Last month, a team from the Musiri handloom cluster in Tamil Nadu, which has been adopted by DEF and Mphasis under the former’s Digital Cluster Development Programme to digitally empower the weavers in the region, carried out a massive mobilization drive to make community members aware of the summer courses that will be offered at…
Every year, millions of people around the world transition out of poverty in a number of ways through access to better opportunities or fall back into poverty due to health, financial and other setbacks. Compounding this situation is the fact that the majority of those living in or near poverty lack even the most basic financial…
Access to information and communication was never as dynamic as it is in the age of social media. It is bringing about a monumental change in many spheres of our lives, especially governance. Bhutan is a country that is rooted in culture and tradition. But they have also come to acknowledge the importance of technology,…
DEF in partnership with the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) conducted a seven-day training on Functional IT Skills as a part of a Certificate Course in Development Management in Netrang, Gujarat, from March 29 – April 5, 2017. The training was attended by 31 tribal youth from remote villages of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh;…
It’s incredible how social media has been able to bridge the gap between citizens and governance, society and social issues, victims and help, and service-seeker and service, among others. The power of social media is hard to dismiss today. What was once a platform to share photos with friends or follow celebrities has now also become a…
Sabita Khalkho (35) is a mother of five children — Sakshi, Shashi, Beronika, Sajna and Sushmita — who spends most of the year in the absence of her husband who works outside Ranchi district at a brick kiln. Though he only visits his wife and children once every three months, his presence isn’t very helpful…
Bhutan is a small country nestled in the Himalayas with a population of little less than 8 lakhs. It is a unique constitutional monarchy. Democracy co-exists with monarchy in governance. The King retires at the age of 65 years, handing over the reins to the next generation. Bhutan is still very much rooted in tradition.…
Zafar Anjum Writer, publisher & film-maker Will crowdsourcing change the $2 trillion global entertainment industry? You bet. Here’s why. There are three important trends in the video content space that we should pay attention to: there has been an explosion in the creation and consumption of video content, the duration of video consumption is becoming…
In this new financial year, the eNGO programme, too, has a new range of services for non-government organisations across India. The network has already enabled more than 2,000 NGOs through validated online identities and digitally empowered more than 6,000 NGOs across South Asia. Now, it aims to cater to NGOs of all echelons with its…
The Baank-e-Loom project in Uttar Pradesh went a step ahead last month towards launching its exclusive e-Commerce website and social media channels by carrying out a professional shoot of handloom products coming out of the cluster. Further, to upscale production and improve designs, designers from Jaipur visited the centre to interact with weavers. NIFT Mumbai…