At the crossroads of inclusion and exclusion
For more than three-fourths of the population that is yet to be connected, the information superhighway is a long and winding road
Information agents with social capital
Equipped with MeraApp, which comes with information on government schemes, the SoochnaPreneurs serve their community with information and digital services
4.1 million jobs that can change India
It is time for India to restructure itself in order to offer skills and jobs of the future—a future where jobs aren’t only a source of income but also to create a peaceful, information-rich society
What is the future of jobs?
This article was first published in the Mint on July 26, 2017. Early life on the planet was self-sustainable, that is how nature and humans coexisted. If someone needed shelter, they built a home with resources indigenously available to them. If someone was hungry, they hunted for food in their vicinity. Over a period of…
India’s untapped content producers
Unless we treat India’s large unconnected population as a pool of producers, we will not be able to achieve the results we dream in a Digital India.
A letter from an uncounted boy
A sneak peak into the life of an uncounted boy of the Agariya tribe who live in Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch
The demons of demonetisation
How can we hope to create a cashless economy without understanding the lives of the poor who form a majority of the country’s population
Cashless versus cash less
There are more cashless people in India than the number of people who have the means to live cashless lives
Wanted: An accountable public grievance system
Remember the time when people didn’t trust private banks in India? Well, the mistrust seems to be shifting towards the state banks now, at least in rural India