By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: December 04, 2025 This edition captures the many ways digital access is reshaping rural lives across India—from the tea gardens of the Northeast to the coal belts of Jharkhand. Through stories of Soochnapreneurs, young students, weavers, and rural entrepreneurs, we see how connectivity, community leadership, and digital literacy are…
The Townhall with Mr. Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, held at the 7th Digital Citizen Summit 2025 at T-Hub Hyderabad, focused on the theme “People & Platforms: Let’s Talk Accountability.”
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 From 7–11 July 2025, Geneva became the center of global digital dialogue as the WSIS+20 High-Level Event and the AI for Good Global Summit brought together 11,000 participants from 169 countries. Two decades after the first WSIS, the conversations in Geneva reflected on progress made while…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 DEF x ARISE Campaign In July 2025, the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), in partnership with the ARISE (Accountability and Responsibility in South’s Ecosystems) Community, formally launched a collective civil society campaign focused on platform accountability. This initiative responds to the growing urgency to address the unchecked…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 In the industrious town of Golaghat, Assam, one woman’s quiet determination is reshaping how rural women access not just markets, but also the rights and schemes meant for them. Pronita Bora, once a handloom entrepreneur selling her vibrant weaves only to neighbours and passersby, has grown…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 In Malibari, a quiet village in Bihdia Jajikona Block of Assam’s Kamrup district, a quiet transformation is taking root. At the center of this change is Sajiya Choudhury, a woman who has made it her mission to connect rural women with the opportunities that government schemes…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 In the quiet village of Lohagarh in West Bengal’s Birbhum district lives Fatema Khatun—a woman whose quiet determination has stitched together not only her own path to independence, but also new possibilities for other women in her community. Born into a poor family, Fatema’s early years…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 In the quiet village of Pakhamela in Assam’s Kamrup district, a silent revolution is being stitched together—thread by thread, woman by woman. At its heart is 30-year-old Chayarani Malakar, once a homemaker who thought her life would always be confined to chores and survival. “I knew…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 In the quiet villages of Assam, digital services were once a distant dream. Residents often had to travel nearly 15 kilometers to access something as basic as a pension form or a ration card application. For many, especially women, the cost, time, and effort involved meant…
By Digital Empowerment Foundation Published on: August 31, 2025 In many parts of India, conversations around menstruation remain hushed, hidden behind layers of stigma and taboo. But in a small yet powerful gathering, a group of women is changing this narrative. SlumSoccer, in collaboration with Sport for Good City Delhi and Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF),…
