Digital Empowerment Foundation implemented this project to safeguard rural India through critical digital literacy in four northern states of India. The project aimed to create a web of women changemakers in rural areas to facilitate rural
digital literacy. In this project, DEF engaged with the women in the community work to safeguard rural India by ensuring critical digital literacy to fight against misinformation, disinformation, and fake news regarding relevant socio-political
aspects. Although the claim of the government and various private telecommunication operators suggests that rural India has better access to digital infrastructure in terms of access and skills. However, the work of DEF shows that meaningful connectivity is relatively absent even in hyper-connected people. The most crucial crisis that DEF has recognised is the challenges of poverty, social exclusion, societal norms, and poor public infrastructure to have meaningful connectivity.