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Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is registered as a not-for-pro�t organisation under Societies Registration Act, 1860, INDIA.

Formally launches Manthan Awards to identify ICTD best practices in India.

Manthan Awards go global with launch of Manthan Award South Asia.

Hosts World Summit Award Grand Jury 2009 & India International Summit with DEITY where digital experts from 40 countries participate.

Institutes e-North East Award to reward ICTD interventions in Northeast India.

Launches Mobile for Good Awards with Vodafone Foundation.

Ties up with National Institute of Smart Governance (NISG) to develop e-Governance case studies.

Publishes a book called eContent: Voices from the Ground, a compendi-um of digital content from 28 countries.

DEF founder Osama Manzer travels across India and Nepal to study existing ICTD projects that are bringing about development and empowerment of marginal-ised communities.

Launches www.gyanpedia.in in partnership with Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Government of India to aggregate content created by students and teachers from 500 schools across 7 states of India.

Selects Osama Manazar as grand jury, board member and countryside expert for nominating digital content best practices from India.

Participated World Summit on Informa-tion Society (WSIS)

DEF develops framework for Manthan Awards on the lines of the World Summit Awards.

Partner with World Summit Awards.

Launches Community Information Resource Centre (CIRC) project with support from Intel.

Partners ILFS and Department of Electronics and Information Tech-nology (DEITY), GOI, to develop content and services framework for Common Service Centres (rural Kiosks) for the National e-Gover-nance Plan (NeGP).

Ties up with IIM Ahmedabad: develop 10 days' rural entrepreneurship programme

Launches Neerjal, an online drinking water information management system in partner-ship with Barefoot College and Department of Science and Technology, GOI.

Initiates Digital Panchayat programme to empower gram panchayats across the country.

Starts intervention in the Community Radio sector.

Graduates from projects driven by partners to self-deter-mined programmatic interventions.Becomes a member of the

Association for Progressive Communications (APC).

Institutionalises 7 programmatic verticals – Governance & Services on Demand, Social Sector & Civil Society, Market & Enter-prise, Education & Empower-ment, Access & Infrastructure, Knowledge Network & Database and Advocacy & Research.

Launches eNGO programme to digitally empower grassroots NGOs.

Launches Chanderiyann project with support from DEITY for integrated development of the silk weaving cluster at Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh.

Initiates W4C program in partnership with ISOC to provide access wirelessly by using unlicensed spectrum.

Starts eMSME project to connect micro enterprises.

CIRCs grow from 3 to 25 centres.

Becomes a strategic artner of Mint.

With support from NIXI and DEITY, DEF develops 50 ICTD case studies based on ground visits.

DEF founder becomes member of DEITY’s Working Group for Internet Proliferation and Governance.

Government of India selects DEF founder as a member of Commu-nity Radio Screening Committee.

Joins a consortium formed by NASSCOM Foundation for National Digital Literacy Mission which in 2014 became a GOI Mission.

Launches Digital Knowledge Centre.

Launches eNGO Challenge.

Partners with Internews to promote Citizen Media Network.

Initiates Internet Rights project.

Launches the district public libraries project with support from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Launches Red Rickshaw Revolution with a focus women empowerment.

DEF heads to become institution with presence in 60 districts across 25 states and 10 countries

Starts Mobile for Social & Behavioral Change project with UNICEF support.

Launches Social Media for Empowerment South Asia Award with support from American Centre.

DEF starts training Community Radio stations on how to use digital tools and go online.

Initiates eHeritage project with UNESCO support

Launches Soochna Seva project with EU support.

Conceives and implements Minority Cyber Gram Yojana, a Ministry of Minority A�airs initiative at Chandauli.

Engagement with Ministry of Communication and IT @ MyGov.in, TRAI, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and several state governments.

Mobile for Good Awards becomes a separate entity.

Instituted 6 awards

Over 6000 projects and innovations collected

Spread across India, South Asia & Asia Paci�c

Launches Manthan South West India Award.

Initiates eUttara Award.

Expands eNGO programme to help NGOs migrate to the .ngo and .ong top level domains

Introduces festival of development-orient-ed �lms and docu-mentaries as part of Manthan Awards.

Introduces Angel Fund in mBillionth Award.

Joins Google’s campaign ‘Help Women Get Online’.

Organises workshops on ICT for disabled people.

Progressive Institutional partnerships with Tata Trusts, Vodafone Foundtaion, ISOC, .ORG, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, EU, PRADAN, Nasscom Foundation, and so on.

Organises UNESCO international conference on ICT for disabled people.

Conducts Training of Trainers workshops across India for Google.

With support from Sir Dorabji Tata Trust establishes 6 CIRCs in Northeast states.

With support from Indus Towers and Vodafone, DEF reaches 150 locations with CIRCs Presence

Launches mBillionth Award.

Launches District Collector Award within Manthan Award.

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