A congress for smart villages

Smartpur is bustling with its expansion activities, which are taking place at a country-wide level. After the pilot in Nuh (Haryana) and Asoor (Tamil Nadu), Smartpur has now reached Ghazipur in Uttar Pradesh, and Bharatpur and Alwar  in Rajasthan. To ensure everyone is aligned with the mission and mission of Smartpur, a week-long orientation programme…

Five-step guide to mobile innovation

Madanmohan Rao Research Director, YourStory; Charter Member, TiE Bangalore The journey for innovative social entrepreneurs and mobile technology wizards can be full of ups and downs and riddled with obstacles such as management or scalability issues. Three key ‘chasms’ or deep valleys that digital innovators must jump over are, from concept to prototype; from prototype…

Digitalising Public Libraries

Encouraged by the outcome of the first SPLC 2018, the second edition of State Public Library Conference was organized on September 06-07, 2018 and focused on taking the discussion and deliberation forward in order to build an ecosystem in Telangana, where public libraries, seen as prime knowledge centres could develop and thrive with the help…

Creating entrepreneurship opportunities for communities in India

Baank-e-loom, under the ambit of DCDP, has till date, enrolled 1198 students in digital literacy curriculum out of which, 121 girls have successfully completed their tailoring and embroidery course, whereas over 100 homemakers and teenage girls have been digitally trained in computers. Baank-e-loom has digitally transformed around 280 people into entrepreneurs who are now working…