A website for tribal women
Digital Empowerment Foundation and Media Lab Asia have developed a unique website dedicated to the tribal population of India with special focus on women. The idea is to empower them through training and ICT based skill enhancement programmes for addressing their educational, health and livelihood needs.
Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Media Lab Asia, a wing of Indian government’s Department of Information Technology have developed a unique website dedicated entirely to the neglected tribal population of the country.
Today, there are still many communities in India that exist in poor conditions with meager capacity to sustain life and livelihood. The tribal community faces larger challenges of education, health, livelihood generations, and other basic infrastructures.
The project titled: Tribal Women as Change Agent (TWCA) would identify select groups of tribal women in specific locations in India and undertake development interventions in areas of health, education and livelihood generation using ICT tools.
Currently the project is being implemented in Mamuni Block in Baran district of Rajasthan. Women are trained using cameras, laptops and LCD projectors and content on development issues is created through videography.
The trained women would spread their newly acquired skills among other members of the tribal community to help them gain meaningful livelihood options.
