पड़ोसियों को जोड़ता सोशल मीडिया
मैं अपने सफर की शुरुआत एक ट्वीट के साथ करता हूं और अपनी ज्यादातर बैठकों, विचार-विमर्शो और यात्राओं के बारे में ट्विटर पर जरूर लिखता हूं। मेरा हर दौरा फेसबुक पर एक संक्षिप्त सफरनामे और तस्वीरों को अपलोड करने के साथ ही खत्म होता है। महज एक सामान्य ई-मेल के जरिये आप फेसबुक से जुड़…
Connecting India, Pakistan, Afghanistan through social media
I start my travels with a tweet. Most of my meetings, talks and visits are logged on Twitter. Each journey ends with a brief travelogue and photos uploaded on Facebook. There are many tools such as Posterous that can integrate all these activities simply through an email. Easily and swiftly, my message directly reaches to…
Can internet be a human right?
There cannot be a better environment than in today’s India to discuss, advocate and realize key entitlements to its billion-plus people. We already have rights to information and education and the right to food security is expected to follow soon. At a time like this, a desire to step fully into a knowledge society and…
A letter to Kapil Sibal
Dear minister, You are in a unique position which, in some way or the other, is responsible for connecting almost the entire country through the information highway. You are working on how all the 245,500 panchayats could be connected through broadband in the next few years; being the minister for human resources development, you also…
eNGO Workshop in Karachi, Pakistan on 10th May 2012
In yet another successful venture of eNGO Program, Digital Empowerment Foundation with support from Public Interest Registry organized “eNGO Network of Pakistan” workshop in Karachi, Pakistan on 10th May 2012. The workshop was held in PILER (Pakistan Institute for Labour Education & Research) auditorium and hosted 23 delegates participating from 19 organisations in and around…
World Summit Award successfully concluded in Cairo, Egypt
The World Summit Award, the global partner of Manthan Award and mBillionth Award hosted the 2011 function in Egypt form 26th to 29th April 2012 to felicitate and recognise the awardees from all over the world after a year long wait. As per plan, Ministry of Communication and IT, Republic of Egypt was supposed to…
Active Citizens using Social Media to Push for Peace among Afghanistan, India and Pakistan
The Pul‐e‐Jawan program kick‐started at Kabul in September 2011 when fifteen citizen Journalists, five each from from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan met, debated and collaborated to create a common ground to bring peace in this region. The Kabul forum has led to Pul‐e‐Jawan forums within India and Pakistan to encourage more citizens to express themselves…



