I travelled to nearly 200 villages in 15 states in India to document the story of Digital development in India through @DEFindia ‘s work. Posting 10 photographs through the #DigitalStoriesOf2022 series. @OsamaManzar
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part One: Persons with disabilities in rural India interacting with successful people from urban India under DEF’s mentorship initiative. #DEF20Years
📍 Nuh, Haryana
@DEFindia @OsamaManzar @khanamirullah @shalinikala @natashabadhwar
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Two: An elderly woman taking digital literacy classes without any background in education. DEF’s curriculum also reaches those who have no educational background.
#DEF20Years
📍 Mewat Region, Haryana
@DEFindia @OsamaManzar @khanamirullah
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Three: Digital (enabler) in the hands of women (doers) leads to empowerment of entire communities.
#DEF20Years
📍 Khunti, Jharkhand
@DEFindia @natashabadhwar @OsamaManzar @khanamirullah @shalinikala @njbarbhuiya
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Four: A smartphone in the hand of a woman empowers not only her and her family but her entire community. The women use MeraApp to gain access to a database of government schemes that are available for their communities.
@DEFindia
📍 Khunti, Jharkhand
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Five: Transitioning to the smartphone world. “I am still learning how to use it but what I have already learnt is how important it is.”
#DEF20Years
📍 Jaipur, Rajasthan
@DEFindia @OsamaManzar @natashabadhwar
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Six: She is learning how to provide access to Internet to her community that has so far been completely disconnected from the digital world.
📍 Khunti, Jharkhand
#DEF20Years @OsamaManzar @natashabadhwar @DEFindia
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Seven: Wireless Women Engineers connecting unconnected communities.
📍 Khunti, Jharkhand
#DEF20Years @DEFindia @OsamaManzar @njbarbhuiya @khanamirullah @shalinikala @natashabadhwar
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Eight: Digital, one of the most powerful weapons against patriarchy.
📍Gola, Jharkhand
#DEF20Years @DEFindia @OsamaManzar @khanamirullah @njbarbhuiya @natashabadhwar @shalinikala #womenempowerment #digitalempowerment
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Eight: Digital, one of the most powerful weapons against patriarchy.
📍Gola, Jharkhand
#DEF20Years @DEFindia @OsamaManzar @khanamirullah @njbarbhuiya @natashabadhwar @shalinikala #womenempowerment #digitalempowerment
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Nine: Democratising information through digital tools.
📍 Ranchi, Jharkhand
#DEF20Years @DEFindia @OsamaManzar @natashabadhwar @khanamirullah @njbarbhuiya
#DigitalStoriesOf2022 Part Ten: Providing access to information, entitlements and digital to communities at the last mile.
📍 Ranchi, Jharkhand
#DEF20Years @DEFindia
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