The community faces key access challenges – Access to information, schemes, entitlements, services, skills, alternative livelihood, newer opportunities. In this fast developing 21st century, digitalization has become the utmost priority and the newest trend. The recent COVID pandemic added new dimensions to the paradigm shift from a “Manual World” to “Digitalized World”. The Tea Tribe…
Beneficiary engagement and response: The pilot (Jan – March 2023) reached out to 2834 farmers from 5 value chains in the above mentioned 5 districts. Out of the total beneficiaries, 52.5% are female and 47.5% are male farmers. 37.8% are smartphone users and 58.2% are base phone users. Out of the 1070 smartphone users, 561…
This report draws from the roundtable workshop for ‘Community Assessment on Internet Shutdowns in India’ which was organised by the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) under Internews’ OPTIMA project on the 8th July, 2022 in Delhi. The workshop participants ranged from Civil Society Organisations that engage in strategic litigation on key digital rights issues to…