The Wireless Women for Entrepreneurship & Empowerment Programme

The Wireless Women for Entrepreneurship and Empowerment (W2E2) programme is an initiative to create women resourced ICT micro social enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures supported by wireless internet in backward locations or districts of India and contribute to an enabling internet environment and internet for gender inclusion and women empowerment. The programme has functioned under three…

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Guna – A Wireless Story

In 2012, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Ford Foundation (FF) initiated a joint programme, called ‘Wireless in Unlicensed Band’ in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh to understand how open and unlicensed spectrum be utilised to empower communities through access. The programme utilises low-cost wireless equipment and unlicensed spectrum (free spectrum) to connect rural and underserved…

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