An ‘inside-the-box’ idea for last mile access
According to the World Bank, as much as 80 per cent of India is yet to be connected to the Internet. Read More
Stories of digital migration from Meghalaya
Etherson G. Momin and Sengdo S. Marak are 19-year-old young men who are deaf and mute. Read More
DEFdialogue with Abner Manzar
DEF hosted its third DEFdialogue with travel and photography enthusiast Abner Manzar on November 24, 2017.
Liquid identities: A travelogue from the Gateway of India
By Abner Manzar Travel enthusiast The Destination in the Journey Travel makes one think about personal identities. “Kahan se aa rahe? (Where are you coming from?)”, a man asked me near the Beypore Port in Kozhikode (Kerala). It was a little difficult for me to answer the question. If I would have said ‘Pondicherry’ (where…
DEF in Cyberspace
DEF has long standing prioritisation of linking practice to policy advocacy, and linking local to regional and global work through research, advocacy, network building, capacity development and strategic communications in space of internet governance and internet related human rights issues. Since 2011, DEF has been engaged in national and international advocacy through its open and…
Scheme for relief
Jatri Orain is a 44-year-old widow of the same village. Three years ago, her husband died of excessive consumption of alcohol, leaving her with nine children to and barely any source of income. While four daughters were married off early, she was still responsible for five other children who were still at school. At the…
Crowdfunding for a cause
Amid changing government regulations and economic slowdowns, it is of paramount importance for smaller nonprofits to overcome funding uncertainties and become sustainable organisations. In recent times, crowd funding has emerged as a great retail fund-raising tool to support short-term projects of NGOs. In an effort to introduce non-profits to effective crowdfunding platforms, tools and strategies, the eNGO Programme organised…
Expanding the reach in Barabanki cluster
Last month, Team Baank-e-Loom organised a community meeting in Saidanpur village of Barabanki district in Uttar Pradesh to register community members for Weaver ID card, which provides a weaver household with various social and economic benefits. The half-a-day meeting registered 40 weavers who have been promised support by the district handloom department. Further, to expand…
Digitally empowering the weavers of Kanchipuram
Last month, Nokia and DEF announced the launch of KanchiLoom, a cluster development programme to digitally empower the weaver community and connect them to technology and the marketplace in three villages within Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. The project primarily involves the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and other digital tools in critical aspects of cluster…
Catalysing a change in Jharkhand
DEF in collaboration with Centre for Catalyzing Change (C3) organised a two-day residential digital literacy training for cluster coordinators to provide hands-on training of digital tools and techniques. The training was organised in Gumla, Jharkhand on November 22 and 23, 2017, with 25 cluster coordinators from various villages of Jharkhand, who actively participated in the…