Daily Archives: February 2, 2017

Encouraging the digital route to better livelihood

For wider adoption of digitally designed graphs by Ikat weavers of Barpali and Nuapatna in Odisha, consultation workshops were recently organised at DigiKala centres in both the regions. DigiKala is an initiative of Microsoft and DEF that aims to digitally enable the weavers in these two handloom clusters. The workshop was organised to address the…

eNGO Challenge is all set to announce its winners

The 5th edition of eNGO Challenge Awards will take place under the larger umbrella of Prayag 2017. This year, eNGO Challenge opened its nominations for all grassroots organisations, irrespective of their work domain and whether or not they use digital tools to reach out to grassroots communities. This year, the platform received 331 nominations from…

A confluence of lives, culture, ideas and more

The world is standing at the crossroads. One way leads to inclusive globalisation and the other to exclusive localisation. While globalisation at the cost of local skills is certainly undesirable, sharing and engagement is the only way forward for any society and culture in the digital era that is the hallmark of inclusiveness. We cannot…