Undoing of IT labs in schools
Task is clearly cut out for HRD ministry and IT department: set target and have all 1.5 million schools connected via Internet and provide 7.7 million teachers 3G-enabled tablets
Towards Digital India: One positive step at a time
The prime minister recently announced the exciting Digital India programme (DIP). However, there are three things: one, there is nothing new except that it is repackaged into one brand name; secondly, it should have been called “Digital Bharat” rather than Digital India; thirdly, we at Digital Empowerment Foundation felt elated that two of its three…
घाटी में गूंजती एक उम्मीद की आवाज़
नमस्कार, ये रेडियो कश्मीर है और आप शंकराचार्य की पहाड़ी से खबरें सुन रहे हैं। इंदिरा नगर में लोग वहां सुरक्षित जगहों पर पहुंचाए जा चुके हैं… जी हां, यही रेडियो है जो शंकराचार्य पहाड़ी की चोटी से मुसीबत में फंसे लोगों का संपर्क सूत्र बनकर सूचनाएं देता रहा। शंकराचार्य पहाड़ी से पूरा शहर डूबा…
शिक्षक दिवस पर सिर्फ रस्म अदायगी नहीं, दृढ़ संकल्प चाहिए
यूं तो रस्म अदायगी के लिए हम हर साल 5 सितंबर को शिक्षक दिवस मनाते हैं और इसी बहाने पूर्व राष्ट्रपति सर्वपल्ली डॉ राधा कृष्णन को भी याद कर लेते हैं। लेकिन, सच पूछें तो आधुनिक दौर में शिक्षा के वास्तविक उद्देश्य से हम कोसों दूर निकल चुके हैं। किसी को अपने व्यवसायिक जीवन…
Net domains in Indian languages coming soon
Internet governance is coming up in a big way and we need to have a multi-stake holder approach for issues pertaining to public policy and critical Internet resources,” he reportedly disclosed. “This is not a bad move, but I doubt and wonder if it will encourage people to buy domain names in Indian languages. Is…
What can PM Modi’s ‘Digital India’ plan achieve? Internet-connected villages offer glimpses
Mark Zuckerberg would be very glad if he visited the sole internet centre in Chandauli, a dusty village in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, about 170 km northeast of Jaipur. A third of the 20-odd kids glued to their laptop screens are visibly excited by the world wide web, and all of them, without exception, are on…
M4G Awards 2014
About Mobile For Good Awards Introduced in 2011, the Mobile for Good Awards have supported 13 social organisations using mobile technology in the four areas of m-health, m- education, m-governance & m-business inclusion through crucial funding and mentorship to build capacity and further outreach over a period of two years. The Mobile for Good Awards…
Engo Gujarat Summit
With the motto of ‘Inform, Communicate and Empower,’ Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) started its journey in the month of December, 2002.
Helping Women Go Online
India has over 200 million Internet users, out of which 30 million users are women. The programme aligns with the mission of Google’sHWGO
Chanderiyan-Changing lives
W2E2 project is a 3 month program under which 10 women from Chanderiyaan were selected and trained rigorously in the past 3 months on internet services