What Does a Feminist Internet Look Like?
A week ago, I had no clue what Feminist internet meant or looked like and how the term was being used…Read More
In the right direction
Smita Aggarwal Director – Investments Omidyar Network There is no question that the advent of mobile phones has been a game changer for financial service providers across world. Through the delivery of innovative formal financial services such as mobile money, remittances apps, and others to low income populations; we have made great progress in creating…
Weavers’ Training Program at Musiri
The use of social media in this time and age has become wide and diverse in nature. Keeping aside its negative aspects, it is believed to be an effective medium for various public relation activities, marketing, brand building, advertising etc. Weavers of Musiri cluster have limited access to such mediums. Their lifestyle majorly revolves around…
Building on A Permanent Support System
My name is Bina and my husband’s name is Omprakash. I am a farmer and a resident of Laxmangarh tehsil of Berla village and a mother of three kids. Since the yield is low, we have faced a lot of problems in growing food. In addition to this, I and my family did not even…
Development of soft skills and entrepreneurial abilities
In Maharashtra, the Mentors visited Palghar, Thane and trained 20 mentees. The objective of the visit was to understand and acquaint themselves with the social realities of Mentees, meet their parents and most importantly to impart skills. This helped them understand how the visual narratives support in analysing the ground realities and why it is…
Advancing Bhutan’s Digital Calling
Bhutan is fast on its way to becoming digital, and the government of Bhutan is working intensely to build capacity of their officers to effectively and efficiently deal with the change heralded by technology. Department of Information and Media (DoIM) invited DEF to conduct a social media workshop for the ICT officers from 18 districts…
Digitally enabling citizens
Digital Empowerment Foundation initiated Digital Eco Systems for Senior Citizens to provide digital literacy classes and Community Information and Resource Centre (CIRC) services with the field level support. Similarly, digital literacy classes and CIRC with the support of HelpAge India was initiated.The centre aims to provide digital literacy, information services, health related training and information on…
Visit by MILEN members & celebration of Children’s Day
Smartpur is now emphasizing on the difference which is taking place in the society. There is an inevitable change which can be clearly seen. The Media & Information Literacy Experts visited our Smartpur Tain Hub on 14th November to experience this change. MIL works on certain parameters such as media literacy, news literacy, digital literacy…