Smartpur has been a very successful community centric initiative which has been very dynamic in the role it plays at the village level. The stories from the ground from this initiative motivate us to be more creative and bring about local sustainable solutions to bridge the digital gap. The Smartpur team is actively engaged with…
Under the umbrella of digital connectivity, DEF has designed many development models over a period of two decades with interventions in the field of citizen services, education, health, finance, women empowerment, fighting misinformation, etc. These models, such as the SoochnaPreneurship, CIRC, Smartpur, Digital Financial Inclusion, STEM for girls and many more, have been time tested…
I have not worn anything other than handloom clothings for the last 20 years or perhaps even more. Except for rare occasions when we need some extra cover for extraordinarily low temperatures.
Kalapuri collaborates with roughly 150 female artisans in the thriving village of Yalgud, some 30 kilometres from Kolhapur, to create imitation jewellery inspired by traditional Maharashtrian designs.
Written by Dushyant & Osama Manzar This is the introduction of the book The New Normal: How to Survive a New World Order Internet and more specifically social media have, for the first time in human history, enabled that a substantial part of the debate and discourse around every single event is now recorded and…
Internet Roshni is a project that aims to digitally empower tea tribes in 50 gardens across five districts of Assam reaching rural lives with a concept to design each garden into a digital access point for improving and enabling access to critical public schemes information and entitlements. All the 50 Internet enabled centres are operated…
A Digital Sammbad (Digital Dialogue) was organized in 20 project areas under the Internet Roshni project in Dibrugarh and Jorhat districts of Assam on the occasion of Labour Day. The programme was organized by the SoochnaPreneurs, facilitated by the respective district coordinators. Since the Adivasi communities residing in tea gardens don’t have access to proper…
A Financial Education and Counselling (FEC) team has been formed consisting of a consortium of four partners namely DEF along with Fair Climate Fund (FCF), the Indian Institute of Banking Management (IIBM)
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced everything to go online and this has restricted the movement of people in the workplace and offline workshops and training have been put to a halt. The Smartpur team has not been able
DEF has started a training programme with 50 rural weavers and artisans on digital skills and employment in four states to enable them to explore and connect with the digital world and to augment their earnings by leveraging digital connectivity. Five groups have done their after-orientation programme and completed all the five modules in June…