This year’s Digital Citizen Summit (DCS) saw a deep dive into the intractable online (mis)information landscape. It sought to unravel the complex strands of policy, practice, and social reality in order to develop an in-depth and thorough understanding of the complexity of an information landscape. DCS 2019 brought together subject-matter experts, academics, policy-makers, lawyers, technologists,…
Jamuna Devi, wife of Arun Kumar is a 35 years old Farmer. She is a resident of Karor village, a place in the remote corners of Haryana. Her husband owns a piece of land for which she is a farmhand. But since she hasn’t got a formal education, she was unaware of the government benefits…
The GOAL teams of Gadchirolli had signed off their year with an interesting idea, which they will be going to implement in the year 2020. Mentees will go through the page of Humans of New York and Bombay, understand its idea and relate the same with their village situation and accordingly they will create their…
Smartpur is more like a revolution with an aim to build a village which is digitally developed into digital villages in India. Under this project an Eye screening camp was organised at Nelapatala Spoke Centre on December 24, supported by Anand Eye Institution. During the camp 13 patients were detected with severe eye issues and…
In collaboration with UWD and Deloitte, Digital Empowerment Foundation is working towards spreading the information and digital services to deprived communities of Delhi and Gurugram, in the first week of December. Three CIRCs will be dedicated to the local community to provide digital educational information, information support system along with digital services in various domains…
A four day (from December 2 to December 5) a Refresher Training was conducted in Jaipur for all the Project Officers(POs) and Centre Coordinators(CCs) of Smartpur. Around 40 people from across India participated in this training. The aim was to enlighten the team about the vision, mission, objectives and model of Smartpur. A special exhibition was…
eNGO Challenge Awards, a DEF- initiative, recognizes non-profits from across South Asia and Africa to enable, empower and promote organisations at grass-root levels and their impact-oriented initiatives by equipping them with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. eNGO strives to build and strengthen many not-for-profit organizations and helps them to become mainstream and sustainable entity…
Launched in 2002 with a vision to digitally empower marginalised communities living in information poverty, DEF has marked its presence in 700 locations in 123 districts across 23 states in India. Over the years, through various challenges and experiences, DEF has observed that even though the condition of villages has not improved much economically, but…
Smita Aggarwal Director – Investments Omidyar Network There is no question that the advent of mobile phones has been a game changer for financial service providers across world. Through the delivery of innovative formal financial services such as mobile money, remittances apps, and others to low income populations; we have made great progress in creating…
The use of social media in this time and age has become wide and diverse in nature. Keeping aside its negative aspects, it is believed to be an effective medium for various public relation activities, marketing, brand building, advertising etc. Weavers of Musiri cluster have limited access to such mediums. Their lifestyle majorly revolves around…
