OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT The project seeks to leverage the aspirations and capacities of local entrepreneurial youths as ‘Soochnapreneurs’ (Information Entrepreneurs), by upgrading the mobile data networks in their garden setups, running Internet access points in the Community Internet Libraries (CILs), and serving local needs for access, information, linkages, opportunities, Internet skills and more. WHY…
Read moreOBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT The goal of the project is to train and guide village level entrepreneurs (VLEs) and village level technicians (VLTs) to deploy Internet connections and maintain/repair the Internet connectivity, especially during disaster situations in rural disaster-prone villages in Karnataka and Kerala. The VLEs and VLTs are specifically oriented toward natural and climate-related…
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OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT This project seeks to bridge the digital divide for the Tea Tribe and Adivasi communities residing in remote tea gardens across Assam and West Bengal, the two leading tea-producing states in India. It aims to achieve this by expanding the successful “Internet Roshni (Light)” model. This model establishes public Wi-Fi hotspots…
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