India’s Fight Against the Digital Divide
Compared to India’s 73 years of Independence, the Internet is relatively young. While the birth of the Internet…Read More
Enriching the Tribe with a Digital Vibe
Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation (BRLF) was set up under the Ministry of Rural Development by the Indian Government as an independent society. BRLF along with Indian Institute of Health Management Research University’s (IIHMRU) CPRL provides a 6 month residential certification course for the tribal communities across the country. As a part of the curriculum, students…
Enabling the power to choose for the differently-abled
Khushi Ram, a 30 years old Samarth SoochnaPreneur, resides in the village of Kararia, Block Untwal, in Alwar district, Rajasthan. He is an energetic man with zeal but has a clubfoot by birth which restricted his ability to become independent. He used to teach in a government school but was unable to sustain his expenses.…
CNX 2019: “Can Community Networks become Internet of People!”
Considering the trends across worldwide, the Internet is pretty much becoming subject to the whims and fancies of telecommunication companies besides the fact that they do not reach each and every corner of any country. We have also seen that once there is an Internet shutdown or censored, almost all modes of communication also get…
Digital Citizen Summit
This year’s Digital Citizen Summit (DCS) saw a deep dive into the intractable online (mis)information landscape. It sought to unravel the complex strands of policy, practice, and social reality in order to develop an in-depth and thorough understanding of the complexity of an information landscape. DCS 2019 brought together subject-matter experts, academics, policy-makers, lawyers, technologists,…
Soochit with Soochnapreneur
Jamuna Devi, wife of Arun Kumar is a 35 years old Farmer. She is a resident of Karor village, a place in the remote corners of Haryana. Her husband owns a piece of land for which she is a farmhand. But since she hasn’t got a formal education, she was unaware of the government benefits…
Forwarding inspiration to communities
The GOAL teams of Gadchirolli had signed off their year with an interesting idea, which they will be going to implement in the year 2020. Mentees will go through the page of Humans of New York and Bombay, understand its idea and relate the same with their village situation and accordingly they will create their…
Thinking Smart with Smartpur
Smartpur is more like a revolution with an aim to build a village which is digitally developed into digital villages in India. Under this project an Eye screening camp was organised at Nelapatala Spoke Centre on December 24, supported by Anand Eye Institution. During the camp 13 patients were detected with severe eye issues and…
Digital Literacy for Girls
In collaboration with UWD and Deloitte, Digital Empowerment Foundation is working towards spreading the information and digital services to deprived communities of Delhi and Gurugram, in the first week of December. Three CIRCs will be dedicated to the local community to provide digital educational information, information support system along with digital services in various domains…
Annual Smartpur refresher training
A four day (from December 2 to December 5) a Refresher Training was conducted in Jaipur for all the Project Officers(POs) and Centre Coordinators(CCs) of Smartpur. Around 40 people from across India participated in this training. The aim was to enlighten the team about the vision, mission, objectives and model of Smartpur. A special exhibition was…