Rajesh Verma, Former Secretary, Government of Sikkim What ails ICT in the government? It was an honour being a member of the Grand Jury for the Manthan Awards. I was particularly impressed by the number of entries from the government sector some of which were very innovative. This set me reminiscing about the 36 years…
Meet 27 year old Arun Daniel Yellamaty, founder of the Youngistan Foundation and the Hunger Heroes and Transformers project that has in a short span of two years roped in 700 volunteers who buy raw materials, cook food and provide more than a 1,000 free meals to the poorest of the poor across four cities…
The organization may call itself the Barefoot College (BFC), a world famous institution located at Tilonia a remote village 35 km from Ajmer city in the semi-arid and hilly district of the same name in Rajasthan, but it leaves a deep footprint on the minds of anybody who cares to visit it. Today Tilonia is…
DEF is all set to celebrate the spirit of social media as a platform for empowerment and development of the masses on the occasion of the third edition of ‘Social Media for Empowerment Awards & Summit’ (SM4E) on March 15, 2016. This initiative not only honours best social media initiatives from eight South Asian countries…
Six weavers – three each from the Barpali and Nupatana handloom clusters in Odisha – have won the Digikala Handloom Design Competition. On January 12-13, DEF founder director Osama Manzar and Microsoft Lead (Community Affairs, CSR) Manju Dhasmana awarded certificates and cash prizes to the winners during a small ceremony in the area. More than…
DEF’s e-NGO programme is all set to launch its revolutionary online international crowd funding platform NGONAMA. The portal is aimed at bringing together from all around the world development sector NGOs, activists and individuals on the one hand as well as individuals, government agencies and corporates interested in funding and promoting such work on the…
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is going back to school, literally. In partnership with global IT consultancy giant Capgemini, DEF has taken up a project called “Raising standards of education through digital intervention” under which it will adopt government schools within a 50 km radius of 10 cities in India – New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Gurgaon,…
Nichlagarh now is a tribal Wi-Fi village, without any functional telecom service
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India invited counter-comments on its Consultation paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services. Differential pricing for data usage for accessing different websites, applications or platforms is a practice that is contrary to the principles of network neutrality.
Mark Zuckerberg has come and gone one more time but what we keep hearing is not about the access and the quality of access but just Free Basics
