The government’s approach towards universal Internet access is marred by dichotomy. While the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, calls Internet one of the most effective means of communication and urges authorities to post more information online, some newly issued guidelines appear to be an attempt to gag freedom of online expression. The RTI Act…
The environment ministry has published draft rules to regulate the management of information and communication technology (ICT) waste. Although an important step towards sustainable development, the E-Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2010, likely to come into force next year, fall short on some key parameters. First, the rules fail to integrate the informal sector in…
India’s nearly 250,000 panchayats are the gateways to its villages, where the bulk of the population resides. The objective of e-governance cannot be realised without digitizing these village councils and ensuring that their three million officers are trained to be a part of the nationwide drive. Sadly, we are a long way behind. The country…
About CWIRC Chanderi Weavers ICT Resource Centre is a Community Information Resource Center set up by Digital Empowerment Foundation in early 2009 as a cluster network for Chanderi weavers that fuses technology with traditional skills and facilitates the process of value addition at all levels. It helps in enhancing the existing skills in weaving and textile…
INET Delhi 2009, Towards an Enabling Internet Access Environment was held in New Delhi – a conference themed on Internet for Development presented by Internet Society (ISOC) in collaboration with Digital Empowerment Foundation.
ACTIVITY REPORT of DEF (2003-2011 Updated) Since its inception in December 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) has engaged itself into number of activities while pursuing its mission and objectives of ICT delivery and promotion in India. The focus areas of intervention had been in development, promotion, spread and usage of content for grassroots use and…
Community Radio in the hands of community Operations and Collaborations at Tilonia, Ajmer was a three day workshop to understand operations of Community Radio by the local communities. This workshop impact was high on the communities and most of them enjoyed hands on experience during the training of the workshop. Through the workshop the local…
This was the first ever Digital Panchayat workshop held at Maharashtra spearheading through concept of Local Area Portal. In this workshop, 50 Panchayats participated in 2day long activity to understand ICT literacy through the workshop training. In a short span of time after its first pilot workshop, Maharashtra incorporated the concept and 100 Panchayats were enabled by…
