Six weavers – three each from the Barpali and Nupatana handloom clusters in Odisha – have won the Digikala Handloom Design Competition. On January 12-13, DEF founder director Osama Manzar and Microsoft Lead (Community Affairs, CSR) Manju Dhasmana awarded certificates and cash prizes to the winners during a small ceremony in the area. More than…
DEF’s e-NGO programme is all set to launch its revolutionary online international crowd funding platform NGONAMA. The portal is aimed at bringing together from all around the world development sector NGOs, activists and individuals on the one hand as well as individuals, government agencies and corporates interested in funding and promoting such work on the…
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is going back to school, literally. In partnership with global IT consultancy giant Capgemini, DEF has taken up a project called “Raising standards of education through digital intervention” under which it will adopt government schools within a 50 km radius of 10 cities in India – New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon,…
Nichlagarh now is a tribal Wi-Fi village, without any functional telecom service
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India invited counter-comments on its Consultation paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services. Differential pricing for data usage for accessing different websites, applications or platforms is a practice that is contrary to the principles of network neutrality.
Mark Zuckerberg has come and gone one more time but what we keep hearing is not about the access and the quality of access but just Free Basics
This article was first published in the Mint newspaper on January 12, 2016. This is the story of a weaving cluster where the weavers work only as labourers, living in complete exclusion from the mainstream. They know nothing about who buys their products, who sells it, where the raw material comes from, what are the trading…
DEF completed 13 successful years on December 16, 2015. Over the years, the DEF family has become bigger, stronger and more diverse. Many CIRCs celebrated the day in their own way. Some wrote wishes and messages on chart papers and shared photographs with the rest of the DEF family
“The goal to digitally empower 1 Billion people in the long run is a lofty target something few organisations would have dreamt of. Digital is such an exciting space to be in in these times of #Digital India etal. The political establishment wants it, the nation is craving for it and nothing in the world has made it more equal than digital & ICT tools has.”
“Another thing I have been liking about DEF is its Open work culture. Osama sir never wanted a partition to be put as cubicles etc which must be unique. I have read and seen on tv Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook’s office to be this open. Openess also is equality.”
Intervention by a Soochna Seva team has forced an errant Gram Sevak in Ramnagar block of West Champaran district to return to actual beneficiaries the money he was swindling from them. The team learnt that Phoolmati Devi, 65, was not getting her entitled Rs 400 per month under Bihar’s Widow Pension Scheme. The Sevak —…
