About Neerjaal: Neerjaal is a concept originally conceived by the Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective (GRWHC), Barefoot College in Tilonia Rajasthan. GRWHC, under its flagship activities of Barefoot College, has been collecting and managing information regarding various linkages of Water in the desert of Rajasthan, especially in and around tilonia village near Kishangarh . Recently, GRWHC,…
About GyanPedia: Gyanpedia is an online digital content repository truely generated by children and teachers of rural government schools across India.Gyanpedia is an initiative of Digital Empowerment Foundation with whole hearted support from Media Lab Asia, to create a Comprehensive, multilingual, dynamic virtual platform for country wide content exchange program for the learning community –…
Community Information Resource Centre is a project which aims at setting up digital data house for communities across rural post in India and South Asia. Digital Empowerment Foundation is one of the key partners of INTEL India under its World Ahead Program. Under this program, DEF is supported by INTEL India to set up ICT…
About Green Pakriya Green Prakriya is a functional and dynamic platform that aims to initiate a continuous process of learning, sharing and collaboration amongst all stake-holders towards empowering a sustainable habitat. The objective is to create a knowledge eco-web of how information and communication technologies can play an instrumental role in empowering a sustainable habitat.…
About W4C (Wireless for Community) Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and the Internet Society (ISOC) have launched a joint project called “Wireless For Communities” (W4C). The project aims to provide a holistic, community-empowered approach to connecting rural communities to the Internet. The motivation for the W4C project by ISOC and DEF is twofold. One is to…
About eNGO: The eNGO programme is a web service package design in a way to provide services at a minimal cost which is sustainable and a low cost solution for grassroots organizations unlike any commercial service at market value. Under eNGO Service one can get a full website with a minimal cost including designing and uploading…
Introduction and Background: eMSME is a web enabled facility designed by Digital Empowerment Foundation for Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises with a cost effective web platform creation and service delivery with unlimited web pages and thereby facilitating hundreds and thousands of MSME entrepreneurs to have a virtual identity through information and communication technology platform for…
Introduction and Background: Modern society and economy is driven by information, knowledge and network based relationships. Information and knowledge is power and this leads to an equitable and transparent societal and good governance administrative system. The power of Information Communication Technology to this effect is tremendous. India is no exception. There are multifarious ongoing efforts…
This book is an initiative of INOMY (www.inomy.com). The scarcity of e-Content, lack of vision towards internet: a huge electronic economy, lack of guidance, lack of usable and impactful practices available in the market compelled the publication of such efforts which showed that there are plenty of innovation and entrepreneurial possibilities in every sector (individual,…
This book is a compilation of all Best Practices, all across South Asia, for the mobile application, wireless, telecom sector development in each level of society. This book is a separate repository of all mobile phone uses, practices and the fastest growing media tool relative application development. This book contains South Asia’s Best Mobile Innovations…
