India is potentially one of the largest Internet markets in the world and has a unique mix of digital excellence along with digital divide. From e-commerce and digital news to gaming and e-government, India has changed a lot over the last 15 years since commercial launch of the Internet. This book addresses a number of  [ Read More ]

Two important developments have taken place at the ministry of communications and information technology in the past two weeks. One, the department of information technology (DIT) has come up with a consultation paper on a mobile governance policy framework. Two, the department has opened stakeholders’ discussions on the framework for citizen engagement in the national  [ Read More ]

ACTIVITY REPORT of DEF (2003-2011 Updated) Since its inception in December 2002, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) has engaged itself into number of activities while pursuing its mission and objectives of ICT delivery and promotion in India. The focus areas of intervention had been in development, promotion, spread and usage of content for grassroots use and  [ Read More ]

About CWIRC 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  [ Read More ]

About GyanPedia: Gyanpedia is an online digital content repository truely generated by children and teachers of rural government schools across India.Gyanpedia is an initiative of Digital Empowerment Foundation with whole hearted support from Media Lab Asia, to create a Comprehensive, multilingual, dynamic virtual platform for country wide content exchange program for the learning community –  [ Read More ]

Introduction and Background: Modern society and economy is driven by information, knowledge and network based relationships. Information and knowledge is power and this leads to an equitable and transparent societal and good governance administrative system. The power of Information Communication Technology to this effect is tremendous. India is no exception. There are multifarious ongoing efforts  [ Read More ]

Introduction and Background: 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  [ Read More ]

About eNGO: 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  [ Read More ]