COVID-19 DEF Dialogues

Covid-19 DEFDialogue is a special series initiated by Digital Empowerment Foundation where the Founder & Director Osama Manzar connects with key individuals within the DEF network in 600 locations across 25 states. The interaction will help find out how COVID-19 and the lockdown situation has impacted their areas along with the measures being undertaking to tackle it.

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We need Pradhan Mantri Free Talk Time and Internet Yojna during COVID19

“We need immediate help to ensure our mobiles are working and we can make calls,” said one of the migrant workers stranded on the road from Delhi towards Bundelkhand. Another said, “Our pre-paid amount is over and we do not have money to recharge our phones.” 2000 out of 12000 migrant workers, who started travelling back to their homes, made a call to a toll-free number to complain and seek help for their mobiles to be topped-up and recharged.

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Livelihoods in the time of pandemic: COVID – 19 and the Reaffirmation of Internet as a Basic Need

As public health and safety measures like social distancing and lockdowns demonstrated agile responses like work from home for many of the urban milieu, a rapid assessment survey by Jan Sahas showed how migrant workers were evicted from informal settlements or labour camps and abandoned by their labour contractors with unpaid wages.

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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2019

DEF celebrated #InternationalWomensDay by showcasing women at the ground who're empowering people & bringing positive change. Most of these women/young girls are first-generation digital learner yet the impacts they've created is applaudable. /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/01.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/02.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/03.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/04.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/05.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/06.03.19.mp4 /wp-content/uploads/2019/03/07.03.19.mp4

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