated the concept and 100 Panchayats were enabled by…
About Neerjaal: Neerjaal is a concept originally conceived by the Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective (GRWHC), Barefoot College in Tilonia Rajasthan. GRWHC, under its flagship activities of Barefoot College, has been collecting and managing information regarding various linkages of Water in the desert of Rajasthan, especially in and around tilonia village near Kishangarh . Recently, GRWHC,…
About GyanPedia: Gyanpedia is an online digital content repository truely generated by children and teachers of rural government schools across India.Gyanpedia is an initiative of Digital Empowerment Foundation with whole hearted support from Media Lab Asia, to create a Comprehensive, multilingual, dynamic virtual platform for country wide content exchange program for the learning community –…
Community Information Resource Centre is a project which aims at setting up digital data house for communities across rural post in India and South Asia. Digital Empowerment Foundation is one of the key partners of INTEL India under its World Ahead Program. Under this program, DEF is supported by INTEL India to set up ICT…
About Green Pakriya Green Prakriya is a functional and dynamic platform that aims to initiate a continuous process of learning, sharing and collaboration amongst all stake-holders towards empowering a sustainable habitat. The objective is to create a knowledge eco-web of how information and communication technologies can play an instrumental role in empowering a sustainable habitat.…
