Digital Cluster Development Programme’s Digikala—a project to support Ikat handloom industry of Odisha—participated in an event called ‘Alankrita’ in Bhubaneswar on July 19, 2019. The social gathering, attended by eminent designers and social entrepreneurs in the field, is an attempt towards promoting the dying traditional handloom weaving in the region and introduce weavers to wider…
When Rukmani Gurjar was chosen as an Internet Saathi, she expressed immense pride in being given this opportunity to empower other women like her. Dedicating majority of her time in this project, she laboured for this to be successful by trying to involve as many women as she could. Recalling her experience when she started,…
Author of the bestseller ‘The Shooting Star’, Shivya Nath, interacted with the team at Digital Empowerment Foundation and shared her journey of the transition from a regular corporate employee to a digital nomad with almost 80,000 followers on Instagram! Looking at the team she said, “Few years ago, if I was asked to join a…
What happens when a family of three – a father, mother and their six-year old son – decide to leave behind their urban lives and go back to their roots to create model villages? Proto Village happen! Kalyan Akkipedi, a visionary and social innovator, has had a long journey of transforming lives in a small…
Sonal Singh Head – Corporate Communications Jindal Stainless Limited It was few years ago, much before Instagram became the rage, that I had concluded for myself that everything happens in life twice. Once, for real. And twice, for social media. Until the second follows (or even precedes) the first, the loop isn’t complete. Such is…
In this age of information toxicity, when social media has become the bearer of all sorts of information as well as misinformation, the onus lies on ours shoulders to be conscious consumers. “We all have huge responsibility. We need to stop and ask ourselves that why are we letting misinformation enter the network that we…
The adolescent girls in the 100 Smartpur villages had on no occasion imagined to be sitting in a group and discussing…Read More
Digital Empowerment Foundation and Facebook’s mentorship programme Going Online As Leaders (GOAL) is ready to roll out its first phase of implementation across five Indian states namely- Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Odisha. The programme that uses virtual interface for mentoring young girls from rural and tribal communities, especially from backward and aspirational…
Geda Bai Sen, from Bijawar distict, Madhya Pradesh always used to be wary of using smartphones and accessing the internet as well. Even though she was very interested in tailoring, it used to be difficult for her to try new designs. In order to learn the techniques of new and complicated designs, sometimes she would…
The idea with which Smartpur was initiated is being reflected in the on-field activities taking place across the 100 Smartpur centres. The entrepreneurs who were associated with Smartpur have started developing the skill of entrepreneurship in the truest sense. They are no more restricting their services to their specific villages and now focus on growing…