Enabling Communities in Jharkhand in India to diversify in Economic Opportunities
Women Wireless Engineers is aimed at empowering women about digital technology and in turn strengthening the digital foothold in their communities with a hope that it will serve as a foundation for those who are aspiring to grow and contribute to the digital world.
Access to telecommunication networks even in remote parts of the country has been made available in theory but maintaining and ensuring good quality service is left at the hands of servicemen who are not even part of the locality most of the time. Digital Empowerment Foundation has designed the Women Wireless Engineer program which ensures that the women from the locality, irrespective of their background, are responsible to take care of maintaining the infrastructure necessary to enable good connectivity. Women are trained to understand the wireless networks through the program and employed as Wireless Engineers within their locality.
Anjali Namdev is from Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh. Her father is an electrician by profession and the only breadwinner in her family. Looking at her father’s struggle to make ends meet, she always wished to support her family financially. Without knowing how she would be of help to her family, she chanced upon Digital Empowerment Foundation and learnt about the Women Wireless Engineers program. She understood the benefits of digital literacy through the training sessions. She was very pleased to know about different ways through which digital technology can be used to provide simple solutions to the community. Now, Anjali loves to know more about ways that can help the people around her to avail benefits from the government.
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