The North East India (NER) region has been historically underbanked, yet the cumulative advancements in digital technology have for the first time made it plausible to bridge over the challenges posed by lack of brick and mortar banking infrastructure with the digital equivalent. In the previous decades, nationalization of banks, priority sector lending stipulations, the…
The Government of India has introduced four labour codes – the Code on Wages, Social Security Code, Industrial Relations Code, and Occupational Safety, Health, and Working Conditions Code which are supposed to replace the 29 labour laws. Since 90% of India’s workforce is in the unorganized sector, the Government of India wants to ensure than…
When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, news about violence against women being on a rise also came out from various countries around the world. Women face violence and harassment at various levels – at work, outside the household, within the household in the domestic sphere, and more recently – online. The last one…
The conference, Enabling Rural Women from Livelihood to Entrepreneurship: Challenges & Opportunities focussed on rural women’s entrepreneurship Assam was organised by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Council for Social and Digital Development (CSDD), and North East Development Foundation (NEDF), at NEDFi campus on 16th November, 2022, Guwahati, Assam. The goal of the consultation was…
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on communities all over the world by wiping out several years of development gains made in the past several years. The social sector and the government sector cannot alone undo the damage done by the pandemic. This is where the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) becomes…
By Alexander L Passah | 21-06-2022 Meghalaya has seen a substantial surge in social media usage in recent years. During the pandemic, this was greatly accelerated. Individuals must remain critical of social media and its link with development and employment, despite the numerous benefits that emerge from its use in terms of alternative livelihood prospects. Read…
By Dr Medari Janai Tham | 21-06-2022 Natural Language Processing (NLP) allows any human language to communicate with a computer. It is a step toward developing tools that will improve a Khasi speaker’s computer usage: for example, he can communicate with non-Khasi speakers via machine translation, which translates Khasi to another language and vice versa;…
A Philanthropic attitude and approach to CSR are required for the entire social sector and the communities for whom CSRs and CSOs exist and are committed too. Read more
Assam has been the best performing state in terms of CSR investment in the North East region (NER). This policy brief a continuation of the attempt of Council for Social and Digital Development (CSDD) and the North East Development Foundation (NEDF) and to start discussions around CSR spending and its role in development in the…
Apart from these socio-economic disadvantages which have been highly documented, the tea community of Assam is also largely digitally excluded. Why should we talk about digital inclusion and what why is it important? The present century can be termed as the ‘digital age’. The world has been dramatically changed by the processes of globalization and…
Arapid assessment studydone by the Council for Social and Digital Development (CSDD), Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF), and North East Development Foundation (NEDF), to understand the ICT readiness and capacities of the farm community in Assam towards ICT based financial education and counseling brings out key highlights. The study was conducted during September and October 2021,…