Chanderi Wireless for Community Training Release

The venue Chanderi was selected because, at Chanderi, DEF has a centre for the weavers and has well established infrastructure, a centre with multi-faceted activities like ICT Training Centre, Textile Designing & Apparel Designing Centre, Weaving Centre, Centre for various other activities for the Self help Groups to come to the centre and use the center resources…

Guwahati eMSME Workshop Report

The socio-economic development of the North Eastern Region of India, consisting of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim has been one of the key areas of concern for the Indian government. Union Minister of Ministry of MSME, Mr. Virbhadra Singh, has recently urged the Indian government to give adequate focus to…

Kanpur eMSME Workshop Report

An Interactive Educational Seminar held at Kanpur titled Empowering the Leather MSME Clusters With nearly 81 million Internet users in India and over 1.9 billion Internet users that exist worldwide, the Internet offers businesses of all sizes a rich and powerful medium to create awareness about their products and offerings. Businesses that are not present on…

Agra eMSME Workshop Report

The Interactive Seminar “Internet for MSMEs”, organized by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and supported by Verisign and Ministry of MSME at Agra on April 5, 2011 aimed to address in a timely manner the means MSMEs can employ to make themselves visible to and connect with customers globally in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Click…

Vodafone Mobiles for Good

‘Vodafone Mobiles for Good’ programme concept Inspired by the great success in 2011, Vodafone Foundation along with Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) announces the ‘Vodafone Mobiles for Good’ programme for the second time. The ‘Vodafone Mobiles for Good’ programme is to motivate and encourage innovations in mobile content and services delivery benefiting communities. It is imperative…

Community Radio: Operations and Collaborations

Community Radio in the hands of community Operations and Collaborations at Tilonia, Ajmer was a three day workshop to understand operations of Community Radio by the local communities. This workshop  impact was high on the communities and most of them enjoyed hands on experience during the training of the workshop. Through the workshop the local…