DEF in Research

Digital Inclusion & Access

• Building Smart Villages: A New Paradigm for Rural Development in India.
• Becoming Digital Citizens. 
• From 2G to 5G: Is India Moving Forward or Leaving People Behind?
• How Internet is Changing Lives in Tea Gardens of Assam and North Bengal 

Gender & Technology

• Tackling Menstrual Misinformation and Period Poverty in Rural India. 
• Women by the Water
• Clicking Through Barriers: Empowering Persons with Disabilities. 
• Why Do Women-Led Social Enterprises Succeed?
• How Entrepreneurial Initiatives Help the Tea Garden Women of North Bengal 

Artificial Intelligence & Ethics

• Language, Politics, Power: What is AI’s Mother Tongue? 
• Optimized, but Dehumanized: AI is Costing Us More Than Just Empathy.
• Parashar, N. (2025). The UN Needs to Do Much as Artificial Intelligence Expands 
• AI Changed My Surname: That’s How I Found Out How Caste-Coded It Is 

Just Transition & Sustainability

• Delhi’s Unregulated E-Waste Markets and the Marginalised Women Workers Who Bear Its Cost 
• Just Transition for Coal Miners – A Researcher’s Perspective

Governance, Rights & Digital Futures

• Freedoms for Tomorrow: Enabling Universal Meaningful Access for an Inclusive Nation by 2047 
• When Power Meets Platform: Zuckerberg’s Fact-Check Ban and Its Impact on India’s Rural Digital Landscape. 
• Does the Number of ICT Users Indicate Digital Adoption?
• How Technology Discriminates Against Handloom Workers 
• Public Data of Private People: Issues of Data, Access and Privacy. 
• Death by Data: The Human Cost of Digital Governance. 
• Quiet Acts, Clever Subversions: Everyday Online Resistance in India’s Authoritarian Digital Publics. Dialogues on Digital Society. 
• Are Deliberate Documentation Errors Denying Bengal Tea Workers Access to State Welfare? 
• The Caste That Doesn’t Want to Be Counted. The Indian Express.

• CHRONOLOGY OF RUMOURS AND MISINFORMATION DURING COVID-19
• The negative impacts of covid-19 lockdown in india
• DEF – USIPI survey finds food shortage scare access to medical care in rural areas
• Understanding Agriculture and ICT Practices in India
• Enhancing Livelihood of Artisans and Weavers in Knowledge Economy
• Chanderiyaan Project: Linking the poor producers with the market using ICT
• Gems of Purest Ray Serene
• The Case of Digital Cluster Development Program in India
• Market Separations for BoP Producers of Chanderi
• Connecting the world from the sky: Spatial discourses around Internet access in the developing world
• Digital Lives in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda
• A Caste Study on DEF’s Chanderiyaan Project

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