Due to lack of opportunities and limited skills, most of the working-class people struggle to provide a decent livelihood for their families. While working as street vendors, construction site labours, coolies, and other such jobs, they are paid minimal wages. With the vision of enhancing employability and to develop requisite skills Digital Empowerment Foundation along…
The women in rural India face multiple issues for accessing internet/gaining digital literacy, such as lack of education, awareness, accessibility and affordability and often restrictions/resistance because of their gender. The needs of the urban women are different and varied – on one side we see many women entrepreneurs digitally enabled and breaking the mould –…
To bridge the digital gender divide and inculcate the entrepreneurial skills in women, Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and CAF India (ORACLE) have joined hands to empower and aspire women from rural hinterlands. In India, only 63 percent of women own a mobile phone due to economic barriers and cultural norms to girl’s owing a mobile…
DEF’s flagship project, Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) is community-oriented infrastructure and information hubs built to create digitally literate, information-empowered and equitable communities across the country. The digitally equipped CIRCs primarily offer digital literacy, digital services, information services, citizen services, besides facilitating access to government schemes and entitlements, to create information-rich society under a sustainable model. As implementation…
