Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is a Delhi-based nonprofit organisation working towards empowering people to gain access to better healthcare, education, skills, and livelihood opportunities through digital literacy and digital tools. The organization’s main focus is to make technology easily accessible to the masses, and to empower women, youth, persons with disabilities, and the elderly through providing functional digital literacy, media literacy, and digital up-skilling across agriculture, micro and nano-business, health, education, livelihood, and entrepreneurial skills. Over the last 23 years, the organisation has been actively engaged in digitally empowering local communities through its 2,000 Community Information Resource Centers. These centers are supported by a widespread network of 10,000 digital foot soldiers located across 25 states and 250+ districts in rural, tribal, marginalized, and unreached areas. DEF has directly impacted the lives of more than 35 million people including people from below the poverty line, women, artisans, youth, persons with disabilities, and the elderly.
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“Karat chale, badhat chale (keep working, keep growing)” is DEF’s motto. Working with communities across rural India DEF believes in empowering people by providing access to information using digital tools.
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Apart from India, DEF now offers help to civil society organisations engaged in the field of ICTD in Africa, South Asia and the Asia Pacific region. Further, to strengthen the global community and become part of the global development fraternity for an empowered world, DEF is affiliated to the following associations, bilateral, multilateral agencies as institutional member:
For more information, please mail us at info@defindia.org