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Daily Archives: December 29, 2015

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Mobile and more: India as fourth largest start-up hub in the world

India is now the fourth largest start-up hub in the world, with a wide range of startups in mobile media, Internet of Things, analytics, ed-tech, food-tech and more. Social entrepreneurs and NGOs are also active on the mobile front, backed by a range of venture capitalists, government grants and impact investors. “India is fast becoming…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentcolumn of the monthBy defwp-user

Piyush Ghosh, the youngest ever to win a Manthan Award

Meet Piyush Ghosh, 20, founder of The Optimist Citizen newspaper and a winner in the e-News & Journalism category at the Manthan Award 2015. He is, perhaps, the youngest ever to win this prestigious award. His newspaper focuses only on positive news and change makers. The newspaper has both a print media version and an…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentRA-Manthan AwardsBy defwp-user

Rajasthan folk musicians learn how to use social media to break middlemen exploitation

Over 90 folk musicians from villages around Jodhpur in Rajasthan have learnt about how they could use social media to directly promote and market their art to the world and thereby break the grip of middlemen who exploit them at their will. They were participating in a Social Media for Empowerment (SM4E) workshop on December…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentRA-Digital knowledge centerBy defwp-user

Soochna Seva launches 100-day Javabdehi Yatra in Rajasthan

The Soochna Seva and the CIRC teams are participating in a 100-day “Paardarsita Javaabdehi Yatra” (Transparency & Accountability Campaign) that started on 1st December, 2015 and will cover more than 100 blocks across all the 33 districts of Rajasthan in 100 days. The Yatra is designed to raise awareness of the people about the RTI…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentRA-SoochnasevaBy defwp-user

US film makers visit CIRCs to shoot ‘One Billion Stories’ documentary

US-based film-makers Daniel Oxenhandler and Will Sloan along with DEF team members Rohit Dhall and Udita Chaturvedi undertook a day-long visit to CIRCs around Alwar on 19th December, 2015 to shoot for a documentary called ‘One Billion Stories’ that the duo are producing to explore the impact of India’s unprecedented expansion of network and digital…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentCIRC Latest ReportsBy defwp-user

DigiKala to empower 5 weaver-clusters, starts work in Barabanki, UP

After tasting success at digitally empowering the Chanderi weaving cluster through its Chanderiyaan project, DEF initiated DigiKala in 2014 as an integrated programme to digitally empower more such weaving clusters in India. The programme has now gone to scale and has become an umbrella brand under which five specific weaving clusters are being digitally empowered…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentRA-ChanderiyaanBy defwp-user

CIRCs going to next level, to link farmers with agro scientists

Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is planning to launch two major initiatives in 2016. The first initiative will enable farmers to directly link up with scientists by using digital tools available at Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) set up by DEF in remote rural areas. In the second initiative, DEF will set up a for-profit social…

December 29, 2015Leave a commentHighlight of the MonthBy defwp-user
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