Acuity partners with Muskaan Dreams to enable digital learning in government schoolsThe programme will start in the Barabanki district as a pilot project and will be scaled to cover a number of districts in Uttar Pradesh in...
29 Mar, 2022, 11.57 AM IST
Minister's mixed messagesElsewhere in today's ETtech Evening Briefing: Deliveroo kicks off London IPO; Headwinds for Wipro-Capco deal; Google aims to support a mill...
08 Mar, 2021, 10.09 PM IST
Google aims to support 1 million rural women entrepreneurs in IndiaThe initiative will offer community support, mentorship and accelerator programmes for rural women entrepreneurs.
08 Mar, 2021, 11.53 AM IST
Entrepreneurship on wheels: A UNDP project is taking mentorship and training to rural womenIt is well known that in India has one of the lowest workforces in the world with a rank of 108 in the Gender Gap Index. The only way to br...
29 Jun, 2019, 12.20 PM IST
These YouTube kisans make farming easyYoung farmers are racking up lakhs of views through their videos that share gyan on everything from fertilisers to farm equipment repair.
16 Jun, 2019, 11.18 AM IST
Google, Tata Trusts to create employment via Internet SaathiLaunched in July 2015, Internet Saathi programme aims to facilitate digital literacy among women in rural India. It has so far, trained 30,...
05 Dec, 2017, 01.59 PM IST
Google's Internet Saathi programme reaches 100,000 villagesLive in ten states in India, 25,000 fully trained Internet Saathis are working everyday across these villages to help women and children le...
02 Aug, 2017, 07.27 PM IST
Tata Trusts takes digital route for philanthropyBe it efforts to empower rural women or address gaps in learning levels of students of government schools, Tata Trusts is now banking on di...
26 Jun, 2017, 05.03 PM IST
Tata Trusts' initiative to reach last benchmarkThe Trust is also working with MIT and the TISS to create a Connected Learning Initiative. “The platform will have content to create a more...
07 Jun, 2017, 01.31 AM IST
Tata Trust, Internet Saathi adopts Mobikwik wallet for digital paymentsThe digital awareness and internet literacy campaign carried out by the Internet Saathis (enablers of change, employed under the initiative...
04 Jan, 2017, 03.23 PM IST
A monolith opens up: A never-before look inside the secretive world of the Tata TrustsTata Trusts managing trustee R Venkataramanan speaks out for the first time to defend the trusts, its practices and its right to intervene ...
27 Nov, 2016, 09.59 AM IST
Cyrus Mistry ignored advice to sell 5% in TCS: InsidersThis was one among several suggestions put forth by the trustees which were ignored by Mistry, triggering a 'trust deficit' between the two.
07 Nov, 2016, 02.41 PM IST
Best innovations come from the most surprising places: Sundar PichaiTo improve access to the Internet, Google has been working with Indian Railways and RailTel on providing Wi-Fi at 400 train stations across...
08 Oct, 2016, 08.19 PM IST
Tata Trusts signs MOUs with Maharashtra government to work together on community developmentAreas shortlisted include healthcare, nutrition & fortification, governance, education, juvenile justice amongst others.
31 Mar, 2016, 03.06 PM IST
Government gives in principle nod to pilot Google’s Project LoonAfter meeting Pichai in New Delhi on Wednesday, Prasad said he had also proposed a partnership with state run BSNL for Project Loon.
17 Dec, 2015, 05.11 AM IST
Digital India: Ratan Tata partners with Google and Intel to launch Net initiative for womenRatan Tata lauded the Modi government's 'Digital India' programme as he launched a Net initiative for women in partnership with Google and ...
06 Jul, 2015, 01.08 PM IST