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 [ Read More ]
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 [ Read More ]
In yet another successful venture of eNGO Program, Digital Empowerment Foundation with support from Public Interest Registry organized “eNGO Network of Pakistan” workshop in Karachi, Pakistan on 10th May 2012. The workshop was held in PILER (Pakistan Institute for Labour Education & Research) auditorium and hosted 23 delegates participating from 19 organisations in and around [ Read More ]
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
‘Vodafone Mobiles for Good’ programme concept Inspired by the great success in 2011, Vodafone Foundation along with Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) announces the ‘Vodafone Mobiles for Good’ programme for the second time. The ‘Vodafone Mobiles for Good’ programme is to motivate and encourage innovations in mobile content and services delivery benefiting communities. It is imperative [ 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 ]
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. 
