Daily Archives: June 1, 2016

Children use Google Images to travel the world

This story by a DEF team member was first published in The Better India on January 31, 2016 Digital Empowerment Foundation team member Udita Chaturvedi shares some snippets from a trip to rural Rajasthan. Last month, I was in Alwar district of Rajasthan (Alwar is about 160 kilometres from Delhi, and is also one of…

Affordable access is creating entrepreneurs

This story was first published in The Better India on April 7, 2016 Until 2011, the Dabri village on the outskirts of Birni, one of the 13 community development blocks of Giridih district in Jharkhand state, suffered from intermittent and often non-functional Internet connectivity. It was served by only one telecom provider, which was slow…