On July 23, 2016, about 300 people gathered at Eros Hotel, Nehru Place, to celebrate innovative mobile solutions in South Asia. Organised and hosted by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) in partnership with Google and Qualcomm, the 7th mBillionth Awards was held with much fervor to recognise some of the best initiatives being taken in the…
पिछले दिनों गांधी फेलोशिप प्राप्त कई नौजवानों से मिलने का मौका मिला। इस फेलोशिप के तहत उन्हें यह जिम्मेदारी दी जाती है कि वे गांवों की आधारभूत सामाजिक समस्याओं को समझें और उनका समाधान तलाशें। इन्हीं युवाओं में एक थे अश्विनी तिवारी। बी टेक की डिग्री लिए इस युवा ने इसी वर्ष अपनी फेलोशिप पूरी…
Despite the great strides taken in the field of affordable medicine and healthcare, a large section of the country’s population lacks access to health services. It has been observed that availability of quality health infrastructure confines to semi-urban and urban-scapes, isolating remote regions. In such a scenario, tele-medicine has given people of Jakhli the power…
Rahul Nainwal Co-Founder, India Fellow Programme In my opinion, social media is one the best things to have happened in the last 10 years or so. It has given voices to the voiceless. At the same time, I feel empowered to share with a larger audience what I feel or do. This was virtually impossible…
Taking further its objective of enhancing grassroots organisations’ online presence, visibility and reach, DEF’s eNGO Programme organised a two-day Multi Stakeholder Capacity Building and Skill Development Workshop in Chandigarh on June 23-24, 2016. Held at the Punjab University campus, the workshop saw a mix of around 75 participants representing NGOs, panchayats and academicians taking keen…
Most of the villagers of Jakhnikhal in Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand fall above the poverty line and belong to the general category. However, they don’t earn enough to be able to afford grains and other food items at market price.
Twenty-two-year-old Malhar Indulkar lives on the banks of Vashishti in Maharashtra’s coastal Konkan region. When he realized that industrial waste and pollutants were affecting the river’s fauna, he put his energies into conserving otters which eat up sick fish, thereby restricting the spread of infections. A man in his early 30s, Brijendra Prajapati, is trying…
There is a huge market in rural India for refurbished digital devices
