29 Initiatives win mBillionth Awards 2018
mBillionth Awards is a platform established by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) to identify, recognise…Read More
What’s Up, Rural India?
Conversations on the Internet, particularly social media, are often a reflection of the
conversations that one has offline. However, online…Read More
Digikargha Studio celebrates Indigenous weavers
Established in 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) aims to connect the unreached and underserved…Read More
Sixer Video: Shaping the future
A match between a company and aspiring talent needs to be perfect. Thus, the hiring process can take up to weeks to ensure that the teaming is right. Sixer Video enables recruiters to hire talent through an efficient system. It is primarily a screening process that provides tools to a hiring authority to assess candidates…
A powerful tool for empowerment
Bikram Shrestha President Internet Society Nepal In today’s world, mobile devices cannot be separated from day-to-day life. Our needs and demands for mobile facilities/services are constantly on the rise and are gradually fulfilled by new innovations and technologies. Society at large uses mobile to communicate, do business, perform banking transactions, learn, travel and live in…
Raking out malnutrition through POSHAN
POSHAN Abhiyaan is the Government of India’s flagship programme to improve nutritional standards among pregnant women, lactating mothers, infants, children and adolescents. In an effort to amplify the reach of POSHAN Abhiyaan in rural India through digitisation, Unicef and DEF have come together to organise community dialogues on POSHAN Abhiyaan in 10 states — Jharkhand,…
Creating holistically smarter villages
New year 2019 began with a new Smartpur centre establishment in Rajasthan. Alwar’s centre in Rajasthan is open for the nearby school students to access computer classes for building digital literacy. Later in the month, Republic Day was celebrated with great pomp and show at Bharatpur Hub centre, with village Ladamka’s children, adolescents and youth…
Digital literacy helps a young woman go back to learning
Twenty-year-old Rinki Chouhan lives in a small house with a big family of ten where her father and brother, both daily wage workers, are the only earning members in the household. For a family of ten, the household income is mere Rs. 3000. Rinki is the first person in the house to complete her education…
Digikargha Studio celebrates Indigenous weavers
Established in 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) aims to connect the unreached and underserved communities of India in an effort to bring them out of digital darkness and equip them with access to information, digital literacy, digital tools and last mile connectivity. Over the years, DEF has marked its presence in more than 500 locations…