A 15-year journey to bridge the digital divide
It has been 15 years since we took an oath to work with the poorest of the poor in rural India to fight information poverty
Is Digital India inclusive?
Concrete and long-term efforts are required to include specially-abled persons under the National Digital Literacy Mission
The internet is for everyone
Females make up for almost 50% of the world population; yet the proportion of women using the internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men using the internet worldwide
Proxy routes to connectivity
Blocking communication channels as part of shutdowns will only push people to find alternative ways of resistance, dissent and communication: the crux of a democracy
Death by data
The death of the tribal girl Santoshi Kumari, 11, in Jharkhand was caused not due to lack of availability of food, but due to the lack of access to available food
India’s not-yet digital postmen
While all of the post offices in India are supposed to have internet (and be digitized by the end of the year), internet connectivity is non-functional at several units
Let’s make rural India smart, one app at a time
With the government gung-ho about a Digital India and Smart India, here are a few apps that it can develop to bring in accountability, transparency, efficiency
Hasuri: The path to a smart village
Dilip Tripathi, a businessman from Lucknow, used his personal savings of Rs20 lakh to transform Hasuri Ausanpur into Digital Hasuri
At the crossroads of inclusion and exclusion
For more than three-fourths of the population that is yet to be connected, the information superhighway is a long and winding road
Privacy and the Indian culture
India has neither looked at communication nor information as ‘private’. There is also little understanding of private life in India.