Digitally empowering financially excluded communities

DigiPreraks or volunteers of the DigiSupport project, an initiative of Axis Bank and DEF, across 30 villages in 15 states have completed a three-month-long Digital Financial Literacy Awareness Campaign. DigiSupport is phase two of the DigiPrayas initiative that enabled rural villages to access digital tools and spread awareness on e-banking services through village-level community leaders.…

Rinki, the problem solver

Rinki Bakoriya, an entrepreneur at CIRC Doudi in Madhya Pradesh, is leading her village towards transformation by empowering the community with simple but integral information services. From a small digital infrastructure hub, she offers a range of services to community members, including digital literacy, access to digital services such as photocopying and printing, and information…

डिजिटल और कैशलेस इंडिया की अलग ही दुनिया

इरफान खान द्वारा देश की राजधानी या यू कहे की शहरो में बैठ कर डिजिटल इंडिया, केशलेश इंडिया की कल्पना करना या सपना देखना माध्यम वर्ग और निति निर्माताओ के लिए सुखद अनुभव एवं सपना हो सकता है लेकिन दरअसल दूर दराज़ ग्रामीण इलाके में अभी इन गढ़े हुए नारो का कहि अता पता आज…

डिजिटल और कैशलेस इंडिया की अलग ही दुनिया

देश की राजधानी या यू कहे की शहरो में बैठ कर डिजिटल इंडिया, केशलेश इंडिया की कल्पना करना या सपना देखना माध्यम वर्ग और निति निर्माताओ के लिए सुखद अनुभव एवं सपना हो सकता है लेकिन दरअसल दूर दराज़ ग्रामीण इलाके

The Idea of Change

By @raviguria DEF team member Ravi Guria recently travelled to Deoria in Uttar Pradesh to mentor a group of young aspiring social entrepreneurs. I didn’t know where Deoria was when I first heard that I had to make a trip there. I was told that it is near Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. When I shared…

A powerful tool for empowerment

Bikram Shrestha President Internet Society Nepal In today’s world, mobile devices cannot be separated from day-to-day life. Our needs and demands for mobile facilities/services are constantly on the rise and are gradually fulfilled by new innovations and technologies. Society at large uses mobile to communicate, do business, perform banking transactions, learn, travel and live in…