MPs can boost digital inclusion
The MPs’ local area development scheme lets them spend Rs 5 crore a year in their constituencies, but more than half don’t use any of the funds
Learning Digital Citizenship and Internet Maturity
Ed Tech Review conducted a full day training workshop in Digital Empowerment Foundation Head Office on 8th June 2015. The training focussed on Digital Citizenship and Internet Maturity. Digital citizenship was identified as a life skill with contrasts drawn out from the analogies of a tourist, a resident and a citizen.
Information flow can make Saanjhi work
Parliamentarians should create an ecosystem of information in India’s villages
Heading towards crowd chaos?
We are gradually getting to a situation of connected world where, crowd, media, governance and economy are going to be on the crossroads of convergence
Is the Internet about to go local?
There is a possibility of community Internets arising—made, run and maintained by local communities by and for themselves
Wireless Networking Training of Trainers Program in Guna
In April, a one-month full-time Training of Trainers programme was conducted in Wireless for Communities Main Centre in Guna, Madhya Pradesh. It was attended by 5 new trainees and 4 previous trainees, who were taught the theory and practical of deploying, configuring and maintaining a Wireless Network.
Digital Community Information Resource Centre: Training the Trainers
A 2 day orientation training was conducted in Guna, Madhya Pradesh on 18th-19th April for the CIRC & dCIRC coordinators. The training focused on acquainting coordinators with reporting, accounting and HR mechanisms essential for managing and running the CIRCs at the ground level.
Soochna Seva- Creating Awareness on ground
On March 19 2015, Soochna Seva conducted a two-day Training and Capacity Building workshop specially designed for the field team. Held in Donbosco Technical Institute in Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, the workshop saw a turnout of 80 people including each and every field staff
Social Media – Paving Way Towards Digital Integration
Social media has drastically changed the style of communication. Today Internet has redefined communication. Digital Empowerment Foundation with American Centre as an Outreach Partner conducted a workshop in Kohima on 31st March, 2015 with YouthNet as our local partner.
Mobile For Social Behavioral Change In Guwahati: An Insight
UNICEF India and Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) co-organized the state consultation “Mobile Phones: A Tool for Social & Behaviour Change” on 10th April,2015 at Hotel Royale De Casa, Guwahati, Assam.The consultation was the fifth and last consultation in the series of the state-level consultations under the ambit of ‘Mobile Phone as a Tool for Social & Behaviour Change.” The consultation aimed at exploring the various projects where women, adolescent girls and youth have used mobiles effectively in areas of health, education, sanitation, environment and monitoring and training of frontline workers.