The Right to Information Act passed by the Indian Parliament has led to increased transparency and accountability in the government. More and more people are now aware of their rights and entitlements, and this is the pre-requisite to demanding those rights and entitlements. Not all people, however, know, what has been set aside for them
It should not come as a surprise to most people but the number of female engineers is far below as compared to male engineers. Unfortunately, even among the women who pursue engineering, there are very few who study networking and actually work on the ground.
DEF in partnership with the Crowd Sourcing Week is bringing the most innovative minds together in the field on crowdsourcing September 10, 2016. The Bengaluru chapter of the International Crowdsourcing Summit 2016 is designed to promote organisations and innovators to embed the power of the crowd in their products and services.
The Islamic republic’s blocking of popular social media websites has helped indigenously developed services flourish
This article was first published in the Mint newspaper on June 1,2016. A few months ago, children in Mungaska village in Alwar district of Rajasthan started using Google Images to travel around the country. Aman, one of the children there, who studies in Class V, had been reading about Qutub Minar in his school textbooks.…
This story by a DEF team member was first published by The Better India on February 16, 2016 The women of Tilonia are in love. And this love is for their newly acquired iPads. Strolling around the campus of Barefoot College in Tilonia village of Ajmer district in Rajasthan, you’ll come across several women walking…
Himanshu and Nitika are two studious siblings who hail from the Tipli Village of Tehri District. They stay with their father Kushal Singh, who is dependent on MNREGA for sustaining his family. The scheme provides a legal guarantee for one hundred days of employment in every financial year to adult members of any rural household…
This story by a DEF team member was first published in The Better India on March 27, 2016 Every morning at 7 am about 40,000-60,000 people in and around the village of Tilonia in Ajmer district of Rajasthan turn on their radio transistors and tune into 90.4 FM to listen to Norat Mal and Aarti…
This story by a DEF team member was first published by The Better India on May 5, 2016 A foreign national working in India with Digital Empowerment Foundation, Cathy Pin-Chun Chen was recently touring in rural parts of India to document stories of women whose live have changed following digital interventions. She shares their stories…
