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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.

ICTs and environmental sustainability: India baseline study

In India, the ICT boom in recent years has greatly increased the presence of new dangerous and toxic waste in the environment but no offical policies have been created to deal with the informal disposal of e-waste in the country. This study addresses the need for a consolidated study in India of any sorts to measure the policy trends in relation to environmental sustainability, climate change and ICTs. Read more >>

DEF & APC Submission to Universal Periodic Review INDIA Human Rights Council

In order to address Internet-related Human Rights Issues in India, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and the Association for Progressive Communication has jointly submitted the UPR Review Report. DEF is majorly concerned with the human rights, internet rights and making the internet an effective tool to access right to information in India. DEF believes that the internet plays a major role in accessing information and thus a tool for social and economic development. Read more >>

The role of the internet in the right to information in India

At its emergence, DEF has been engaged itself in addressing societal and developmental gaps in the communities of India. In order to create ecology of knowledge-driven society at a larger extent and share its experiences globally, in 2008, DEF rooted its existence with the Global Information Society Watch (GISW), a joint initiative of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS).
The presence in GIS Watch helped DEF to extend its perspective of ICT and expand its objective and mission in two major issues - Environment and Climate Change Issue, and Internet Rights and Human Rights. In 2011, in order to address the issue of Internet and making it as a basic human right in India, DEF published the report, 'The role of the internet in the right to information in India' in GIS Watch focused on 'The Internet, Human Rights and Social Resistance'. 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 in promoting digital content inclusiveness across South Asian countries. Read more >>
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