E-heritage walk for social media winners
DEF organized an e-heritage walk in the ‘Walled city Shahjahanabad’, famous as Old Delhi,for the winners of ‘Social Media for Empowerment Award’.
Feclicitating Best Practice in Northeast India
With much greater focus on how Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools and applications can provide need based and sustainable solutions
Advocating Change Through Technology
APC-IMPACT: India, Malaysia, and Pakistan Advocacy for Change through Technology Date: 13 November 2014 Venue: Sanskriti Foundation, Anandgram, Delhi Session I: Project’s Scope, Objectives and Activities Project’s scope, objectives and activities of the project were presented in front of advisory committee members for correction/additions if any. Discussion Points The project should understand and identify…
The wide gap between social issues and social media
Three-and-a-half months after the launch of the Digital India initiative, there is a feeling of directionlessness in many sections of the government, companies and the community of activists about how to implement the ambitious programme and make the best of it. In the last 100 days or so, I have met at least 100 people…
Pratibadh: empowering and informing its rural readers
Pratibadh, a 13-year-old publication distributed in 53 districts across Bihar, Punjab and Haryana, is bringing about an information revolution in villages. From humble beginnings in 1996 with just 1,000 copies, the fortnightly is now read in Hindi or Gurmukhi by not less than 800,000 people in 35,000 villages. But the reason it got a Manthan…
Citizen Matters: A local news outlet for Bengaluru
It was the years 2005-07, when Bengaluru was witnessing a spurt in urban growth and the city’s infrastructure was crumbling that Meera K. realized that the local pages of mainstream newspapers were not providing the answers on why things were in such a mess. In an office on the outskirts of Koramangala, Meera, one of…
Technology and Public Libraries
Libraries are the life blood of a nation. This is particularly true for a country such as India, which has a large number of young people aspiring for a better life. Yet, our public libraries are grossly neglected. Each one of the country’s 676 districts has at least one public library, an enormous resource that…
नए युग में ‘डिजिटल इंडिया कैंपेन’ से काफी उम्मीदें
ठीक एक दशक पहले भारत में अगर लोगों को अपने विधायक या सांसद से मिलना होता था तो उन्हें कम से कम पांच साल यानी अगले चुनाव का इंतजार करना होता था। लेकिन, शुक्र है इंटरनेट और तकनीक का, जिसकी वजह से जनता और नेता की दूरी ही नहीं घटी, बल्कि जब चाहें उनसे संवाद भी…