By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 29, 2023 “Bridging West Bengal’s Tea Garden Communities: SoochnaPrenuers Empower Digital Access and Inclusivity, Transforming Lives” In the sprawling expanse of West Bengal’s tea gardens, a workforce of over 4.5 lakh individuals, including 2.62 lakh permanent workers, toil in 330 registered estates across districts such as Darjeeling, Kalimpong,…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 29, 2023 From Tirunelveli in the south to Ladakh and Kashmir in the north, DEF has been designing and implementing digital innovations that are providing communities with access to information, entitlements, rights, education, healthcare and finance. With the leaps and strides of digital technologies over the last 20…
“Arrey yaar! Network aa hi nahi raha hai! (oh man there is no network)” groaned Saurabh, my colleague as we started our journey from Turtuk to Leh. The 200 km journey is amongst the most scenic roads I have been on. I was relying on his mobile hotspot since even with two sims I was disconnected.
सभी को नमस्कार, मैं भरतपुर राजस्थान की रहने वाली हु मेरा नाम अतैया है मेरा एजुकेशन का जो स्तर है वो फैमिली पूरी एडुकेटेड है उसमें कभी कोई दिक्कत नही आई। सिर्फ अगर कही पछपात मिला तो वो लड़के और लड़की के बीच मिला वो भी समाज मे फैमिली में नही मिला और भी…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: July 24, 2023 At DEF, we always believed and advocated that the Internet is an important fundamental right. Now, several years past the incomplete BharatNet, we take a look at both Kerala’s infrastructure rollout and the revival of state-owned telecos vis-a-vis access as a human right and a fundamental…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: July 24, 2023 This week, news outlets and social media across the world is covering the protests in France, and rightly so. Without delving into the nuances, France is seeing protests that have also been turning violent, after the police had been accused of murdering a teenager by shooting.…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: July 24, 2023 Elon Musk has famously called the social-media/microblogging platform that he acquired last year as the Internet’s de facto town square. Some would say the same of Reddit. But all’s not well in any of the town squares, and as the citizens/netizens are increasingly unhappy with the…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: July 24, 2023 Students in Ziro Valley are engaging with experts and gaining exposure on various sustainable development initiatives from across the globe in an attempt to create a more just and inclusive society. While there is a nation-wide movement towards digital connectivity and the country has witnessed numerous…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: July 24, 2023 Associating with the program helped me realise the information darkness that I have lived with, and the restrictions that my silence is imposing on my daughters especially when they wish to discuss menstruation. Owing to the patriarchal society that we live in, and the invisiblization and…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: July 24, 2023 The way that my digital education is going, I am confident that soon I’ll be proficient in not just typing but also using laptops and computers to their fullest. This is a testimonial of a student Aditya Raj who has enrolled himself at the Soochna Adhikar…