In 2012, Ford Foundation & DEF decided to harness the ongoing efforts of DEF in setting up wireless mesh network in Guna, MP under project ‘‘Wireless in Unlicensed Band’ providing broadband connectivity using unlicensed spectrum. At the first level, the project will analyze micro-and macro-level sustainability model of utilizing wireless in unlicensed band in Guna,…
Intel & DEF organised the National Digital Literacy Mission Week from 10 December 2012 to 15 December 2012 at three (3) identified pilot panchayats under NOFN (National Optic Fibre Network) plan – Arian Panachayat, Ajmer (Rajasthan); Nangoan, Panisagar, (North Tripura); and Muthayalammapalem Panchayat in Pravada (Visakhapatnam).
The classroom is changing. If you’re above the age of 20, it probably bears only a passing resemblance to how you learnt algebra, or the human anatomy in biology. Today’s kids are the first generation that has grown up with technology, and while they are ‘digital natives’, grown-ups – teachers, parents and school administrators –…
The power of the internet to transform lives and livelihoods is well documented. For most of us, access to information and services on our terms in real time and instantly anywhere is taken for granted. For many of us, remembering days without such access is difficult and we wonder how life could have been then.…
Digitalization is rapidly taking on the world across a number of domains. We live in a new world that is re-inventing itself every day; our industry landscape is changing with the entrance of new stakeholders and dominance changing hands across the value web. It is said Content (rather Context) is King! those enabling it are…
“There is so much negativity in our world, but the Manthan Digital Festival shows there is also soc much positive energy. This field is changing, there is always so much to learn. Instead of talking about the ordinary people – Aam Aadmi (Common man), we might be able to speak for India as a country…
While Internet users have increased, the not-so-healthy reactions from the govt have also risen In the past few years, although India has been ranked among the top three nations by number of Internet users and second only to the US in Facebook users, there has also been an increasing number of not-so-healthy reactions from the…
On 12 November, the eve of Diwali, while most of the country was preparing for the festival of light, I got a call from Arain Panchayat Bhawan, saying they wanted to talk with me on Skype. The people on the other side were mostly a young bunch of people from Arain village in Rajasthan and…
Impact sourcing should be less based on employment generation and more about using naturally existing resources to create impact on the local economy. But what is impact sourcing? Out of 42 million population of Kenya, 25 million carry mobile phones and 12 million of them use it to access the Internet. Kenya is also known…
Newsweek recently announced it will publish its last print edition on 31 December. The weekly magazine attributed its decision to the fact that two out of five Americans read and consume information on their mobile devices. Is that a sign? Not more than 1% of India’s population is truly habituated to depend fully on digital…
