Sanjay Ram is working as a volunteer under DEF’s Risk Communication & Community Engagement (RCCE) program. He has been spreading awareness amongst people about the COVID-19 virus and the methods one must adopt to avoid it. He has been working hard towards fighting misinformation about the vaccine and trying to get more people to take…
K Havila is a student of class nine and she has been receiving STEM education through DEF’s intervention in her school in Baddenapalli, Telangana. She has written her experience of being a part of the STEM program. “STEM education has been very useful to me, I have learnt the scratch program. I had no idea…
Deepali Devi, a resident of Meerapur village in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh does embroidery work and runs it like a small enterprise. She has been receiving training on digital tools from DEF’s trainer Meenu Soni. Deepali is a student and it’s her mother who does the embroidery work, she has slowly gained an interest in it…
Indra Devi is an artisan from Daydosar village in Barmer district of Rajasthan. She didn’t know how to use a smartphone and when her neighbour told her about DEF’s centre in the village she was excited to learn something new. She joined the digital training program after having a conversation with the centre coordinator. She…
The Jawabdehi Yatra is a campaign to bring a Social Accountability Law. Organised by Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), DEF has been a part of this campaign for a long time. The success story of the RTI (Right to Information) movement has served as the foundation upon which the citizens are pushing the government to…
The “3rd WiFi India Virtual Summit” was organized by Broadband India Forum (BIF) on 22nd January, 2022. Following the decision by the Union Cabinet which approved the setting up of public WiFi networks across India
“Digital Rights Explored: Local Rights, Global Perspective”, is a podcast series hosted by Media and Information Literacy Expert Network (MILEN) which revolves around some case studies of violations of digital rights across
This travelog is about traveling by road, day and night, with people to publicly talk to the government in Rajasthan about the meaning of daily harassment of basic rights of the masses because of the non performance,
Fake news, misinformation and fraud are the biggest challenges of the digital world. With the pandemic everyone has been forced to learn digital tools, however, not everyone has received the training to use digital devices and the internet in a safe manner. This can on some occasions prove to be more dangerous than being unconnected…
Kalyan Singh, a farmer has spent his life in poverty, the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns have made things more difficult for him. With no stable source of income, an elderly person like him was unable to afford even two meals every day. He applied for the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana, an initiative of the…
