In one of its such kind of programme in Meghalaya and North East India, the first public engagement & felicitation ceremony was conducted today at the venue of Tura Internet & Service Centre (TISC), a project of New Delhi based Digital Empowerment Foundation Read More
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‘Mobile for Good’ prize is to motivate mobile innovators’ ideas, piloted by socially concerned entrepreneurs and also for those who have been applying for the mBillionth Award. It is imperative that the innovation must be from the Not for profit organization or educational institute with the motivation and purpose that the innovation would benefit the [ Read More ]
mBillionth Award is a dedicated platform to explore the latent potential of mobile & telecom sector across 8 countries in South Asia: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The mBillionth Award is designed as an annual South Asia’s leading mobile & telecom award platform leading to larger regional Mobile Congress in [ Read More ]
The socio-economic development of the North Eastern Region of India, consisting of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim has been one of the key areas of concern for the Indian government. Union Minister of Ministry of MSME, Mr. Virbhadra Singh, has recently urged the Indian government to give adequate focus to [ Read More ]
The discussion and exercise was on features and characteristics of electromagnetic wave. It discussed speed and data dependency with frequency that is with more frequency one can transmit more data but at smaller distance. Trainees were given training on Fresnel zone and free space loss associated with the radio wave and also how to calculate [ Read More ]
The venue Chanderi was selected because, at Chanderi, DEF has a centre for the weavers and has well established infrastructure, a centre with multi-faceted activities like ICT Training Centre, Textile Designing & Apparel Designing Centre, Weaving Centre, Centre for various other activities for the Self help Groups to come to the centre and use the center resources [ Read More ]
The workshop and training aims to provide primary and secondary knowledge, skills and training on wireless technology, its usefulness, deployment, and operation of wireless networks. It aims to train community youths in the deployment and operation of such networks. The objective of the training is to give the trainee a basic understanding of networking and [ Read More ]
The workshop and training aims to provide primary and secondary knowledge, skills and training on wireless technology, its usefulness, deployment, and operation of wireless networks. It aims to train community youths in the deployment and operation of such networks. Digital Empowerment Foundation have set up Tura Internet Service Centre (TISC) at Tura, Meghalaya and as [ Read More ]
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. 
