By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Sept 20, 2022 In the rural areas farmers have very poor facilities to purchase innovative tools and lack information for proper techniques used in cultivation and farming. With the help of Google, farmers can select top quality seeds and suitable fertilizers to grow better crops. Madhumati Devi runs a…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Sept 20, 2022 She is now more confident about her money. She has started collaborating with different types of business vendors and reputed wholesalers and is able to order on time for related cosmetics. Earlier she used to purchase parlour related cosmetics with local vendors at a high rate…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Sept 20, 2022 Along with their technological issues being resolved, her business income spending has been added to a digital platform by registering her number on MeraBills for the My Bills programme. Basanti Devi, 24, comes from a low-income family in the village of Siswa Tajpur in Bihar. She…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: Sept 20, 2022 To establish WiFi Internet connectivity for the communities in the Ziro valley and create a foundation for a digital ecosystem by setting up digital resource centres run by entrepreneurs. This will enable the community to access online services. India is a country of great cultural, linguistic…
The Internet came to India in 1995 and it brought a host of opportunities for this rising economy and developing nation. A few pioneers in the field grabbed this opportunity with both hands and got onto the Internet exploring its functions and its wide scope.
“I could only dream of using a computer” said Amina Khatun, a 13 years old girl who lives with her parents in Jai Hind Camp of New Bengal Basti. Amina was astonished when she first used a computer in the Community Information Resource Centre (CIRC) established by Digital Empowerment Foundation in collaboration with United Way…
This is an excerpt from the book The New Normal: How to Survive a New World Order In the months following the ‘lockdown’ there has been a spurt of webinars discussing what it is that the judiciary will have to do in a post-Covid world; how technology can be used to get the process of…
Risk Communication and Community Engagement is a project by DEF that has actively intervened in dealing with the pandemic at the village level by creating awareness about the precautions and busting the myths. In this regard, the youth of the village have proved to be great carriers of the message who have engaged to help…
SoochnaPreneur is an initiative with a vision of supporting, strengthening and enhancing the capacities of grassroots communities to access and avail information and entitlements in critical areas of health, education, social and financial inclusion, livelihood and employment. A 28-year-old SoochnaPreneur from Ranikhatanga village of Jharkhand, Tarana Nazmi wishes to become the Sarpanch (Village Head) of…
SoochnaPreneur is a rural entrepreneurship-based project aimed at empowering youth in Indian villages to sustain their livelihood by providing information and access to government entitlements to those living in information darkness. Hemalata Sharma is a 38-year-old from Pipradamaina village in Guna district who has been working as a SoochnaPreneur for the last five years. She…
