Smartpur stands on the foundation of six pillars, namely education, health, finance, governance, livelihood and entertainment. Each of these pillars are further supported by wireless broadband access-enabled digital infrastructure, leading to efficiency in daily lives, transparency in governance, economic prosperity for households, and ease of access to various kinds of services and information. Every month…
On September 18, convening of the GOAL – Going Online As Leaders – programme was held in Bhubaneswar. The success of the programme was visible when the enthusiastic Mentees participated in the event by addressing the crowd – something that they had not indulged in before. GOAL is a mentorship programme empowering young women from…
Dr. Amit Nagpal Storyteller, Social Entrepreneur and Author “Understanding languages and other cultures build bridges. It is the fastest way to bring the world closer together and to the truth. Building empathy and understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before the differences”, Suzy Kassem beautifully puts up how we can build bridges…
Recent reports by Child Rights and You (CRY) states that a child is sexually abused every 15 minutes. Most of the time, the children targeted are very young and usually below nine years of age. In this scenario, Digital Empowerment Foundation decided that it is important to impart knowledge among the children where Smartpur project…
On August 15 2019, at around 9.30pm, the twitter account of Meghalaya Police was tagged by a twitterati, whereby a video was shared along with a tweet informing that it was an SOS message through social media to rescue 2000 Sikh families who are stuck in a Gurudwara. So much so that, the message was…
The entrepreneurs of Smartpur are becoming the new age digital change makers; most of them have initiated small scale social interventions at their local village levels. Indira, a social entrepreneur from village Asoor, is now a health-based community leader. She organises health camps with support from the foundation on a regular basis now. Her endeavours…
Digital Cluster Development Programme’s Digikala—a project to support Ikat handloom industry of Odisha—participated in an event called ‘Alankrita’ in Bhubaneswar on July 19, 2019. The social gathering, attended by eminent designers and social entrepreneurs in the field, is an attempt towards promoting the dying traditional handloom weaving in the region and introduce weavers to wider…
When Rukmani Gurjar was chosen as an Internet Saathi, she expressed immense pride in being given this opportunity to empower other women like her. Dedicating majority of her time in this project, she laboured for this to be successful by trying to involve as many women as she could. Recalling her experience when she started,…
Author of the bestseller ‘The Shooting Star’, Shivya Nath, interacted with the team at Digital Empowerment Foundation and shared her journey of the transition from a regular corporate employee to a digital nomad with almost 80,000 followers on Instagram! Looking at the team she said, “Few years ago, if I was asked to join a…
What happens when a family of three – a father, mother and their six-year old son – decide to leave behind their urban lives and go back to their roots to create model villages? Proto Village happen! Kalyan Akkipedi, a visionary and social innovator, has had a long journey of transforming lives in a small…