By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Jan 16, 2023 The acute presence of information poverty in a rapidly growing digital world is a stark reminder of the need to upscale measures to tackle it. Aspen is a program designed to help in this endeavour. Scaling up the measure and reach becomes critical when a large…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Jan 16, 2023 DEF takes pride in expanding its family who always add more colours to the initiatives and help in reaching out more. Training and Capacity building is also a very integral part of every project as DEF curates them to have a long term impact on the…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Jan 16, 2023 The success stories coming out of SoochnaPreneur centres reminds us again of the need and value of ensuring access which helps those in need to reach out to the right kind of support. Often, a small financial support offers a lot of social protection which has…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Jan 16, 2023 Post celebrations of 20 years of DEF, we are set to continue our work with new initiatives. With further expansion of the reach and fields of involvement, DEF has only gained momentum moving towards its vision. From DEF’s work being recognised in the G20 summit to…
Sustainable living is not something that exists only in the urban dictionary. The Digital Didi program has allowed us to look at this way of living in a rural and conservative set up. Social and financial exclusions have been around for quite some time and the efforts to bridge these gaps have also been taken up.
Many SoochnaPreneurs across India have eventually found ways to help their communities grow in bigger ways. The training that skillfully empowers their empathising personality has pushed them to seek better means of bringing further changes on a large scale and here is a testimonial to support this.
STEM has been the talk of many interventions in the education field and here is an excerpt from a DEF Dialogue which explores this aspect along with looking at the very definition of it from a purpose oriented perspective.
SoochnaPreneur program is one of the unique programs launched by DEF which always brings surprising elements into the sphere of social work. Most often, the SoochnaPreneurs share their stories of their learnings quite vividly and here is one such anecdote from Tarana Nazmi of Jharkhand.
By Ananthu RA, Jenny Sulfath, Dr. Syed Kazi, Osama Manzer Published on: Dec 15, 2022 This is one of the narratives of the communities impacted from data injustice which are published in the research report on data justice by Digital Empowerment Foundation The injustices that algorithms of platform and gig-economy apps cause has been documented…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Dec 15, 2022 Access, Information and Facilitation have been the key pillars of DEF which was also highlighted in the joint consultation of stakeholders and RWE’s organised by DEF. The key takeaways from this discussion that will help in strengthening Women Entrepreneurs from Assam are captured here. A joint…