The Telecom Commission plans to use Rs.3,000 crore from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to provide mobile connectivity to 56,000 villages identified as mobile and telecom shadow areas. While USOF does that, we should not ignore the fact that out of the 867.02 million mobile subscribers (as of April) in the country, not more than…
Various examples show the role mobile phones can play to trigger social and behavioural changes in India Not many of us are aware of the role that mobile phones can play to trigger social and behavioural changes in India. Let us look at a few examples. Mobile Kunji has been implemented in eight districts under…
If you have no electricity, you can survive despite inconvenience; if you have no pucca house, you still survive on thatched shelters; if you have bad roads, you can still communicate on the patched roads. But if you don’t have sound health, you simply lose your life. That’s what happens in villages of India. The fundamentals of…
समावेशी लोकतंत्र वही है, जो न सिर्फ अल्पसंख्यकों को राजनीतिक रूप से अपने भरोसे में लेने का दावा करता है और उनका यकीन जीतता है, बल्कि वह बदलाव में सक्षम नए कार्यक्रमों की योजना बनाता है और उनको लागू भी करता है। और ये नए कार्यक्रम यथार्थपरक व स्थायी होते हैं। ऐसे उपाय या कार्यक्रम…
हमारे देश में कहीं एक और दूसरा देश बसता है, जिसमें चीनी संस्कृति की झलक, भारतीयता से लबरेज, बदला-बदला सा खानपान का अहसास कराता है। कुदरती खूबसूरती के बीच नदी में लिपटा दुनिया का सबसे लंबा द्वीप, पहाड़ियों पर सर्पीले रास्ते, दुनिया का सबसे नम स्थान, चाय के बाग इसमें और चार चांद लगा देते…
Innovations in empowerment of minorities have both political and governance gains
Every year Digital Empowerment Foundation conducts Mobile for Good Award in collaboration with Vodafone India. Last year ZMQ nominated their project ‘MIRA’ for the award. The project was selected as one of the four best mobile practices of the year and was offered INR 1 million funds and mentorship support for next two years. DEF’s…
पिछले हफ्ते मैंने अपने लेख में जिक्र किया था कि कैसे हमारे पुर्वजों की अनमोल विरासत बचाई जा सकती है।
DISHA is a partner of Digital Empowerment Foundation. It is grassroot NGO based in Bhadrak Block, Bhadrak District, Odisha.
In first of its 2014 consultation series, North East Development Foundation, Open Knowledge Community and Digital Empowerment Foundation together are organising a multi-stakeholder consultation on digital innovations and solutions for citizen services and empowerment. The consultation shall be based on invited applications and innovations, their selections by a panel and final invite for presentation and…
