About Us

Lack of access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is a major developmental challenge as recognised by various national and global mandates such as the Digital India programme or the World Summit on Information Society. Digital inclusion of marginalised communities can eradicate of poverty and help achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Hence, since 2007 DEF has been setting up CIRCs

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CIRC Kooran

Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) provide Kooran the basic backbone needed for rolling out all kinds of digital interventions for development. It is situated in tribal area of Bali block where CIRC Kuran helping the community with computers, printers, scanners and all basic digital equipment together with Internet connectivity. CIRC Kuran spreads digital literacy and empower hitherto information-dark and marginalized communities to access all possible benefits of digital inclusion and access to the global information super highway.

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Digital Literacy

Empowering the community with digital tools and contents, Taking ahead the spirit of ‘Skill India’, CIRC across the country constantly endeavor to create a robust, computer literate workforce, besides improving enterperneurships. Computers have demonstrated great potentional in the catalyzing the overall skill development of youth as well as women in rural India. Capacity building activities, such as enhancing language and communication skills, behavioral and capacity building skills, management skills, etc are affectively carried out through online and offline platforms at CIRCs. This essentially includes programs that offer an elaborate curriculum through predesigned study modules, created with easy to understand content, often followed by tests conducted to evaluate student performances.

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Information & Services

Facilitating information flow and management of public schemes for citizen empowerment and good governance in backward districts of India
Digital Empowerment Foundation launched Soochna Seva in collaboration with the European Union in January 2014 with an aim to spread awareness about existing public schemes, using ICT/non-ICT tools, among the deprived sections and enable them to derive benefits from the same. In addition to empowering the masses with information, Soochna Seva has set its focus on capacity building of the local communities, groups and citizens and advance cooperation between the stakeholders and local administration to develop an operative framework for public scheme information dissemination and entitlement.

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Transformation Initiative Program

Tata Trusts with Centre for Micro Finance (CMF) as the nodal agency in Rajasthan, have designed a five year (2015-2020) integrated multi-thematic project ‘Transformation Initiative’ (TI), which is currently being implemented in four blocks of South Rajasthan (Bali in Pali district, Abu Road & Pindwara in sirohi district and Sayra in Udaipur district) covering approx. 70,000 households and 350,000 population. The initiative seeks to demonstrate proof of concept of transformational change in the quality of life of community through integration of livelihoods, drinking water and sanitation, education and nutrition initiatives.

Digital Access, Information & Empowerment for All

Community Information Resource Centres (CIRCs) are communitydriven, bottom up public space that seeks to bridge the information and access divide and transform under-served communities into information-empowered communities. A typical CIRC is enabled with computers, cameras, printers, projectors, scanners, internet, wi-fi and broadband. They are run by enthusiastic, young and passionate community members who understand the meaning of information and how it can empower communities of all class and cadre through all possible means like digital literacy, ICT skills, employable skills, English, entertainment, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship, RTI, e-gov services, digital services and so on. CIRCs at different locations may undertake different kinds of activities and offer different packages of services but all of them facilitate digital access for all and avail their daily needs using digital and communication tools.
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Events & Workshops
VOICES OF COMMUNITY

Samta Ram

Kuran Village CIRC Kuran 28 years old Samta has born in a very poor village farmer’s house. His father would work as a land farmer, and that was the only source of their family income. Afterwards when he was a…

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Ramlal Sharma

Kuran Village CIRC Kuran Ramlal Sharma is a teacher by profession. He is been in this profession more than 10 years. Hence he has great experience in the field of education. He works as a teacher in local Secondary School…

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Gokhri Bai

Kuran Village CIRC Kuran Gokhri is 38 years old village women from Kuran. She is very enthusiastic not just for particularly one object or activity but also multiple activities. She is a daily wage laborer by profession. She is not…

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Address

New panchayat Bhavan, Near Atal seva kendra, Kooran, dist.- Pali, Pin 306701, Rajasthan

Contact

+91-8003415095
011-42233100
circkooran@defindia.org