Helping Women Go Online
India has over 200 million Internet users, out of which 30 million users are women. The programme aligns with the mission of Google’sHWGO
Citizen Matters: A local news outlet for Bengaluru
It was the years 2005-07, when Bengaluru was witnessing a spurt in urban growth and the city’s infrastructure was crumbling that Meera K. realized that the local pages of mainstream newspapers were not providing the answers on why things were in such a mess. In an office on the outskirts of Koramangala, Meera, one of…
Undoing of IT labs in schools
There is a lot of discussion on the shortage of teachers in our schools. While India is trying to find a way to fill the vacant positions of teachers and perhaps also find out how many of the 7.7 million school teachers actually go to teach, I wanted to share with you the preparedness level…
Pratibadh: empowering and informing its rural readers
Pratibadh, a 13-year-old publication distributed in 53 districts across Bihar, Punjab and Haryana, is bringing about an information revolution in villages. From humble beginnings in 1996 with just 1,000 copies, the fortnightly is now read in Hindi or Gurmukhi by not less than 800,000 people in 35,000 villages. But the reason it got a Manthan…
Undeterred by challenges
The idea behind Cyber Blog India is that only awareness is the key to safety: No high tech gadget can safeguard an organisation or its people from security vulnerabilities if users are unaware. And the reason behind this idea is the concern that cybercrime needs to be addressed because the frequency of attacks has increased…
नए युग में ‘डिजिटल इंडिया कैंपेन’ से काफी उम्मीदें
ठीक एक दशक पहले भारत में अगर लोगों को अपने विधायक या सांसद से मिलना होता था तो उन्हें कम से कम पांच साल यानी अगले चुनाव का इंतजार करना होता था। लेकिन, शुक्र है इंटरनेट और तकनीक का, जिसकी वजह से जनता और नेता की दूरी ही नहीं घटी, बल्कि जब चाहें उनसे संवाद भी…
Zuckerberg Visit to Chandauli
Zuckerberg was visiting a “digi center” run by a non-profit body called the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), which is meant to be a central point in the village for accessing the internet and other technical services. “The school and college-going youth in particular were very excited to see him,” said Osama Manzar, founder of DEF…
मंगलयान की सफलता से सोशल मीडिया मंगलमय
भारत ने अंतरिक्ष के क्षेत्र में इतिहास रचते हुए अपने मंगल मिशन को जिस तरह सफलतापूर्वक अंजाम दिया है यकीनन वो भारत के वैज्ञानिक इतिहास की सबसे बड़ी कामयाबी है। इसका सौ फीसदी श्रेय भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान केंद्र (इसरो) के वैज्ञानिकों को जाता है, जिन्होंने अपने कौशल से ये इतिहास रचा है। बुधवार (24 सितंबर 2014)…
Towards Digital India: One positive step at a time
The prime minister recently announced the exciting Digital India programme (DIP). However, there are three things: one, there is nothing new except that it is repackaged into one brand name; secondly, it should have been called “Digital Bharat” rather than Digital India; thirdly, we at Digital Empowerment Foundation felt elated that two of its three…
शिक्षक दिवस पर सिर्फ रस्म अदायगी नहीं, दृढ़ संकल्प चाहिए
यूं तो रस्म अदायगी के लिए हम हर साल 5 सितंबर को शिक्षक दिवस मनाते हैं और इसी बहाने पूर्व राष्ट्रपति सर्वपल्ली डॉ राधा कृष्णन को भी याद कर लेते हैं। लेकिन, सच पूछें तो आधुनिक दौर में शिक्षा के वास्तविक उद्देश्य से हम कोसों दूर निकल चुके हैं। किसी को अपने व्यवसायिक जीवन…