Internet Roshni is a project that aims to digitally empower tea tribes in 50 gardens across five districts of Assam reaching rural lives with a concept to design each garden into a digital access point for improving and enabling access to critical public schemes information and entitlements. All the 50 Internet enabled centres are operated…
A Digital Sammbad (Digital Dialogue) was organized in 20 project areas under the Internet Roshni project in Dibrugarh and Jorhat districts of Assam on the occasion of Labour Day. The programme was organized by the SoochnaPreneurs, facilitated by the respective district coordinators. Since the Adivasi communities residing in tea gardens don’t have access to proper…
A Financial Education and Counselling (FEC) team has been formed consisting of a consortium of four partners namely DEF along with Fair Climate Fund (FCF), the Indian Institute of Banking Management (IIBM)
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced everything to go online and this has restricted the movement of people in the workplace and offline workshops and training have been put to a halt. The Smartpur team has not been able
DEF has started a training programme with 50 rural weavers and artisans on digital skills and employment in four states to enable them to explore and connect with the digital world and to augment their earnings by leveraging digital connectivity. Five groups have done their after-orientation programme and completed all the five modules in June…
To serve the needs of digitally unaware communities, the Digital Financial Inclusion program has started on the literacy aspect through a Learning Management System (LMS) Chatbot that has been particularly designed to address the mission of the program, furthering DEF’s vision of bringing about digital inclusion. The LMS Chatbot so far has brought 19,274 beneficiaries…
This chapter from the book Decentralising Benefits has been written by Syed S Kazi & Mandira Narain The notion of ‘empowerment’ has been understood in varied forms and more often than not contextually evaluated. Understanding within its wider connotation, policy analysts and scholarly debates compounded the idea of empowerment as an expansion of civil, social,…
Digital Empowerment Foundation has been working towards connecting the unconnected and bridging the digital divide for the last 20 years and this endeavour has taken us to over 135 districts of the country across
“Those who don’t have education behind them don’t have anything” said Mushtaq Hussain, a resident of Tinda Mohalla, Dal Lake. Dal Lake has several small islands that are home to nearly 100,000 people;
“What is this?” I asked, looking at a feature phone hanging next to the man sitting in a meat shop. He said “it’s a radio; earlier this was my phone but as you know, lately these phones are of no use, so now it is my radio.”
