An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg on Net Neutrality
As far as Internet.org is concerned, please concentrate on ensuring open access and widespread network access
Internet Rights
The Manthan Award This programmatic area addresses the goal of creating the knowledge network and database needed to know about best practices in the field of ICT for Development, which is DEF’s chosen area of work given its broad mandate of digital inclusion flowing from its mission and vision statements. All projects in this area…
Needed: Free public access to Internet
Hundreds of thousands of people live in villages who want to access the Internet for information about their rights, entitlements and utilities
Information play in villages
Middlemen operating in rural India flourish in the absence of reliable means and medium of information and communication
Community radio can be rural ISP
All community radios are capable of running a wireless broadband Internet community network without the need of any licences
Empowering girl students from poor families via online scholarship
Sonia Parveen had just stepped into her teens. She had big dreams—complete school, train and get a job as a nurse or a police officer. All of a sudden she got a marriage proposal from a slightly elderly man, but well-settled in life.
ICT in schools still a distant dream
India has the third highest number of Interet users but 80-85% of the country is still not connected to the World Wide Web Into the second decade of the 21st century, it is commonplace to speak of the information economy and the world being a connected globe.
Access & Infrastructure
Through 4 projects more than 1 million people in remote rural areas now have access to the Internet and know how to use digital tools. We have also created India’s only fully digitally literate village.
Security, Governments, and Data: Technology and Policy
The conference focused on the technologies, policies, and practices around cyber security and surveillance. The conference