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  • Chanderi Weavers ICT Resource Centre is a Community Information Resource Center set up by Digital Empowerment Foundation in early 2009 as a cluster network for Chanderi weavers that fuses technology with traditional skills and facilitates the process of value addition at all levels. It helps in enhancing the existing skills in weaving and textile designing, thereby increasing the weavers earning capacity.
  • Digital Panchayat is a functional and dynamic digital platform and working station designed and created for each and every Panchayat in India, powered by Internet. The objective is to facilitate and improve Panchayat functioning on day-to-day basis, through two way flow of information and content. The goal is to realize various development objectives at grassroots level.
  • eMSME is a web enabled facility designed by Digital Empowerment Foundation for Micro, Medium and Small Enterprises with a cost effective web platform creation and service delivery with unlimited web pages and thereby facilitating hundreds and thousands of MSME entrepreneurs to have a virtual identity through information and communication technology platform for outreach and scale up.
  • The eNGO programme is a web service package design in a way to provide services at a minimal cost which is sustainable and a low cost solution for grassroots organizations unlike any commercial service at market value. Under eNGO Service one can get a full website with a minimal cost including designing and uploading of the content.
  • Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and the Internet Society (ISOC) have launched a joint project called 'Wireless For Communities' (W4C). The project aims to provide a holistic, community-empowered approach to connecting rural communities to the Internet. The motivation for the W4C project by ISOC and DEF is twofold.
  • Neerjaal is a concept originally conceived by the Global Rainwater Harvesting Collective (GRWHC), Barefoot College in Tilonia Rajasthan. GRWHC, under its flagship activities of Barefoot College, has been collecting and managing information regarding various linkages of Water in the desert of Rajasthan, especially in and around tilonia village near Kishangarh.

Right to internet for right to information: A campaign by DEF & APC

"Internet can be instrumental to curb the media sensation" Stated by socio-political activist Aruna Roy in the half-day national consultation on 'Internet Rights, Accessibility, Regulation & Ethics' on May 3, 2012 at New Delhi. The consultation programme was organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and supported by the Department of Electronics And Information Technology and National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), Govt. of India. Read more >>

World Summit Award successfully concluded in Cairo, Egypt

The World Summit Award, the global partner of Manthan Award and mBillionth Award hosted the 2011 function in Egypt form 26th to 29th April 2012 to felicitate and recognise the awardees from all over the world after a year long wait. As per plan, Ministry of Communication and IT, Republic of Egypt was supposed to host the WSA Gala and the Winners Conference last year but due to Arab Spring and protests in Egypt, it got postponed. Read more >>

Active Citizens using Social Media to Push for Peace among Afghanistan, India and Pakistan

The Pul-e-Jawan program kick-started at Kabul in September 2011 when fifteen citizen Journalists, five each from from Afghanistan, India and Pakistan met, debated and collaborated to create a common ground to bring peace in this region. The Kabul forum has led to Pul-e-Jawan forums within India and Pakistan to encourage more citizens to express themselves in common issues related to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Read more >>

Digital Empowerment Foundation and Vodafone India Foundation project review visits

In the month of January, DEF and Vodafone India Foundation visited Pune and Sonepat to see the deployment of eduVARTA and Kisan Sanchar projects respectively. Both eduVARTA and Kisan Sanchar received funding grant for being winners of Vodafone Mobiles for Good Prize 2011. The motive was to ensure optimum utilization of the fund granted to the winners and also to understand the work pattern and processes conducted. Read more >>

DEF's Presence at ICTs, Climate Change and Development (ICCD) Workshop

Digital Empowerment Foundation participated at the ICTs, Climate Change and Development (ICCD) workshop held on 23-24 January, 2012. The workshop was hosted by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the University of Manchester, funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). This international workshop was attended by 35 key individuals with strategic responsibilities for either ICTs or climate change in development organisations in the NGO, public and private sector. Read more >>

mPower Forum

mPower Forum envisions to encourage social entrepreneurship in the use of mobile phone as ICT tool for development by helping innovative ideas to grow in terms of social relevance Read more >>

ICT4D Publications

Publications of scholars, researchers, practitioners works in India and South Asia using technology for growth and prospects for people. Read more >>

mBillionth Awards

The mBillionth Award honors 'Excellence in Mobile and Telecom innovations' and is designed as an annual South Asia's leading mobile & telecom platform leading to larger regional Mobile Congress in media and policy advocacy. With two successful mBillionth Awards so far since 2010, please refer to this section in future editions for the announcements related to the mBillionth Awards 2012. Read more >>

Manthan Awards

Manthan Award is a first of its kind initiative in India to recognize the best practices in e-Content and Creativity. It was launched on 10th October, 2004, by Digital Empowerment Foundation in partnership with World Summit Award, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India, and various other stakeholders engaged Read more >>

Chairman's Column

Technology is as good as what it does. That is the basic principle on which we started our journey at the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and instituted the Manthan Award. The idea was to identify initiatives that use information and communication technology (ICT) tools to achieve specific goals with the long-term target of empowering the masses, especially in rural areas. Read more >>

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