DEF and the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) in Mumbai had come together in December 2014 to launch and initiate the Integrated Technology in Education (ITE) initiative in the North East regions of Juria Block in Nagaon District (Assam) and Rongram Block in West Garo Hills (Meghalaya)…
The once underserved village of Chandauli can now boast of 2,890 digitally literate persons, courtesy DEF’s implementation of the Minority Cyber Gram Yojana (MCGY). In late 2013, the Ministry of Minority Affairs of the government of India decided to launch MCGY. The objective was to provide basic digital infrastructure, Internet access, digital literacy and information…
Over 90 folk musicians from villages around Jodhpur in Rajasthan have learnt about how they could use social media to directly promote and market their art to the world and thereby break the grip of middlemen who exploit them at their will. They were participating in a Social Media for Empowerment (SM4E) workshop on December…